THE GRACE OF GOD
Date: 28 April 2002
Revised: 17 July 2013
"4 But God, who is rich in mercy,
out of the great love with which He loved us,
5 even when we were dead in our trespasses,
made us alive together with Christ
(by grace you have been saved)."
(Eph. 2:4-5)
According to these verses, the
grace of God
is God's
love
in action.
God's grace is more than His favor;
it is His love acting to do something good for us.
And because He loves us, He has acted to save us.
"For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men."
(Titus 2:11 NIV).
What is salvation?
Salvation is deliverance -- deliverance from something bad to
something good.
Salvation is
- from death to life, and
- from sin to righteousness, and
- from wrath to peace.
These
three aspects of salvation
has been accomplished in the death and resurrection of Christ
by the grace of God and
not by works.
Legalism
is a misunderstanding of the Law of God.
Click
here
to study the legalistic misunderstanding of the grace of God.
Legalism has not only misunderstood the Biblical concept of
sin, but also of
righteousness, of the
righteousness of God and of
justification by faith.
And click
here
to study the effect of legalism on the Christian life.
And click
here
to read the conclusion of this book.
And click
here
to read an appendix on why Christ had to die.