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Col 2:6 (KJV) As ye have therefore received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk ye in him.

# Grace has been defined as getting what you don’t deserve, or more formally unmerited favor. Previously we looked at the unmerited part. But what is this favor? What do we get, specifically? For grace is not merely a legal description of deserving, it is a real reception of the very nature of God. More colloquially, grace is “God stuff” that we get freely from Him.

2 Cor 9:8 (NIV) And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.

# Our focus in this study will be to look at grace as the living dynamic of the life of Christ IN US by the Holy Spirit. Grace is more than just a celestial transaction, it is an on-going reality–a point often missed by overemphasis on grace as a concept. Grace is the very power of God that our faith accesses. It is often spoken of this way in Scripture, as we will see. Grace is the ability, imputed by God, to live righteously now.

Rom 5:15 (NIV) …How much more did God’s grace and the gift that came by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, overflow to the many!

Grace Upon Grace

# If we are saved by grace through faith, that grace will result in good works. Stated another way, it is through faith that we access the power of grace to do what God requires of us.

Eph 2:4-10 (NIV) But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions–it is by grace you have been saved. And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus. For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith–and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God–not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.

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