The Grace of God

To fully comprehend God’s grace we first need an understanding of covenant. Covenant in its simplest form is an agreement between two parties and usually sealed with a ritual or act of sacrifice. Biblical covenant is demonstrated throughout the scriptures when God made an agreement with man. There are many c!ovenants found within the pages of the Old Testament for example the ‘Abrahamic covenant’. The Old testament is a covenant within itself it could be cold the Old covenant as God would give man a c!ontract of agreement and if we kept our part of the contract God promises to keep his. The difference however is that God never breaks his agreement but we do. At Mount Sinai God give us the t!en commandments that became the basis of a contract with man attached to promises. We broke our agreement and sinned and broke the covenant. This reveals that we could not and cannot k!eep the laws of God or the demands of scripture and fall short every time. T!hat is why we were given a New covenant (NT). The bible says; This Covenant of Grace is where God promises eternal salvation to Man based upon the sacrifice of Jesus on the cross. This is called a Covenant of Grace because it is initiated by God, due to no part and worthiness of man, and is unmerited favour received from God. In this covenant Jesus would become man (John 1:1, 18; Heb. 2:9), be the mediator of a better covenant (Heb. 8:6), and being under the Law (Gal. 4:4) fulfils the Law perfectly (1 Pet. 2:22). Therefore, the righteousness accomplished by Christ is given to the believer, so that he has the righteousness that is not his own but that of Christ (Phil. 3:9). The believer's responsibility is to have faith in the work of Christ (Rom. 5:1; Eph. 2:8-9), a righteousness derived in the New Testament times by faith just as it was in the Old Testament times (Rom. 4:1-11). The manifestation of the Covenant of Grace was progressively disclosed. It began in the Garden of Eden after Adam and Eve sinned and God promised a redeemer (Gen. 3:15), to Abraham the promise to bless the nations (Gen. 12:2-3), the covenant of the Ten Commandments given to the Israelites at Mount Sinai (Exodus 34:28), and believers in the New Covenant (Jer. 31:31-37) which is fulfilled in Christ (1 Cor. 11:25).