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The Definition of The Dispensation of Grace
This dispensation is so called because the grace of God is the predominant characteristic throughout. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ" Jn. 1:16, 17. The following look of grace will be helpful to the reader and will enable him to see that grace has been a part of every age:
The Definition of the word "grace"
The primary meaning of grace in connection with God is: free, eternal, and unmerited love and favour of God toward free moral agents who are the product of His own creation, whether human or spirit beings, and who are capable of God-consciousness and moral responsibility. Grace is the spring, source, and the very fountain-head of all the manifold benefits and blessings of God to all of His creation Jn. 1:14-17; 3:16; Rom. 3:24; 5:17-21; 11:5, 6; 2 Cor. 9:8; Eph. 1:6, 7; 2:5-8; Jas. 4:6; 1 Pet. 5:5.
The Greek word "charis" in the New Testament is translated "grace" "favor" "thank" and "thankworthy" "pleasure" and "acceptable," "benefits," "gift," "gracious," "joy," and "liberality" It is not found in Matthew or Mark. It is found in Luke , in John, in Acts, in the Pauline Epistles, in James 1, 2 Peter, 1, 2, 3 John, and in Jude and in Revelation two times once in the beginning and once at the end.
Grace cannot be limited in usage to God's dealings with men in the New Testament or with men only in any one period. Was not God gracious and loving to angels and all spirit beings and to men in the Old Testament times as He is to men in the New Testament? He could not be otherwise to any of His creations at any time except when they were in rebellion and sin. The very creation and continued existence of such beings as in an act of grace. In fact, grace covers even the brute creation and abundantly provides for all living creatures those things which sustain life. Grace is merited no more by the brutes than by free moral agents. It is free for all. and all creatures partake of it in some form whether they realize it or not.
This dispensation is so called because the grace of God is the predominant characteristic throughout. "The law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ" Jn. 1:16, 17. The following look of grace will be helpful to the reader and will enable him to see that grace has been a part of every age:
The Definition of the word "grace"
The primary meaning of grace in connection with God is: free, eternal, and unmerited love and favour of God toward free moral agents who are the product of His own creation, whether human or spirit beings, and who are capable of God-consciousness and moral responsibility. Grace is the spring, source, and the very fountain-head of all the manifold benefits and blessings of God to all of His creation Jn. 1:14-17; 3:16; Rom. 3:24; 5:17-21; 11:5, 6; 2 Cor. 9:8; Eph. 1:6, 7; 2:5-8; Jas. 4:6; 1 Pet. 5:5.
The Greek word "charis" in the New Testament is translated "grace" "favor" "thank" and "thankworthy" "pleasure" and "acceptable," "benefits," "gift," "gracious," "joy," and "liberality" It is not found in Matthew or Mark. It is found in Luke , in John, in Acts, in the Pauline Epistles, in James 1, 2 Peter, 1, 2, 3 John, and in Jude and in Revelation two times once in the beginning and once at the end.
Grace cannot be limited in usage to God's dealings with men in the New Testament or with men only in any one period. Was not God gracious and loving to angels and all spirit beings and to men in the Old Testament times as He is to men in the New Testament? He could not be otherwise to any of His creations at any time except when they were in rebellion and sin. The very creation and continued existence of such beings as in an act of grace. In fact, grace covers even the brute creation and abundantly provides for all living creatures those things which sustain life. Grace is merited no more by the brutes than by free moral agents. It is free for all. and all creatures partake of it in some form whether they realize it or not.
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