David Jeremiah has started a new series of lessons on grace. Some very brief highlights from the first lesson are presented here:
"Whenever grace is displayed it short circuits our whole system of reasoning; it turns all our suppositions upside down. Grace is unexpected and undeserved and catches us off guard.
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In the Greek language of the New Testament, the word for grace is "charis" ... . At its root, charis means "gift", and is the same word to describe the spiritual gifts in the New Testament. ... So charis became the word for the free gift of God's favor, or God's grace.
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... mercy and grace work together, one protecting us from what we deserve and the other blessing us with what we don't deserve. ... Mercy releases us from the penalty of our sin; grace gives us abundant blessing besides."
No wonder it is called Amazing Grace!
Amazing grace,
how sweet the sound,
that saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost,
but now am found,
was blind, but now I see.
John Newton
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