Unity

His Amazing Grace

A famous song, written a long time ago we all know, Amazing Grace.  Well I was listening to Chris Tomlin sing it a while ago on youtube, the first verse, the second verse, and also the interlude which is probably my favorite part, where it says, "My chains are gone, I've been set free.."  That's the real grace Yeshua showed for us, and like it says, "Un-ending love, amazing grace."

Wikipedia defines grace as,  "the love and mercy given to us by G-d because G-d desires us to have it, not because of anything we have done to earn it."  Whoever entered that had it right on, we have done absolutely nothing whatsoever to earn ANY grace!

The most perfect expression of G-d's grace is demonstrated in the giving of His own Son, Yeshua Ha'Meshiach (Jesus Christ) to die as our substitute.
 
Grace overlooks all our sin. It is bestowed freely to everybody not expecting any favor in return.
 
Grace is an act of pure love on the part of G-d and really focusses on the helpless spiritual poverty of man, and the freely given love of G-d. It is always unearned, undeserved, and opposed to works as a means of salvation. Grace is absolutely the freeness of the love of G-d to sinful men.
 
G-d's free grace is always set against the backdrop of the total depravity of sinful man. We were "dead in trespasses and sins" (Ephesians 2:1). We were under the dominion of "the prince of the power of the air, of the spirit that is now working in the sons of disobedience" (Eph. 2:2). "Among them we too all formerly lived in the lusts of our flesh, indulging the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest" (Eph. 2:3).

Only in the light of the Scriptures can we properly understand and experience the grace of G-d personally.