INTRO: Our subject this morning is the grace of God. Last year at Bible study we studied the word "grace." I thank the group for their patience and input. I am so grateful for the help that gave me. I planned to deal with grace as viewed by Catholicism, Calvinism, and Arminianism. I spent a lot of time only to find out that the way I wanted to deal with it was too big for what I plan to do. There are such varied views on what grace is and how salvation takes place by grace and how sanctification takes place that I became bogged down. I felt the subject had became too cumbersome for me to be able to bring it all together without it becoming confusing. So I will deal with it in one message and some day maybe show the errors I see in say Catholicism, Calvinism, and even Arminianism. So I decided to seek to keep this message as uncluttered with other views as possible and so I have reduced it to two points. I want to define grace from my personal point of view, and then give a defence of that definition both in justification and sanctification. Now grace is truly a difficult word to define. I think it may be the various views that have been generated by various theological positions over the years that have muddied the waters and it is that which has made it so difficult to define, and not the actual word itself. You see, there is talk of common grace, special grace, prevenient grace, and sacramental grace, unconditional grace, and I don't know how many more kinds of grace.
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