The Grace throuth the Cross Part I

GRACE THROUGH THE CROSS PART I

Ephesians 2:9-8 “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.” (KJV)

He won for us Victory through the Cross

There has been a lot of discussion on the doctrine of grace, but in reality, many have a distorted view of what grace really is. Many have taught that since we are under the dispensation of grace that there is no need for the believer to ask for forgiveness of any kind, that grace automatically covers it. However, it is wrong to teach such, or even to believe such. If that were the case, then the Holy Spirit would not have prompted John the Beloved to write, “If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (I John. 1:9). He then went on to write, “My little children, these things write I unto you, that you sin not. And if any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ” (I John. 2:1). We as believers do not want to fail the Lord, for failure is repulsive to us. But when we do fail, we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, and when we confess our sins, He is always there to forgive us our sins. At that moment, the grace of God covers our sin.

WHAT IS GRACE?

Simply put, grace means unmerited favour. But to give it a more expansive definition, one could say that the grace of God is the goodness of God given to undeserving people. Now, there are three words in that definition that I would like to elaborate on: goodness, given, and undeserving. Let’s dissect the first word, goodness. God is good. He is the epitome of good (there is nothing bad or negative in Him. He perfect in goodness). In fact, everything He does is good. There is nothing He does that is not good, and because He is good, He wants to bestow upon all of His children all of His good things, whatever they might be. He has given us all that pertains to life and godliness “According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that [pertain] unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue” (II Peter 1:3), and He wants to give us all that He has to offer, which will always be good.

Secondly, His goodness can only be given to us. This is something that we cannot earn, for His goodness is a gift from our Heavenly Father. When we try to earn something from God, whatever it might be, it ceases to be a gift and it becomes an allowance, which is earned. Remember, God never works on the brownie points system, but rather everything He wants to give us is a gift.

Last, these gifts that are bestowed upon us are undeserved on the part of humanity (The fallen race according to the order of Adam). In other words, we do not deserve the grace of God, for we are a cursed race because of sin. Sin has damned the souls of countless millions of people throughout history and the penalty, which is death, is what is deserved by all. But because of God’s goodness, He has provided a means of escape from the sin penalty, which was given to us through Jesus Christ and Him crucified (And this is realised by the message of the cross).

WHAT MAKES THE GRACE OF GOD POSSIBLE?

Which leads us to our next question, “What makes the grace of God possible?” The answer is very simple: the Cross of Christ (not the plastic or wooden artefacts we see around religious people, but the fellowship of His suffering and the power of His resurrection). It is the Cross that makes the grace of God possible for anyone who would simply believe. In fact, the Cross is the greatest display of the grace of God that has ever been. God has always been a God of grace, even on the outset of humanity, for when Adam and Eve fell (they disobeyed the Lord and allow Sin to take dominion over the whole human race through them – so they fell from the level that God has placed them.) in the Garden it was His grace that provided the means of the sacrifice to restore right relationship with Him (Bringing back humanity to its rightful place). Knowing this, there was just as much grace under the Old Covenant as there is under the New Covenant. However, those under the Old Covenant could not enjoy all of the benefits of God’s grace as those who are under the New Covenant. The difference is the Cross, for it was the Cross that atoned for all sin—past, present, and future. The Cross of Christ is what makes the grace of God possible and it makes the grace of God more available presently than in the days of the Old Covenant. We must understand that before the Cross, God was limited as to what He could do because animal blood was extremely insufficient. But when Christ died (The death of Christ Jesus on the cross is the epitome of this whole message of the cross and the only reason we have received grace from God.) and shed His life’s blood, it opened the door for the Lord to do great things in lives.

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