EFFECTIVE GRACE

Grace That Changes Lives

Grace is undeserved acceptance and love received from another, especially the characteristic attitude of God in providing salvation for sinners. The word “grace” is virtually synonymous with the gospel of God’s gift of unmerited salvation in Jesus Christ. If we are offended by friends or family, we may offer Grace. God’s Grace by comparison is greater because He is a supreme God offering favor to a disobedient servant. That favor includes Him providing the redemption price

A man should rightly be convicted for his sin. Nothing he can do will make right what he has done. Only the God we have offended can satisfy the offense. Man is justified by the Grace of God and not by his works or by the law. The law defining punishment for transgression is for continuing sinners.

Because people cannot overcome the power of sin by themselves, God has intervened on their behalf through Jesus. Jesus has come to seek out everyone so they may respond to God’s grace. God’s grace, which Jesus bears within himself, overcomes sin’s power and offers forgiveness for individual sins. Salvation is an act of God, offered by Grace, whereby sinners are redeemed and saved from the consequence of sin, which is death.

Grace becomes effective when a person realizes the tremendous sacrifice that was offered I their place to redeem them from the eternal damnation it requires. In gratitude, they offer their life back to God in obedience and holiness. The result of Effective Grace is always a transformed, holy, and redeemed believer.

Ephesians 3:6-8

⁶ That the Gentiles should be fellowheirs, and of the same body, and partakers of his promise in Christ by the gospel: ⁷ Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. ⁸ Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;