God’s Grace to Us in Christ
Dearly beloved of God, all the promises of God are yea, and Amen. As He has spoken so it shall be. We can have the absolute certainty of believing that every word of His Word will come to pass as He has declared.
God plainly reveals His Will by His Word. He exhorts us to study to show ourselves approved unto Him by rightly dividing His Word so that we can know what God our Father would have us to believe.
All scripture is God-breathed, and it is profitable for doctrine, which reveals what we are to believe; for reproof, when we are not believing correctly; and correction to get us back to the right way of believing; and for instruction in righteousness.
The right way of believing comes by hearing, by hearing the Word of God. God gives us His Word, He expects us to believe Him, and then He brings it to pass by His mighty power. He is both able and willing to do what He says He will do.
What does God reveal about His grace to us in Christ Jesus?
The four gospels reveal what Jesus Christ did to fulfill the law and the prophets in order to accomplish redemption and salvation.
The Church epistles reveal the truths of what he accomplished, and what God made available to the Church in Christ, and by his accomplishments. They reveal the grace of God to us in Christ.
The gospels concern the time of Jesus Christ’s life, death, and resurrection from the dead. God sent him to Israel to accomplish redemption and salvation.
The four gospels concern the time before the Administration of the Grace of God began. The period of God’s grace to people in Christ began on the Feast of Pentecost following Jesus Christ’s ascension into heaven, and his sending the holy spirit to those who believe regarding him.
God seated His Son at His right side and made him both Lord and Christ. God made him the head over all things to the Church, which is his body.
The Church epistles were written to the Church, made up of both Judeans and Gentiles.
The Church epistles concern the time after Christ paid for the wages of sin, which is death. He gave his life so we could be born again of the spirit from God, and have spirit life, and have access to the Father by that spirit, and so we could be God’s dwelling place by the spirit.
The Church epistles concern the Administration of the Grace of God, which is also called the Administration of the Mystery [see Ephesians 3:2,and 9.]
The Church epistles reveal what Christ accomplished for both the Judean and the Gentile. Whoever confesses Jesus as Lord and believes that God raised him from the dead shall be saved. We are saved today by God’s grace to us in Christ, and we have the hope of salvation when Christ returns. Rejoice!
In Christ, and by his accomplishments we have redemption and salvation. God determined ahead of time, according to His own purpose and grace, and by the good pleasure of His will that He would freely give us all things with Christ! You heard me right; read it again. See Romans 8:32. Who could have imagined such wonderful grace!
God determined ahead of time that we will be conformed to the image of His Son, Jesus Christ, and that he would be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters in the household of God.
God called us in Christ, and those that He called He justified, and those whom He justified, He also glorified. He that spared not His own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how will He not with him also freely give us all things? Oh rejoice! God our Father has shown us such wonderful grace in Christ!
Jesus Christ did all the work to make this possible so that the Father could freely give us all things with him. That is indeed the grace of God. It is understandable why God calls this period of His dealings with mankind the Administration of the Grace of God.
In Christ, we have the spirit of sonship. In Christ we are the children of God, God’s heirs, and joint heirs with Christ, and it will take our Heavenly Father the ages to come to show us the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness to us in Christ Jesus. Such grace!
In Christ and by his accomplishments we are justified. In Christ we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace, which He has abounded to us. There is therefore no more condemnation to those who are in Christ, and we will never again come into condemnation. Rejoice!
On the day of redemption when the Lord Jesus Christ returns for the members of his body, we will acquire the glory of the Lord Jesus Christ. We will be glorified together with him. Rejoice, and again I say rejoice!
The Administration of the Grace of God began on the Feast of Pentecost following Jesus Christ’s ascension into heaven, and it will end when God sends the Lord Jesus Christ to gather us together.
We should be so thankful to the Father for all He has so freely given us with His Son. Thank God for His great grace!
The Father has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realm. It is all of them in every one of His children. Not a one of us is lacking a single spiritual blessing. It is all in all.
God our Father has shown us great grace indeed, dearly beloved of God. Rejoice, and thank God for His great grace, mercy, and love to us in Christ Jesus our Lord.
The books of Romans through II Thessalonians reveal the good pleasure of the Father’s will concerning Christ, and His grace to us in him. These books reveal the truths of the Administration of the Grace of God. Studying them to discover the riches of God’s grace to us in Christ is well worth the time we spend in searching the Scriptures..
Dearly beloved of God, thank God for the grace He has shown us in Christ Jesus our Lord, and rejoice. Christ is coming!