God's grace cannot co-exist with human merit

Pastor-Teacher
John Farley
Wednesday,
January 27, 2010

God's grace cannot co-exist with human merit

2Ti 1:9 who has saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity,

Exo 33:18 - Moses said, “I pray Thee, show me Your glory!”

Exo 33:19 the Lord said, “I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of Jehovah before you; and I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy.”

Mercy is grace in action.

Grace is free, unmerited love and favor from God alone.

Grace comes from God in the form of gifts but it returns to God in the form of glory.

Mercy is, in effect, a byproduct of the essence of God in action toward the human race in history.

Grace comes from God in the form of gifts but it returns to God in the form of glory.

God’s plan throughout all the ages is that He might be glorified by the grace that He dispenses to undeserving creatures.

There can be no demonstration of mercy until you have someone in the condition that requires mercy.

Col 2:6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him,

Grace comes from God in the form of gifts, but it returns to God in the form of glory.

The glory of God is revealed in His mercy toward mankind.

Church age believers are the objects of the maximum mercy and grace of God.

There can be no demonstration of mercy until you have someone in the condition that requires mercy.

There can be no knight in shining armor until there is a damsel in distress.

He came to seek and save the lost. And He came to rescue for Himself a bride.

His bride is vulnerable, full of faults, facing powerful enemies, needing mercy - and needing a Champion to fight for her.

A Champion who knows all about her, knows her failures, her weakness and sinfulness.......... and fights for her anyway!

Post-salvation Grace or grace after we’re saved.
 

We live in the Church-age which is called in Eph 3:2 the dispensation of the grace of God (ASV)
 

2TI 2:1
Be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
 

HEB 12:15
See to it that no one comes short of the grace of God; that no root of bitterness springing up causes trouble, and by it many be defiled;
 

HEB 13:9
Do not be carried away by varied and strange teachings; for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace,
 

2PE 3:18
but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
 

a. Any recognition of human guilt.
b. Any recognition of human obligation.
c. Any recognition of human merit.

God has to be free to exercise His grace without the slightest restriction because of human failure and sin.
 

PSA 23:3
He restores my soul; He guides me in the paths of righteousness For His name’s sake.
 

ISA 43:25
"I, even I, am the one who wipes out your transgressions for My own sake; And I will not remember your sins."

Grace can only be exercised where every question of human unworthiness has been dismissed forever.
 

ROM 7:24
Wretched man that I am! Who will set me free from the body of this death?

ISA 53:6
the Lord has caused the iniquity of us all To fall on Him.

Since God the Father, through the death of His Son, has dealt with sin in the absolute sense, He is now free, in grace, to lavish His riches upon sinners without reservation or reduction.
 

Once divine justice finished its work and judged sin once and for all, divine grace was free to manifest the infinite glory of God.
 

A righteous throne of justice, wrath and judgment has now become a throne of grace.