The Frustration Of Grace
I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness comes by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. - Galatians 2:21.
I heard a preacher teach on this Scripture. He said that we can frustrate the grace of God. He said that if we did, it wouldn't work for us any longer. Something about that didn't sit right with me, so I looked up the Greek word used in this Scripture for frustrate. It is the transliterated Greek word Atheteo, which means to do away with, to set aside, to thwart the efficacy of anything, nullify, make void, frustrate. In essence this Scripture is saying that we should not do away with the grace of God. It is saying that if we believe and act as though righteousness comes from the law, then Christ died in vain. Christ came to bring us grace—the undeserved, unearned favor of God. We are in right-standing, righteousness, with God because of Christ's death, burial and resurrection. We didn't earn it. We didn't deserve it. We can never pay it back.
- Annagail Lynes
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I heard a preacher teach on this Scripture. He said that we can frustrate the grace of God. He said that if we did, it wouldn't work for us any longer. Something about that didn't sit right with me, so I looked up the Greek word used in this Scripture for frustrate. It is the transliterated Greek word Atheteo, which means to do away with, to set aside, to thwart the efficacy of anything, nullify, make void, frustrate. In essence this Scripture is saying that we should not do away with the grace of God. It is saying that if we believe and act as though righteousness comes from the law, then Christ died in vain. Christ came to bring us grace—the undeserved, unearned favor of God. We are in right-standing, righteousness, with God because of Christ's death, burial and resurrection. We didn't earn it. We didn't deserve it. We can never pay it back.
- Annagail Lynes
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Join our new club, Believers Gathering Place
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