Answers to Grace Walk Ch. 2

1. Absolute surrender to God is when you realize that you are nothing and that God is everything so you give all of who you are to God. When a person absolutely surrenders to God they will be at peace, find joy in God, patience, fruit of the Spirit Gal. 5:22-23.
2. Walking after the flesh is not always repulsive to the believer. At times it might even seem more pleasing to the Christian because the flesh makes much of us.. Paul equates waling afer the flesh with looking at his own righteous track record. Before Paul was saved he did many good and religious things for himself.
3. Sad but true a person’s ability often times becomes a liability to them spiritually because he/she is relying on his/her ability to make the righteous. We as Christians can sometimes encourage this behavior in other people by making much of their skills rather than making much of God in them.
4. I agree with Steve that trying to do something for God has bad consequences. When one does something for God, he/she is most likely motivated by a self-glorification rather than God-glorification. Therefore, God will not bless those efforts.
5. Major Sin! Sarah had Abram commit adultery with he maid! The consequences were atrocious. The maid did not really give up rights to her son. Sarah became jealous and the son was torn up because of the dysfunction of the family. History even says that Islam came from His lineage.
6. Brokenness: when a person comes to the place where they realize and feel there is nothing righteous in them and that they are totally wicked and cannot produce godliness without God saving them. I do agree with Steve because God will not give us anything that He cannot do through us.
7. God brings a person to brokenness so that that person might make much of God’s glory and share in its blessings. God allows His children to experience pain so that they can glorify Him in the midst of pain. He refines us in those times.
8. Serving God might be a distraction today because we can easily get enamored with the gifts rather than the giver.