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Sound of Liberty
7286 Hwy 53 West
Dawsonville,
GA
30534
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Fallen
From Grace
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By: Ben Howard
Please turn with us in the Book of Galatians,
chapter 5. I want to speak on a message and entitle
it “Fallen from Grace,” and I want to
subtitle it “Where there is no law, there is no
transgression.” This is kind of new to me, so we’re
just going to have to depend on the Lord to direct
us in what to say, and I believe He will.
Let’s bow our heads in prayer if you will,
please. Heavenly Father, Lord Jesus, we thank you
for this privilege to come to you, to stand before
you with your Book open, and to stand up to be
identified with Our Sacrifice. Lord, you died for
us; you gave all. We thank you Lord, that you died
to save a people from sin. Lord, you died to loose
a people from the curse of the law. O God, in the
name of Jesus, I pray that you will come among us in
that very, very special way, that you will just take
all doubt and fear from among us, and that you will
just lift us up in heavenly places in Christ Jesus
where we can believe that all things are possible.
Lord, I pray that you will enlighten our eyes, as
the Word says, that we may see these great truths
that you’ve laid in the Word for us in this last
day. Just move by your Holy Spirit, anointing us to
minister the Word. Anoint the congregation to
receive, and we’ll be careful to praise you, in
Jesus’ name. Amen.
I believe Jesus came for a reason. I believe He
died on the cross for a reason, and it was not a
lost cause. There was a people already under the
law before He came and died. If the law could have
saved them, then He would have died in vain.
I want you to notice - the same situation today,
that Paul dealt with in the Book of Galatians. In
the Word of God, there was a period of time the
people of God came from Genesis to the time of Moses
without any written Word at all. They had no Bible,
but they had a living God amongst them. Then God
gave a written Word, through the mouth of Moses (the
first five books in the Bible). Then the prophets
followed shortly thereafter, and they wrote and
instructed God’s people further; as certain laws
were given to keep people’s conscience alive until
Jesus came.
In the Old Testament and under the law, God dealt
with a people from an external standpoint, through
do’s and don’ts; but in the New Testament, He deals
with us as Christ in us, the hope of glory. The
early Church started out strictly without a written
Word. They only had the Old Testament. They went
many years where they were led by the Spirit of God
and the ministry; but sad to say…, many of them
began to look back and lean back to do’s and don’ts;
and those that did, they fell out of the marvelous
grace that they were placed in. They weren’t lost,
but they fell out of the marvelous grace of God. I
believe that God has grace that He’s revealing to a
people in this end time. I believe that the full
strength of the Spirit of God is returning to the
Church as we receive the full strength of the Word
of God. Hallelujah! That early Church had
something besides just carrying the Bible around.
They had something besides just being religious.
They had something besides little religious programs
that were in competition one with the other. They
had a living Jesus living within them.
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