Grace is all God can do for the sinner to eternity

Pastor-Teacher
John Farley
Friday,
January 29, 2010

Grace is all God can do for the sinner to eternity

We 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
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;
 

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

Our Father treats us in grace, and that is how we should treat others. This is called grace orientation.

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,
 

JAM 3:15
A wisdom which is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.

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,
 

JAM 3:15
A wisdom which is not that which comes down from above, but is earthly, natural, demonic.

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.
 

b. Secondly, there must not be any recognition of human obligation.
 

JOH 10:28
and I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish; and no one shall snatch them out of My hand.
 

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
not as a result of works, that no one should boast.
 

TIT 3:5
He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit,
 

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.


GAL 3:22
But the Scripture has shut up all men under sin,
 

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.
 


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