Your Grace and Mercy

Ephesians 2:4-5 " But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, Even when we were dead in sin, hath quickened us together with Christ,(by grace ye are saved;)

The most astounding interruption in human history is the word "but" in this passage. Man is dead in trespasses and sins, but God is rich in mercy. He has intervened in the destiny of man;   He has interrupted the doom of death and judgment. God has had mercy on us, and allowed his grace to save us.

The work of God's mercy is to raise us up  with Christ. Scripture plainly declares that God has raised  up believers together with Christ. How is this possible when Christ was crucified and raised up thousands of years ago? God raised Jesus for three reasons; Jesus lived a sinless perfect life. God loved man and wanted to save man, but he had a problem , man had already sinned. Righteousness and perfection had already been lost, and only perfection can live in the presence of God. However, there was hope, if a man could live a perfect and ideal life, that man could secure perfection, and the Ideal righteousness. And that man could stand for and cover all who trusted in him. This is what Jesus did. He was the ideal and perfect man. He was the sacrificial lamb without spot or blemish who could die for the sins of mankind. Jesus died for man, he accepted for us the wage paid by sin. He bore man's penalty and punishment for the sins we were guilty. He who knew no sin was made sin that we who knew no righteousness could be made righteous. God then raised Jesus from the dead, His resurrection stands for all who believes, all who by faith, believes and is baptized, can be saved by the grace of God and the goodness of his mercy.

The work of God's grace and mercy is for us to sit in heavenly places with our heavenly Father. When we by faith accept Christ death, we are dead to sin, and when we accept that God has raise Him from the dead, we to by faith and God's grace, are raised in a newness of life in Christ Jesus. For his word says " But if the spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his spirit that dwelleth in you"(Roman 8:11)