Monday Morning Discipleship: The Optics of Grace, Pt. 2

In this week's podcast, Pastor Jackson talks about how far grace should extend. Many times we're looking to find out when we can cut grace off to an offender, but when we examine Scripture, we see that Jesus has ideas that differ from ours. Take a listen and share!

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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 series, let me give you our announcement as we always do. If you'd like to be a supporter of this podcast, if you'd like to be a sponsor, you can do so by visiting www.patreon.com forward slash purpose and beyond. Uh, we only have one level of support there. It is $5 per month. You can be a sponsor of this podcast for just $5 a month. Uh, there's also exclusive videos over there that you can't find anywhere else. So again, if you want to be a sponsor of this podcast, visit www.patreon.com forward slash purpose and beyond. 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This is part two, uh, the optics of grace, and I pray that you all were blessed uh by how we kicked it off on last week. We're gonna go a little bit further uh on this week as we talk about um what grace looks like versus what grace actually is. And that's really what we're talking about. We talk about the optics, what a thing looks like. And uh we've gotten it twisted in a lot of different ways, and we think uh something is what it is because of what it looks like. And in this day and age of artificial intelligence and social media, uh, we should all know that just because something looks like something don't mean that's what it is. Uh scripture this week. I want to go to familiar Bible on this week. Uh familiar Bible, uh Matthew chapter 6, verses 14 and 15, and then Matthew chapter 18, verses 21 and 22. So again, Matthew chapter 6, verses 14 and 15, and then Matthew 18, verses 21 through 22. I'm also going to share another excerpt from the book An Act of Grace, uh book we wrote in 2019, uh, that will kind of help us along in what we're uh talking about today. And so uh as we start off here today, and uh what I what I want to cover today uh is how much grace? And that's always the question, y'all, right? If we tell the truth, how much grace? Because grace and forgiveness are together, right? Uh so that's always the question. How much grace? How much grace am I supposed to give these people? How how long am I supposed to deal with these people? We looked like look at that in scripture on today. How much am I supposed to take off these folk? How much grace? And uh we must remember, y'all, as we ask this question, how much grace do we extend? We must remember who the standard bearer of grace is. Now, we talked last week uh from Ephesians chapter 2. We talked about by grace we are saved. Not not uh because of the good things that we we had done, lest any man should boast. Grace is how we are saved, grace is how you're saved, grace is how I'm saved if you're watching me and you are in fact saved. It was quote unquote an act of grace. And when you think about it, uh we and and I'm gonna discuss this later, but I'm gonna drop this little nugget right here. Um, because we start asking how much grace, and I can even respond to you and say, How much grace do you need? Because I think I told you all last week I need daily grace. I need the Lord with me every single day. As a matter of fact, I need hourly grace at times, and you do too. You just don't don't don't act like you need it sometimes, amen. I pray that's not your testimony, that's just a little joke right there. But uh, I need I need daily grace. I need daily grace, y'all. And so when we think about this, like how much grace am I supposed to extend to people? Where is the cutoff, right? I I want to drop this nugget, and I'm gonna go deeper into this as we go through the series, but I'm gonna drop this nugget on you right now. Um, we talk about this all the time, that uh at least I do anyway. In Genesis 6, when Noah uh was commissioned to build the ark, this first time grace is mentioned in the Bible. And the Bible says that Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, he found favor in the eyes of the Lord. And so uh when you see that, it is by God's grace that mankind was saved the first time. God found God found Noah, or Noah found uh favor with God, rather. God bestowed his grace upon Noah, Noah builds the ark, saves his family, saves mankind. But then after the flood, Noah gets drunk. So right after that, Noah needs more grace. So again, I'll go deeper into that uh in the coming weeks, probably next week. So you and I uh we may receive grace one day, but then tomorrow we'll need it again. So we we shouldn't be the type of people that are looking for the cutoff. We should be trying to extend more grace. Let's go to our first note of today. Let's go to our first note. First note here, as I just got done discussing, right? Since offense itself isn't a one-time event, grace isn't a one-time act, it requires repetition. Let me read it again. Since offense itself isn't a one-time event, grace isn't a one-time act. It requires it requires rather repetition. It requires us