Living in grace

Brethren, the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit. Amen (Galatians 6:18 KJV) In his letters, one of Paul’s signatures is his classic greeting or benediction that calls for God’s grace and peace to be upon his audience. In Galatians 6:18 above, he was closed his letter from the Galatians with the Read More

We then, as workers together with him, beseech you also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain (2 Corinthians 6:1 KJV) Grace comes to us as divine gifts from God, which we do not deserve. These gifts  are good things that are meant to bring joy to our hearts, which we do Read More

And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace (John 1:16, KJV) We have received of the fullness of Christ, grace for grace. It means Christ has furnished in abundance to us, taking from the fullness in Him and pouring it upon us to the full. That implies what we have in  Read More

Now the law came in to increase the trespass, but where sin increased, grace abounded all the more  (Rom. 5:20 ESV) There is a spiritual proportional correlation between grace and sin.  When sin increases, grace has to increase for the righteous to continue living in righteousness.  This is because grace is the antidote of sin.  Read More

Who, when he came, and had seen the grace of God, was glad, and exhorted them all, that with purpose of heart they would cleave unto the Lord  (Acts 11:23 KJV)  The scripture above tells us that when Barnabas came to the Gentile Church in Antioch, sent from Jerusalem by the Apostles, he was glad Read More

Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ (1 Corinthians 1:3, KJV) The above statement is a signature of the apostle Paul in most of his epistles. It is a salutation from the apostle to the brethren he is writing to but there are more to those Read More