Monday Morning Discipleship: The Optics of Grace, Pt. 1

Pastor Jackson returns to the podcast with a new series that focuses on what grace really looks like. We all desire grace when we fall short, but have we ever really considered the complexities that come with extending grace? Have we ever considered what happens before we need grace, or what capacity we need to have to extend grace? Let's talk about it!

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Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, whenever you might be joining us. Welcome to the Purpose and Beyond Podcast. I am your host, Kelly R. Jackson. Let's just get right into it as we always do. It's time for our Monday morning discipleship. Monday morning discipleship. As always, we like to come on on Monday, try to give you something to supplement what you may have heard on Sunday morning. Before we get back into our podcast, let me give you our announcement as we always do. If you'd like to be a sponsor of this podcast, you can do so by visiting www.patreon.com forward slash purpose and beyond. We only have one level of support there. It is five dollars per month. There, you can be a sponsor of this podcast. We thank you for those that do donate and those that do sponsor our podcast, Outlook Corner of the Ministry World. Um, again, it's only one level of sponsorship there. There is exclusive content over there and other videos that you cannot find anywhere else. So again, if you want to be a sponsor of this podcast, visit www.patreon.com forward slash purpose and beyond. If you don't want to do the whole Patreon thing, but you would still like to be a blessing to this ministry, you can do so by visiting www.krjministries.org forward slash donate. And there you can donate directly into the ministry. All major credit cards and debit cards are accepted there. Even there, if you want to set up a recurring payment of five dollars a month, you can do that to be a blessing to us. But I tell y'all each and every week, however, you choose to bless us, even if you can just listen to the podcast, share it on your timeline, tell somebody about it. However, you choose to bless us, we will be satisfied in Jesus' name. Before we get back into a new series, let me uh address uh our absence. I apologize for being gone so long. Normally I don't take a break in the middle of the season like I did, but we're dealing with some things, y'all, and it was hard to get back to the podcast. So I thank you all uh for your patience with us and y'all pray my strength. The Lord is good, and uh, we made it through whatever we were dealing with. We were made we made it through, and we are back here on the podcast. So I wanted to make uh that announcement. I know we've been gone for a minute, but I believe y'all is gonna be worth the wait. I believe it's gonna be worth the wait. Let's get into a new series on today. Let me start it off this way: a new series here, The Optics of Grace. This is part one. Uh, the optics of grace, what grace looks like. And I preached this sermon a couple of times, y'all. I I think I've mentioned it here on the podcast where I talked about the sermon I preached called The Optics of Grace. And uh, we're gonna kind of deal with uh some of those things that from that sermon. But part of the reason we talked about the optics of grace is I talked about the fact that uh sometimes we don't understand what grace really looked like. And again, I'll just go ahead and jump ahead, just say this very quickly before I make reference to our scripture. Um, grace is Jesus on the cross, that is the ultimate sign of grace. Grace is Jesus on the cross, and so when we understand what that means, right? Again, Good Friday, our Savior on the cross, bloodied and bruised. That's grace. That's really what grace looks like. But sometimes, y'all, we get it twisted in terms of what grace actually looks like, what the optics are of grace. And so as we grow through this, I'm going to go back to a book that I wrote at the end of 2019 called An Act of Grace. Uh, we'll share some excerpts from that book. We'll pull it up on the screen as we always do. So I'm going to share some info, uh, share an excerpt rather today, uh, from the introduction of the book An Act of Grace. Um, a scripture this week. Let me put that up on the screen for you all, and we'll go to scripture very shortly. A scripture, very familiar, Ephesians chapter 2, verses 8 through 10. Ephesians chapter 2, verses 8 through 10. And what Ephesians talks about is how we are saved. And so let me go forward here. Again, as we talk about the optics of grace, I want to lay this out very quickly before I read scripture on today about what we want to cover in this last series. This is gonna be our last series before our summer hiatus. Um, what we want to cover here, and by the way, that's about two months. Yeah, you got to be fearful. Like, when is he going away for the summer? He just came back, right? It's gonna be about two months. We got about two months left before summer hiatus. So, uh, one of the things that we want to talk about uh in relation to this optics and what it looks like, and I've been noticing, y'all, that we uh seem to be misapplying, misunderstanding what grace is really about. And on the surface, it it seems like just let stuff go, give people grace, and all the things that we say in relation to grace, and while some of that is in there, y'all, believe it or not, grace is a lot more complicated than that, it's a lot more complex than that, and we are called to extend grace to one another, but grace is a very complex thing, and we'll talk