Paul’s Grace Message

Concerning LAW and GRACE, we read in John 1:17 and Romans 5:20 and 21: “The LAW was given by Moses; GRACE and truth came by Jesus Christ”. “Moreover the LAW entered that sin might abound: But where sin abounded GRACE did ‘much more’ ‘overabound’; that as sin hath reigned unto death, so might ‘GRACE’ reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.” With John 1:17 we should read also John 1:16: “Of His (Christ’s) fulness have all we received and ‘GRACE UPON GRACE’.” Grace upon grace is grace a plenty.

If you were given supernatural power for a short while to behold and perceive all of the wicked thoughts, words and deeds of the more than two billion people living now in so‑called Christendom and in all the heathen countries, you would know more of the meaning of ‘abounding sin’. But where sin abounded grace did, and doth, ‘much more’ ‘over‑abound’.

This means that the vilest of the vile, the most wicked person on this earth, and all other members of the human race, ranging from the most moral, benevolent, sincere, conscientious, zealous, religious person to the most wicked, can find God’s saving grace altogether sufficient to transform either the self‑righteous, respectable sinner or the wicked unrighteous criminal into a saint, without any good works or religious doings on the part of any of them. Salvation is the gift of God. “The free gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.” (Romans 6:23). Righteousness is the gift of God’s grace.

Posted By- Cecil and Connie Spivey

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