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Grace

steve

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Do you pray for grace? I didn’t.
I used to have grace on the shelf with mercy. Because they go together like salt and pepper. Mercy and grace, right? They kinda sorta mean the same thing, right?
Beep, wrong answer. Thank you for playing.

I was wrong. Merriam Webster’s first definition is: unmerited divine assistance given to humans for their regeneration or sanctification.
Whoah!
I don’t have to completely pull myself up by my own bootstraps?
Pray for grace, my friends. For yourselves, your family, and friends. Do a word search on its usage in the Bible, you will find that it was important enough for Paul to include in both the greeting and the benediction in most of his epistles.
It is a tool that has been left out of our toolboxes for too long.

Mercy is forgiveness without having made a change.
Grace is unmerited help in making the change.
 
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There is so much BS built up around grace in the modern church, it's worth a detailed study of the language and usage in the scriptures.
 
rockfox said:
There is so much BS built up around grace in the modern church, it's worth a detailed study of the language and usage in the scriptures.
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The problem with grace in the modern church is that it wants nothing to do with understanding the Law. So Christianity becomes a fairy tale.
 
Grace is enablement There are different types of Grace. even in our sins it is a grace that enables us to be more than a mud-ball. We must go past that though to "saving Grace" Mercy is much misunderstood. Many rely on mercy rather than Grace. Mercy is temporary . . . MY spirit will not always strive with man. if mercy truly endured forever we would never face judgment. Mercy is new every morning but the night comes when mercy ends. by Grace are ye saved . . . not mercy. Mercy merely gives time for repentance.
 
Jim an Apostle said:
Grace is enablement There are different types of Grace. even in our sins it is a grace that enables us to be more than a mud-ball. We must go past that though to "saving Grace" Mercy is much misunderstood. Many rely on mercy rather than Grace. Mercy is temporary . . . MY spirit will not always strive with man. if mercy truly endured forever we would never face judgment. Mercy is new every morning but the night comes when mercy ends. by Grace are ye saved . . . not mercy. Mercy merely gives time for repentance.
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I don’t know if this is quite correct.
Psalm 136 seems to say otherwise.
Although I agree with the thrust of what you said saving grace not saving mercy...
 
I find that grace, properly applied, is empowering.
It helps me to access the concept that YHWH is not the guy with the clipboard grading me, but the personal trainer that is helping me do things that I don’t even comprehend until after the fact.
 
Cap said:
The problem with grace in the modern church is that it wants nothing to do with understanding the Law. So Christianity becomes a fairy tale.
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I don't think it's so much laziness with regards to knowledge as love of the world and an unwillingness to obey.
 
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