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Posted by WildB (Member # 2917) on :

by Russell S. Miller

If "grace" reigns today, and the Apostle Paul states emphatically that it does, then it must reign from "the throne of grace" in Heaven.

"Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
"That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord" (Rom.5:20,21).

Thank God that grace was dispensed when He could have justly poured out His righteous judgment upon a Christ-rejecting world. There is nothing in prophecy to prevent His wrath upon mankind except His own heart of love toward an undeserving world. God, in grace, reached down from heaven to save His chief enemy on earth, Saul of Tarsus. The very one, who represented a doomed world, was also the one to whom our Lord was pleased to reveal "the riches of His grace" and "the unsearchable riches of Christ" (Eph.1:7; 3:8,11).

In the Epistles of St. Paul, we have "grace" and "peace" to enter God's presence without fear through the finished work of Christ on Calvary:

"Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus" (Heb.10:19).

In this new dispensation Jews and Gentiles are bidden by God, Himself, to come confidently into His presence "through Jesus Christ our Lord":

"IN WHOM WE HAVE BOLDNESS AND ACCESS WITH CONFIDENCE BY THE FAITH OF HIM" (Eph.3:11,12).

Indeed, Old Testament saints could not even imagine the access we have today into God's presence "by His own blood" (Heb.9:12). In grace He gives us a full and complete audience whenever we call:

"LET US THEREFORE COME BOLDLY UNTO THE THRONE OF GRACE, THAT WE MAY OBTAIN MERCY, AND FIND GRACE TO HELP IN TIME OF NEED" (Heb. 4:14-16).

Posted by Eden (Member # 5728) on :

Russell S. Miller said (as posted by WildB),

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Thank God that grace was dispensed when He could have justly poured out His righteous judgment upon a Christ-rejecting world. There is nothing in prophecy to prevent His wrath upon mankind except His own heart of love toward an undeserving world.

Man...thank God for that. And what a magnificent world it is going to be! I can't hardly believe how THANKFUL I SOMETIMES FEEL for being allowed to be a part of His grace. When we are all equally sinners, there is reason to be grateful when one is "separated out" "for no good reason"; though, indeed, "for a good reason" that God has in mind.

love, Eden