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Monday, November 25, 2019

Grace Principle

Grace Principle
        This is where God suspends, or lays aside, His own Laws in order to show His Grace on a person or a nation.  The Apostle John wrote in John 1:16-17, “And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.  For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.”  Also, the Apostle Paul wrote in 2 Timothy 1:9, “Who hath saved us, and called us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.”
            Noah:  Noah and his family lived in a wicked time.  “And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.”  Genesis 6:5.  God set aside judgment for Noah, “But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.”  Genesis 6:8.
            Abraham:  Abram was just an older man with no children in an average community.  God showed grace to him with a promise of greatness and vast lands.  God did not have to choose Abram, but he decided to show grace to him.  Genesis 12.
            Joseph:  Joseph was an arrogant and sinful young man, but God showed him grace from the life of slavery in which he had found himself.  Genesis 37.
            Moses:  Moses was a murderer and a sinful man, but God showed mercy and grace, to him, in the desert.
            Judges:  Throughout the book of Judges the people of Israel would fall into sin and God would extend grace to save them from themselves.
            Rahab:  Rahab was a prostitute and not worthy to receive God's grace until she helped the spy's of Israel and God extended His grace to her.

            David:  King David was caught up in sexual sin and then murder.  The penalty for those sins is death.  God, instead, after David's repentance, extended His grace to him.

William J. Roop, M.A.B.S.


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