doing it over and over and over again. I know you don't want to hear this today. I know I know you're saying this, so oh no, I don't I have to keep forgiving people. Yes, you do. Why? Because God keeps forgiving us, right? So again, offense itself isn't a one-time act. Now, people may do things differently, different offenses, but you still have to continue in grace. When I was prepared to record the podcast today, and I was thinking about uh my son, and and you know, I bring up my 13-year-old quite often uh because he's a teenager, and if you got a teenager in your life, you know exactly what I'm talking about. And my son will do things that require his parents to give him grace, but then my son may come back and do something else, which means we need to extend more grace. In fact, he may do the same thing over and over and over and over again, because that's what teenagers do. That's what we did when we were teenagers, uh, right? So, offense from my son isn't a one-time offense. Him upsetting me, upsetting his mother, offending us, breaking the rules, whatever the case may be, it's not a one-time thing, y'all. And so, because it's not a one-time thing, grace will not be a one-time act with my son. We have to be repetitious about grace because children are growing, right? Again, I'm gonna dig into this a little bit later in the in the series. But because people are growing, you have to allow them grace, and sometimes you have to do it repeatedly. We don't like to hear this, but this is the facts that this is the fact of the matter, right? So we have to do it over and over again. Offense is not a one-time thing, y'all. People are gonna offend you. Some people are gonna offend you over and over again, different people are gonna offend you, and this is why grace is so important. Next note: because God hasn't forgiven us just one time, He has set the standard for giving grace. Because God hasn't forgiven us just one time, He has set the standard for giving grace. We used to say this uh a long time ago, and uh, you know, uh, we talk about God of second chances. I believe there's a song out there somewhere talking about God of second chances, and I've always said he's not the God of second chances, he's the God of another chance. Second chance, I done blew that. I don't know about you, but I I ruined that a long time ago. I don't need the God of a second chance. That suggests that this is I might be on my way to running out. I need the God of another chance, and because God hasn't forgiven us just one time, now again, we talked about being saved, right? Salvation does not come without repentance, right? So we have repented, we were saved by grace. But again, the reason Jesus is still making intercession at the right hand of the Father for you and I is because we ain't done screwing up. It's not a one-time thing, and God has not forgiven us just one time, He's done it over and over and over again. So God sets the standard. I hope y'all are catching what I'm I'm saying to you today, because oftentimes I think we miss this in the Christian faith that we forget who the standard bearers are. The ultimate standard bearer is Jesus. So as Christians, we ought to be saying, let's go to the scripture as we're gonna go to today and see what Jesus has to say on the matter of forgiving and extending grace. Because by the way, again, grace is a component of forgiveness, right? Noah finds grace with God, not because Noah is completely innocent, but the Bible says he's a good and upright man. He tried to avoid evil, right? And so again, God hasn't forgiven us one time, so he sets the standard for grace. Next note being a Christian and being gracious are synonymous because grace is how we were welcome into the family of faith, as I just said. Being a Christian and being gracious are synonymous, or at least they should be, because grace is how we were welcome into the family of faith. So we talked about that last week, right? You were saved by grace, not by anything that you did. You were saved by grace. If it were not, I'm trying to dip my toe at this, I ain't gonna go too long in it. If it were not for the grace of God, even believing on Jesus wouldn't be enough. Y'all hear me today? The Bible declares that if we believe on Jesus, we are saved. But God is the one who set this up. God is the one who said, if they believe on my son, believe that he's my son, that he died on the cross, and that he rose on the third day with all power. If they believe on that, then I'll accept that. That's God being gracious by saying, if they do that, I'll accept it and I'll extend grace towards them. But if God doesn't set that up, believing on Jesus wouldn't be enough. But God sets that up for us. I hope this is making sense to y'all, right? And so because God sets the standard, he says, if you're gonna be Christian, you need to be gracious as well, because this is how you got here in the first place. You have to extend grace because grace is how you made it into the family of faith. If it were not for me being gracious to you, you would not be here. And so God says, Listen, this is how you became, this is how you got saved by me extending grace. So you