Grace is all God can do for the sinner to eternityPastor-Teacher Grace is all God can do for the sinner to eternityWe have seen the relationship between the calling of God and the purpose of God, which is to glorify God. The Bible teaches that God is glorified by displaying His grace and mercy. 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, God’s plan throughout all the ages is that He might be glorified by the grace that He dispenses to undeserving creatures. Col 2:6 As you therefore have received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, 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. 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 HEB 12:15 2PE 3:18 Our Father treats us in grace, and that is how we should treat others. This is called grace orientation. HEB 13:9 JAM 3:15 HEB 13:9 JAM 3:15 a. Any recognition of human guilt.
PSA 23:3 ISA 43:25
ROM 7:24
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. b. Secondly, there must not be any recognition of human obligation. JOH 10:28 In order that the field might be absolutely clear for the manifestation of uncompromising divine grace, God has perfectly eliminated every work of man, past, present, and future, from the terms of salvation by grace. EPH 2:9 TIT 3:5 The complete setting aside of human obligation as payment for divine blessings is the only ground upon which God can be free to act in unlimited divine grace toward sinners. c. The third essential principle which can never co-exist with pure grace is any recognition of human merit. God has now pronounced an all-inclusive, judicial, condemning sentence on the whole race, both Jew and Gentile.
The ground of universal divine condemnation is no longer the sins which men have committed and which Christ has borne but rather the condemnation is now because of the personal rejection of the Savior. |