1 Peter 5:10
But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.
While the title “God of all grace” occurs only in 1 Peter 5:10, “grace” in the developed sense discussed above is found no less than 106 times in 98 verses. "God of all grace" is a defining term of the Christian faith, for the Father, as the “God of all grace,” has chosen to call “us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus.”
John Wesley's Notes on the Bible
1Pe 5:10
Verse 10. Now the God of all grace - By which alone the whole work is begun, continued, and finished in your soul. After ye have suffered a while - A very little while compared with eternity. Himself - Ye have only to watch and resist the devil: the rest God will perform. Perfect - That no defect may remain. Stablish - That nothing may overthrow you. Strengthen - That ye may conquer all adverse power. And settle you - As an house upon a rock. So the apostle, being converted, does now "strengthen his brethren."
“Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.” (Hebrews 4:16)
At the atonment seat of mercy we find acceptance with God by believing His word to be true — that when our sins were covered by blood, God overlooks our sins as it they had been obliterated when Jesus Christ becomes our permanent atonement cover. Through Jesus’ blood, our sins have been covered over. When God looks at us, He doesn’t see our sin, but the provision that His own Son. Jesus, who layed down His life for us as an innocent sacrifice so that God would look on us and see His perfection.
Genesis 2
1 Thus the heavens and the earth were completed in all their vast array.
2 By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day he rested [a] from all his work. 3 And God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work of creating that he had done.
Adam and Eve Created to work the ground
4 This is the account of the heavens and the earth when they were created.
When the LORD God made the earth and the heavens- 5 and no shrub of the field had yet appeared on the earth [b] and no plant of the field had yet sprung up, for the LORD God had not sent rain on the earth [c] and there was no man to work the ground,
The Father gave us the world to look after and just asks that we remember Who it really belongs to. Do the work God has given you to do, but He wants us to always rest a day completely because we are weak and just made from the dust that we work with.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
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