The PRINCIPLE The PRINCIPLE
Who and what believers are never depends on who and what they can think, say or do, it depends on who and what God is, always. Therefore, NO CHRISTIAN has any right to consider himself superior to anyone else. Everything that the individual believer has and everything that he will be on this earth strictly depends on the Grace of God. The fact and absolute truth is that for anyone to even be able to live on this earth is a matter of the Grace and Character of God. In other words, Grace emphasizes the character of God, who and what God is, never who or what the believer is, never what he can accomplish in any way, and under the concept of Grace the believer cannot ever earn or deserve anything from God.
Considering GRACE, the bible says of the Lord, “He has done great things” and then later it says “He will do great things”. This is the story of the life of the Christian, in the past from the day he has made Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God, God has done great things for him, not because of who and what he is but because of who and what GOD is. In the future, God will continue to do great things for him also because of who and what GOD still is. Therefore Grace becomes clearly manifest first at the point of Justification, Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God, and then at the point of Glorification, Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God. Grace is the ONLY means by which mankind is in any way able to adjust to the Justice of God.
It is essential to understand that Grace as a noun describes what God can provide for man under his system and plan and that it is modified by adjectives to assist in categorizing it into distinct functional aspects of what is provided by God for man. Believers tend to proclaim things like “Supergrace” as a single word which is then often used to describe a type of believer or the level of his spiritual advancement and thus lose the meaning and intent of the modifiers and the understanding of the many varied aspects of Grace provided by God for the believer in this life. Super ----- Grace is not a class of believer or level of spiritual advancement but is a level of Grace, a level of provision, provided for the advancing mature believers for his life in time. Therefore the believer must understand the totality of Grace and how it is provided for man in several categories some limited and some unlimited in order to appreciate to any degree what God provides for man.
Definition of Grace Definition of Grace
In order for the believer to understand GRACE, the plan and policy of God, he must begin by realizing CLEARLY that the members of the trinity, God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit are not human beings and he MUST STOP considering GOD from the perspective of humans. God does not get angry nor does he become emotionally slobbery in LOVE, he is not vengeful nor vindictive, these are human characteristics, probably all failures in fact. God is LOVE, He is and has always been HAPPY from Eternity Past and nothing can change these things nor any other aspect of the Essence of God because he is IMMUTABLE, UNCHANGEABLE. Grace is not an attribute of the character or Essence of God but it is the combined all encompassed OUTPUT from the Essence of God which He put together as his plan for creation. Grace does not start with mankind, Grace started with God, therefore, Grace cannot ever be earned, merited, or deserved by human beings. Grace as a plan and policy was begun in Eternity Past THEREFORE, human beings nor angelic creatures cannot ever add anything to it. Therefore, Grace is exclusively the initiative of God.
Considering Grace and its application for the Human Race, Grace is all that God is free to do for mankind without compromising His essence or His divine attributes on the basis of the
Substitutionary Spiritual Death of Jesus Christ on the cross. (Eph 2:8-9). Divine love is the motivation for God’s Grace toward mankind. Grace is the Plan, Policy and System for the administration of God’s plan for mankind. Grace is free, unmerited favor and love from God alone, and it does not come from man being in any way attractive to God. Therefore, Grace is a benefit from God and totally the work of God and totally apart from the works or efforts of mankind. Thus, under the divine policy of Grace, only the ability and power of God counts and fulfills the requirements of God to meet the needs of helpless mankind.
Necessity for Grace Necessity for Grace
The fact that according to 1Pet 2:3 every believer HAS tasted the Grace of God does not mean he understands the Grace of God or that he is oriented to the Grace of God. Believers must be
constantly reminded that a major necessity in the Christian Way of Life is Grace Orientation (15) and in order to be oriented to Grace they need to understand it so that they can function in the Grace Plan of God. In the Provision of Assets by God for believers Grace Orientation is
the 4th Problem Solving Device (15) and the 1st Floor (11) of the Edification Complex of the Soul. Believers alive in this world ruled by Satan are in Phase II of the Plan of God and inevitably find that sometimes, rarely, they succeed in the Plan of God and sometimes, more often than not, they FAIL and thus they have UPS and DOWNS in their Spiritual Life. This is completely understandable being that every believer possesses an Old Sin Nature, passed down from Adam, which they cannot get rid of and most often their understanding of Bible Doctrine,
the Thinking of Christ (1Cor 2:16), is very limited thus their orientation to the Plan of God is also limited. Understand clearly that there is no limit in the revelation of God’s plan for mankind but there is great limitation in the believer’s personal perspicacity of it as a result of his INCONSISTENT Volition.
