Grace, And How This Affects Us
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
Ask the average believer what the Bible
word “grace” means, and he will doubtless reply, “unmerited favor”.
Actually, however, grace is much more
than this.
Subjectively, it is that loving attitude,
or disposition, on God’s part, from which all His kindness toward us flows.
Objectively, it is all the kindness that
flows from His love toward us.
Thus we read in Ephesians 2:2-6 that we
were “the children of disobedience” and therefore “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.”
Note: This passage begins with those who
were “children of disobedience” and “children of wrath” and, saving them “by
grace,” gives them a position in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus!
God’s grace to us as sinners was great
indeed, for:
“In [Christ] we have redemption through His blood, THE FORGIVENESS OF
SINS ACCORDING TO THE RICHES OF HIS [God’s] GRACE.”
But now, having given us a position in
His beloved Son, God’s grace goes out to us in still greater measure.
Ephesians 1:6 declares that God has “made
us accepted [Lit., ‘engraced us’] in the Beloved”.
Beholding us in Christ, God loves us and
delights in us more than any father ever delighted in his son, or any
grandfather in that precious grandchild.
Thus, while in Ephesians 1:7 we read that
we have “redemption… the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His
grace”, in Ephesians 2:7 we see these riches of grace increased to us
“exceedingly”, now that we occupy a position “in the Beloved”:
“That in the ages to come He might show THE EXCEEDING RICHES OF HIS
GRACE…”
How?
“…in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus”!
What a prospect! Through the ages of
eternity God will lavish His loving kindness upon us to demonstrate to all the
universe “the exceeding riches of His grace”!
“What a prospect, child of glory,
Doth the future hold in store!
By the wildest flights of fancy
Thou couldst never ask for more.
Heir of God; joint heir forever
With His own beloved Son
God could not to you have promised
More of bliss than He has done!”
-Author Unknown
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