Examples of God's Grace in the Old Testament are examples of common Grace.
A person speaks 16,000 words a day.In a week, that's 112,000 words, and 6 million words a year.That's a lot of talking.
What word would you choose for the most beautiful word in the universe?I won't disagree if some choose love.There is a strong biblical case for that word.
You need it.You cannot live without it, but you cannot earn it.When you receive a gift, you immediately realize how much you need it, and you wonder how you could have lived so long without it.
It is the only thing that everyone in a fallen world needs.You can only give it to someone else if you have first been given it yourself.
I would argue that God's grace is the most beautiful word in the universe.It takes you where God wants you to be.Nothing else can transform you at the core of who you are as a human being - your heart.
One of the most overused words in the church is grace.I'm afraid that we don't know what we're talking about.
"Okay, Paul, I get your definition that grace is the freely-given love, forgiveness, acceptance and help of God."I understand that there's nothing I can do to earn it, but I'm not sure what grace looks like.
There are 6 different types of grace.For the sake of this article, I'm only going to focus on these six variations of grace.
The grace of forgiveness is first and foremost.The Bible calls us sinners because we all do wrong.Unless a person is forgiven and declared guilt-free, they need to be condemned and punished.
To experience radical, comprehensive, and complete forgiveness, Jesus Christ went to the Cross to carry our sin and to bear our punishment.We're forgiven for everything we've done in the past, the present and the future, in Jesus Christ.
God forgives us through grace, but also welcomes us into relationship with him.We are invited into his family.We now have a Father-child relationship with Him because he adopts us as his children.
He responds as a loving and kind Father when we sit on his lap and bring our needs, concerns, and failures to him.Sin separated us from God, but now we have acceptance.
Our Father is not distant because of the grace of God's presence.Wherever we are and whatever we're doing, God is with us.
The Bible tells us that God has made us where he is.It wasn't enough for God to forgive us, he had to get inside us by the Holy Spirit, and so he is with us all the time.
I wrote in the beginning of the article that grace takes us where God wants us to be.God isn't content to just give us salvation and leave us alone until eternity.He wants us to work for the furtherance of His Kingdom and become like His Son.
Remaining sin leaves us weak and unable.God gives us strength and power.We can do what we're called to do, but we can't do it on our own.
God delivers as well.We're slaves of sin, but God's grace breaks that bondage.Grace gives us the power to say no.