Soveriegn Grace

The bible is all we need to live a life of godliness. So that the word of God is the rule by which we measure all other truths. Truth is not a process of being transparent, by exposing the weaknesses and sins of others. Since our lives are spent in using our time in glorifying God and enjoying Him forever, then the rule of Gods revelation defines the kind of grace that determines our view of God and our view of the world. The word of God is the judge of all truth not our human process of coming to a unity of an understanding of the truth. So that grace is not a source of uniting different views of Christ , as if it covers false views, but it comes in how we define our view of Christ. Our unity is determined by how we come to an agreement by the teaching and not by how we process human relationships.

If we believe in sovereign grace then it will have an effect on our knowledge of how we approach a holy God in our sinful condition. Since salvation is all of grace, then anything less is not true grace, but a counterfeit. And yet, it is determined by our sin in not having a true understanding of grace by our sorrow and weakness from sin, that we are not judges of the standard of scripture but that the scripture is our judge so that we all will be brought under a proper understanding of Gods sovereign grace. If you do not agree then He will show you, that is the apostles directive in the standard of the word of God alone that stands as the measure of all other truth and human relationships.

In our natural state in Adam we are not only unable to do any good but we are also dead to sin and trespasses. So that the only hope of our having a proper spiritual understanding of spiritual good is by the rule and Spirit of the word of God. We not only cannot reason our way into a spiritual understanding of grace, but we must be given a new divine knowledge in order to understand spiritual life by this sovereign grace. So that it is not by our faith that we are made alive since our human faith is dead faith. But we are also unable to will by human faith to believe. We must be given new faith in order to have a knowledge of Christ in order to place our trust in Christ as the object of our faith. Since the knowledge that is foreign to our natural state in adam, then our believing is only in our own ability. That is our object of affection is our own way. So that God must subdue our wills by destroying our old will, and make us alive through His work in order for us to be saved. It is by grace alone, that is not in anything of our selves that we are saved. We offer Him nothing accept our sin, and He gives us His grace that was determined apart from anything in us , from all eternity.

So that we see that it is not according to our own righteousness that He saved us, by according to His mercy in Christ Jesus. And in our understanding of this grace then we are made completely new by a will that was not ours, but was given to us by grace in order for us to believe in an object that was not available to us in our unregenerate state. There is no other way for us to avoid the temptation to think in all of our lives of how we approach God, to submit to Christ as the most beautiful object of our affection and to be able to worship God unfeigned as the supreme ruler of the universe if we do not completely come to hearing His voice say Who are you oh man to talk back to God ? There is no real assurance unless we are convinced of sovereign grace.