Grace or Achievement Based System? (TMF:1530)

Friday, January 22, 2021
Peace to Live By: Grace or Achievement Based System? (TMF:1530) - Daniel Litton
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       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. Bear in mind that if we are living by an achievement based system, a system where we earn this or that before God or others, we are not living under grace. Grace is God giving us, what? It is God giving us what we do not deserve. We accept grace from God through our faith. And, as Paul said earlier, our faith does not come from us. We didn’t come up with our faith. Our faith was given to us as a gift from God. And since it is a gift, and we didn’t earn our faith, and didn’t therefore earn our grace, grace then is not something of our own doing.