This week we are looking at Righteousness. There are so many who have heard that they are the righteousness of Christ but do not really know what it means to say that. They say that as part of the religious vocabulary but they do not really understand it for that is not a term that is used today. The term righteous in modern culture has become a slang word and it does not mean anything close to what it meant in the days of Jesus or in the Bible.

  This series that we have done on our inheritance has gone over some basic things that we should know. It has gone over some things that maybe you have not heard in a while and it has not just been on grace through faith though everything we teach is focused on grace. It is important for a church to focus on the whole gospel and not just an isolated part. Too often there are churches that focus on a certain truth and only that. If you examine the history of the church in America after the Azuza street revival in the early 1900's then you will see that there was an explosion in the number of denominations that started so that by 1920 there had literally been thousands of denominations that started because they each focused on one minute difference in doctrine from someone else and the denominations caused separation in the American church. So many of those denominations would speak against what another denomination believed so the division in the church increased.

  The gospel is called the gospel of grace. It is not called the gospel of righteousness or the gospel of sanctification but it is called the gospel of grace. Grace then is not a part of the gospel but it is the gospel. The gospel is simple. The gospel is all inclusive. It is not the American gospel just to the rich but it also is to the poor. All parts of the gospel are for all men. Giving, prosperity, righteousness, holiness, Spiritual gifts, healing, salvation, redemption etc., so we must preach all of it but let our focus be on the special part that God gave to us.

  I will  focus on grace for that is the message that God gave to me. God gave Jesus the message of salvation and He preached salvation and the Father to all. Preach what God gave you but know that God also gave others their part and let them teach what God gave them without condemnation. Speak freedom and love to all regardless of what they do to you. Great is God in you so let Him become big in your sight. Let the love of God envelop you so that you see all through Jesus and His work. Do not let circumstances alter your focus from what God wants you to do. Let God be your assurance and salvation. Praise Him all the day long for He is worthy of all praise!

  Go and browse our site. It is not just about the weekly messages that we put up. It is also about including what our Founder told us and remind yourself of his words. Pastor John implanted all that God gave him inside of us and God is ever with us. God is for us and will keep us. God is not mad at us and Pastor John instilled a sense of security with God that only grows year from year. We are reminded of those things when we read the Hogan Scriptures and Hoganisms. We have much to offer for those of you that are first time visitors, so for those of you that are new please go to the bottom of this page and add your email address to our internet mailing list. Read all the pages and let them bless you! Share our link with others- www.wordofgracefellowship.com

Friends,

            The poor are blessed not when they sit back and say God bless me but when they give. Too often we have presented the gospel with the idea that the ones who should give are the ones who have the money to do so. The ones who need to give are the ones who do not have it. We need to present the gospel not as what we teach on Sunday morning and at church but what we live. It is okay to preach to someone in a pew but not at the water cooler at work. If you are a preacher then you are allowed to preach but otherwise so many do not want to hear and they always  bring up well why did so and so suffer if there is a God.

  People need to see the gospel changing lives and they need to see it demonstrated. So many have not seen that, so they teach that healing died out with the apostles or some other doctrine of Satan that it is hard to get people to believe for things that they rationalize do not happen anymore and because they know of cases where people were not healed but they said they were then it in their mind discounts the legitimate healings that did take place.

  Paul said you are proof of my apostleship. Pastors, your congregation should be proof of your ministry. How have you impacted their lives, has something happened in their life that is miraculous that they can say God did for them because of being in your church. Do miracles happen in your church? Do people believe God for the impossible and get it?

  Here we have focused on grace and we should for the gospel is a message of grace. Grace is the gospel. The Word Gospel originally was spelled Godspell meaning God's word, so when it says that the Gospel is grace it means that the word of God is a word of grace so all should preach grace. The word Gospel degenerated in meaning to good news and anyone can have good news. Good news could mean an improvement in your situation or your team one a championship but good news is not eternal. God's Word is eternal and God's word has come into your life and God gives it to you by His grace. God wants to share His word of grace with you.

 So we encourage you to come to this site and receive the words of grace that we have received from God. Read the new messages. Read the resources that are here on this page. Come to our Sunday Service at 11 AM and go to our direction page to get directions from your house. Come and visit. God told us to make disciples and to go to all the world. We are doing that so help us fulfill the mission God gave us. Support us as we share this grace with others and tell someone of this site so they too can be blessed. If this blessed you then sign up for a free reminder and a free quarterly newsletter! Come join us at www.wordofgracefellowship.com or at the Springfield YMCA on Sundays at 11 Am! Go in grace and God will go with you!

 

Go and share this website with others and give them our link www.wordofgracefellowship.com Go and browse our site and read the messages that God gave to us to share with you. Share them with others and grow in grace. Feel free to contact us at info@wordofgracefellowship.com if you have any questions or would like to talk to our Pastor. Bless you and have a happy Fathers Day!

June 15th is the day we celebrate Fathers Day and we should. I did some research and found out that it was started because they celebrated Mothers Day so one woman thought it would be right to celebrate Fathers too. One Woman started Mothers Day and another woman started Fathers Day. Women helped bring both into existence. Women were also instrumental in the ministry of Jesus and Paul and were the first witnesses to the Resurrection. When you come to Word of Grace you will see that our logo, our banner is of an empty  tomb and a woman seeing the stone rolled away. The empty tomb is unique to what God wants us to do and what we have in Jesus. No other religion can boast of an empty tomb of its founder! All others are still in their tombs and will be until Jesus raises them from the dead!

  At Word of Grace we focus not on the law, but on the empty tomb. The law focuses on fleshly obedience, causing you to see the answer through what you do. The law was not given to the righteous but to the unrighteous. We focus on the empty tomb for in the empty tomb we find that God's Word is really true and we are who He says we are. We find that Jesus is the answer for His Word came true. IF there is no empty tomb then the cross has no power, for the answer is in a Living Saviour and not in dead sacrifices.

  Do not offer any more sacrifices for sin! Paul encourages us to do this in Heb 10 and the more I hear grace teaching. (Yes even preachers need to hear it- for we all need grace) I am convinced that that God wants us to be free of bondages and that everything that happens to us is an opportunity for blessing so walk in the blessing and not the curse. Walk in  grace and not in fleshly servitude! Walk without putting the focus on what you do but put the focus on what He did!

  We do not offer sacrifices for sin by offering animals but we do offer sacrifices for sin! We make deals with God - God if you do this I will do this! Or we try to live holy so that God will be pleased with us. IF God were to be pleased with you because of what you did then that would mean that Jesus did not do enough because you were able to add to it by what you did and that is not possible! Jesus finished the work and God called it perfect! God is pleased with the work that Jesus did so do not think that you can add to it- just thank Him for it. God did not provide for you so that you would be indebted to Him but so that you would be so thankful that you would willingly share with others what He did for you! God desires praise from His children not sacrifices! God wants your love and love cannot be forced but must be offered freely or it is not love!

  This week Pastor Don is talking about Perfection and what is Christian Perfection. How you can have a perfect mindset. Our perfection is not by the flesh but by the Spirit which lives within us. Listen to this sermon and be blessed. Let the sermons on this series of gifts get within you so that you can walk not with fear but out of gratitude and a loving heart toward God and that will produce in you a heart of mercy and meekness toward others.

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