Hi steemians today I want to talk to you about “GODS UNDESERVED FAVOUR ”.which is known as (GRACE)
The Bible says we are saved by grace. The only way to get to heaven is through the doorway of Grace.
If you’re going to get to heaven that’s the only way you’re going to get there. You can’t earn it, you can’t work for it, you can’t buy it.
Grace is the love of God shown to the unlovely, the peace of God given to the restlest, the unmerited favor of God.
Grace is unconditional love toward a person who does not deserve it.
The grace of God teaches Christians to live soberly, righteously, and godly (Titus 2:11–13).
Yet Christians sin (1 John 1:6–10). Thus God’s grace requires holy living, and holy living requires God’s grace.
All sin requires grace. How can grace be obtained so frequently? “ Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.” (Hebrews 4:16).
The Christian concept of grace, though precious to hundreds of millions of Christians, is misunderstood by many people today both inside and outside Christianity, and it is even despised by many non-Christians as an idea that offends their sensibilities of fairness. In a way, grace is “unfair”it has to do with God giving people something good that they do not deserve.
God’s solution to the problem of sin is grace. In biblical teaching, grace does not mean that God simply overlooks or ignores evil, since this is something his absolutely holy nature would never allow him to do (Gen. 18:25; Hab. 1:13). God will not simply leave the guilty unpunished nor His grace a "second chance" to prove ourselves worthy of God’s acceptance, because the reality is that if we lived any length of time after getting that chance we would sin again (1 John 1:8-10).
For the same reason, grace is also not a power to stop sinning so that we may deserve God’s acceptance. All of these ideas misunderstand or distort some truth. Grace does mean that God spares us from the judgment our sin deserves, but not by simply overlooking it. It does mean that God gives us a fresh start in life, but not for us to make ourselves worthy of his acceptance. It does mean that God intends that we will eventually become sinless, but again not in order to be right with God.
Someone has defined GRACE as “God's Riches At Christs Expense.” That is a biblically appropriate way of looking at grace. The foundation of grace is the work of Jesus Christ in dying on the cross and rising from the dead.
Notice that grace is much more than forgiving sins—though that is an extremely important and wonderful part of the blessings of grace. Grace does change us. By grace, God changes our relationship with him and with the devil, our spiritual condition, and our eternal .
The grace of salvation has three“tenses”:
1.Past: By grace God has forgiven us of all of the sins we ever committed and has ended our enmity with him and rebellion against him. This is salvation from the penalty of sin (justification).
2.Present: By grace God brings us into a new, right, blessed relationship with him, gives us spiritual life, and is restoring us to spiritual health. This is salvation from the power of sin (sanctification).
3.Future: By grace God will raise us from the dead to immortality and eternal life, to spiritual and moral, sinless perfection. This is salvation from the presence of sin (glorification).
This is why it is a terrible misunderstanding when people suppose that grace means that God allows Christians to do whatever they want, to sin with reckless abandon, and yet forgives them, while unfairly condemning nicer people who don’t happen to be Christians. When God saves someone, he doesn’t just give him a “pass.” He brings that person to a place of humble admission of his sin, of turning to God for his mercy, and sets him on a path of learning to live in a way that reflects the new life God has given him.
In a story about unending love, we find a story about unending grace. Hosea and Gomer’s marriage wasn’t easy. Gomer became dissatisfied, and the promiscuousness that captivated Gomer before marrying Hosea consumed her even more afterward.
Hosea reacted as anyone would. He was hurt. Yet, because of his relationship with the Lord, Hosea dealt tenderly with his wife. He pursued Gomer in the midst of her sin, saying, “You are to live with me many days; you must not be a prostitute or be intimate with any man, and I will behave the same way toward you (Hosea 3:3).”
In the same way that Hosea showed grace to his wife, God shows grace to us. God loves us in spite of our sins. His love never fails, and He will never change.
Hosea and Gomer’s relationship is a beautiful metaphor for God’s relationship with His people. Although God was hurt by Israel’s sin, they were still His people. God said of Israel, “I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.’ I will say to those called ‘Not my people,’ ‘You are my people’ (Hosea 2:23).”
The biblical doctrine of grace is commonly misunderstood and often maligned. Grace is neither the freedom to sin with impunity nor the chance to prove ourselves good enough for God’s kingdom. Rather, grace is God’s undeserved gift of salvation in Jesus Christ alone by which those who humbly accept that gift are forgiven, made spiritually alive, changed into people who love God and love others, and assured that God will bring them safely into his kingdom
