Sister Karen Sunday School 8/7/11

Sister Karen Sunday School 8/7/11

Grace:

1.       The influence of the Divine upon the soul and its reflection in the life.

2.       Unmerited favor

3.       Gratitude

4.       Gift

5.       Acceptable

6.       Gracious

7.       Joy liberality

8.       Thanksgiving, thanks, thankworthy

9.       Pleasure

10.   Benefit

Tit 2:11  For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,

Tit 2:12  Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world;

Tit 2:13  Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;

Tit 2:14  Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

The grace of God has shined just like the sunshine; it shines to every soul.  God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son so that whosoever believeth on Him should not perish but have everlasting life.

Grace gives us favor, and teaches that we should deny worldly lust and live soberly righteously and godly in this present world.  We must first turn from our wicked life and have a new life with the grace of God and the grace of God causes us to live righteously and godly.

Many of us gave our lives to that which caused us to not have a sound mind.  He has a power to restore our mind and give us a clear and sound mind.

Blessed are they that do hunger and thirst after righteousness…  In every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of Him.

The religious world fights living righteously.  They think that you cannot they are full of unbelief or have no desire to live holy.  If we hunger and thirst after righteousness, He will show us a right path.  It is a lot easier to seek righteousness then to fight it.  The grace of God teaches us that we should live soberly, righteously and Godly in this present world.

Godly in the Hebrew means kind.  God is a kind God; He provided an escape.  It means pious.  Pious means devout, showing reverence for deity and devotion for divine worship.  Pious is the outward, coming to church, being reverent, having an appreciation for right worship.  Devout stresses the inward, it is a mental attitude that leads to frequent, sincere prayer and worship.  Devout also means carefully circumspect.  Devout means warmly devoted, sincerely, without wax.  The wax was to cover the cracks in a worn piece of pottery that a merchant was trying to sell.  I like the definition for sincere: without wax.

Clark defined Godly as so opposite to the spirit and practice of the world, that a godly man gives himself entirely to God and uses the word of God as a rule for his actions. 

If the Godly give no quarter to vice, the vicious will give no quarter to the Godly.

Psa 4:3  But know that the LORD hath set apart him that is godly for himself: the LORD will hear when I call unto him.

Satan could not get to Job except God allowed him to.  He that touches you touches the apple of His eye.  He has inscribed us on his palm. 

Psa 32:6  For this shall every one that is godly pray unto thee in a time when thou mayest be found: surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.

This includes when God begins to call on our heart.  When he draws on our heart take the opportunity to seek Him.  When He draws on us is when we can get saved and after we get saved and God burdens our heart to pray be faithful to the burden.  He can burden us for another soul or just burden us to come apart and pray.  It is so good of God to draw upon our hearts impressing us that we need to pray.

2Co 7:9  Now I rejoice, not that ye were made sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance: for ye were made sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive damage by us in nothing.

2Co 7:10  For godly sorrow worketh repentance to salvation not to be repented of: but the sorrow of the world worketh death.

2Co 7:11  For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

Godly sorrow is the sorrow that causes us to be truly sorry that we have trespassed against God and his principals.  Not just sorry for the results of that transgression.  It causes us to turn from our sin.

The wages of sin is death; unless we are truly sorry and turn to God it will only work to death.  If we will sorrow after a godly manner it will give us life.  It will work carefulness, clearing of yourselves, indignation against sin and its results, vehement desire, and revenge.

1Ti 4:7  But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

1Ti 4:8  For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

What a wonderful thing to give self to godliness, peace, and joy.  Part of this exercise is devotion, prayer and study.  Maintain your convictions, and those things taught to us.  Exercise is training and practice.  We need to practice what God tells us and at times we need to be trained.

In Clark it talks about how they train for a little crown of leaves.  They give their lives to be an Olympic athlete.  Godliness is of much more value than a literal earthly crown.

1Ti 6:3  If any man teach otherwise, and consent not to wholesome words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

1Ti 6:4  He is proud, knowing nothing, but doting about questions and strifes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

1Ti 6:5  Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

1Ti 6:6  But godliness with contentment is great gain.

1Ti 6:7  For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.

1Ti 6:8  And having food and raiment let us be therewith content.

1Ti 6:9  But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

1Ti 6:10  For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

1Ti 6:11  But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

Withdraw yourself from those that seek after worldly prosperity.  Godliness with contentment is great Gain.  Flee these things and follow after righteousness and godliness.

2Ti 3:5  Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

We don’t want a form of Godliness: with the godliness only on the outside.

2Pe 1:1  Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained like precious faith with us through the righteousness of God and our Saviour Jesus Christ:

2Pe 1:2  Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord,

2Pe 1:3  According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

2Pe 1:4  Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

2Pe 1:5  And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue; and to virtue knowledge;

2Pe 1:6  And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;

2Pe 1:7  And to godliness brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness charity.

2Pe 1:8  For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.

2Pe 1:9  But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

2Pe 1:10  Wherefore the rather, brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things, ye shall never fall:

His divine power has given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness.  He has provided the means for us to live Godly.  He has also supplied all our needs for life.

It is up to us to work it out in our lives by the grace and power of God.  We must add to our faith.  We were all given a measure of faith; this is how we get to God. 

It is up to us to add to this faith.  Give all diligence to add to our faith, virtue…If these things be in you and abound, they make you that you be neither barren nor unfruitful.  If we add these things then we will be fruitful.  God is looking for fruit.

2Pe 3:8  But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

2Pe 3:9  The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

2Pe 3:10  But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

2Pe 3:11  Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

2Pe 3:12  Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

2Pe 3:13  Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

2Pe 3:14  Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

2Pe 3:15  And account that the longsuffering of our Lord is salvation; even as our beloved brother Paul also according to the wisdom given unto him hath written unto you;

2Pe 3:16  As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

2Pe 3:17  Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know these things before, beware lest ye also, being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own stedfastness.

2Pe 3:18  But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.

What manner of persons ought we to be in all holy conversation and godliness?  Exercise ourselves rather unto godliness.  Do this by spending time with God, on our knees seeking after God seeking after these things and asking Him to add it to us.

The next week look up the word gracious so that you can add to the lesson.