Eph 2:8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that
not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
You are not saved by grace alone. You are not saved by faith
alone. Grace makes salvation available. Faith receives it. Grace refers to all
that God has made available for you, independent of you. Faith refers to the
process of receiving all that God has made available by grace.
There are whole denominations who take grace to the extreme,
teaching that you have no part to play in the affairs of your life and that God
sovereignly controls everything that happens in your life. There is another
sect that believes that you are totally responsible for everything that happens
in your life and that you have to twist the arm of God every-time you want
something from him.
Grace and faith are like sodium and chloride. If you take
sodium alone, you will die. If you take chlorine alone, you will die. But if
you join them together, it will give you a salt called NaCl, and if you don’t
have it daily, you will die. So you see, you have to combine them together so
as to get the best result.
The grace of God has been distributed equally to every man.
But not every man has received it. The grace of God that was extended towards
Kenneth Hagin, Oral Roberts and Benson Idahosa, is exactly the same that was
extended towards Saddam Hussein, Osama Bin Laden and Adolf Hitler. The only
difference is that the former recognized and accepted it, but the latter
ignored and neglected it. So use your faith to get everything that God has
provided through grace. This is so simple, you need someone to help you
misunderstand it.
SAM ABUA
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