In this sermon we discuss the interplay of God's sovereignty, God's grace and our personal faith in God. Why is faith necessary, if God is sovereign and a gracious God?

2. Quick Review:
Faith Connects Us To God
Faith Is Required To Please God
Faith Is In The Person of Jesus Christ
Faith Is Based On Relationship
Faith Is Of The Heart
God Calls Us To Live By Faith

3. Quick Review:
What Faith Is
How Faith is Conceived And Nurtured
Faith in the Word is Faith in God
Faith Is Like A Muscle - It Grows As It Is
Exercised
Several Factors Influence Faith
Faith Causes the Power of God and His
Word to be Released

4. God’s Sovereignty,
Grace and Faith

5. God's Sovereignty

6. God's Sovereignty
Job 42:2
"I know that You can do everything, And that no
purpose of Yours can be withheld from You.
Psalm 115:3
But our God is in heaven; He does whatever He
pleases.

7. God's Sovereignty
Daniel 4:34-35
34 And at the end of the time I, Nebuchadnezzar,
lifted my eyes to heaven, and my understanding
returned to me; and I blessed the Most High and
praised and honored Him who lives forever: For His
dominion is an everlasting dominion, And His kingdom
is from generation to generation.

8. God's Sovereignty
Daniel 4:34-35
35 All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as
nothing; He does according to His will in the army of
heaven And among the inhabitants of the earth. No
one can restrain His hand Or say to Him, "What have
You done?"

9. God's Grace
Psalm 86:15
But You, O Lord, are a God full of compassion, and
gracious, Longsuffering and abundant in mercy and
truth.
Psalm 103:8
The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and
abounding in mercy.

10. God's Grace
Exodus 33:19
Then He said, "I will make all My goodness pass
before you, and I will proclaim the name of the LORD
before you. I will be gracious to whom I will be
gracious, and I will have compassion on whom I will
have compassion."

11. Faith

12. Faith (Abraham & Sarah)
Hebrews 11:8-12
11 By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go
out to the place which he would receive as an
inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he
was going.
9 By faith he dwelt in the land of promise as in a
foreign country, dwelling in tents with Isaac and
Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise;

13. Faith (Abraham & Sarah)
Hebrews 11:8-12
10 for he waited for the city which has foundations,
whose builder and maker is God.
11 By faith Sarah herself also received strength to
conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past
the age, because she judged Him faithful who had
promised.

14. Faith (Abraham & Sarah)
Hebrews 11:8-12
12 Therefore from one man, and him as good as dead,
were born as many as the stars of the sky in
multitude—innumerable as the sand which is by the
seashore.

15. Faith (The walls of Jericho)
Hebrews 11:30
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down after they were
encircled for seven days.

16. Faith (Salvation)
Ephesians 2:8-9
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith, and
that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God,
9 not of works, lest anyone should boast.

17. Faith (Jesus in His Hometown)
Matthew 13:57-58
57 So they were offended at Him. But Jesus said to
them, "A prophet is not without honor except in his
own country and in his own house."
58 Now He did not do many mighty works there
because of their unbelief.

18. Faith (Jesus in His Hometown)
Mark 6:1-6
1 Then He went out from there and came to His own
country, and His disciples followed Him.
2 And when the Sabbath had come, He began to teach
in the synagogue. And many hearing Him were
astonished, saying, "Where did this Man get these
things? And what wisdom is this which is given to
Him, that such mighty works are performed by His
hands!

19. Faith (Jesus in His Hometown)
Mark 6:1-6
3 Is this not the carpenter, the Son of Mary, and
brother of James, Joses, Judas, and Simon? And are
not His sisters here with us?" So they were offended at
Him.
4 But Jesus said to them, "A prophet is not without
honor except in his own country, among his own
relatives, and in his own house."

20. Faith (Jesus in His Hometown)
Mark 6:1-6
5 Now He could do no mighty work there, except that
He laid His hands on a few sick people and healed
them.
6 And He marveled because of their unbelief. Then He
went about the villages in a circuit, teaching.

21. While God may do things
SOVEREIGNLY BY GRACE,
the norm is that He requires us to
RECEIVE BY FAITH,
what He freely offers us
THROUGH GRACE.

22. Some Questions

23. Answers
1, Both these coexist
God’s sovereign grace
The requirement for us to have faith

24. 2, God’s eternal purpose and His individual
purposes for each of us
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25. 3, When it is by grace, through faith everyone
can receive
Romans 4:16
Therefore it is of faith that it might be according to
grace, so that the promise might be sure to all the
seed, not only to those who are of the law, but also to
those who are of the faith of Abraham, who is the
father of us all
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26. 3, When it is by grace, through faith everyone
can receive
Romans 4:16 (Good News Bible)
And so the promise was based on faith, in order that
the promise should be guaranteed as God's free gift to
all...
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27. 4, Perimeters to faith
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28. 5, The realm of mystery
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29. While God may do things
SOVEREIGNLY BY GRACE,
the norm is that He requires us to
RECEIVE BY FAITH,
what He freely offers us
THROUGH GRACE.