The God of Grace

Good Shepherd Community Church

Grace is a word often used but seldom truly understood. We first hear of it in Genesis 6, Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord.Who is this God of all grace that Moses requested to see in Exodus 33 and 34 and who is manifested full in Jesus Christ. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ. John 1:17 An exposition of Ephesians 2:1-10 with reference to Romans 5. We have a desperate need for grace. But what is it? How does it come to us. God declared his covenant name to Moses in Exodus 34:5-7 Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed Yahweh's name. Yahweh passed by before him, and proclaimed, "Yahweh! Yahweh, a merciful and gracious God, slow to anger, and abundant in loving kindness and truth, keeping loving kindness for thousands, forgiving iniquity and disobedience and sin;Paul uses the word frequently in his letters in the New Testament as demonstrated in Ephesians 2:8 For by grace you are saved through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God;God's grace is associated directly with his goodness, his compassion, kindness and mercy. Grace is God in action to bestow a needed gift on one totally underserving by which he brings us in a relationship with himself based on the work of his beloved Son Jesus the Christ.