As Jesus said, “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed (Jn 8:36, NIV).” It frees you from the emotional tangle of sin’s entrapment. It frees you from the bondage and penalty of sin. It frees you from having to live a perfectly perfect life before you can enter the inner circle of God’s favor. I’ve compiled a list of six things that grace can do for you. But gracehas a lot of work to do within you before you reach Heaven’s gates. Yes, it ultimately will bring you to heaven forever with your Lord. Christ’s death and resurrection blasted open the door to what grace can do that living under an outward code of law could not do. None of us deserve to have someone divine die in our sin-infested place. We often think of grace as the fulfillment of God’s plan to remedy the problem of sin as expressed by Christ’s death on the cross. We’ve come to accept a wimpy kind of grace, Max Lucado says in his book, Grace: More Than We Deserve, Greater Than We Imagine. We’ve relegated it to a gift from God, an undeserved gift no less. Grace is a word that has come to mean many things in our English language, definitions that distract from the core of its content rich meaning.Įven to church goers, the word grace has become as common as communion cups.
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