Sermon: Grace, Mercy, and Favor (Part Four): Favor to Live as God Lives <\/p>\n
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description: (hide) We can lose God’s favor if we forsake our first love (Revelation 2:4). That love manifested itself in our commitment to keeping His law. Like the Ephesian church, the Pharisees started out with a noble purpose—safeguarding Israel from losing God’s favor through breaking His laws. But along the way, human nature overcame the Jewish leadership and their vainglory turned them into self-seeking hypocrites. When God first called the members of the Ephesian church, they realized they were damaged goods, just like the breast-beating Publican. However, after years of struggle, engaging in endless battles over doctrinal matters, they became hardened, more willing to wield a spear than to exhibit a contrite attitude, trembling at God’s word (Isaiah 66:20), the attitude which Abraham and Noah displayed. God’s people earn His favor by obedience; there is a direct tie between submission to His will and His favor. The more one submits to God, the more favor and grace accrues over time. Mercy, favor, and grace constitute a single, unified package, promised as a response to unconditional submission to God and His law. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sermon: Grace, Mercy, and Favor (Part Four): Favor to Live as God Lives #1592 Mark Schindler Given 10-Apr-21; 63 minutes Go to the Grace, Mercy, and Favor (sermon series) description: (hide) We can lose God’s favor if we forsake our first love (Revelation 2:4). That love manifested itself in our commitment to keeping His law. … Continue reading “Sermon: Grace, Mercy, and Favor (Part Four): Favor to Live as God Lives”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}