Common Grace Common Grace
Common means:
• The same in all situations
• Belonging to or shared by many or all things
• Something done to help everyone
For all of mankind as unbelievers who make positive decisions at God Consciousness (that is understanding that God exists and wanting to know more about him) GOD provides this COMMON Grace. Then, when God fulfills his obligatory responsibility of providing GOSPEL information to this unbeliever, God the Holy Spirit makes this SPIRITUAL information about the GOOD NEWS, the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of The Lord Jesus, The Christ on the cross for all human sin, LUCID for this unbeliever. This is an essential aspect of the Plan of God for the Eternal Salvation of Mankind because man being spiritually dead from physical birth cannot objectively understand any spiritual phenomenon. This provision of the ministry of God the Holy Spirit is based totally on the Sovereign Will of God and does not involve any aspect of Human Volition. It is part of the provision of God for man, who is born spiritually dead and outside of the Plan of God, to be able to leave the Plan of Satan into which he was born, and enter into the Plan of God. The human being who has not made Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God through faith alone in The Lord Jesus, The Christ alone is called a “SOULISH” man, lacking a Human Spirit and incapable of having a true understanding of any spiritual phenomenon. Thus the ministry of God the Holy Spirit in Common Grace enables the unbeliever to understand the Gospel information clearly and then make a clear objective and
personal decision regarding Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God by nonmeritorious faith alone. He can either accept or reject the information in the Gospel but the understanding of the importance and ramifications of Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God or rejection of Christ is provided to him by God the Holy Spirit under COMMON ------ GRACE. Therefore, “Common Grace” is the unearned, undeserved GRACE action of God the Holy Spirit directed toward every human being in history who desires knowledge of and relationship with God in some way. By “common” it is meant that the message of salvation is made perspicuous, in the same manner, for every human being in every period of history despite the INABILITY of all soulish human beings to understand spiritual phenomenon as a result of the universal spiritual death of mankind from the point of physical birth.