Gen. 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

Noah did not find favour in the eyes of men; they

hated and persecuted him, because both by his life

and preaching he condemned the world.

But he found grace in the eyes of the Lord,

and this was honour and comfort enough.

WELCOME

Mercy & Grace

Mercy & Grace is God with-holding His righteous judgment

against my sins; while allowing me the opportunity to receive eternal

life & Heaven, though I do not deserve them.

Grace encompasses His Holiness

Holiness is "separateness"

God demands that His people be Holy, i.e. separated unto Him

Leviticus 11:44 ‘For I am the LORD your God. You shall therefore consecrate yourselves, and you shall be holy; for I am holy.

1 Peter 1:16 because it is written, "Be holy, for I am holy."

Grace encompasses His Truth

Truth is part of God’s Existence, Knowledge, Power, and Glory.

Psalm 19:9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring forever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether

We can believe everything He says in His word and can depend on His promises.

Deut. 32:4 He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgement: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

Grace encompasses His Righteousness

Righteousness is embracing Holy principles and conformity to the life of Christ

Perhaps a more basic meaning would be faithfulness.

Psalm 96.13 He will judge the world in righteousness, and the peoples in faithfulness.

Grace encompasses His Justice

Justice is what happens based on what's right.

Justice also means rendering to everyone that which is his due.

Zephaniah 3:5 The LORD is righteous in her midst, He will do no unrighteousness. Every morning He brings His justice to light; He never fails, But the unjust knows no shame.

Psalms 89:14 Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne; Mercy and truth go before Your face.

Grace encompasses His Goodness

The “goodness” of God is prominent in - Gen. 1: 4~31.

Psalms 33:5 He loves righteousness and justice; The earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.

Psalms 107:1 Oh give thanks to the LORD, for He is good; for His lovingkindness is everlasting

Probably the most important, was sending a Message of Goodness, the Gospel.

The Good News is that God Loves us and Gave us His Most Precious Gift.

Grace encompasses His Love

God is love and so the source of love.

God defines love this way:

1 John 4:9-10 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him. In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Grace encompasses His MercyGod's Mercy is His goodness and love shown

towards people who have no way out. Love and Mercy come together to bring about

the rescue of the dead and dying.

Romans 3:10 There is none righteous, no, not one;Romans 3:23 For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The wages of sin is death or spiritual separation from God

Grace precedes faithThe grace that has awakened us to God; is also

a work of God and not ourselves. Faith itself is not an act of will or a decision of

the mind, but a gift of the Holy Spirit.

Salvation by grace leaves no room for human boasting Eph. 2:8,9 For by grace you have been saved through

faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.

Mixing works with grace is a denial of true graceRom. 11:6 And if by grace, then it is no longer of works;

otherwise grace is no longer grace. But if it is of works, it is no longer grace; otherwise work is no longer work.

Grace and liberty can be so difficult to achieve and live with balance.

Legalists do not walk freely in the grace of GodLiberals attempt to use the grace of God as an

excuse for sinful living.

Galatians 5:1 It was for freedom that Christ set us free.Romans 6:7 For he who has died is freed from sin.Romans 8:2 For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ

Jesus has set you free.John 8:36 So if the Son makes you free, you will be free

indeed.

We need the grace of God for our daily walk with God.

Believers, who are already saved still need grace for living the Christian life.

Eph. 2:10 For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.

Rom. 12:1~2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Grace is necessary for salvation, without grace we cannot have eternal life.

Tit. 2:11 For the grace of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men

Rom. 3:24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus

God’s Mercy toward us

Sin is universal and touches everything that is touched by humanity.

You cannot talk about grace, without taking sin seriously.

Matthew 5:45b that you may be sons of your Father in heaven; for He makes His sun rise on the evil and on the good, and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.

God gives the sun and the rain; the same is true of His grace

Mercy is not salvation.

Anything this side of hell is a mercy

Lamentations 3:22 through the LORD’S mercies we are not consumed, Because His compassions fail not.

Just the fact that evil exists; God shows his mercy, grace, and compassion.

APPLICATION

Hand of Mercy

There is nothing that keeps us even one moment out of hell, but the mercy of God.

John 3:18. "He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God

The bible says that there are but a few saved How many have died before and are gone to hellBut each one imagines that he has a better chance than

all those before him.

So why does God judge and condemn the lost to hell.

Sin is the transgression of the law of God, who is perfectly just.

Sin and transgression cannot be removed but by the grace of God through Jesus Christ:

Luke 16: 19~31 rich man in Hades (they have Moses & Prophets)

So why does God judge and condemn the lost to hell.

Ezra 9:13 "And after all that has come upon us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt, since You our God have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such deliverance as this,

Psalm 103: 8~10 The LORD is merciful and gracious, Slow to anger, and abounding in mercy. He will not always strive with us, Nor will He keep His anger forever. He has not dealt with us according to our sins, Nor punished us according to our iniquities.

Hand of GraceSalvation originates with God.

He takes the ungodly sinners that we are and saves those who come to trust in Him through Jesus Christ.

Luke 13:24 "Strive to enter through the narrow gate, for many, I say to you, will seek to enter and will not be able.

Matt 7: 21~23 Not everyone who says to Me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of My Father in heaven. "Many will say to Me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, have we not prophesied in Your name, cast out demons in Your name, and done many wonders in Your name?’ "And then I will declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness!’

Sin is the gate of hell, and wickedness the way to destruction

Grace is the gate of Heaven, to all who put their trust in Jesus Christ

Rom. 3:23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Rom. 6:23 For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.

John 14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God."

"He who believes in the Son has everlasting life;

and he who does not believe the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of

God abides on him."

John 3:36