got to be gracious as a Christian. These things are synonymous, they go together. You can't tell me you're Christian and you're not gracious, and you don't have any grace about you that you like to, we'll talk about it today, that you like to hold grudges and stay mad forever. That is not a Christian trait, y'all hear me today. Some of us are so good at holding on to stuff, that is not a Christian trait. When you base your faith on the one who hung on the cross and looked down at the people who put them on the cross and said, Father, forgive them for their ignorance. They don't know what they're doing. Forgive them. Praise an intercessory prayer while he's hanging on the cross. So you can't tell me that you can't forgive, but you're a Christian. Who are you following? Are you following the Jesus of the Bible or this new Jesus that they're floating around out here today, right? So we have to make sure that we understand that being Christian and being gracious, they're synonymous. Let's go to the Bible. Let's go to the Bible very quickly. So, scripture today, Matthew chapter 6, verses 14 and 15, and then Matthew chapter 18, verses 21 and 22. I'm gonna put both of these on the screen together. So again, we're gonna read it all together. Matthew chapter 6, verses 14 and 15, and then Matthew chapter 18, verses 21 and 22. And by the way, uh, Matthew 18, uh, if you don't know, deals with reconciliation amongst believers, right? How believers and particularly in the church community reconcile with one another. Matthew 6, at the end of the disciples' prayer, at the end of the disciples' prayer, and Jesus teaches us to pray, uh, he makes a statement that I always say that no teaching on forgiveness in any church setting should begin anywhere else except right here, with what Jesus said. You can branch out from here wherever you want to go after that. But we ought to start with what Jesus says. So Matthew chapter 6, verses 14 and 15. Here is what the Bible says. If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly father will forgive you. But if you refuse to forgive others, your father will not forgive your sins. Y'all, one more time. If you forgive those who sin against you, your heavenly father will forgive you. But if you refuse to forgive others, if you refuse, if you decide you're not going to do it, God will decide that He's not going to forgive you. If you refuse to forgive others, your Father will not forgive your sins. Now, let's go uh to Matthew chapter 18. It's on your screen right now. Y'all give me a second to get there. Matthew chapter 18, verses 21 and 22. The Bible says this. Then Peter came to him and asked, Lord, how often should I forgive someone who sins against me? Seven times? Verse 22. No, not seven times, Jesus replied, but seventy times seven. One more time. After I just read Matthew 6 to 14, still on your screen if you're watching on the video side. Jesus said, If you forgive, God will forgive you. If you don't forgive, God won't forgive you. Peter says in Matthew 18, 21, how often should I put this into practice? Is it seven times? Jesus says, No, 70 times seven. So again, that's Matthew chapter 6, verse 14 and 15, and then chapter 18, verses 21 through 22. Now, uh, this is critical stuff here, y'all, because as I said, we talk about grace and we're talking about forgiveness. Uh, any teaching on forgiveness should start with Matthew 6, 14 and 15. It should start with what Jesus said about forgiveness. And this is the baseline I've always said to people. I said, listen, I said, I'm not gonna fall out with God over you. I'm not gonna fall out with God over you. And if Jesus says, if you don't forgive, God's not forgiving, well, then I guess I have to forgive you because I'm not gonna fall out with God over you. And I'm amazed at how many people are in the church that are willing to fall out with God over other folk. And maybe it's because they really don't believe what this Bible says. Now, watch this, y'all. Um, let me say this before I make the reasons note. And I was thinking about this while I was preparing for the podcast. And I said, uh, if you do the math, some of you have done the math before, Jesus said, no, not seven times. 70 times seven. It's 490. I'm gonna be clear with you on today, and I'll give you some notes to support this while I'm going through. Nobody in your life is gonna offend you 490 times in this life. You are not going to be offended by somebody 490 times in this life. If you do, either you're overly sensitive and everything offends you, or you haven't made an adjustment somewhere. Now, I'll talk about that a little later. I just want to put that out there, marinate on that. Next note grace keeps us connected to God and to one another. So God gives us his grace, he extends his grace to us by sending his son to reconcile us to him. Again, we'll talk about this as we go through. Um Jesus comes to reconcile us to God. He sends his son and says, I want you to reconcile these people to me. So God sends his son to recon reconcile us to him, right? So God extends the grace. I want to be connected to them, but this is how we're gonna do it. He sets the standard. But then Jesus gives