Grace & the Church Age Grace & the Church Age
The Church Age is called the dispensation of the Grace of God, Eph 3:2 because God has provided more for the individual believer than in all of human history before the Church Age and all of human history after the Rapture of the Church. Never before in human history has the Grace policy of God provided so much for the ordinary believer. In this Church Age the believer cannot earn Grace, however he can distort Grace to his own detriment, and therefore the royal family of God is the beneficiary of an enhanced portion of a firm and unchanging policy from God, Grace.
Grace & Production Grace & Production
Only the Grace of God can provide what is necessary to meet the divine standards of the Absolute Righteousness of God. Human achievement although sometimes admirable often has consequences because it is accomplished under Evil. When human accomplishments obscure the reality of man’s total separation from God or supplant the Grace of God as the one true solution to human problems, God intervenes. The good of intrinsic value deeds performed by the mature believer have been prepared in eternity past by the Grace of God and they result from having an individualized portfolio of invisible assets, learning what those assets are, and then using them. The disorientation to grace results when the believer thinks his good deeds to help humanity will bring approval from God. However, Divine approval is never based on
human works (Rom 9:11, Eph 2:8-9, Titus 3:5) but ONLY on man’s response to the Grace of
God beginning with His bringing salvation to all mankind. (Titus 2:11)
Therefore, clearly in the plan of God there is no place for human good deeds which is production outside of the Plan of God and which is the production part of the Plan of Satan, EVIL. This Human Good is the production of GOOD Deeds and Efforts on the part of and from the energy and abilities of mankind and is based on the Knowledge of Good and Evil under the Cosmic Dynaspheres of Satan. There is only a place for divine good in the Plan of God and God under his Grace Policy provides the divine operating assets in order that divine good can be produced. The fact is that any meaningful Divine Good spiritual production by the believer does not even truly begin until he has reached the status quo of Maturity Adjustment to the
Justice of God having Progressed (9) over a great deal of time through many stages of spiritual growth.
Grace & Deliverance Grace & Deliverance
Grace supersedes any other purpose stated in Bible Doctrine and the only way that believers
can appeal to the Grace of God is through the Faith Rest Drill (5 Stages). (Matt 15:22-28) (16) God in His Grace never overlooks a believer who has problems and adversities he cannot overcome because GRACE was provided for them in Eternity Past prior to the existence of the individual or group enduring the adversities. God has provided for every believer a solution to every problem in life. There is no such thing as a unique problem for which the Grace of God has
not provided. Ps 107:1-2, Ps 107:10-15 is a dissertation on the Grace deliverance of the loser believer related to Grace. But there is also divine discipline which along with deliverance from
dangers are both designed for comfort. (Job 5:19-27, Ps 23:4) Consider the Grace Orientation of Jonah who after defying the mandate of God had the colossal nerve to THANK God for deliverance while sitting in the belly of a fish. For three days Jonah didn’t ASK God for deliverance, he THANKED God for deliverance! Jonah understood the Grace of God based on his rebound function and HE BELIEVED IT, and he claimed it! God under his Grace policy cannot say “no” to a man who will trust Him. God’s Grace must vindicate and honour his Word, the Metabolized Bible Doctrine resident in the soul of the mature believer at all times. (Ps 107:1-2, Ps 107:10-15)
The purpose of the pressures of all testing is to get the believer functioning under the Faith Rest Drill. It is the Grace of God which is behind all testing in order to produce enhanced blessing for the individual or group. The wall of fire protection is around the reversionistic
believer as well as around the mature believer. (Ps 119:57+58) Every crisis in the life of a believer is designed to enable the prepared believer to glorify God and to focus attention on the Person and Grace of God, however, God does not necessarily promise to deliver FROM adversities and pressure. Invariably, He will always deliver THROUGH pressure which forces the believer to apply doctrine and thus brings the message of the Gospel and Bible Doctrine
into focus for the one under pressure and all those in his periphery. (John 11:45) All believers are to be totally focused on and oriented to the Grace of God, they are to recognize that no matter how one may advance in life or are prospered materially by the hand of God, there never comes a time when we can depend upon human strength. God’s plan is designed so that when man encounters pressures and adversities ONLY God can solve them.
