What is "The Word of His Grace" Really?

What is "The Word of His Grace" Really?

We love to throw around the word grace. If you ask the average churchgoer to define it, they will give you a standard dictionary answer: "unmerited favor." And while that is completely true, sometimes our definitions are so broad that we miss the concrete, practical tools God has left right in front of us.

Take Act.20:32. The Apostle Paul is saying his final goodbyes to the elders at Ephesus. He knows he won't see them again, and his parting words are heavy with importance. He says:

"And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified."

Think about that for a second. Paul doesn't just commend them to an abstract concept. He commends them to "the word of his grace." And he says this specific thing has a job to do: it is actively able to build you up and secure your inheritance.

So, what exactly is this word of His grace according to the scriptures?

Spiritual Words Written in the Heart and Mind

This word of grace is not an abstract concept; it is the specific doctrine given to us to perform God's ongoing "work of faith." Paul explains how this ministry operates in 2 Corinthians, noting that you are the "Epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not on tables of stone, but upon fleshly tables of the heart."

DM#20: We speak wisdom among them that are perfect

 

Doctrine of the Mysteries #20

We speak wisdom among them that are perfect

1Cor 2:6  Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:  (7)  But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

My previous post ended by saying that due to ignorance of the progressive curriculum of Paul’s epistles, many believers today remain babes and children in Christ, unable to comprehend its spiritual nature. Let me explain this statement with a simple analogy. If a student, who is new to mathematics, ignores a prescribed mathematics curriculum, and skips over the first few chapters, jumping to calculus or trigonometry, it is safe to say that they will quickly get lost in the advanced concepts. The first few chapters would have introduced them to concepts that are crucial and relevant to the later understanding of these higher disciplines and theories.

When that which is perfect is come

When that which is perfect is come

1Cor.13:8-12  Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.  9  For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.  10  But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away.  11  When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.  12  For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

The Corinthian church was established during the transitional period, where Israel, as a nation, and their prophetic program, was diminishing. God was turning His attention to the grace program, under commission of Paul, where both Jews and Gentiles were being saved by grace alone through the cross of Christ, and not by means of Israel.

The Bible is Complete

The Bible is complete, and no more scripture can be added to it. NOTHING more must be added or removed from the Bible. It is a FINISHED work.