about that when we get to the notes on today, but it begins, y'all, and and it ends by the way, it begins and ends with God, and so uh when we look at scripture, so here's what we're gonna do very quickly. Let me get let me get the scripture very quickly, let me get that uh out of the way on today before we get to the introduction uh from the book and act of grace. And by the way, again, I think I've already mentioned this. We're gonna be sharing uh through other parts of this book. Um, one of my favorites of my books, and and and I know some some of you may be thinking, like, all your books gotta be your favorite. No, uh, I I'm like uh any other creative. Uh sometimes we create things, and we love one thing more than we love another. And there's about three or four of my books that I really just kind of lean on. And an act of grace is one of those books, but uh let's do this. Let's go to scripture. Ephesians chapter 2, verses 8 through 10. Ephesians chapter 2, verse 8 through 10. I'm gonna read it from the New Living Translation. And y'all, we talk about being saved. This is salvation in a nutshell in Ephesians chapter 2 verses 8 through 10. So let's pull that up on the screen for you uh from the New Living Translation. Here is what the Bible says God saved you by his grace when you believe, and you can't take credit for this. It is a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. Verse 10 says, For we are God's masterpiece, he has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. Y'all pay attention. Verse 8 says, God saved you by his grace when you believe, and you can't take credit for it. It's a gift from God. That if that's Ephesians rather chapter 2, verses 8 through 10 from the New Living Translation. Now, let's get to our first note on today. First note that we have today the extension of grace always begins with the acknowledgement that grace is needed. The extension of grace always begins with the acknowledgement that grace is what's needed. Y'all, we constantly talk about giving people grace, and I know that we should give people grace, but we can't extend grace without first acknowledging that grace is what's needed. There needs to be grace. When we look at scripture, God saved you by his grace when you believe, and it's a gift from God, and you can't take credit for the Bible. Also, says that salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it. Y'all see this salvation begins with the grace of God. It doesn't begin with Jesus on the cross, it begins with God's willingness to put Jesus on the cross. Why is that? Well, it's not a reward, as the scripture just said, salvation a salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done. Therefore, y'all, grace is not a reward because you are so amazing. And you are amazing, by the way. But that's not why you get in God's grace. So we have to, before we can extend grace, before God can extend grace through his son Jesus Christ, we have to acknowledge that grace is what's needed. Because what does the Bible say about the wages of sin? The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ. And so grace is what's needed at this moment. So there needs to be an acknowledgement that grace is needed. When the apostle Paul writes in the church at Ephesus, and he says this in chapter 2, verses 8 through 10, when he's saying this to them, he's saying, Do not stick your chest out. If I could paraphrase, because God extended his grace to you. Do not run around like it is a reward for all the good things that you have done. The apostle Paul says he saved you by his grace, which is unmerited favor. We'll discuss that as we go later in the series. It's unmerited favor. He said you can't take credit for this. So we have to acknowledge that I need grace. Watch this. I don't need the wages of what I worked for, the wages of standards, death. I don't need probably what I deserve. I need grace. So the extension of grace, I can extend grace. When we all come to an agreement, whether it be me who's extending it and you who receiving it, or you extend it to me and I'm receiving it, we all need to come to an agreement that there needs to be some grace in this moment. I I can't wait to go through this series with y'all to try to help you understand the function, if you will, of grace. Next note, next note. We can't keep calling for grace for people that are claiming innocence. Hallelujah. Again, we can't keep calling for grace for people that are claiming innocence. Let's go back. What does scriptures say? You can't take credit for it. It's a gift from God. Salvation, which by the way, cannot come unless there's repentance. And repentance is not coming unless I acknowledge that I did something wrong that I need to repent for. And what we see nowadays in the world, people are leaning on the church to extend grace to people who are telling us we innocent. If I'm innocent, I don't need your grace. Are y'all here today? If I'm innocent, I don't need grace. By the way, if I'm innocent, I need justice. Let's look at the facts. Let's come to the agreement that I'm innocent, and then you leave me alone. But we got a lot of people in the world, y'all, that are saying, you know, you ought to give them folks grace. The people who said they ain't did nothing wrong, they they're telling me they don't need grace. They said I haven't done anything wrong. I've said it to people before. I said grace is for the guilty. Grace is for people who've actually done something. So if you didn't do anything, you don't need grace. And we're being told to extend grace to people who are looking at us saying, I ain't did nothing wrong. I