Jesus Christ is Grace

Jesus Christ is grace. It’s our belief in him that gives us our blessed hope.  Christ did it all so that we could have eternal life in heaven.  Christ became sin, to cover our sin.  He became a curse that we could be free from the curse.  He shed his blood to cover our sin once and for all.  We can do nothing to merit favor with God, except through Christ.

John 14:6  Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.   This verse tells us that Christ is the only way to come before the Father.  Jesus Christ is the truth and the life.  It’s only through his life that we can gain righteousness.  When we accept Christ as our Lord, God washes away all our past sins, and cloaks us with Christ righteousness.

Romans 3:21-4:3  But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets; Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference (between Jew and Gentile):  For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation (the act of God whereby he becomes gracious to the sinner through Jesus Christ) through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. Where is boasting then? It is excluded.  By what law? Of works? Nay: but by the law of faith. Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law. Is he the God of the Jews only? Is he not also of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also: Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision by faith.  Do we then make void the law through faith? God forbid: yea, we establish the law.  What shall we say then that Abraham our father, as pertaining to the flesh, hath found? For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God. For what saith the scripture?  Abraham believed God, and it was counted unto him for righteousness.

Romans 1:16  For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.  When you read this verse, don’t stop at the word ashamed, but meditate on the word power.  The gospel of Christ is the power of God to salvation.  And the Gospel is:

I Corinthians 15:1 – 4  Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; by which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain.  For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: