Today I want to show you an unlikely passage that gloriously, yet not obviously (at first), displays the gospel of grace and how it overwhelms and overcomes your past. We know, or should by now, that the entire Bible is God’s story — it’s his “story of grace” that’s being told and we’re just the filthy participants in it. Every page whispers the name of Jesus and points to what he would do, has now done, and is continually doing. Yes, even all those tedious genealogies in Genesis and 1 Chronicles and Matthew’s Gospel, and so forth, are grand platforms for God’s grace to claim center-stage. Likewise, another unsung gospel-passage that doesn’t look like it at the outset is Acts 13:1–3:
The gospel overwhelms your past.
The gospel overwhelms your past.
The gospel overwhelms your past.
Today I want to show you an unlikely passage that gloriously, yet not obviously (at first), displays the gospel of grace and how it overwhelms and overcomes your past. We know, or should by now, that the entire Bible is God’s story — it’s his “story of grace” that’s being told and we’re just the filthy participants in it. Every page whispers the name of Jesus and points to what he would do, has now done, and is continually doing. Yes, even all those tedious genealogies in Genesis and 1 Chronicles and Matthew’s Gospel, and so forth, are grand platforms for God’s grace to claim center-stage. Likewise, another unsung gospel-passage that doesn’t look like it at the outset is Acts 13:1–3: