Amazing Grace

Grace is not a license to sin, nor is its purpose to allow us to live a

permissive lifestyle.  But there is another side to grace.  It is the side

that brings the favor of  God to the offending person. 

We see the offending person before he is saved: "Dead in trespasses and sin,

walking the ways of the world, led by the prince of the power of the air,

living according to the lusts of the flesh, fulfilling the desires of the

flesh and mind and was by nature a child of wrath."  (Ephesians 2:1-3)  But

God, by His great grace, saves that person from the penalty of sin, makes

him a child of God, writes his name in the Lamb's Book of Life, forgives him

of all his sins and places His Holy Spirit within the person.

Not only that, but if through a temptation of the flesh and in an unguarded

moment he yields to that temptation, the Holy Spirit convicts him and

reminds him that, "If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to

forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness." (I John

1:9)  Besides that, the Bible tells us that Jesus is seated at God's right

hand making intercession for us.  God's grace truly is amazing!!!