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— by Ronald R. Shea, Th.M., J.D —
 
Topics Touching the Message of Salvation
— Grace —
Curriculum Outline and Study Guide | Resurrection | Assurance | Baptism | The Bema | Calvinism | The Gospel Message & Content of Saving Faith | The Creator | Dispensationalism | Eternal Security | Evangelism & Discipleship | Expiation, Propitiation and Redemption | Faith | Fruit . .. Don't you need it? | Grace | Hebrews 10 | Hebrews 6:1-15 | Heirship and Rewards | James 2:14-26 | Jesus is God | 1st John | John MacArthur | Justification | Bilateral Contract Salvation or "Lordship Salvation" | The Market Driven Church | Perseverance of the Saints | Predestination and Free Will | Public Confession of Christ | Regeneration | Repentance | Roman Catholicism | Salvation | Sanctification | The Sheep and Goats Judgment | Silly Gospel Substitutes | "Sovereign" (Irresistible) Grace | Stewardship of the Gospel Message | The Modern "Testimony" | The Ten Commandments: Their Relationship to the Believer | Theology and Doctrine | Total Depravity and `The Bondage of the Will` | Worship Music | Appendix I: Church History from a Free Grace perspective
Chapter 1: The Gift, and the Giver
Chapter 2: The Receipt of the Gift by Faith
Chapter 3: The Relationship of Honor and Grace
Chapter 4: Honor The Son By Honoring His Grace
Chapter 5: Common Approaches to Salvation by Works
Chapter 6: Common Approaches to Salvation by Works
Chapter 7: The Purpose of the Law.
Chapter 8: The Enemies of Grace
Chapter 9: Grace - The Eve of the Battle
Chapter 10: Grace--The Battle Begins
Chapter 11: Grace - The Debate Goes Public
Chapter 12: The Jerusalem Counsel
Chapter 13: Guerrilla Tactics in the War On Grace
Chapter 14: The Four Perversions of Grace-- 1 & 2

The Doctrine of Grace

by

Ronald R. Shea, Th.M., J.D.

 

HONOR THE SON BY HONORING HIS GRACE

 

 

 

 

GRACE AND THE HONOR OF THE SON

 

The Bible Teaches:

 

22.  For the Father judges no man, but has committed all judgment unto the Son:

23.  That all men should honor the Son, even as they honor the Father which hath sent him.

24.   Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that hears my words, and believes on Him that sent me, has everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but has passed from death unto life.

John 5:22-24

 

Here, we are told that the Father has committed all judgment to the Son, and that the deciding factor in that judgment will be whether nor not we honor the Son.  Throughout Scripture, we are told that the sole condition for eternal life is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.  We see from the context that these are not different messages, but the same message.  If we believe that the Father has sent the Son to die in our place, and that eternal life is a gift by his grace, we honor the Father, and we honor the Son.

 

Grace, by its nature, has five elements: the gift, the giver, the disposition of the giver to freely bestow the gift, a subject upon whom the gift is bestowed, and the acceptance of the gift by that subject.  If we accept the gift, we honor the grace of the giver, the grace of our Sovereign.  We do this when we believe on the Son as the one who has died for our sins, and who provides eternal life freely by his grace.

 

But if we should not accept his grace, we dishoner Him.  Some refuse His grace by demanding they are not worthy of death.  And by their refusal, they dishnor the Son, and stand under his condemnation.  Some refuse his grace because they refuse to believe that the Son has died for their sins.  And so they dishonor the son, trivializing the expense he bore to provide us that eternal life freely.

 

Eternal life is the gift of God.  Those who honor the Son will accept his gift.  Those who will not believe His offer of eternal life reject His gift, and dishnor their Sovereign.

 

Those who believe not dishonor the Son.  And those who dishonor the Son stand condemned already, for they have believed not in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

(John 3:18)

 

HONOR THE SON BY HONORING HIS GRACE

 

When man attempts to gain eternal life through his own works, he is no longer accepting God's offer of eternal life as a free gift, that is, by "Grace."

 

But if it is on the basis of works, then it is no longer grace.

 

Romans 11:6

 

Yet it is only by His "grace" that God will save us!

 

For by grace are you saved through Faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God, not of works that anyone should boast.

 

Ephesians 2:8-9

 

Therefore, Scripture teaches that God withdraws the offer of eternal life from anyone who tries to earn it through their works, thus degrading God by seeking to make Him a debtor to sinful man.

 

For you have become estranged from Christ, you who attempt to be justified by the law; you have fallen from grace.

 

Galatians 5:4

 

 

Therefore, to attempt to gain eternal life through the works of the law is to reject the only way in which God offers eternal life, that is, by His grace.  And when a man rejects God's gracious offer of eternal life, he is freely choosing to face eternal condemnation.

 

 

 


Chapter 4: Honor The Son By Honoring His Grace

 
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