For by grace are ye saved through faith and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast” - Ephesians 2:6-9. That says it all, “God hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus: that in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus. Because before the “sacrificial work of Jesus on the cross, we were at best, “dead men and women walking.” And because of Jesus’ completed work, by the grace of God we are “perfectly justified.” Grace means that “God gives us what we don’t deserve,” and “could never earn.” And so “grace is free to us, but it cost God His Son Jesus Christ. These two verses offer three words which answer the desperate state of humankind:
“But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved)” - Ephesians 2:4-5. This condition is “undeserving of heaven,” but is a condition “that deserves the lake of fire.” Because when our “kind deeds,” “charitable giving,” “acts of kindness,” when contemplated by a holy God, “We are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousness's are as filthy rags and we all do fade as a leaf and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away” - Isaiah 64:6.
So, “spiritually dead,” and “sinfully enslavement,” is the “wrathful” condition of “the whole human race.” A condition that shows the whole human race, “guilty” and “unclean,” a condition “worthy of eternal damnation.” This is “the accusation handed down to you and me,” as we “stand before God in our natural condition.” without grace we are The entire human race, has been charged with the crime of sin.
God’s Grace is an unspeakable “splendor.” By which out of “the defilement of disobedience,” God prepared a way for “depraved men and women to be saved from His wrath.” And with such amazement all His people, along with the Apostle Paul can say, “But by the grace of God I am: and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not found in vain.” -1 Corinthians 15:10.Īpart from grace, nothing else matters. Because by nature all people are “spiritually dead” and “separated from God,” as objects of His wrath” - Ephesians 2:1-3.
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