Therefore, until the day that God under his Sovereign decision takes the believer out of this world, He will provide deliverance from the pressures accompanying every adversity, every danger and every level of prosperity that could ever exist in his experience. In other words, a believer in Jesus Christ, under the Grace of God remaining consistently within the plan of God, can and should EXPECT deliverance from every disaster in life until the day that God takes him
home. (Ps 91:5-8) The Grace of God is always providing that way of escape for any adversity and disaster which may limit what one can personally possess but deliverance is unlimited in the field of thought, flexibility and application for survival. Grace provides options for Grace Oriented believers but one has to recognize the way of escape, he has to be able to apply Bible Doctrine and he must have common sense and use it.
Categories of Grace Categories of Grace
3 Spheres of Grace 3 Spheres of Grace
There are 3 spheres of GRACE involved in the life of every human being:
• #1 – Antecedent Grace, Definition: Antecedent means the action of going before,
preceding, existing before, and has the connotation of precedence. This is called
Prevenient Grace in theology and I have chosen to call it Preparatory Grace. Antecedent
Grace therefore, encompasses EVERYTHING which God has placed into the Divine Decree
regarding creation and Human History extending from Eternity Past into Eternity Future
all in the Grace Plan. Antecedent Grace of Eternity Past is where the trinity only existed
and the Plan of God for creation and its mechanics of execution were completed.
Motivated by divine Love, God’s Grace took the initiative in eternity past and, combined
with divine Omniscience and Omnipotence, provided the most fantastic things for
creation and especially for the believer in time. Thus Antecedent Grace includes all the
provisions for the creation of the angelic creatures and their civilization, the creation of
the Universe for them to live in, the Judgment of Lucifer and Fallen Angels, the
mechanics for the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial, the creation of man as the demonstration
case of God, provisions for man’s Salvation, for his Rejection of Salvation, and for the
protection and preservation of the Human Race to the end of the Angelic Conflict.
• #2 – Pre-Salvation Grace, Phase I Grace, for individual human beings as unbelievers
with the provision of the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions enabling
the universal establishment of Freedom in order to facilitate the use of volition to
CHOOSE whether or not they want to KNOW about God. Upon the expressing of
Positive Volition at God Consciousness these unbelievers are kept alive until the gospel is
presented to them and they again have opportunity under freedom to CHOOSE for or
against the Grace Plan of God vs the Evil Plan of Satan. This includes all the mechanics
of the necessity for the 1st advent and Hypostatic Union of The Lord Jesus, The Christ in
providing for salvation, and all the mechanisms needed for spiritually dead man to be
able to comprehend and then decide to accept or reject the gospel of Christ. This
GRACE provision is not and cannot be earned nor is it deserved by these individuals
because they are UNBELIEVERS and enemies of God. Under this Pre-Salvation Grace God
not only provides the information to save his enemies but protects them until the Gospel
of Salvation is presented and they can make a decision regarding it.
• #3 – Post-Salvation Grace, Phase II and III Grace, for individual humans after expressing
Positive Volition at Gospel Hearing and thus making Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God where the new believer is allotted ‘X’ number of Days for his Spiritual Life development and is provided with all the necessary Logistics and ASSETS to preserve his life and enable his progressive advancement in the Protocol Plan of God. In addition, for those who advance in the Spiritual Life, there are far more GRACE provisions which extend into eternity.
Sanctification & Grace Sanctification & Grace
Divine Blessings and Logistics from the Grace of God flow from the Justice of God to the imputed Righteousness of God, judicially imputed to the believer by God at his making Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God, down the Grace pipeline. These blessings include the new contract, the new eternal covenant and the three categories of sanctification that go with it. One objective of Grace is to set the believer apart in this life. A very important principle of Grace therefore is sanctification. The greatest thing that God the Father can do is make the believer like His Son, The Lord Jesus, The Christ, setting him apart from all others in creation and this requires three stages:
• Positional sanctification — the Believer is set apart at the point of making Salvation
Adjustment to the Justice of God and by means of the Baptism of God the Holy Spirit is entered into union with Christ so that he positionally shares in all that Christ is. ◦ Positional Sanctification as 1 of the 40 assets received by the believer from the Grace
of God at Salvation Adjustment to the Justice of God results in:
▪ Sharing the eternal life of Christ, 1John 5:11-12.
▪ Sharing His righteousness, 2Cor 5:21.
▪ Sharing His election, Eph 1:4.
▪ Sharing His destiny, Eph 1:5.
▪ Sharing His sonship, Gal 3:26.
▪ Sharing His heirship, Rom 8:16-17.
▪ Sharing His sanctification, 1Cor 1:2.
