SPEAKER_00: Greetings and blessings in the mighty name of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: I'm very happy today to bring you a word titled Uncommon Grace, rewriting your story.
SPEAKER_00: And this word is based on 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 17, which is, I believe, is a very familiar verse.
SPEAKER_00: And in case you've never memorized it, I challenge you to memorize this verse.
SPEAKER_00: It's very important.
SPEAKER_00: 2 Corinthians chapter 5 and verse 17.
SPEAKER_00: It says, Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come.
SPEAKER_00: The old has gone.
SPEAKER_00: Gone, gone, gone.
SPEAKER_00: The new is here.
SPEAKER_00: In the NIV version, there is even an exclamation mark.
SPEAKER_00: The new is here.
SPEAKER_00: Three things I want to share about uncommon grace rewriting your story.
SPEAKER_00: First of all, this is a grace flowing from Christ.
SPEAKER_00: It is not a doctrine.
SPEAKER_00: This grace is not a doctrine.
SPEAKER_00: This grace is not a religion.
SPEAKER_00: This grace is a person.
SPEAKER_00: And this is the person of our Lord Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: And he is the author of this uncommon grace that rewrites our story.
SPEAKER_00: May I just remind you that grace is God's divine pen writing your story.
SPEAKER_00: And the ink in that pen is the blood of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: And so this grace has its reference to the cross.
SPEAKER_00: And God became a human being.
SPEAKER_00: All that work done at the cross by Jesus is the work that authors this grace.
SPEAKER_00: And so God did it all so that you don't have to do a thing.
SPEAKER_00: And that's why the Bible says, By grace you have been saved.
SPEAKER_00: And this is not your doing, it is the work of God, lest any man would boast.
SPEAKER_00: Ephesians chapter 2, verse 8 and 9.
SPEAKER_00: And so, first of all, I put it to you that this uncommon grace rewriting your story is a grace flowing from Christ.
SPEAKER_00: Number two, it is a grace establishing a new beginning.
SPEAKER_00: And so this grace is not an improvement plan, it is not panel beating of the old life.
SPEAKER_00: No, this grace is an overhaul work.
SPEAKER_00: And that is why Jesus told Nicodemus in John chapter 3, verse 3, unless a man is born again, unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
SPEAKER_00: And you know, Nicodemus was a Pharisee.
SPEAKER_00: He was trying to practice the law.
SPEAKER_00: And he came to Jesus thinking that there is another formula to a new beginning.
SPEAKER_00: And Jesus put it very clearly to Nicodemus that unless a man is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
SPEAKER_00: And so this grace establishes a new beginning.
SPEAKER_00: It is not there to panel beat or improve the old life.
SPEAKER_00: No, no way.
SPEAKER_00: It is a grace that births a new life.
SPEAKER_00: And let me declare to you today a season of new beginnings, not panel beating, not improvement plan, but God's power releasing a season of new beginnings in your life.
SPEAKER_00: All aspects of your life, I declare, in Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_00: But finally, it's a grace erasing the past, a grace erasing the past.
SPEAKER_00: You know, this grace that rewrites your story does not come to consult your past.
SPEAKER_00: It doesn't come to speak to your past to ask how the future will look like on the basis of your history.
SPEAKER_00: Actually, let me put it this way: it is a grace that changes history to his story.
SPEAKER_00: History to his story.
SPEAKER_00: And it's a very powerful grace because it carries, it is in the blood of Jesus Christ.
SPEAKER_00: It just simply erases the past.
SPEAKER_00: It breaks the yoke of guilt.
SPEAKER_00: It breaks the yoke of shame.
SPEAKER_00: Breaks the yoke of error.
SPEAKER_00: It breaks the yoke of past limitations.
SPEAKER_00: And even it breaks the yoke of every negative thing ever spoken in your life.
SPEAKER_00: Foundations that are historical and generational.
SPEAKER_00: It comes and just approaches them and dismantles them and actually completely does with them.
SPEAKER_00: And so this is a grace that erases the past.
SPEAKER_00: Let me say this: when God comes to your life, he doesn't look at your past, he looks at your future.
SPEAKER_00: People start by looking at your past.
SPEAKER_00: Even when you go to apply a job, people look at your past.
SPEAKER_00: And they want to give you a job on the basis of that past.
SPEAKER_00: But with God, what he's going to do with your life is based on a future.
SPEAKER_00: And God does not look at the past, he looks at the future.
SPEAKER_00: And so this grace erases the past.
SPEAKER_00: And that's why by this grace, then Paul writes, because he knows from a personal experience, he was a murderer, he did all kinds of crazy, chaotic things.
SPEAKER_00: But this grace came and wrote his story.
SPEAKER_00: And therefore he sums it up in 2 Corinthians 5.17 by saying, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation.
SPEAKER_00: She is a new creation.
SPEAKER_00: The old is gone, gone, gone, gone forever.
SPEAKER_00: Behold, the new has come.
SPEAKER_00: And so that's why I'm confident as I speak about this grace that God will do something new in your life.
SPEAKER_00: Don't look back.
SPEAKER_00: Look to the future.
SPEAKER_00: Look at God and the future.
SPEAKER_00: And may God grant you this new beginning.
SPEAKER_00: May your story be rewritten by the grace of God.
SPEAKER_00: God bless you big time.