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WE ARE CONSIDERING THE DEFINATION OF THE GRACE OF GOD.

The Grace of God.

We are going to be considering the grace of God, as Christians, one of the most important things we need to fully understand is the grace of God. As you will see in the Scripture verses I will list below, there are two main definitions as to what the grace of God is.The best way to look at this revelation is to look at it like you are looking at a two-sided coin. On the one side of the coin the grace of God is the "unmerited favor and mercy" of God. This is the grace that we are saved by with the Lord. As you will see in the first verse I will list below, we are saved by "grace" through our faith in Jesus Christ. The second definition of the word grace, which will be the other side of this same coin, is that the grace of God is referring to the divine life, power and ability of God flowing and operating through us.This second aspect of God's grace is the kind of grace we will need to properly function and operate in whatever He is going to call us to do for Him in this life. This same kind of divine power is also needed in our santification and it is also needed to help us overcome different types of sins and temptations.In order that you can have this revelation of grace as a two-sided coin, here are the two sides of grace and exactly what is in each of these two sides:
  1. The unmerited favor, mercy, compassion, acceptance, kindness, graciousness, goodwill and divine assistance of God.
     
  2. The divine life, power and ability of God flowing and operating through us in order to give us the supernatural power and ability for ministry and sanctification
Here is how grace is specifically defined by some of the different Bible Dictionaries:
  • Unmerited favor, mercy, compassion
     
  • Undeserved blessing, a free gift
     
  • Gods loving mercy toward mankind
     
  • Favor, graciousness, kindness, beauty, pleasantness
     
  • God's disposition to exercise goodwill toward His creatures
     
  • Synonymous with the gospel of God's gift of unmerited salvation in Jesus Christ
     
  • Favor or kindness shown without regard to the worth or merit of the one who receives it and in spite of what that same person deserves
     
  • Undeserved acceptance and love received from another, especially the characteristic attitude of God in providing salvation to sinners
     
  • The gift of God as expressed in His actions of extending mercy, loving-kindness and salvation to people
     
  • Unmerited divine assistance given man for his regeneration or sanctification
     
  • The power and equipment for ministry
I will break these Scripture verses down under 11 different captions so that you can fully grasp and understand what God is trying to reveal to us in these incredibly profound verses. These Scripture verses are giving you a major key in being able to understand the basics of your eternal salvation in the Lord, along with showing you how God can impart His divine power through you so as to enable you to live a victorious and overcoming life in Him.This is the basic  information and knowledge that all Christians should have a firm and solid grasp on so that you cannot only have it for your own personal storehouse of knowledge in the Lord, but so you can also have it to be able to teach and educate other Christians who do not have a full understanding of this revelation from the Lord.

Study these verses very carefully and meditate on the revelation that God is trying to reveal to us. If you can fully grasp what the Lord is trying to show us in these major power verses, you will then walk away with a full understanding of the basics of your own personal salvation in the Lord - along with having the knowledge on how to get God to release more of His grace into your life so that you can learn how to live this life as a good and mighty soldier of Jesus Christ.

  1. you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone boast." (Ephesians 2:8)
     
  2. "... 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 given to us in Christ Jesus before time began." (2 Timothy 1:9)
     
  3. "And if by grace, then it is no longer of works; otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work." (Romans 11:6)
     
  4. "Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God." (Romans 5:1-2)
     
  5. "For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men ..." (Titus 2:11)
     
  6. "But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved in the same manner as they." (Acts 15:11)
     
  7. "But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus." (Ephesians 2:4-7)
     
  8. "... that having been justified by His grace we should become heirs according to the hope of eternal life." (Titus 3:7)
     
  9. "... for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus ..." (Romans 3:23-24)
     
  10. "For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ." (John 1:17)
     
  11. "Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope by grace ..." (2 Thessalonians 2:16)
     
  12. "In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace which He made to abound toward us in all wisdom and prudence ..." (Ephesians 1:7-8)
     
  13. "For if by the one man's offense, many died, much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many." (Romans 5:15)
     
  14. "... having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He has made us accepted in the Beloved." (Ephesians 1:6)
     
  15. "But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more, so that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord." (Romans 5:20)
     
  16. "I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain." (Galatians 2:21)

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