What's So Amazing About Grace?

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Philip Yancey: I read the other day that The Prodigal Son is preached on more than any other passage from the Gospels, and I’d have to vote for that one. In fact, a widely reported opinion poll survey indicated that over fifty million people in the United States claim to be born again (George Gallup, Jr. Any Christians who have an interest in politics should place this book at the top of their reading lists. Here’s what he said in The Christian Century magazine: “As a young Christian philosopher, I wanted to be the confident, heresy-hunting Augustine, vanquishing the pagans with brilliance, fending off the Manichaeans and Pelagians with ironclad arguments. I became a servant of this gospel according to the gift of God’s grace that was given to me by the exercise of his power (Eph.

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This redemptive work of Christ not only demonstrates God’s holiness (His perfect righteousness and justice), but perfectly satisfies the holy demands of God’s holy character (3:25b-26). Having concluded his discussion of three types of people, the immoral (1:18-32), the moralist (2:1-16), and the religious (2:17-3:18), he then gives his conclusion regarding man’s condition—all the world is under condemnation and stands guilty before God (Rom. Rather than the freedom to do as we please, Christian liberty means the power to do as we ought by God’s enablement in accordance with the way Christians have been recreated in Christ. After praising God for the spirit of selfless giving, seen as a consequence of God’s surpassing grace at work in the heart of the Corinthians, Paul breaks out in an outburst of praise for the one who is the epitome and root of all God’s grace that so wonderfully governs our lives—“Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift” (2 Cor. It means that I, even I who deserve the opposite, am invited to take my place at the table in God's family.In these verses Paul gives us a description of the only righteousness that has value with God and which can give us a righteous standing before God (see also Rom. Throughout the New Testament, then, the predominant thought is the grace of God in Christ which redeems us, governs us, and gives us everlasting consolation and good hope. For by the grace given to me I say to every one of you not to think more highly of yourself than you ought to think, but to think with sober discernment, as God has distributed to each of you a measure of faith (Rom. We have seen that grace means the free and unmerited favor of God, but it needs to be stressed that an attitude of legalism by which man seeks to merit God’s favor actually undermines the impact of grace.

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Here are people in open and flagrant violation of the Scriptures, and Yancey is more impressed that they can say the words “Jesus loves me” than he is disturbed by their sin.Paul mentions some of the difficulties of his own life, and yet concludes with that magnificent benediction declaring that nothing in time or space or in the universe itself can separate us from the love of God. The Bible portrays true grace in shocking and scandalous terms: God does not excuse sin but always treasures the sinner. Like a huge mountain range rising up in the distance and towering above the surrounding hills, so God’s grace rises above our sin.