Grace enables us to do what our flesh/natural man could never do.īut he said to me, “ My GRACE is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. Grace is able to help us live godly lives it is here to help us renounce sin and live for God alone. We may fall seven times and more (Proverbs24:16), but God’s grace is able to lift us again to keep following Jesus.Īny gospel that tells you grace is available so just do as you like can NEVER be from God.īecause the Grace of God according to scriptural definition is divine ability/God's energy. Romans 5:20 Grace is the divine ability to live above sin The Law was given so that the trespass would increase but where sin increased, grace increased all the more. We were saved for ONE reason-To be like Christ.įor this reason Grace was provided so we can run the race set before us. We could miss it a couple of times, but the goal is to keep going till we attain perfection. Instead of giving excuses for our sin, we are to resist and rise above it till it is eliminated. It ( Grace) INSTRUCTS us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, and to live sensible, upright, and godly lives in the present age.Īccording to the biblical meaning of grace, grace is meant to help us live holy lives after getting born again. Over time I’ve seen people translate grace in light of human understanding and not scriptural definition.īut let’s look at the following verses to get a clearer picture of graceįor God’s people perish for lack of knowledge.-Hosea 4:6įor the GRACE of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all men. Supply of grace is important for our salvation process This is how working for God is different from Man’s definition of working for God. The Holy-Spirit who knows the father’s heart will show us what Father wants when he wants it, and how he wants it. So our obedience and pleasing God isn’t something conjured by us, but God ordained and God inspired. We must learn to wait on the Spirit in Fellowship and this is where we fetch from. God reveals his word to us as we follow Jesus daily. It's not far fetched to start cultivating pious habits that have nothing to do with God’s leading.Īs I mentioned in previous posts, we CANNOT assume God’s will.
We could run out to start preaching without even learning about God who birthed us FIRST. We could stop wearing earrings, make up and the likes and feel that is God’s will. So we can say God's grace is seen as God's love and favour according to New-birth experience.Īfter being saved, it's easy to feel indebted to start developing a kind of righteousness of our own. God loved us, had mercy on us and quickened our spirit to be joined to Christ. We did nothing to deserve it, neither did we work to get it.Īll we had to do was believe. Our New-birth experience was by grace through faith.
Without Grace, there would be no salvation. Our love begins when we love God according to his love language and this comes by understanding his heart.įor it is by grace you have been saved, through faith-and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of Godįirst, we need to understand how Grace plays a major role in our Salvation process.
It's futile to love a God we hardly know or understand. When God's word is misunderstood, it hinders us from living out God's will or loving Him the way he desires to be loved. To understand the true meaning of grace, we must be willing to understand its insertion within the context of scripture. Like Perfection, have we been defining it wrongly? What is the biblical definition of grace? Over time, the church has defined grace through the natural man's understanding while forfeiting the biblical definition of grace.īecause the bible does not outrightly define this word, it's easy to ascribe the world's definition to grace or assume we understand what we think it means.īut in my walk with God, I've been taught over and over again to see how God's thoughts are far from mine and the goal is to align my thought process with his.
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