Grace & the Essence of God Grace & the Essence of God
Grace is identified with God because of the total involvement of the entire Essence of God especially the Integrity of God, which is a composite of the Righteousness of God, Justice of
God and Love of God, in the development of the principles and policies of Grace. ( Rom 5:15;
1Cor 1:4, 1Cor 15:10; 2Cor 6:1, 2Cor 8:1; Eph 3:2, Eph 3:7) Consequently, Grace has existed from eternity past. As an extension and integral part of divine Love, Grace is both a characteristic and a policy of divine Love. God’s perfect Righteousness is the foundation and the support for the function of the Grace of God. Therefore, there can be no function of Grace that violates any part of the Essence of God particularly the Integrity of God because that would necessitate a contradiction of the Righteousness of God. The basic principle of Grace is that what the Righteousness of God demands, the Justice of God MUST execute as a result of motivation from the Love of God as an expression of the Grace policy of God.
Grace & the Sovereignty of God Grace & the Sovereignty of God
The Sovereignty of God provided the highest manifestation of the Grace of God for the individual Church Age believer as the assets of Election and Predestination:
• Equal privilege under Election is the Royal Priesthood of every Church Age believer. The
Lord Jesus, The Christ is the royal high priest for all Church Age believers as a King-
Priest, Heb 7 (19).
• Equal opportunity under Election is the provision of post salvation life long logistical
Grace support to enable the believer to reach Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God, execute the Protocol Plan of God and glorify God in time.
• Equal privilege under Predestination results from the Baptism of God the Holy Spirit
placing the believer into union with Christ so that he becomes part of the Royal Family of God.
• Equal opportunity under Predestination is the preservation and provision of Bible Doctrine
and establishment of the Grace Apparatus for Perception, Operation Z, the 10 Problem
Solving Devices, (15) the Edification Complex of the Sou l (11) and the operational Divine
Dynasphere (8) to enable systematic progressive spiritual growth for the believer.
These are provided by sovereign decisions from the free will of God as part of the Grace Plan and Policy of God for this Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial which is Human History.
Grace & The Love of God Grace & The Love of God
The Grace of God is the ultimate expression of God’s love from His divine integrity. The love of God reaches out to the whole world under his system of GRACE. (John 3:16, Heb. 2:9, 1John 2:2). This is a divine Impersonal – Unconditional Love for the world of lost men and also in part for Christians. In addition this includes divine Personal Love for Christians who have in this Church Age by means of the Baptism of God the Holy Spirit become part of the Royal Family of God. The provision and distribution of the myriad of Grace benefits and blessings indicates how God’s affection knows no bounds. However, it is NOT an emotional touchy feely love and believers must recognize that under the Grace system of God, his Grace also provides punishment as Divine Discipline, when the individual believer leaves the Plan of God to reenter the Plan of Satan.
Grace the Standard of God Grace the Standard of God
1Cor 3:10, “According to the standard [or criterion] of the Grace of God.” The Grace of God is the absolute norm or standard of God set up for the Christian way of life, thus it is the absolute norm or standard for everything pertaining to Christianity. The Grace of God is not a divine attribute, but the expression of God’s divine attributes as a plan and the unalterable policy for that plan. Grace as his Polity outlines all that God is free to do for mankind without compromising His essence or nullifying His attributes. Grace is undeserved blessing from God based on the function of all three members of the Trinity. Grace is a decision of the Sovereignty of God, an expression of the Free Will of God toward man in Human History. Because the Grace of God is the plan and policy of God there can be no other plan apart from Grace and this means that EVERYTHING depends on who and what God is. The Grace of God can only be advanced by an acceptable interaction between the motivating Love of God, the perfect standards of the Righteousness of God and absolute function of the Justice of God because Grace is the policy of God which must abide by the Norms and Standards of the Righteousness of God and function through the Justice of God.
The Integrity of God and Holiness Bypass The Integrity of God and Holiness Bypass The Righteousness of God and Justice of God are the Holiness or Integrity of God which is totally offended by man from the point of his physical birth on. But the Integrity of God is satisfied from the point of the birth of The Lord Jesus, The Christ on through his Substitutionary Spiritual Death on the cross. The Lord Jesus, The Christ lived 33 years in absolute perfect righteousness in Phase II of the Plan of God but this was not enough to provide the potential for salvation for all mankind. Jesus had to make SIN a nonissue for man as part of the satanic appeal of the Angelic Conflict Trail, so that his choice would only be between the Plan of God and Plan of Satan. Jesus had to go to the cross and take the place of
man in judgment for sin. The Believer, therefore, tasted (1Pet 2:3) the GRACE of Propitiation
when he made Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God by nonmeritorious faith alone in The Lord Jesus, The Christ alone, accepting his Substitutionary Spiritual Death for all human sins. Christians have all now passed the point of Propitiation having made Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God so that NOW in Phase II of the Plan of God, all believers are NOW under the Holiness Bypass. 1Pet 2:3, says “If you have tasted of the GRACE of God, AND YOU HAVE”; where the “IF’ sets up a 1st class condition meaning that every believer who has made Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God HAS for at least 1 short moment in time tasted the
Grace of God being saved by means of Salvation Grace. 1Pet 2:3 refers to the moment of Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God where GOD provided under his GRACE plan the
imputation of the 39 irrevocable assets and the Filling of God the Holy Spirit for each believer for his life in time and this occurred in a point of time but is perpetuated FOREVER into eternity. The fact that the believer has tasted the Grace of God does not mean 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 and they need to understand it to function in the Plan of God. Consequently, according to 1Pet 2:3, the believer begins to orient to the Grace of God by looking at Phase I of the Plan of God, Salvation, where he HAS tasted the Grace of God at the point of his volitional choice for Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God.
The Holiness Bypass results in GOD being FREE to LOVE ALL believers apart from any overriding interference from his Holiness because the Righteousness of God and Justice of God were satisfied at the cross by the Substitutionary Spiritual Death of Christ. However, the Love of God as motivation for GRACE toward believers must function through the Righteousness of God and Justice of God providing BLESSING or DISCIPLINE according to the status of the believer in the Plan of God. Therefore, God can love the believer and be GRACIOUS in bestowing his LOVE benefits to him without being inconsistent with His character or essence particularly the Righteousness of God and Justice of God. God also is consistent in his LOVE for the believer when He provides varying levels of Divine Discipline even extreme Divine Discipline for failure to remain under the GRACE provisions of His plan falling into carnality. In addition one of the GRACE provisions of the 39 assets received at Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God is the IMPUTATION of and Sharing of the Righteousness of God the Father and God the Son. Therefore, God can share his LOVE, both benefits and admonitions, through his justice to the righteousness the believer possesses after Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God bypassing any judgment from the Integrity of God. This is, in fact, the actual reason, why the believer remains alive in this world today. Believers are here today because of the GRACE of God and because His love is free to act toward them. If God had to look down on any believer and consider him from the perspective of His righteousness alone that believer would instantly be removed from this life by His Justice. On the basis of who and what man is he DOES NOT DESERVE to be alive now nor deserve anything in this life under the Plan of God and he would not deserve ANYTHING in eternity either.