us instruction, as we just saw in scripture, on how to stay connected to each other. So grace keeps us connected to God and to one another. But if you see, because sometimes we get it in our heads that we can be alright with God and we ain't gotta be alright with each other. Jesus outlines right here in the two texts that I showed you today. If you don't forgive other folks, God won't forgive you. So your connection to God is dependent upon your connection with your brother and sister in Christ. Peter says, How many times am I supposed to do it? Jesus said, This many, since you being petty. I'm adding that in. Since you being petty, Peter, this is how many times you gotta do it. Not seven times, seventy times seven. Now take that number. Now, if you start counting up offense, Peter, you're petty. I'll talk about reading excerpt from this book in just a second here. So at this point, y'all, connection to God and connection to one another are all connected. And grace does that. Next note, I don't want to run out of time today. Next note. From the outside, we may look foolish to keep forgiving, but from the inside, we're following a command from Christ. Y'all, as a black man, I can't tell you how many times I've heard our people being offended at Christians forgiving folks. When they do mean things to black people, when they do racist things to black people, that's what's wrong with y'all. Y'all always forgiving. That's what they say. From the outside, we look foolish. But if we people of faith, we're simply following a command from Christ to forgive. And yes, it's hard sometimes as a black man to forgive some things that happened in this nation. It's hard sometimes to forgive some of the things that happened to us. But if we are Christians, this is not a suggestion from Christ, it is a command from Christ. And if we are Christians, we have to learn how to do hard things. That means that you have to be, you have to you have to learn how to forgive. We talked last week, right? Capacity. Lord, give me the capacity to forgive. Lord, please don't don't shorten up my capacity where I don't know how to forgive. And now I'm on the outs with you, God, but I got my pride. Come on. Forgiving from the outside, this looks foolish. We look like idiots to people. I'm telling, I'm telling you the truth. We look stupid to people because we forgiving folk. I'm gonna deal with this in a second here. But from the inside, inside the faith, those of us that have studied our Bibles, those that believe on Jesus, those of us that are followers, disciples, right? This is the discipleship, Monday morning discipleship, right? Again, purpose and beyond, right? Which means that we have a purpose and we go beyond that, right? Okay, again, if we do that, y'all, from the outside, people think we're crazy. But from the inside, we say we are disciples. And if Jesus is forgiven the people who put him on the cross, what excuse do we have? Next note we can't stay in his good graces without extending good graces to others. We can't stay in his good graces without extending good graces to others. Matthew 6 and 14 says, You're gonna fall out with God. You ain't gonna forgive, you're falling out with God. I'm just letting you know, you're falling out with God. Are y'all here today? So uh uh we can't stay in God's good graces if we don't have it in us to extend good grace to other people. We don't like to hear this type of teaching. Certainly don't like to hear this type of preach. But the Bible backs me up. Let me read again, I'm running out of time. Let me read uh from an act of grace uh in relation to this conversation that Jesus was having with Peter, and I wrote some things concerning that in this book, An Act of Grace, and I'll pull it up on the screen so you can read along. Uh, this section that I'm pulling from, uh, let me take a look here. I said uh forgiveness is all about extending to others what we readily receive from God. That is a section in this book that I'm reading from. It's about extending to others what we readily receive from God. So watch this. I'll pull this up on the screen for you. I wrote this, I said, we often get caught trying to see a spiritual lesson through a physical lens. If we can't see how much offense God has to forgive daily and not humble ourselves and try to extend that same grace to one another, we're missing the point of Christianity. Forgiveness isn't about being a fool. But rather, it's about not letting a grudge make a fool out of you. It's about not allowing yourself to be on the outs with God. Matthew 6, 14 through 15. Jesus gives Peter an answer that can serve two purposes. One, to satisfy his human curiosity, two, to appeal to the side of him that should be forgiving. When Jesus puts a number on the amount of times Peter should forgive, no, not seven times, Jesus replied, but seventy times seven. Peter can see how serious Jesus is about repeatedly forgiving offenses. Furthermore, when there's a number placed on it, if you even begin to start keeping count, it should be a realization to you that forgiving grace is eluding you. Again, if you're already trying to figure out how to be done with your brother or sister, are