Double Dip of God's Goodness

I AM PASTOR DEB

English - July 14, 2021 10:00 - 9 minutes - 6.72 MB - ★★★★★ - 1 rating
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The words grace and mercy are often used synonymously, however, although they complement one another, they are not synonymous. Grace is about the favor of God. The word favor refers to an act of kindness beyond what is due or usual when privileges are extended that you didn’t earn and sometimes didn’t even ask for.

To fully understand grace, we need to consider who we were without Christ and who we become with Christ. We were born in sin, guilty of breaking God’s holy laws, essentially without grace, we are nothing more than enemies of God. Think about it, we were unrighteous and without means of justifying ourselves.

But then there is grace. God’s favor. Ephesians 2:8 tells us For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God, It is grace that gives us victory over sin and eternal encouragement and good hope.

And then there is mercy. Psalm 51:1 Have mercy on me, O God, according to your unfailing love; according to your great compassion blot out my transgressions. Mercy is extended to an offender in the form of forgiveness. We don’t look at our sins as an offense, but the truth is every sin is offensive to God. Lying, slander, fornication, stealing, homosexuality, adultery, greed… all offensive to God. James 4:17 tells us when you know the right thing to do and don't do, that too is sin.

Romans 6:23 tells sFor the wages of sin is death, the scriptures go on because of God’s mercy and says but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

GOD loves us so that he gave us a double-dip of His goodness. A scoop of grace tope with a scoop of mercy. See Grace when God gives us what we don’t deserve, and mercy is when God withholds what we do deserve. I know I need the grace and the mercy of God every day, all day, what about you?

In closing, I want to leave you with Hebrews 4: 15-16 which reads. 15 For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. 16 Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.