▪ Sharing His priesthood, 1Pet 2:5, 1Pet 2:9.
▪ Sharing His kingship, 2Pet 1:11.
• Experiential sanctification — under the consistent Filling of God the Holy Spirit the
believer can accomplished this over the whole period of Phase II of his part in the Plan of God, by his consistent function using the Grace Apparatus for Perception.
• Ultimate sanctification — the believer receives a resurrection body which is to be exactly
like that of the Son of God, making him also infinitely SUPERIOR to all Angelic
Creatures. (Phil 3:21; 1John 3:1-2)
Sovereign Categories of Grace Sovereign Categories of Grace
Directive Grace Directive Grace
This is the Grace provision of the mandates and commands or instructions for the Human Race found in Bible Doctrine. This Grace provision is designed to protect the Human Race in this world now ruled by Satan under the Cosmic Dynasphere system AND to guide the believer from spiritual infancy to Maturity Adjustment to the Justice of God.
Permissive Grace Permissive Grace
The Sovereignty or Free Will of God coexists with the volition or free will of mankind by divine decree. Therefore, permissive Grace is God allowing man individually and collectively to make his own decisions in this life whether they follow the Plan of God or not and whether they are good decisions from a position of strength from function in the Divine Dynasphere or bad decisions from a position of weakness from function in the Cosmic Dynaspheres. However, man is always held responsible for his own decisions.
Overruling Grace Overruling Grace
Overruling Grace as an expression of the Sovereign Free Will of God ensures the divine outcome of the Angelic Conflict Appeal Trial and Human History for the fulfillment of the divine purpose, plan and glorification of God in time. An example is found in societies in any national entity so that as the number of liberals who reject the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions increases in a nation, so does the inevitability, apart from the overruling Grace of God, of the nation’s disintegration and ultimate destruction. Adherence and obedience to principles of the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions provided in Directive Grace protects the national entity and the individual. However, disregard for principles of the Laws of Divine Establishment and Divine Institutions by the majority of a nation’s citizens secures its doom! Only Grace can reverse or offset this situation because Grace gives man what he does not earn nor deserve.
Human Volition & Grace Human Volition & Grace
All Grace provisions are prepared by God in All Grace provisions are prepared by God in Eternity Past Eternity Past and therefore man cannot have and therefore man cannot have anything to do with their preparation, however some grace provisions from God require human anything to do with their preparation, however some grace provisions from God require human compliance with certain requirements in order to be distributed to him. Therefore, these compliance with certain requirements in order to be distributed to him. Therefore, these categories of Grace provided by God for mankind can further be organized into the aspects of categories of Grace provided by God for mankind can further be organized into the aspects of Grace which are totally independent of the function of the Volitional Free Will of man for their Grace which are totally independent of the function of the Volitional Free Will of man for their provision and acquisition and those aspects of Grace which depend on the Positive function of provision and acquisition and those aspects of Grace which depend on the Positive function of Man’s Volition to enable him to acquire them. Again ALL aspects of GRACE provision for man Man’s Volition to enable him to acquire them. Again ALL aspects of GRACE provision for man are based on the Sovereign Will of God, GOD’S free will decisions, man cannot ever think, say are based on the Sovereign Will of God, GOD’S free will decisions, man cannot ever think, say or do anything to EARN or DESERVE having them provided for him, nor can he in any way or do anything to EARN or DESERVE having them provided for him, nor can he in any way contribute to them, but some will not be given to man unless he has capacity to handle them contribute to them, but some will not be given to man unless he has capacity to handle them based on his own free will choices under the Plan of God. Even this restriction is a GRACE based on his own free will choices under the Plan of God. Even this restriction is a GRACE benefit from God to prevent increased misery for man in having things he does not have benefit from God to prevent increased misery for man in having things he does not have capacity to handle in life. capacity to handle in life.
Grace from the Sovereignty of God Grace from the Sovereignty of God
Requires NO HUMAN VOLITION Requires POSITIVE VOLITION
Preparatory Grace Preparatory Grace Grace Apparatus for Perception Grace Apparatus for Perception
Imputational Grace – All Real & Many Judicial Imputational Grace – All Real & Many Judicial Imputational Grace – Many Judicial Imputations Imputational Grace – Many Judicial Imputations
Imputations Imputations
Sustaining Grace Sustaining Grace Effective Function Under Sustaining Grace for Effective Function Under Sustaining Grace for
TEMPORAL blessing TEMPORAL blessing