...The common use of the language defines grace basically as God s favorable disposition or attitude however in the NT the word grace has a transformed meaning to describe God s acts The Augustinian idea extends grace specifically in water baptism which...
...und by laws but by God's grace Free from the yoke of bondage that's our place We seek to please the Lord not out of fear But love for Him that brings us ever near He is our wisdom righteousness and peace Our sanctification redemption and release The ...
...e that if we preach pure grace it will lead people to licentious living They say if we remove the law as a guide or motivation for Christian living people will have nothing to keep them holy They say to tell a person to just follow Christ doesn't pro...
...Converted by Grace Chapter 9 I am in the midst of studying and trying to put down my thoughts by preparing some written material on the subject of our eternal standing in Christ such a huge subject but one I have found great joy in looking into I hav...
...Salvation by Grace Chapter 1 It is a very common phrase that we all know and that many use irregardless of if they know exactly what it means many don t A not uncommon thought is that a dead man can choose Christ and thus deliver himself from the wra...
...g now was it : Wonder of Grace I have inverted my headings because although this is actually a chapter in HH s book this is going to be my thoughts on the subject of assurance It is the assurance that I truly do have a completed salvation in Christ t...
... t seemingly grow in the grace and knowledge of the Lord Jesus don't grow in your love What happens to your assurance then if it is in these things Is it strengthened or does is it plummet and you begin to look to yourself and how you can have assura...
...d so I see also studying grace is that much more important& hellip because if it is of works it is not grace For it is not of him that willeth nor of him that runneth but of God that sheweth mercy -Romans 9:16 Organic Election: Although election i...
...finite love of unlimited grace of abundant mercy God loved His people when they were enemies -HH For if when we were enemies we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son much more being reconciled we shall be saved by His life -Romans 5:10 God i...
...l of our salvation is by Grace God s favor upon His undeserving flock Awhile back I studied for a time about our vital union in Christ and in this book HH discusses this in the chapter titled United with Christ by Grace showing us that this grace ope...
...hat we rejoice in For by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves it is the gift of God Ephesians 2:8 Here again we have the wonder of Grace the wonder that God has given His elect faith this glorious gift that we have so that we m...
... justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus Romans 3:24 It is in Christ that God revealed Himself as the God Who justifies the ungodly and that while we were yet sinners and it is paramount to remember that it has no...
...s Christ of His own free grace and according to the good pleasure of His will and that in pursuance of this gracious design he did contrive and make a covenant of grace and peace with His Son Jesus Christ on behalf of those persons wherein the Savior...
...rs in the common bond of grace Why should this not be our practice today I do not find this spirit very often and neither do you If a church divides over some matter of opinion conscience or practice the division usually remains deep brothers and sis...
...nd faith By His almighty grace God makes them new creatures in Christ Psa 65:4 110:3 Eph 2:1-8 The Certainty of Salvation God keeps all whom He chose and redeemed by Christ and calls them by the Holy Spirit These He keeps and seals by His grace He ne...
...nown as the doctrines of grace or the five points of Calvinism I will say up front that all these wonderful truths stand or fall together and should be referred to as the doctrine of grace Remove or deny any one of its points and grace is no longer g...