Access By Faith Into God's Grace (TMF:1529)

Thursday, January 21, 2021
Peace to Live By: Access By Faith Into God's Grace (TMF:1529) - Daniel Litton
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       Our next verse here in Romans chapter 5, verse 2: “Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God” (ESV). In addition to our peace with God, we have obtained access by our faith into God’s grace, where we stand. What is God’s grace? I think it’s the ability for us as Christians to live a successful life, in God’s eyes, beyond our own personal potential. We cannot be righteous in and of ourselves. We can’t achieve our own righteousness by following a list of rules and regulations that we come up with from our Bibles. People can say they live by grace, but do they really? Often times I think that people who really believe they are living under the new way of grace have instead just formulated a new law by which they live. And they think that since it’s a lesser law than God’s Old Testament prescription, that they are living by grace. But that’s not a true understanding of grace at all.