haven't done anything wrong. What do you mean I need grace? Y'all, y'all ain't better than me, and one ain't got nothing to do with the other, by the way. And so we can't keep calling for grace, y'all, for people that are claiming innocence. And so many of us are leaning on the church nowadays, say, you got to give grace to the people. Give grace to people who said they they ain't did nothing wrong. How can we extend grace to people who are saying, I didn't do anything wrong? This, by the way, I ain't gonna mutter the water today. Maybe down the road I will. This is how, again, when I look at scripture, I say, you can't forgive folks who said they ain't did nothing wrong. You could you could be ready to forgive them when they're ready to own up to it. You can have forgiveness in your heart, but that person, yeah, I forgive you. There, some people look at you and say, Hey, you ain't gotta forgive me. I ain't did nothing to you. And by the way, sometimes they're telling the truth, sometimes they're not. Anyway, let's move on to the next note. Remember that God loving us first is in spite of us, not because us. Because of us, rather. God loving us first is in spite of us, and not because of us. Remember, I said earlier, I know you're awesome, but you ain't been so awesome that God got to love you. Now, I want to be clear here, y'all. God loving us first is in spite of us, not because of us, but God does love you because of you. When you make strides, when you do right, when you're growing in grace, as we say, when you're growing in the word, when you're walking with him more closely, God does love you because of you, but he first loved you in spite of you. One more time, what does scripture say? God saved you by his grace when you believed, and you can't take credit for it. It's a gift from God. Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so nobody can boast about it. God loved us in spite of us. Messed up, tore, sinful, born in sin, shaped in iniquity, and he still loved us in spite of all of that. And by the way, that's real love when people can love you in spite of who you are, in spite of your mess, in spite of your nonsense, in spite of your drama, in spite of the ways in which you messed up, that people can still love you. Are y'all here today? So, God loving us first, as scripture says, this is not about how amazing you are, even though you are amazing. I want to encourage you all today. You are amazing. And if you don't feel amazing right now, be encouraged. You can be amazing. But God loves you even when you're not. God loves you even when you're not so great. God loves you on your worst days. God loves you when you fall short. God loves you when you don't fall short, but you just come up short. And there's a difference, y'all, in falling short and coming up short. Falling mean I might have been it's out of my control. Coming up short mean I didn't give you the best effort. And God loves you in spite of all of that stuff and all that nonsense. But he loves you in spite of you, not because we are so great, right? Let me read this introduction. I'm making good time here today. I want to read an introduction, part of the introduction from An Act of Grace. Uh, those of you watching on video side, you see me holding this book. Um, you can go to the minute uh the bookstore uh website, pick up a copy. I'll tell you about that at the end of the podcast, as we always do. And so I want to read from the introduction of this book. And I I've shared from this book before on this podcast, but uh when I was trying to figure out how I was gonna come back after being gone, when I said, How you gonna come back? You gotta come back strong and gotta finish this season, this part of the season strong. Uh, you know you've been gone, so you gotta come back uh strong. And God kept telling me, Grace, remind them again, and my grace is sufficient. Uh, we did a series in the podcast here before I talked about sufficient grace. Um, and I said, Thank you, God, for enough. And I circle, I'm circling back to this. And there's a part in this in this book in the introduction uh that I love, and I talked about the complexity of God's grace. And I mentioned to you earlier in the open, I said grace is layered, it's complicated, and we'll talk about that. I don't want to give no notes away. But there's a section in the introduction where I talked about the complexity of God's grace. So I'm gonna read that for you. I'll pull it up on the screen for those of you that are watching on the video side, and that way you can read along. So here's what I wrote here in the introduction: the complexity of God's grace. I said, we've often simplified it in our speech and minimized it in its scope and capacity. Yes, we know that God's grace is in the blessings that He bestows upon us, yes, we know that God's grace is displayed in Jesus being sent as the substitute for our sins. But for as much as we know, how much do we understand and do we realize how just how complex all of that is? Consider this God's grace is so complex that his saving grace was wrapped up in the violent death of his son. Many of you have never even thought about it that way, even though we're aware that Jesus died on the cross for our sins. We're aware of the story of how they beat and whipped him, put nails in his hand, pierced his side, and watched him die. We know that the victory was his when he got up on the third day. But how many of us knew that grace was that violent? Without him being bruised for our transgressions, without him enduring the humiliation at the hands of mortal man, without all the violence he