Grace

Full question studies on grace

• Who is God?

  God is the one living Creator who made everything and depends on nothing, and Scripture answers this question mainly by telling us his character rather than by defining his substance. When God described himself to Moses he said he is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, abundant in loving kindness and truth, and yet will by no means clear the guilty. The New Testament adds that this God is finally known in Jesus Christ, who has made him known.

• What is sin?

  Scripture defines sin as lawlessness, as falling short of God's glory, and as failing to do the good we know we should do. It is not only a list of bad actions but a condition of the heart that produces them, and it is first against God rather than only against people. Scripture also says all have sinned, that its wage is death, and that God is faithful to forgive those who confess.

• How do I stop committing the same sin over and over?

  Scripture answers a repeated sin by changing what the believer reckons to be true, then by naming the ordinary means: consider yourself dead to sin, stop presenting your body to it, bring it out of secrecy by confession, walk by the Spirit, and remove what feeds the desire. It does not promise a single moment that ends the struggle, and it does not treat repeated falling as proof that grace has run out.

• Why did Jesus come to earth?

  Scripture answers this in his own words more than once. He came to seek and to save the lost, to serve and to give his life as a ransom for many, to do the will of the Father who sent him, to bear witness to the truth, to fulfil the law and the prophets, to destroy the works of the devil, and to give life. Not one of those statements is about setting an example only, and every one of them ends up at the cross and the empty tomb.

• How do I forgive someone who hurt me?

  Biblical forgiveness is the decision to release a debt you have every right to collect, made because God released yours. It is not pretending the wrong was small, and it does not always mean reconciliation or renewed trust. It usually begins as an act of obedience and becomes a feeling later, often much later.

• What is the Gospel?

  The Gospel is news, not advice. It is the announcement that God became man in Jesus Christ, lived the life we owed, died the death we deserved, rose bodily from the dead, and now freely forgives and reconciles everyone who turns from sin and trusts him. It is something done, reported to us, before it is anything asked of us.

• Why do Christians still struggle with sin?

  Because salvation changes a person's standing with God immediately but their character gradually, and the New Testament is honest that the old nature keeps fighting the new one until glory. Paul, writing as a mature apostle, describes the very struggle in Romans 7. The presence of a fight is not proof that grace has failed. It is often proof that it has begun.

• Can God forgive any sin?

  Yes. Scripture repeatedly says that God's forgiveness reaches sins as scarlet, murder, persecution of the church and open blasphemy, provided the sinner turns to him in genuine repentance and faith. The one sin the Bible treats as unforgivable is a settled, final rejection of the Spirit's own witness to Christ, and the very fact that a person is troubled about having committed it is itself strong evidence they have not.

• What does it mean to be born again?

  To be born again is to receive a new spiritual life from God, given by the Holy Spirit, that no amount of moral effort or religious heritage can produce. Jesus told the most religious man in Jerusalem that he must be born again to see the kingdom of God at all. It is not self-improvement. It is a new birth, entirely God's act, that changes what a person is before it changes what they do.

• Why did Jesus have to die?

  Jesus died because sin has a real penalty, death, and God chose to bear that penalty himself rather than simply overlook it. Scripture presents the cross as a substitution: the sinless one carrying the guilt of the guilty, so that God could remain just and still forgive. It was not an accident that overtook him. It was the plan he came to fulfil.

• What is grace?

  Grace is God's undeserved favor toward sinners, shown supremely in that while we were dead in trespasses and sins, he made us alive together with Christ. It is not a reward for the good we have done or a boost for the good we are trying to do. It is God's own kindness, freely given through Christ, that saves us when we could not save ourselves and keeps teaching us to live for him afterward.

• How do I get saved?

  You are saved by turning from sin and trusting Jesus Christ, believing in your heart that God raised him from the dead and confessing him as Lord. Paul states it plainly: whoever calls on the name of the Lord will be saved. This is not a formula to recite but real faith, a genuine turning to Christ as the one who died for your sins and rose again, and it is offered freely to anyone who will receive it.

• What must I do to be saved?

  Scripture answers this exact question three times, to three different people, and gives the same substance every time even though the words differ. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you will be saved. Repent, and be baptized in his name for the forgiveness of your sins. Sell what you have, and follow me. These are not three different roads to God. They are one road described to a jailer trembling before a magistrate, to a crowd cut to the heart at Pentecost, and to a rich man who trusted his own righteousness. Salvation has always come by grace through faith in Christ, and the obedience each person was called to simply showed where their faith already stood.

• Can I lose my salvation?

  Jesus says his sheep hear his voice, he gives them eternal life, they will never perish, and no one can snatch them out of his hand or his Father's hand. Faithful Christians have read the New Testament's warning passages differently for centuries, some holding that a true believer can finally fall away and others that such warnings are God's appointed means of keeping his own. Every tradition agrees that no one drifts into final apostasy by accident, that ongoing repentance and faith are how a Christian actually lives out salvation, and that assurance is meant to be enjoyed, not manufactured by fear.

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Deep chapter studies to read next

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• Genesis 4 Cain and Abel: the first murder and the heart behind it.
• Genesis 22: The Mountain Where God Revealed the Gospel Obedience, substitution, and the first Father who gave a son
• Psalm 1: The Way of the Righteous and the Wicked Two ways, two influences, two outcomes
• Psalm 23: The LORD Our Shepherd The Shepherd who never leaves His people

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