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(The grace of God)

The concept of the grace of God is completely foreign to humans and were it not for the Spirit of God bestowed on us at salvation, no one would have ever known how God's grace truly functions. The very fact that we are saved by grace through faith (Eph 2:8, 9) shows us that our God is a gracious God because when Adam and Eve committed the first sin, God could've condemned the rest of humanity; sin is an absolute abomination to Him. The Bible says in Luke16:15: "And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God".

God's grace is true in that He spared and is still sparing the human race from condemnation. In the Old Testament, it was by God's grace that Israel was saved, through the law; in the New Testament, we are still saved by God's grace, only now, it is through Jesus Christ. In both the Old and the New Testaments, faith is the vehicle through which God operates His miracle of reconciliation.

God is so gracious that He even gives us repentance so that we, by our own decision, can come to Him by faith and be saved. The Bible says in: 2 Timothy 2:25 "If God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth".

Only when we are be with Him in heaven, will we be able to comprehend His grace which is really His love for us. Ephesians 3: 17-19: "That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height; and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God."