Grace

WHAT GRACE IS


Never let the devil deceive you into supposing that God planned sin as "a
gracious means to a glorious end," for then salvation from sin would be simple
justice, not grace. No, you cannot legitimately charge God with your sin. It is
to the guilty, the undeserving, far and wide, that God offers "the forgiveness
of sins according to the riches of His grace" (Eph. 1:7).

There are two significant phrases in Eph. 2 which shed clear light upon the
character, the nature, of grace. They are found in Verses 2 and 3, which speak
of the unsaved as "children [Gr., huiois, full-grown sons] of disobedience"
and "children [Gr., tekna, born ones] of wrath."

Meditate for a moment on these phrases: "Children of disobedience" and
"children of wrath." It is against this dark, black background of deserved wrath,
that we read further:

"BUT GOD, who is RICH IN MERCY, for His GREAT LOVE wherewith He loved us,
"Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us [given us life] together with
Christ (BY GRACE ARE YE SAVED), "And hath raised us up together and made us
sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: "That in the ages to come He
might show THE EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS GRACE IN HIS KINDNESS TOWARD US THROUGH
CHRIST JESUS" (Eph. 2:4-7).

Somehow it takes a load off one’s heart and mind to come to the end of his
rope, as it were, and admit that he is a sinner, deserving God’s wrath. How
sweet to the ears of such is the wonderful message of redemption by grace, through
the finished work of Christ at Calvary. We were all the "children [full-grown
sons] of disobedience": and therefore "by nature the children [born ones] of
wrath": "But God!" When hope seemed gone, He intervened and now offers
salvation to all by grace, through faith.

"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved" (Acts 16:31).





Eph 3:9 And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which
from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things
by Jesus Christ



At times all of us experience fear.
But don't allow fear to keep
you from being used by God.
He has kept you thus far; trust Him
for the rest of the way.