• Grace is one of the most abused topics by religious people today.

• Romans 11:5-6

• Ephesians 2:8-9

• Acts 10:34-35

• James 2:24

• Saved:

  • Not by works

    • Excluded:

      • Sinlessness (I John 1:8-10)

      • Devising one’s own plan

      • Any man’s plan

  • By works
    • Included:
      • Faith that responds in works of obedience. Galatians 5:6

God’s offer

Boastful work

Man’s faith

Man’s obedience

Joshua 6

❌

❌

✔

II Kings 5

❌

❌

✔

John 9

❌

❌

✔

Mark 16:16

❌

❌

✔

I John 1:7

❌

❌

✔

• Was the blessing each received by the grace of God? Certainly so!
• Did they receive the blessing while rejecting God’s plan? Certainly not!
• Did they receive the blessing at the point of faith? Certainly not!
• Did they receive the blessing when they, through faith, worked the works that God commanded? Certainly so!
• Did this working obedience to God’s commands invalidate God’s grace or allow them to boast that they had merited the blessing? Certainly not.
• After working all that God told them to do, was the blessing still received by God’s grace? Certainly so!