THE DOCTRINE OF PURE GRACE!
By Robert E. Hanna
Scripture Reading: Colossians 2:4-8
The entire concept of salvation by grace through faith in the dispensation of grace and the spiritual significance of that miracle of God, is one which cannot be exaggerated as to its total divorcement from religious legality. As we are saved by grace, so must we walk in grace. As the law has no place in our relationship to God, so must it remain entirely apart from our code of behavior. Hence the absolute necessity of receiving and observing the instruction of the apostle Paul, through whose teachings alone is made known the gospel of the grace of God.
We are daily exposed to the dangers of false teaching, the temptations of evil influence, the tendency of the natural man toward religiosity and countless other snares and delusions at enmity with the will of God. "See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is" (Ephesians 5:15-17).
As members of the Church which is Christ's Body, we have but one source of behavioral admonition duly authorized by God: the pen of the apostle Paul, who testifies to his peculiar and distinctive ordination. "1 was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of His power...that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, Who created all things by Jesus Christ" (Ephesians 3:7-9).
"Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's" (1 Corinthians 6:19, 20). "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him."
The entire concept of salvation by grace through faith in the dispensation of grace and the spiritual significance of that miracle of God, is one which cannot be exaggerated as to its total divorcement from religious legality. As we are saved by grace, so must we walk in grace. As the law has no place in our relationship to God, so must it remain entirely apart from our code of behavior. Hence the absolute necessity of receiving and observing the instruction of the apostle Paul, through whose teachings alone is made known the gospel of the grace of God.
We are daily exposed to the dangers of false teaching, the temptations of evil influence, the tendency of the natural man toward religiosity and countless other snares and delusions at enmity with the will of God. "See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is" (Ephesians 5:15-17).
As members of the Church which is Christ's Body, we have but one source of behavioral admonition duly authorized by God: the pen of the apostle Paul, who testifies to his peculiar and distinctive ordination. "1 was made a minister according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of His power...that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ; and to make all see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, Who created all things by Jesus Christ" (Ephesians 3:7-9).
"Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's" (1 Corinthians 6:19, 20). "As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in Him."
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