you really forgiving God's way? Now, I would love to read that again, but I'm running out of time. But I pray that y'all caught what I was saying there. It's not about you being a fool, it's about not letting the group the grudge make a fool out of you. Don't let the grudge make a fool out of you. It's forgiving is not about you being a fool. It's about you saying, I'm not gonna allow this thing to cause separation between me and God. And by the way, God wants us to have a relationship with each other, but the most important relationship is with Him. Now we we love to hear that, right? The most important relationship is with God, right? So God outlines how that relationship is gonna happen. You got to maintain a relationship with your brother and sister in Christ. That's how you and me get along, and then that's how y'all get along, right? Next note, we can't be the recipients of grace while also being the hoarders of grace. We can't be the people that receive grace all the time, but then we want to hoard all the grace and not give it to anybody else. That's not how this thing goes, y'all. Again, if we receive in grace, as I put in this book, I said we so readily receive grace. We can't be the type of people that refuse to extend grace. If you're readily receiving grace, you're being taught how to extend grace. Every time God forgives you, he's trying to teach you. This feels good, don't it? It feels good to be forgiven, don't it? Alright. Now make sure that when somebody offends you, that you walk the same way. We don't want to hear this all the time, but this is exactly what God wants from you. Whether you like it or not. Whether you like it or not. We can't just be the recipients of grace while at the same time trying to be hoarders. I'm not going to stand my grace to them people. What if God operated that way? What if God says, I'm tired of you? And by the way, let me say this before I get to these last couple notes. Sometimes God does get tired of you. But you know what happens when God gets tired of you? He don't stop loving you, He don't stop extending grace. But He might allow some consequences to shake you up a little bit. Consequences of your actions. And then once you see it, you come back, he said, Okay, you ready to do this now? I forgive you. We were just studying in Bible class at FTK about uh David and Bathsheba and the ripple effect of what David did and how it affected so many other people. And it was a horrific thing that David did. And when the prophet Nathan comes to him and tells him, God saw it all, and he's gonna punish you, and this child is gonna die. But Nathan also tells him, he said, God has already forgiven you. You're not going to die. But there are consequences to your actions. You're gonna have rebellion in your house, your children ain't gonna act right, you're gonna have to live by the sword, all kinds of things, David, it's gonna happen. But just know that God has forgiven you. And so when I talked to him, I said, This is what survival looks like sometimes. That you survived your bad decisions and God kept you, but there are consequences that are there to remind you, don't make these decisions again. Next note We're better off re-evaluating relationships than we are disobeying God. We're better off re-evaluating relationships than we are disobeying God. So I said I was gonna talk about this a little bit uh a couple minutes ago, and I said this when people say, Am I just supposed to let people mistreat me? Am I supposed to just be a fool forever? Pastor, you said that in this lifetime, nobody is going to offend me 490 times. How can you say that, Pastor? And I said two things are happening. If you've been offended 490 times, I say either you're overly sensitive and everything offends you, or you have not made some adjustments somewhere. So, what do you mean when you say that? Re-evaluate relationships. If somebody is mistreating you over and over and over again, God doesn't expect you to just keep on dealing with that person, even though he expects you to forgive them. You're expected to extend grace when they ask you, forgive me again for this, forgive me again for this, forgive me again for this. You are asked to extend grace, God, well, you are commanded. God has commanded you to extend grace to these people, but at some point you and I have to reevaluate relationships and say, How is it that you're in a position to offend me all the time? And why haven't I made the adjustment to say this is who you are? And once I can accept people for who they are, y'all, y'all hear me good today. Once I can accept people for who they are, they lose the power to offend me because now I know that this is who you are. See, offense comes, y'all, when uh I have a certain expectation that you won't harm me or that you won't hurt me, and then I can get offended by it. But if I accept the fact that this is who you are, you hurt people, you're mean to people, you're this, you're that. I've re-evaluated this relationship, and so I don't expect you not to hurt me. I expect you to be offensive, but you're no longer offensive to me because I have adjusted my expectation. And sometimes you got to move