03/26/23 GRACE THAT IS GREATER THAN ALL OUR SIN

03/26/23 GRACE THAT IS GREATER THAN ALL OUR SIN

"Where sin did abound, grace did much more abound."

This is the death knell for the warped views of Calvinistic and Reformed theology concerning God's actual sovereignty and man's actual inherited corruption.

Jesus is the Lamb of God that takes away the sin of the whole world. No child is born without being covered by the atonement and every guilty sinner is provided for in the atonement.
There are Divine conditions, but since they are Divine, they are therefore just and merciful, attainable by God's wonderful grace, through faith.

God did not predestine humans to condemnation. God did not abandon fallen humanity because of the sin of Adam.
God did not simply enact a legal intervention for lost humanity. God's love provided actual deliverance, including forgiveness for sins committed, purification from sin inherited and empowerment over sinful temptations.

This is the Good News of salvation.

Romans 5:17-21
17 For if by one man's offence death reigned by one; much more they which receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ.)
18 Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.
19 For as by one man's disobedience many were made sinners, so by the obedience of one shall many be made righteous.
20 Moreover the law entered, that the offence might abound. But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound:
21 That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.

1 Timothy 4:9-11
9 This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
10 For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
11 These things command and teach. 

1 Corinthians 10:13
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.