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What Is The Meaning Of Grace

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5.3.1 THE ETERNAL LOVE OF GOD

When we look at the gift of our redemption, we realise how great God's love is us. The entire heaven came down in the Son of God, Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour. It is a gift without measure. It is the eternal love of God, given to man with full measure. There is nothing that can be equalled to that gift. Grace is the love that is called agape in Greek, which is the unmerited favour or unconditional love from God our father. Lowe says: “Grace is such a many-sided word that to define it becomes extremely difficult” (1968: 19). Perhaps it is the everlasting and purposeful love of God.

If we one look up the meaning of grace in the Old Testament, we might be confused because grace has a different meaning in …show more content…

When you try to imagine why God so loved the world that he did not mind sending his son to die a shameful death, you see the mystery of love and grace, which you cannot understand now. Paul says about this free gift: “But the free gift is not like the trespass. For if many died through one man’s trespass, much more have the grace of God and the free gift in the grace of that one man Jesus Christ abounded for many” (Romans 5:18 RSV). When we have Jesus Christ in our hearts and have accepted the love and grace provided, we will have peace of mind, which anchors us through all the storms of …show more content…

How deep into sin or pain can we sink that God’s hand cannot reach? God’s presence is wherever we are. His own son died on the cross, but God did not prevent it. If God had prevented His Son's death, our salvation could not have been complete. Jesus had to die so that our redemption may be complete. What kind of love is this that left the angels tongue-tied and the Devil baffled? This is the kind of God’s amazing love that cannot be changed no matter what! We will have eternity to study this love, yes eternity.
5.3.3 THE CROSS AS THE CENTRE OF REDEEMING GRACE AND LOVE

Christology would not make sense without reconciliation and the shame of the cross that brought life eternal. The cross made redemption through the blood of Jesus available to all men and women who would come to Jesus for the forgiveness of their sins. Deuteronomy talks of: “The curse of the law” (21:22-23). And in Galatians, Paul talks of: “Cursed is everyone that hangeth on a tree” (3:13). The cross was a shame to the Roman family as well as the Jewish family whose son or daughter had been hanged on the cross. Because of his love, Jesus decided to bear our shame and our death.

Paul talked greatly about the death and the resurrection of Jesus. Lowe says the following about

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