God's Awesome Grace, Pt 3

We ought to live in the lifestyle of the holy grace of God alone.  Every disciple should live in light of the grace of God unto His glory.  We ought to understand the consequences of sin and the justice of God. We can understand the awesomeness of God's grace. 

We ought to learn that God gave Adam and Eve every good thing they needed to live but they chose to sin through the mutability of their own wills.  The tree was forbidden to eat because it was the tree of the knowledge between good and evil.  The consequences of eating the forbidden fruit was death.  Adam and Eve disobeyed God and sinned by transgression.  The consequence was death. 

God sent His Son to destroy death and Jesus is the second Adam.  We must see God's grace in light of God's righteous judgment against sin, because if we see grace in light of sin we will appreciate grace all the more.  Satan denies the existence of sin, transgressions or iniquity.  We must understand that the necessity of sin calls for the necessity of grace.

Adam and Eve caused physical and spiritual death for all mankind, but God gave them both coverings and through grace spared them of hell.  The covering points to Jesus Christ because He is the covering for all repentant sinners, for He was a sure sacrifice for sins.  This is His awesome gift of grace, love and fellowship in friendship to lost sinners who embrace Him by faith.  This faith comes by the Spirit of Christ and Holy Writ.  The Father through His Son by His Spirit gives us the spiritual application of the imputed unified merit of Christ as a sure covering for our sins and takes out a heart of stone and gives us a heart of flesh.