Pastor Richard "Buddy" Wimberly "Grace" Romans 4:5GRACE is God’s unmerited favor. Grace can not coexist with the working of the law. We are Justified (made righteous in God’s sight) by Grace not by works. To insist on the demonstration of works to deserve justification actually annuls justification.
FACT: God loves sinners. All are sinners. God loves all.
You cannot deserve God’s love by good works nor can you lessen His love for you by the sin you commit. Rom 5:20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
God loves the saved and the lost alike. John 3:16 For God so loved the world…
Even after you are Born Again you do not merit Grace. You can’t start out in Grace and then continue in works of righteousness to sustain your right standing with God. When you sin … God does not turn away from you. In fact He does everything to lead you back into fellowship with Him. This is for our good, to spare us from the consequences of our sin - not because He don’t love us or can’t bless us.
Which of these sins are greater than our God’s love: Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings Gal 5:19
He does not condone or ignore our sin… just the opposite… He took them upon Himself and the awful price for every single one of them. He knows better than self-righteous judges how awful our sin is.
When you consider the Grace of a Holy God. To adopt ungodly sinners into His family and pay in over-abundance our sin debt. You will desire more than ever to live a Godly life and not out of duress (law).
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