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Topic: THE APOSTLE OF GRACE
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becauseHElives
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He proved that Grace would make you an overcomer and cause the recipients to endure till the end of your race.
He proved sin had no power over a child of Yahweh.
He proved Grace produces fruit worthy of the free gift of Salvation.
Yahweh took the chief of sinners and changed him to show no one is to wicked for the true Grace of Yahweh to reproduce His Son's life in.
Grace the Power, desire and ability of Yahweh impregnated into the heart of any that will receive His Grace and be Saved.
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Strive to enter in at the strait gate:for many, I say unto you will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. ( Luke 13:24 )
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WildB
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by Cornelius R. Stam
Did you know that St. Paul was chosen by God as the apostle of grace? He was God's great example of grace, the "chief of sinners" saved by grace (1 Tim. 1:12-16). To him was committed "the dispensation of the grace of God" (Eph. 3:2). He was sent forth to proclaim "the gospel of the grace of God" (Acts 20:24).
Paul wrote far more about grace than any other Bible writer. All his epistles open or close (or both) with the salutation "Grace be to you." He declares:
"We have redemption through [Christ's] blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace" (Eph. 1:7).
He shows how this grace was planned for believers in ages past:
"Who hath saved us and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and [His own] grace which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began" (II Tim. 1:9).
He shows how this grace will be ours in ages to come:
"That in the ages to come, He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus" (Eph. 2:7).
He shows how this grace is greater than all our sins:
"Where sin abounded grace did much more abound" (Rom. 5:20).
He shows how grace gives us a righteous standing before God:
"Being justified freely by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" (Rom. 3:24).
He shows how God's grace has given believers a position in heaven:
"[He] hath... made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus... for by grace are ye saved, through faith...." (Eph. 2:6,8).
He shows how God's grace is sufficient for our difficulties and can help us to live consistent Christian lives:
"My grace is sufficient for thee" (II Cor. 12:9).
"And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work" (II Cor. 9:8).
Accept salvation "by grace, through faith" as "the gift of God" (Eph. 2:8,9), and eternal life is yours.
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