endured, grace would be incomplete. I will read that last paragraph again. We know that the victory was his when he got up on the third day, but how many of us knew that grace was that violent without him being bruised for our transgressions, without him enduring the humiliation at the hands of mortal man, without all of the violence he endured, grace would be incomplete. So that's from the introduction of an act of grace. Next note Grace is not as simple as its extension, it's very complex. It's not as simple as its extension, it's very complex. So as I just outlined, and as I pray that you could connect in scripture in Ephesians 2, it's a very complex thing that God says they need grace, and without the shedding of blood, there can be no remission of sins, and they need the ultimate sacrifice. So I'm gonna send my son. Do you know how complex that is? Do you know how complicated that is? You know how strange that is, you know how challenging that is to say I'm gonna send my son. Now, by the way, God is up to all of this. Don't don't misunderstand me. But it is very complex, and I pray that I pointed that out for you in the introduction today, as we read, to say, do you see you probably have never even thought about grace in a violent way. But here is God's grace by his son being beaten, whipped, pierced, crucified, mocked, spit on. But all of this is a function of grace. Again, it's not as simple as just saying grace, because God has set an order for things. So there had to be a sacrifice for the grace because this is God's order. Why would God I can't explain all of that? And I've shared with people before, I say anybody that tells you they can explain everything that God did, I say, run away from them because none of us can explain why God did everything that He did. Some stuff He's allowed us to understand, but some stuff is above our pay grade. And so it is complex. And so when you hear people, now this is gonna make sense to you as I get to the rest of these notes. When you hear people say, just give them some grace, just give them some grace. It is complex. Next note. This is the part that's gonna bless you. I hope it blesses you. If it don't bless you, I hope it challenges you. Offense, mistreatment, and violation often go ahead of grace. Let me circle back. Offense, mistreatment, and violation often go ahead of grace. So when we are asking people to just give them some grace, no doubt the person that you tell them to extend grace to has touched on one of these three things. They have offended, they have mistreated, or they have violated somebody. And even if the offense isn't great, so uh if if it's the person I'm not really connected to, but I see them do something wrong, and somebody says, Oh, you gotta give them some grace. The offense may not have come up on me, but I can see where it may have come up on somebody else. And at the risk of judging people, somebody may say, You gotta show people grace. But y'all, we don't think about it this way. Offense, mistreatment, and violation often go ahead of grace. Now, we don't think about it this way, but consider what sin is, consider what we had to be saved from. We had offended God, we had mistreated God, and we had violated God, and he could have punished us eternally for what we did. These things went ahead of God saying, Instead, I'm going to extend grace. So, as the last note, as I said, grace is not as simple as extension, it's complex. So I have to deal with you offending me, I have to deal with you mistreating me, I have to deal with you often violating me before we get to grace. Now, from a distance, y'all, the optics, grace don't look like that. Grace is us just hugging each other saying, Kumbaya, I forgive you. Oh, we're gonna let it go. We're not gonna hold on, we're not gonna dwell on that. That's what grace looks like from a distance to uh well in people's minds. That's what it looked like. It's just oh, it's a beautiful. Thing and it is a beautiful thing. But sometimes, y'all, before we get to grace, we have to deal with the ugliness of offense. We got to deal with the ugliness of people being mistreated. And we got to deal with the ugliness of people being violated. These things go ahead of grace. Oh, it's gonna bless you here. Next note. Next note. We have to develop the capacity to deal with offense before we can develop the capacity to extend grace. Oh my goodness. We have to develop the capacity to deal with offense before we can develop the capacity to extend grace. What do you mean when you say that, Pastor? You have to develop the capacity to be offended by people without feeling the need to retaliate every time you offended. My God, today. That's not something that happens to you overnight. As I said, you have to develop the capacity. You know what capacity is? Space. That means that I have to grow to a place that when people offend me and mistreat me and violate me, that I have enough space in me, enough spiritual space, can I say it like that, to handle that without feeling the need to retaliate, but instead extend grace. God had the capacity to allow us to offend him, mistreat him, and violate him, and still say, But I'm gonna offer up my son as a sacrifice. Are y'all here today? This is grace. We don't want to talk about it because we have an idea in our head what grace looks like. It's complex, it's complicated, it's challenging, it's difficult, and we need to have the capacity to extend grace to people. And y'all, many of us, let me say this before I get to my last notes, many of us swear we got it until a certain offense comes along, and then you find out, people will look