GRACE

GRACE

Monday, April 01, 2019

  Yesterday at a pasta get-acquainted gathering I met a boisterous adamant errant professing Christian that does not, and teaches, that God’s grace is not unmerited. God’s Word makes it plain that His grace cannot be earned. God’s grace is unearned undeserved favor and blessing. His grace is not reward, compensation, wages, recompense, payment, or reimbursement!

  In Christendom there are two positions held, both being argument about salvation.

1.       Salvation is by grace, but grace only comes to those who obey God’s law.

2.       Salvation is by grace and grace alone.

  I leave you with one relevant summarizing passage from God’s Truth: For by grace you are saved through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God has before ordained that we should walk in them. Therefore remember that you, the nations, in time past were in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called the Circumcision in the flesh made by hands; and that at that time you were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who were once afar off are made near by the blood of Christ. For He is our peace, He making us both one, and He has broken down the middle wall of partition between us, having abolished in His flesh the enmity (the Law of commandments contained in ordinances) so that in Himself He might make the two into one new man, making peace between them; and so that He might reconcile both to God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity in Himself. (MKJV Ephesians 2:8-16)

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