on from folks, that's gonna be in our last note today, and sometimes you do, but you have to evaluate your relationships. So I don't know anybody in my lifetime that has offended me 490 times. Because either I adjusted my expectations of them, I re-evaluated the relationship and say, Oh, I allowed you to get too close to me. That's why you hurt my feelings. One more time, I'll make this shameless plug here. This book that I wrote called Um Where's My Change at the end of 2020. I talked about this. And I talked about um when you have to reevaluate relationships or whatever, and certain relationships that are no good for you. I say you have to change the access points. I said, Well, access points is how people get connected to you, how they get in contact with you, how they wind up in your space. And when you rind, when we realize that somebody's no good for you, you have to change your access points. So you have to say, you're not allowed to access me at this place anymore. I keep you at this distance now because you and I are no good for each other. Right? I talked to our church family recently, very quickly, and I said to them, I said, you gotta know the difference between friends and associates. I said, some people y'all assign it to the friend department. I said, but they're really just associates. As associates don't have the same responsibility as a friend does. And you need to recognize you ain't gonna have that many friends in your life, but you're gonna have a lot of associates. So sometimes you have to reevaluate the relationships so that you don't have to keep forgiving the same thing over and over and over again because some things are a part of a person's personality. And if y'all keep saying it's in the same place that you keep giving them the same access to you, yes, you will be forgiving them for the same thing over and over again because you refuse to accept that's who they are until they become something different. So last thing here, I read a little over, I said I wasn't gonna do this. So last thing here, and as I said to you, sometimes you have to move on for folks. Last note: even if we depart from one another, we must depart in peace. Scripture tells us in the book of Hebrews and the book of Romans. I'm sorry I don't have the scriptures right in front of me. In the book of Hebrews, book of Romans, scripture tells us, do everything you can to live at peace with people, with everybody. Do everything that you can to live at peace with people. And so even if you and I have to go our separate ways because this relationship is no longer beneficial to me, you're a cold-hearted person, you this, you that, or maybe it's not even that. We're just all in water, we don't get along. Make sure that you depart in peace. What do you mean when you say that, Pastor? Again, don't walk away without resolution, don't walk away without extending grace, don't walk away without you all being in a good place spiritually, even though we may never speak to each other again. Let's settle this so that we can depart in peace. That way, if I see you down the road, you see me down the road, we don't have to be hostile to one another because we settled it and we departed in peace. Even if we depart from one another, we must depart in peace. That is a way that you extend grace. And the optics of it may look to somebody from the outside like they don't talk no more. They still got beef. We ain't got beef. We departed in peace. Make sure that if you got to separate from somebody, you separate in peace. God will be pleased at that. Let's leave it right there. That's all the time that we got. I pray that you all were blessed by what we had to share. Very quickly, let me give you our tags. We always do. Like to keep up with us on the ministry side, check us out. The ministry's website, www.krjministries.org. Again, www.krjministries.org. Stop by there. We do believe that you will be blessed. Uh, if you want to purchase any of our written works like this book, An Act of Grace, um, that we've been sharing from the last couple of weeks. Visit the publishing website, www.krjpublishing.com. Again, www.krjpublishing.com. Sixteen books available there. We believe that one of them will be a blessing to you. 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You can also uh find us on YouTube by searching for the Kingdom Christian Church. Hit the subscribe button there. That way you can join us for worship service every Sunday morning, 10 15 a.m. where we stream our services every Sunday. Uh, you are welcome to join us. If you are in the Detroit area and you want to come by in person, we do have in-person worship service. Uh, if you go back to that last slide, you see all the information there on the screen. How you can join us in person or go to the Facebook page, get the address, come on by and join us in person. Uh, but as we tell you each and every week, we would love to see your face in the place. Come on by and worship with us. That's all the time that we have for this week's podcast. I pray that you all were blessed by what we had to share. God bless you and God keep yours. My prayer as always. We'll see you all on next time. Be blessed.