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Experiencing God

May 5, 2021

Summary

A lot of times when we look at our lives, we question the grace of God. Maybe that's because of how we're doing, spiritually. Or it could be because our circumstances are hard. We wrestle with whether God really is graciously inclined toward us. What is the antidote to this? It is to look to Christ. He is the evidence of God's grace toward us.

Topics

  • Experiencing God
  • A lot of times when we look at our lives, we question the grace of God
  • Maybe that's because of how we're doing, spiritually
  • Or it could be because our circumstances are hard

Transcript

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Hi, this is Justin.

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Today on Theocast, we are going to talk about one of the ways that we tend to struggle as Christians.

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We look around at our lives, whether that's how we're doing spiritually or we look around at our lives circumstantially and we question whether or not God really is graciously inclined toward us.

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Because at times we just do not see a lot of evidence of the grace of God.

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And the antidote to what ails us is to actually not look at our lives as the evidence of God's grace for us, but to look at Christ's life as the evidence of God's graciousness toward us as His people.

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So that's the conversation that we're going to be having today.

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We're going to look at the confessions and we're going to consider the scriptures as we think about how God loves us and how He feels about us as His people.

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Thanks for listening.

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Welcome to Theocast, encouraging weary pilgrims to rest in Christ, conversations about the Christian life from a reformed perspective.

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Our hosts today are John Moffat, who's pastor of Grace Reformed Church in Spring Hill, Tennessee, which is just south of Nashville, as he likes to say.

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And I'm Justin Perdue, pastor of Covenant Baptist Church in Asheville, North Carolina.

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John, good to be around the mic with you today, brother.

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Get to talk a little bit more about doctrine and theology and the Christian life and Jesus with you.

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That's right.

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We were both kind of ho-hum getting on this morning, just heavy stuff going on in the life, yeah.

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Pastoral duties getting a little heavy at times, and we started shifting the conversation towards what we're going to talk about today.