Week 6 of 52
Grace That Saves
Salvation is a gift given, not a wage earned.
Built on Ephesians 2:1-10. Paul's account of what grace does: it finds people dead, makes them alive with Christ, and does so entirely apart from works, so that no one may boast.
Grace is the word Christians use most and understand least. It is easy to say God is gracious and still, quietly, live as though His favor must be earned by good behavior or lost by bad. This week looks directly at what the Bible means by grace, tracing it from the garden where it was first needed to the cross where it was fully shown.
Grace is not God lowering His standard. It is God meeting the standard Himself, in Christ, for people who could not meet it. This week follows that truth through law and gospel, through Old Testament pictures and New Testament declarations, so that grace stops being a comfortable word and becomes the ground someone actually stands on.
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Seven days
Each day is its own devotional
Day 1
Dead Made Alive
Grace does not improve the living. It raises the dead.
Ephesians 2:4-5
Day 2
Not of Works
Grace and earning cannot occupy the same sentence.
Ephesians 2:8-9
Day 3
While We Were Still Sinners
Grace does not wait for improvement.
Romans 5:8
Day 4
A Wretched Man Delivered
Grace answers a struggle law cannot fix.
Romans 7:24-25
Day 5
Grace Reigning Through Righteousness
Where sin increased, grace increased even more.
Romans 5:20-21
Day 6
Sufficient Grace for a Thorn
Grace is enough even for what is never removed.
2 Corinthians 12:9
Day 7
Grace and Truth Through Jesus Christ
The law came by Moses; grace came by a person.
John 1:16-17