What Is Grace - Grace Is The Unearned, Undeserved Love And Favor Of God

Salvation is

NOT BY WORKS

Salvation is

UNTO GOOD WORKS
(Eph 2:10)

Good works are not the MEANS of salvation (Titus 3:5).

Good works are the RESULT of salvation

(Titus 3:8).

Good works are not the CAUSE of salvation.

Good works are the CONSEQUENCE of salvation.

Good works are not what a person must do to get saved.

God’s Grace. "But to him that WORKETH NOT, but believeth on Him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness" (Rom.4:5).

A saved person does good works because he is saved.

God’s Grace. "This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works" (Titus 3:8).

The unsaved person does good works trying to earn God's favor.

What is Grace? The saved person does good works because he already has God's favor

(Titus 2:11-14).

Why do Christians do good works?

What is Grace? Christians do not work in order to get saved.

Christians work because they are already saved.

FLESHLY WORKS: what an unsaved person does, trying to earn salvation.

FAITH WORKS: what God produces in a saved person by God’s grace. (Heb.13:21).

FLESHLY WORKS can never please God

(Romans 8:8).

What is grace? FAITH WORKS are pleasing to God because He produced them by His grace

(Hebrews 11:6; 1 Thess. 1:3).

The unsaved boaster: "Look at my good works." (see Matt. 23:5 - "to be seen of men").

The saved person: "Thank you Lord for what You are doing in me" by Your grace (Phil. 2:13).

The works of an unsaved person are cause for boasting.

"For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory [boast]; but not before God" (Romans 4:2).

What is grace? The works of a saved person cause praise for God’s grace.

"Being filled with the fruits of righteousness, which are by Jesus Christ, unto the glory and praise of God"(Philippians 1:11).

DEAD WORKS (Heb. 6:1; 9:14; Eph.5:11)

Working to earn salvation only produces false fruit, false works (Gal. 5:19-21)

What is grace? FRUITFUL WORKS (Col. 1:10)

Fruitful works flow from your saving relationship with Jesus Christ, by God’s grace.

The unsaved person boasts in SELF ("I")

(Luke 18:11-12).

The saved person boasts in God’s grace

(1 Corinthians 1:29-31).

No one can WORK to earn salvation (Romans 4:5).

A saved person will WORK OUT the salvation already freely given to him by God’s grace (Phil 2:12).

EMPTY:

"Nothing in my hands I bring; simply to the Cross I cling."

FULL:

"that ye may abound to every good work" (2 Cor. 9:8; 1 Cor. 15:58)

What is Grace? Getting saved is by grace, through faith alone (Rom 3:28).

Paradoxically, the faith that saves is not alone

(James 2:14,20,22,26).

Paul corrected an error in Romans 3-4:

Error: ”SALVATION IS BY WORKS.”

This is the error of Legalism.

James corrected an error in James 2:

Error: ”Works are unnecessary after salvation.”

This is the error of Antinomianism.

What is grace? You cannot be saved by works

(Romans 3:28; 4:6; 2 Tim. 1:9).

What is grace? You cannot show you are saved without works (James 2:18).

How can I get saved?

ONLY BY FAITH through God’s grace (Eph. 2:8; Gal. 2:16).

How can I show that I am saved?

ONLY BY WORKS through God’s grace (James 2:14- 26).

Faith without works is the only way God will save you (Galatians 2:16).

Once you are saved by faith, by God’s grace, your works testify of your salvation(James 2:26).

What is grace? Faith is the ROOT

(Galatians 5:6).

What is grace? LOVE expressed by good works, is the FRUIT (Galatians 5:6,22; Heb. 10:24), by God’s grace.

Faith cannot be seen.

Works are visible (Matt. 5:16).

What is grace? Invisible faith produces visible works (James 2:18).

What is grace? Good works are REJECTED as a way of salvation (Matthew 7:22-23).

What is grace? Good works are REMEMBERED as an indication of salvation (Hebrews 6:10).

The works of an unsaved person will be judged at the Great White Throne Judgment

(Revelation 20:11-15).

The works of a saved person will be judged at the Judgment Seat of Christ (for rewards, not to determine salvation) (2 Cor 5:10; 1 Cor 3:11-15).

God's grace message to the unsaved:

What is grace? "This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent" (John 6:29).

God's grace message to the saved:

What is grace? “Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world... zealous of good works" (Titus 2:11-14).

Impossible requirements for the unsaved:

"The law commands but gives me neither feet nor hands...

The Law cannot help me do what God requires.

Supernatural enabling for the saved:

“Far grander news the Gospel brings,

It bids me fly and gives me wings.

-John Bunyan

Lordship Salvation Error:

Adds requirements to saving faith. Says to be saved you must 1. submit, 2. obey, 3. surrender to Christ's Lordship, 4. fulfill conditions of discipleship...

Error of some Grace believers:

The teaching that a true believer can be entirely without good works, can reject faith and deny Christ. That is not God’s grace.

I do not work my soul to save-

For that, my Lord has done...

My works spring from the life He gave

And love of God's dear Son.