Growing in Grace (8 of 9)

What’s So Amazing About Grace (8 of 9)

How Jesus Calls Us to Both Salvation and Discipleship

2 Timothy 4:7

INTRODUCTION

2 Timothy 4:7 “I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith.”

I. Jesus Never Separated Salvation From Discipleship

Matthew 4:19 "Follow Me, and I will make you fishers of men."

Mark 1:15 "Repent and believe in the gospel."

II. Saving Faith Is Faithful Faith Romans 1:5

James 2:17 "Faith, if it has no works, is dead."

John 17:3 "This is eternal life, that they may know You..."

III. Jesus Invited People Into A Relationship, Not An Event

IV. Jesus Calls Us To Deny Ourselves

Mark 8:34-35 "If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow Me."

V. Discipleship Is How We Stay Faithful Psalm 86:2-4; Psalm 86:11, 15; Hebrews 10:19-23

VI. The Goal Is Not Conversion—It Is Christlikeness
Galatians 4:19; Colossians 1:28; Hebrews 10:24-25

Grace is God's gift

Faith is our response.

Discipleship is the journey.

1 John 2:3; 1 John 2:5-6; 1 John 3:18-19; 1 John 4:6;1 John 5:2

"Well done, good and faithful servant." Matthew 25:21