What's So Amazing About Grace?

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It only takes a minute to create your own Bible Gateway free personal account and you’ll immediately upgrade your Bible Gateway experience. Paul’s teaching in Romans 6:1f follows the statement, “…but where sin increased, grace multiplied all the more” (Rom. Consequently, the Christian gives thanks ( charis) to God for the riches of grace in His unspeakable gift (II Cor.

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But then we immediately read, “Then one of the seraphim flew to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from the altar with tongs. Let’s again allow the apostle Paul to speak to this matter first through his argument in Romans 5 and then from his own testimony regarding his pre-salvation condition. But “when the kindness of God our Savior appeared and his love for mankind, 3:5 He saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth and the renewing of the Holy Spirit, 3:6 whom he poured out on us in full measure through Jesus Christ our Savior.

For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; 2:9 it is not of works, so that no one can boast. And so, since we have been justified by his grace, we become heirs with the confident expectation of eternal life. It boggles the mind and catches us totally off guard because we naturally think we must do something or have some part in our salvation that will make us worthy. Guard, through the Holy Spirit who dwells in us, the treasure (literally, “the good deposit”) which has been entrusted to you. Here are people in open and flagrant violation of the Scriptures, and Yancey is more impressed that they can say the words “Jesus loves me” than he is disturbed by their sin.

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Still, he experienced the dominating power of sin and was faced with his own failure to overcome this power of sin in his life. But let’s suppose we changed the question and asked which one of them was closer to the constellation Orion, which is a few thousand light years away from the earth. Paul wrote, “I do not set aside (nullify) God’s grace, because if righteousness could come through the law (i. In August of 2001 he was diagnosed with lung cancer and on August 29th, 2002 he went home to be with the Lord. My goal is not to win them over, or defeat their arguments, but rather to listen carefully so that I can articulate their position fairly.

Any Christians who have an interest in politics should place this book at the top of their reading lists. But to the one who does not work, but believes in the one who declares the ungodly righteous, his faith is credited as righteousness (Rom. Even though many may have good deeds and claim a relationship with Christ, unless they have turned from trusting in their own works to faith in Christ alone, they are under the condemnation of the Law as Law breakers.

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Take away grace or add some form of human works to merit God’s favor and you do not have biblical Christianity. His book is a collection of stories that illustrate what Yancey means by “grace,” interspersed here and there with some political commentary and light scriptural exegesis.Our message is the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ, the message of salvation through His person and work. Thus, in view of God’s perfect holiness and what sinful people deserve from God (His wrath and eternal judgment) and in view of the futility of our works, grace becomes absolutely amazing.