Grace through Faith (Faith Comes by Hearing God Speaking)
Romans 5:2 By whom also we have access by faith into this grace wherein we stand, and rejoice in hope of the glory of God.
Ephesians 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: [it is] the gift of God:
James 4:6 But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.
- Grace comes to those who are humble enough that they know they must stand in the presence of God and receive His leading, teaching, and correcting word so faith will come. Faith, in turn, will give the humble access to God’s grace.
1 Peter 1:13 Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
- Grace comes by revelation but not directly. God speaks. That’s revelation. We hear. Faith comes by hearing. Faith gives us access to God’s grace.
1 Corinthians 1:4 I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;
- Jesus authors our faith, and grace is through faith. Grace does the works. Jesus is keeping eveything on track all the way through.
John 1:17 For the law was given by Moses, [but] grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
Works through Grace (Saved by Grace from Sin to Righteousness)
Acts 14:26 And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.
Romans 5:17 For if by one man’s offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
Romans 5:21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:14 For sin shall not have dominion over you: for ye are not under the law, but under grace.
1 Corinthians 15:10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which [was bestowed] upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.
2 Corinthians 1:12 And this is our boast: Our conscience testifies that we have conducted ourselves in the world, and especially in relation to you, in the holiness and sincerity that are from God—not in worldly wisdom, but in the grace of God.
2 Corinthians 9:8 And God [is] able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all [things], may abound to every good work:
2 Timothy 2:1 Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.
Hebrews 12:28 Wherefore we receiving a kingdom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may serve God acceptably with reverence and godly fear:
Grace Gifts and Ministries
Acts 14:3 Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
1 Peter 4:10 As every man hath received the gift, [even so] minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.
Romans 12:6 Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, whether prophecy, [let us prophesy] according to the proportion of faith;
Ephesians 3:7 Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.
Acts 14:3 Long time therefore abode they speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands.
- Gifts and ministries are examples of grace working through those who follow Christ.
Works by Grace versus Works of the Law
Romans 4:4 Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.
Romans 11:6 And if by grace, then [is it] no more of works (the thing being done): otherwise grace is no more grace. But if [it be] of works, then is it no more grace: otherwise work is no more work.
2 Corinthians 6:1 We then, [as] workers together [with him], beseech [you] also that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.
Galatians 2:21 I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness [come] by the law, then Christ is dead in vain.
Galatians 5:4 Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.
The difference is between the works by human effort to obey a set of rules versus works that God does through you by the power of His grace, and that grace comes by faith, and faith comes by the leading of God.
If We Don’t Receive this Grace
Hebrews 10:29 Of how much sorer punishment, suppose ye, shall he be thought worthy, who hath trodden under foot the Son of God, and hath counted the blood of the covenant, wherewith he was sanctified, an unholy thing, and hath done despite unto the Spirit of grace?
Hebrews 12:15 Looking diligently lest any man fail of the grace of God; lest any root of bitterness springing up trouble [you], and thereby many be defiled;
Justified through Grace
Titus 3:7 That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.
Justification is part of God’s plan even though Scripture says less about it. He forgives us and treats us just as if we were just even though we have sinned. He does this because He intends to deliver us from sin completely. Even this justification is by grace, and that grace is through faith, and faith comes by hearing, and hearing comes by God speaking.
Grace for Grace and Believing through Grace
John 1:16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.
Acts 18:27 And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:
Ephesians 4:29 Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers.
Philippians 1:7 Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.
Titus 2:11 For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
God’s grace is in every part of God’s process. When you read Scripture, you hear the words God wrote through men of God in the past who heard God’s voice and received God’s faith that gave them access to God’s grace so God’s grace could write God’s words through them. When you hear any person speaking by the Holy Spirit, you hear God’s voice coming through them. They have yielded themselves to God’s grace, so you are receiving God’s grace through them.
Transfiguration through Grace
Acts 20:32 And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you an inheritance among all them which are sanctified.
- Build you up: finish a building that already has a foundation
Hebrews 13:9 Be not carried about with divers and strange doctrines. For [it is] a good thing that the heart be established with grace; not with meats, which have not profited them that have been occupied therein.
1 Peter 5:10 But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle [you].
God’s plan is for your transfiguration. Even now, Christ in you is your identity. Be sure to always identify with Christ. Reject the old Adam. The fleshly nature is not you. From now on we don’t know any person after the flesh but after the Spirit. Every person has and is a ministry. The ministry in every person is Christ in that person, and He is the hope of glory. See reality as it is. See the Christ, not the flesh.
As we all, with the fleshly veil taken from our faces, beholding, as if in a mirror, the glory of the Lord, are transfigured into the same image from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
