This Sunday's Inspirational Message is:

WHERE GRACE GOES WHEN YOU HAVE NOTHING LEFT!

Today's message is called Where Grace Goes When You Have Nothing Left. We're spending time in one of the most breathtaking passages in all of the New Testament — Romans chapter 5, verses 6 through 15. And I have to tell you, when I sat down to prepare this message, I kept reading these verses over and over. Not because they were hard to understand. But because they are so almost unbelievably good.

Here's what we're going to look at today. We're going to see that God didn't wait for us to get our lives together before He sent Jesus. He sent His Son while we were still helpless, while we were still sinners, while we were still enemies of God. Think about that. Grace didn't come after we cleaned ourselves up. Grace came while we were still a mess.

In this message, we'll unpack three big ideas from this passage. First, we'll look at the timing of grace — why the words 'while we were yet' matter more than we might think. Second, we'll see the depth of love that drove God to send Christ for people who didn't deserve it and weren't asking for it. And third, we'll see the life-altering contrast between Adam and Christ — between what sin brought into the world and what grace brought in.

There are three action points I want you to walk away with today. Number one — ask yourself honestly, are you still trying to earn something that has already been freely given? Number two — let the reality that God loved you at your worst reshape how you love the difficult people in your life. And number three — anchor your identity not in Adam's failure but in Christ's gift. That's the journey we're taking together today.

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"Scripture quotations taken from the Holy Bible: New American Standard Bible. 1995. LaHabra, CA: The Lockman Foundation.

The music "Revive Us Again" and "Be Thou My Vision" arranged and played by Don Wigton. Used by Permission.