If by grace... Salvation. The gift of God's only begotten Son to us, so we can reign forever with Him. Salvation is a hard thing to grasp. It is so simple, and yet to our human minds it is more than complex. Do you mean to tell me that God gave His only son to cover my sins, and all I have to do is believe him? I don't have to work? Surely God wouldn't just want me to believe him... that is much to simple! Many of us protest.. and yet it is what God requires. Simply believe.
Grace: the free unmerited love and favor of God, the spring and source of all the benefits men receive from him. How true this is! Grace is the free, unmerited love and favor of God. God sent his only son, Jesus Christ, to be the blood sacrifice for our sins. Jesus Christ, who knew no sin, was crucified so that we could be with God eternally. How unmerited is that love!
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
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.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.~ Ephesians 2:1-10
Grace: the free unmerited love and favor of God, the spring and source of all the benefits men receive from him. How true this is! Grace is the free, unmerited love and favor of God. God sent his only son, Jesus Christ, to be the blood sacrifice for our sins. Jesus Christ, who knew no sin, was crucified so that we could be with God eternally. How unmerited is that love!
And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;
Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
And hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
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.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.~ Ephesians 2:1-10
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