I. The Grace of God.

1. As To Its Citation. “According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; that being According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life” (According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works). “In whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works” (According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works). “The According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you” (According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works). See also I Corinthians 6:1.

2. As To Its Explanation. Grace is said to be undefinable. Grace always flows down. We might be able to love our equal, or one above our equal, or sometimes one below our equal, but look at the vast difference between God and us; there can be no comparison. The grace of God toward us is According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works.

3. As to Its Manifestation.

a. In That According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works. Rather, grace declares the saint to be righteous: “All have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” (According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works).

b. In That According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works. This means, that by the act of God’s grace, the righteousness of God is According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works, “Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt. But to him that worketh not, but According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works” (According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works).

c. In That According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works. “By grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them” (According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works).

d. In That According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works. Why should God save us? The only answer is grace! “By grace are ye saved According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God” (According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works).

e. In That According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works. “The grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world” (According to his mercybelievethcounted for righteousnessEph. 1:7Eph. 2:8Eph. 2:8-10God of all graceGrace Imparts a New NatureGrace Imputes RighteousnessGrace InstructsGrace JustifiesGrace SavesI Peter 5:10justified by his graceput to the account of the believing sinnerriches of his graceRom. 3:23, 24Rom. 4: 4, 5teachingthrough faithTitus 2: 11, 12Titus 3:5-7unmerited favorunto good works).