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God’s Grace

God’s Grace. Ephesians 2:4-9. What is “grace”?. “Unmerited Favor” - favor expressed to us by God of which we are not worthy. God’s Grace. Ephesians 2:4-9. What is “grace”?. Two different ideas with respect to salvation. 1. An enabling power God exercises on people.

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God’s Grace

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  1. God’s Grace Ephesians 2:4-9 What is “grace”? • “Unmerited Favor” - favor expressed to • us by God of which we are not worthy.

  2. God’s Grace Ephesians 2:4-9 What is “grace”? • Two different ideas with respect to salvation. 1. An enabling power God exercises on people.

  3. “By the fact that we believe in things unseen and hope for the promised reward of those who love God, we are witnesses to the action of a superhuman power, which is divine grace operating on the mind and the will and enabling us to see and want what the natural man cannot perceive or desire.” The Catholic Catechism p. 172 “…when God makes sheep out of wolves, he forms them again by the powerful influence of grace, that their hardness may be subdued, and that he does not convert the obstinate, because he does not exert that more powerful grace, a grace which he has at command, if he were disposed to use it.” John Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion, Vol. 2. p. 227

  4. God’s Grace Ephesians 2:4-9 What is “grace”? • Two different ideas with respect to salvation. 1. An enabling power God exercises on people. 2. An attitude and attribute of God peculiar to and essential to His nature. • This favorable attitude was expressed in giving Jesus.

  5. God’s Grace Ephesians 2:4-9 What grace does: • It makes salvation possible for all humanity. 1. God has provided the means of salvation - Jesus! 2. God has provided the information we need to know about this salvation.

  6. God’s Grace Ephesians 2:4-9 What grace does: • It makes salvation possible for all humanity. • This salvation cannot be earned.

  7. God’s Grace Ephesians 2:4-9 Grace does not eliminate conditions. • A gift given by grace may be contingent upon meeting certain conditions expressed by the giver of the gift. • Noah’s salvation from the flood. • Israel’s reception of the city of Jericho. • Naaman’s cleansing from leprosy.

  8. God’s Grace Ephesians 2:4-9 Grace does not eliminate conditions. • Obeying God’s conditions for receiving a gift He has made available by His grace does not constitute a work of merit by which one earns the gift promised.

  9. God’s Grace Ephesians 2:4-9 Grace does not eliminate conditions. • Doing what God commands by faith does not negate the effect of grace. • God has made salvation possible by Jesus Christ, totally by His grace.

  10. God’s Grace Ephesians 2:4-9 Grace does not eliminate conditions. • But to receive this salvation, God has placed conditions, broadly recognized as obedient faith. • Repent (Acts 17:30). • Confess (Rom. 10:9-10). • Be baptized (Acts 2:38).

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