What’s in a name? … ‘Sovereign Grace’
The Gospel of God is good news for sinners
Sovereign grace
Sovereign grace describes the gospel of Jesus Christ, the Son of God. The Bible tells us all people are sinners in need of forgiveness and righteousness. Some people try to please God and earn His pleasure with good works, but the Bible tells us God’s grace is a gift.
Salvation through faith
Faith, too, is a gift from God. People imagine they can exercise saving faith at a whim, through their own will and pleasure. But God’s word tells us we are dead in our sins until the Spirit of God makes us alive to spiritual truth and reality. “By grace are ye saved through faith.“
… not of works
Paul tells us: “Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified”.
According to election …
The purpose of God has always been to save a people for Himself from amongst the fallen men and women of this world. God chose a people in the covenant of grace and peace and gave them to His Son Jesus. Through the preaching of the gospel of free grace these chosen and blessed people will be brought to experience God’s love in Christ.
A definite atonement
The death of the Lord Jesus is the means by which God enacted His will to save the people of His choice. All for whom the Lord Jesus died will be saved from their sins. Their debts were forever paid when Christ shed His blood and died for their sins according to the scriptures. Our Lord Jesus Christ died, was buried, and rose again the third day according to the scriptures.
Christ made sin for us
When the Lord Jesus Christ went to the cross He took the sin, carried the guilt, bore the condemnation and shed His blood to redeem all those given to Him to save. He personally secured and freely supplies everything needful for everlasting life, peace with God and heavenly glory. Every blessing comes freely by grace. That’s why it is called sovereign grace!