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.
