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What is grace of God by John Piper?
Grace is the pleasure of God to magnify the worth of God by giving sinners the right and power to delight in God without obscuring the glory of God. Grace is not simply leniency when we have sinned.
What does unmerited grace mean?
Grace is unmerited favor. God’s favor, grace, is received by those who did not merit it. Grace is poured out on God’s people because it was merited by Christ. The Bible declares that we are saved by God’s grace. (Ephesians 2:8) Those who are in Christ are beneficiaries of Christ’s merit.
What does grace of God mean?
The definition of grace could be “God’s life, power and righteousness given to us by unmerited favor.” It is through grace that God works effective change in our hearts and lives. Grace gives us a new life which is not condemned by God.
What the Lord’s Supper represents?
The Lord’s Supper reminds us of the life and work of Jesus, and it marks us as people of his new covenant. And while doing all of this, it also anticipates that final glorious feast. The meal serves as a taste of what is to come—a taste of true life.
What are the physical signs of the invisible grace?
So it’s the things that we’re either able to see, hear, taste, feel, or smell. Example: oil (Confirmation), rings (Matrimony), pouring of water over the person (Baptism), prayer of consecration (Eucharist), etc.
Is the grace of God in the means or the means?
In fact, the grace of God is contained in the means as a sort of substance, is conveyed through the channel of the means, and is therefore absolutely bound to the means. Baptism regenerates man ex opere operato, and the even more important eucharist raises his spiritual life to a higher level.
What is God’s ordinary means of Grace?
God has used one. His ordinary means, or method, of grace, used in the past to build His people, and now through the church to grow his people. The ordinary means of grace, they focus us on Jesus Christ, and they are ordinary, in that everyone can make use of them, and yet God will do extraordinary things through them in the lives of His people.
What is the special grace of God?
The special grace of God operates only in the sphere in which the means of grace function. This truth must be maintained over against the Mystics, who deny the necessity of the means of grace. God is a God of order, who in the operation of His grace ordinarily employs the means which He Himself has ordained.