John Bevere - What Most Christians Don't Know

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My grace is all you need, for my power works best in your weakness, or your human inability. In other words, He’s saying my grace is my power, and it gives you the ability to do what you can’t do in your own human strength. I’m preaching, and I feel so happy right now because I know how this will liberate your life. If you look at Peter, he writes in Second Peter 1, he says, «Grace be multiplied to you as His divine power.» So Peter identifies God’s grace as His divine power. Only 2% of Christians know this in America. Are you with me?

Now, why is this a problem? Because you can’t have anything from God unless you believe, and you cannot believe what you do not know. So if only 2% of Christians in America know that grace is God’s empowerment that gives me the ability to go beyond my natural ability, that means 98% of Christians in America are trying to live godly and holy in their own ability. Do you know what happens when you try to live holy in your own ability? You miserably fail. So what do you do? You create a doctrine that undersells grace.

Okay, I’m human, I have all these sexual lusts, I know that. I have all this addiction to food and substances, and I know I’m just human. I know I just don’t like my wife; I don’t want to be married to her anymore. So I’m just going to divorce her. I know I’m not supposed to, but you know I’m human, I have needs. Of course you can’t be holy in your own ability. You can’t. But if nobody tells you that grace empowers you, you can’t be holy either.