you in your face and tell you, I'm not gonna forgive you, and then come to church the next Sunday and open up their Bible, like God ain't bothered by none of that, and God says, if I have the capacity, I can give you the capacity if you're ready. If you're ready. Next note before we run out of time. While God is gracious to us, we must consider how often he is offended by us. While God is gracious to us, we must consider how often he is offended by us. I ain't gonna talk about you, I'll talk about me. And maybe you can just identify. So I need daily grace. He is gracious to us, but you need to be cognizant of how often you offend God. Now maybe that ain't you. Maybe you'll say, maybe maybe that ain't you. But I can testify to you today that I know that I need daily grace. I don't need once a week grace, I need daily grace. Right? God is gracious to us. But we need to consider how often is he offended by us. Next note grace isn't about what we feel we deserve, it's about the character of God. Y'all see what we saw in scripture? It says the gift from God. You can't take credit for. Salvation is not a reward for the good things you have done. Nobody can boast about it. It says that we are God's masterpiece. He created us anew in Christ Jesus. We can do all the good things that He planned for us. We can do good things when He creates us anew. But here it is, y'all. Again, grace isn't about what we feel we deserve. Y'all know why? Because we zero in on the good things we think we deserve, but we skip over the the punishment that we think we deserve. We skip over the chastisement that we that we recognize that we that we that we actually do deserve. We skip over all that stuff. Grace isn't about what we feel we deserve, it's about the character of God. So, how does that how does that play into my life before you get to your last note, Pastor? How does that play in my life? Well, again, I hope that I'm starting this off the right way uh with you all today, let you know that grace is a character thing. Grace isn't about you keeping track of offenses, is it isn't about uh you talking about how many times you've been violated, whatever. Grace is a character thing. And I hope y'all connecting the dots today that you have to have good character to extend grace. You can't if I can just say it like this, you can't extend grace with a nasty attitude. That's not gracious. God isn't extending grace to us with a nasty attitude. God is saying, come on, let's reconcile, let's be together. It's not about what you feel, it's about character. And so what what God's character is, even though these people have violated me and offended me, and they do it over and over and over again, I'm gonna keep extending grace to them because they're trying. And so, grace, I talk about this in this book at one point too, and I said, you know, this is a character thing. And some people can't extend grace because that is not their character, they don't have the character to extend grace, and you have to develop the capacity, as I've already said, and develop the character to extend grace. And let me say this before I get to my last note because I'm about to run over. Uh, some people really gonna try you. Some people gonna do some stuff to you that really mess you up, and you're gonna have to extend grace too. You're gonna be angry, you're gonna be like, I can't believe you of all people. Do y'all know how many times it happened to God in the Bible? I how many times did I have to come to your rescue? And this is how you do me. But when we repent, he says, I forgive you. He extends it one more time. Last note Grace was never a simple proposition. It was always layered and complicated. So as we go through this series, I'm hoping that I can help you understand how complicated grace is. But also what I want to do in this series is make sure that I encourage you and let you know, as complicated as it is, you can do it. I can do it. As we like to say these days, we can do hard things. Grace is complicated, it's challenging, but you can do it. You can do it. All you have to do is let God increase your capacity. And you'll find yourself not being offended all the time. You'll find yourself not wanting to get revenge all the time, not wanting to get even all the time. If you ask God to increase your capacity, you'll say, I can extend grace to this person. Nah, what you did was wrong. You violated me, you mistreated me, you offended me. But if you come to me and you say, Listen, I want you to extend me some grace. I want you to forgive me. The Lord will enlarge your capacity to forgive. And there's something about us, I'll say this in closing, that every time we ask God to enlarge our territory, it's always in the relate in the way of blessings. But you ought to say to God, I want you to enlarge my capacity to forgive. Because Lord, you are forgiving me day by day, sometimes hour by hour, God. You are forgiving me on a regular basis. I need to develop the capacity to let people uh let certain things go and learn how to forgive people and extend grace to them. I pray that you all blessed. Let's stop right there. That's all the time we got. I pray that you were blessed uh by what we share today. It's good to be back. I apologize for that little hiatus, but Lord is good. We're back in the saddle again, and we're gonna do our best to make sure that we ride this thing on out uh all the way to our summer break at the end of June. Let me give you our tag as we always do. If you'd like to keep up with us, check us out at the ministry's website, www.krjministries.org. 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