Grace is something that comes to us entirely from God. It comes to us in spite of ourselves.
Grace is not God’s response to anything in us! This is the point of Ephesians 2:5
when he says “Even when we were dead in
trespasses made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)”.
A literal translation reads, “By grace you have been saved completely in past
time with the present result that you are in a state of salvation which
persists through present time.” The whole point of Paul’s teaching on salvation
is that the only thing we deserved is punishment for our sins and hell. “Grace
only has meaning when men are seen as fallen, unworthy or salvation and liable
to eternal wrath”.
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