As a result of having a limited understanding of the Plan of God the believer does not realize that when he fails in some heinous or miserable way in Phase II of the plan that he still,
because of GRACE, possesses the 39 Irrevocable Assets provided by God and given to him at the point of his making Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God. So, no matter what the believer’s experience in this life may be, and this life is a VERY Short period in terms of
eternity, (Ps 90) (17) and even if he lives 70 or 80 years or more as a Christian, for this very short time, he represents the The Lord Jesus, The Christ in this life and this requires a great deal of understanding of the Plan of God. So, how can a Christian expect to live the Christian Way of Life and have inner peace, inner happiness and blessing in the midst of suffering and pressure and orient to the Plan of God unless he understands the Grace of God? This understanding requires a maximum knowledge of Bible Doctrine and having maximum
Metabolized Bible Doctrine in the Right Lobe of the Stream of Consciousness of the Soul is the HIGHEST virtue in the Christian Way of Life.
The Characteristics of Grace The Characteristics of Grace
The point at which the Grace of God always begins is total helplessness on the part of the
recipient. (Is 30:18-19) God is said to be tapping His foot waiting to bless the believer because under the whole picture of Grace the believer must recognize that he has no ability within himself. Grace can be suffering or support and blessing, which God freely gives to all mankind. Therefore, Grace as the function of the Integrity of God in the direction of man sometimes brings blessing and sometimes discipline and cursing. Grace is the divine system,
the Power System of God, (8) that permeates biblical theology and all human experience. Grace cannot be earned, deserved, or merited by human works, human resources, or human ability. Grace depends ONLY on who and what God is, not the believer’s attempt to redecorate God to suit himself. Grace is devoid of human merit or ability which in fact are totally incapable of solving human problems. The divine initiative of Grace is designed to glorify God, never mankind and it permits suffering and provides the Grace solutions, which create blessing and thereby glorifies God for providing these for depraved man living under Satan’s dominion.
The Implications of Grace The Implications of Grace
The implications of Grace are found in the realization that God is perfect therefore His plan is perfect. A perfect plan can only originate from a perfect person. Therefore if imperfect man can do anything meritorious in the Plan of God it is no longer perfect. Consequently, any plan is no stronger than its weakest link and since Man is Imperfect this would be the weakest link
IF man could participate in the plan, which he cannot. SO STOP TRYING TO HELP GOD! (4) The righteousness and Justice of God keep the Love of God honorable. The Love of God motivated the institution of the Grace of God, so that this virtue is shared with the believer. The expression of that Love is Antecedent Grace in eternity past, revealed to the believer in time through the Word of God, Bible Doctrine. Righteousness and Justice are the internal actions of Integrity; Love and Grace are the overt functions of integrity. The righteousness of God is the base and foundation of the standards of the Grace of God. The Justice of God is the function or output of the Grace of God. Therefore, the Justice of God is the point of reference for every believer in Jesus Christ; so that the Justice of God is the activator or distributor of the Grace of God toward the believer, the catalyst for both blessing and discipline from God. One cannot contradict the Justice of God without destroying the Grace of God and turning Grace into legalism which is based on Evil.
Escrow Escrow
It is necessary to understand the principle of Escrow with regard to direct blessing from God to the believer in time and eternity. In Eternity Past God the Father as author of the Plan of God made, as it were, a contract with each individual in the Human Race whom his omniscience
knew would ultimately become a believer and receive the provisions of Salvation Grace. In this contract, God the Father set aside phenomenal blessings, above and beyond anything the believer can imagine, and placed them under an ESCROW instrument. This Escrow contract has requirements to be met before the Escrow benefits can be realized by the beneficiary. The requirements for any and every believer to realize his escrow benefits from God are that in his
life on this earth he must reach the point of Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God . Since this can only occur by means of consistent Perception, Cognition, Inculcation and
Metabolization of Bible Doctrine under the Filling of God the Holy Spirit and Grace Apparatus
for Perception, Operation Z, this means, in essence, that the believer has to make proper use of
his Logistical Grace support mechanisms to consistently advance in the Spiritual Life. Upon reaching and HOLDING his position in Spiritual Maturity this believer has then fulfilled the requirement to receive these Escrow benefits. This Escrow contract includes phenomenal Grace blessings and benefits for both time and eternity for the positive mature believer. However, if the believer fails to meet the requirements of the Escrow contract his benefits will remain under Escrow for all eternity and he will NEVER be able to realize them.