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    The Grace of God
    The Grace of God
    The Grace of God
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    The Grace of God

    By Tony Evans

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    Salvation and grace are instrumental to Christian life and thought. Do we really understand what has been done for us in Christ? A debt that we could not pay has been paid in full! What freedom! In the personable style of this great preacher/teacher, this study focuses on truths about grace.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMoody Publishers
    Release dateJun 1, 2004
    ISBN9781575676623
    The Grace of God
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    Tony Evans

    Tony Evans is the founder and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship in Dallas, Texas, founder and president of the Urban Alternative, former chaplain of the NFL’s Dallas Cowboys, and present chaplain of the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks. His radio broadcast, The Alternative with Dr. Tony Evans, can be heard on nearly 1,000 US radio outlets daily and in more than 130 countries. For more information, visit TonyEvans.org.

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      The Grace of God - Tony Evans

      Grace

      THE

      CONCEPT

      OF

      GRACE

      Aman who had been born and raised in a country ruled by a strict military dictatorship immigrated to the United States and became a citizen of this country.

      The man decided to celebrate his new citizenship by doing some sightseeing around the city where he was living. He was enjoying himself so much that he didn’t notice that sundown was approaching. But as soon as the sunlight faded and darkness began to descend, the new American panicked.

      He ran up to a car and begged the driver to take him home as quickly as possible. The driver was taken aback and tried to calm the man down. When asked why he had to get home so quickly, the man cried out, Because I don’t want to violate curfew and be arrested.

      The problem was that in the man’s previous country, the military had imposed a strict curfew. Everyone had to be off the streets by sundown or risk arrest.

      The man in the car smiled when he realized the problem. He calmly explained that since the United States has no curfew, the man wasn’t in any trouble. The new citizen simply had not yet learned to cast off the bondage of the old country. He was free, but he wasn’t living like it.

      A lot of Christians, citizens of heaven who have been set free by the grace of God in Christ, have not learned how to cast off the bondage of their birth in Adam. They sing and talk about freedom, but they are living under an oppressive system of religious rules that sends them running home at sundown, so to speak.

      This oppressive religious system is called legalism, and it’s absolutely contrary to our freedom in Christ. But many Christians are being held hostage to the old regime.

      If there is one overarching truth I want to get across to you in this booklet, it is this: When you got saved, you were brought into a new regime. You have been liberated by God’s magnificent grace, and the old rules no longer apply.

      Now I realize that applying the truth we know can be another story. So we need to understand what legalism is, and how it shackles us, before we can understand how to break its chains and fully appreciate the freedom we possess in Christ.

      The Bible goes to great lengths to combat legalism and establish us in grace. So let’s find out how to shed the shackles and be truly free.

      THE BONDAGE OF LEGALISM

      The apostle Paul gives us a definition of legalism in Galatians 3:3, stated in the form of a question. Having begun by the Spirit, are you now being perfected by the flesh?

      Legalism is trying to please God by the flesh, by attempting to keep a list of laws and rules that we think will earn us God’s favor and keep us in good standing with Him. It is identity based on performance rather than relationship. It makes rule-keeping the basis of spiritual victory.

      The problem with this should be obvious. We can’t earn our salvation. We didn’t begin with Christ by doing works of the flesh but by the grace of God administered by the Holy Spirit.

      This is such a serious matter that Paul used the strongest language possible in addressing the Galatians, who had fallen victim to legalism. He began his letter by saying, "I am amazed that you

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