Lesson 22 Our Response to Grace
Questions 2 and 3
The warning that Paul gives is that the Corinthians should not receive God’s grace in vain. This means that they should not continue in their same old lifestyle, their same patterns of sin (that he wrote to them about in his first letter) and their same old way of living.
God’s grace is meant to change our hearts and change the way we live. It is meant to make us sorrowful for our past life and actually set about to change the way we are living today. It is heartbreaking to see a professing Christian who still lives like he or she did before Christ. It demeans Jesus, showing the world that He really hasn’t changed us, that He is of lesser value to us than media or any other thing.
Friend, please don’t receive the grace of God in vain. Please don’t continue living life wasting your days being addicted to media. That is an empty life, a life without purpose, a life of ignorance of the God Who made you and the Savior Who died for you. “As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance” (1 Peter 1:14).
1 Peter 1:18-19 NIV For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life handed down to you from your ancestors, (19) but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
Question 2. According to 1 Peter 1:18, what were you redeemed from and with what were you redeemed?
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You were redeemed from an empty and self centered way of life. Media addiction, though it promises fullness and satisfaction is an absolutely futile way of life. This is why we have to have to keep increasing our media usage because each time we run to it for fulfillment it is less filling and fails to truly satisfy.
You were redeemed from this way of living with the precious blood of Christ. That is, He bought you back when He died on the cross, redeeming you from an empty way of life in media addiction so that He might give you fullness of life in Himself. Jesus is “the fullness of him who fills everything in every way” (Ephesians 1:23), and “out of His fullness, we have all received grace on top of grace” (John 1:14 TLV). We must not receive His grace in vain by continuing the empty way of life in media addiction.
Notice 2 Corinthians 6 again:
(2) For he says, "In the time of my favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you." I tell you, now is the time of God's favor, now is the day of salvation.