grace, part two

Here are a few scriptures to remind us of our salvation by grace and of our need to live daily by grace from the time of our salvation, throughout our sanctification, and until glorification.  If you believe in grace but live as if you are back under the law, pressuring yourself to do all the right things, condemning yourself or others when you or they don’t, and if you tend to believe that God is angry with you for not being good enough, remember to preach the gospel of grace to yourself every day and then, offer this same grace to others.  

Romans 3:19-26

Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be silenced and the whole world held accountable to God.  Therefore no one will be declared righteous in His sight by observing the law; rather through the law we become conscious of sin. But now a righteousness from God, apart from law, has been made known, to which the Law and the Prophets testify.  This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.  There is no difference, for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, and are justified freely by his grace through the redemption that came by Christ Jesus.  God presented him as a sacrifice of atonement, through faith in his blood.  He did this to demonstrate his justice, because in his forbearance he had left the sins committed beforehand unpunished – he did it to demonstrate his justice at the present time, so as to be just and the one who justifies those who have faith in Jesus.

Romans 8:1

There is now, therefore, no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.

Galations 1:15   

But when He who had set me apart, even from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace.

Galations 2:21  

I do not nullify the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the Law, then Christ died needlessly (NASB). (Again, in a different version:) I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing! (NIV)

Galations 3:21  

Is the Law then contrary to the promises of God?  May it never be!  For if a law had been given which was able to impart life, then righteousness would indeed have been based on law.

Ephesians 2:4-9  

But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him and seated us with Him in the heavenly places, in Christ Jesus, in order that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.  For by grace you have been saved through faith; and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God; not as a result of works, that no one should boast.

2 Timothy 1:9 

(God) who saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was granted us in Christ Jesus from all eternity.

Titus 3:4-7   

But when the kindness of God our Savior and His love for mankind appeared, He saved us, not on the basis of deeds which we have done in righteousness, but according to His mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewing by the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out upon us richly through Jesus Christ our Savior, that being justified by His grace we might be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.                                            

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