The Attributes of God ~ His Grace

Intro: The Grace of God is His eternal, free and sovereign Observation:
favor bestowed, unsought and unconditionally, on the ❏ Carefully read and reread the text.
undeserving. Through it, God renders His love and salvation
❏ Note all persons, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs.
to His chosen.
conjunctions & articles.
Romans 5:8 ❏ Ask: Who? What? When? Where? How? & Why?
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, Find answers in the text, only!
in that while we were yet sinners,
Christ died for us. ❏ Note and mark key words and ideas, as well as their
relationships with one another.
Ephesians 2:
8 For by grace you have been saved through faith; Note and mark
and that not of yourselves,
it is the gift of God; ❏ When Christ died for us. Romans 5:8
9 not as a result of works, ❏ By what we have been saved. Eph 2:8
so that no one may boast. ❏ What our salvation is not of. Eph 2:8
❏ What our salvation is. Eph 2:8
❏ What our salvation is not a result of. Eph 2:9
❏ Why our salvation is by grace. Eph 2:8

Interpretation:
Note:
Romans 5:8 What is significant about the phrase, ‘while we were yet sinners’? The word translated ‘grace’
(charis) means unmerited
favor. The grace of God is
________________________________________________________ His gift to those chosen
according to His pleasure.
It is based on His sovereign
________________________________________________________
right to elect those He
predestines to salvation in
How does this demonstrate the grace of God? ______________________ Christ. It is given with no
respect to who the
recipients are or what they
________________________________________________________ have done. There is
nothing anyone can do to
Ephesians 2:8-9 Read Ephesians 2:1-3. In light of this context, why does this earn, deserve or in any way
merit the grace of God.
God’s Grace is to be
passage say our salvation is by ‘grace’? ___________________________ distinguished from God’s
Mercy which is bestowed
on all people equally.
________________________________________________________
Note:
Apart from the grace of
What is the significance of verse 9? _____________________________
God, there would
absolutely be no way we
________________________________________________________ could ever be saved. Of all
the great religions,
Christianity alone admits
________________________________________________________ man’s total inability to live
a life that measures up to
From this passage, how would you describe the grace of God? ____________ God’s righteous standard.
Salvation is a gift of God’s
grace, offered to those
________________________________________________________ without merit and received
by a faith which itself is a
gift from God!
________________________________________________________

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The Attributes of God ~ His Grace (cont)
Observation:
Isaiah 53:
4 Surely our griefs He Himself bore, ❏ Carefully read and reread the text.
And our sorrows He carried; ❏ Note all persons, nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs.
Yet we ourselves esteemed Him stricken, conjunctions & articles.
Smitten of God, and afflicted.
❏ Ask: Who? What? When? Where? How? & Why?
5 But He was pierced through for our transgressions,
He was crushed for our iniquities; Find answers in the text, only!
The chastening for our well-being fell upon Him, ❏ Note and mark key words and ideas, as well as their
And by His scourging we are healed. relationships with one another.
6 All of us like sheep have gone astray,
Each of us has turned to his own way;
But the LORD has caused the iniquity of us all Note and mark
To fall on Him. ❏ What He bore. Isaiah 53:4
❏ What He carried. Isaiah 53:4
❏ For what He was pierced through. Isaiah 53:5
❏ For what He was crushed. Isaiah 53:5
❏ Where each of us has turned. Isaiah 53:6
❏ What God caused to fall on Him. Isaiah 53:6

Interpretation: Note:
Isaiah 53 is one of many
Isaiah 53:4-6 Who is the ‘He’ in these verses? (Provide support for your answer) Messianic passages
prophesying the coming of
God’s anointed. Unlike most
________________________________________________________ of them, it portrays
Messiah, not as a
triumphant King, but as a
________________________________________________________
suffering Servant who
would take the sins of the
What does verse 5 describe? ___________________________________ world upon Himself as
God’s chosen sacrifice.
Jews read this passage
________________________________________________________ believing that the ‘He’
referred to them and their
________________________________________________________ sufferings through the
ages. But the specific
descriptions of the manner
What does ‘by His scourgings we are healed’ mean? __________________ of Christ’s death (verse 5)
clearly points to the death
of Jesus on the cross and
________________________________________________________
His sacrifice as the Lamb
of God. That this prophecy
________________________________________________________ was given 700 years before
Jesus was born makes it all
the more amazing!
How does this passage demonstrate the Grace of God? ________________ But mainly, this passage
expresses the incredible
________________________________________________________ price God was willing to
pay for us, and becomes a
vivid picture of His Grace
________________________________________________________ toward us!

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Application Principles: In light of what you Application Practicals: In light of these
have learned, what Truths or Principles are taught in Truths & Principles, what will you do to apply them
these texts about God’s Grace? to your life today?

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Write out a verse from above that you would like From what you learned, how is God different from
to memorize and/or meditate upon: His creation and/or creatures?

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Final Note:
The Grace of God is that attribute which will only be experienced by His elect. It reaches its fullest expression in the gift of God’s Only
Begotten Son to those who are not only completely undeserving, but who, by nature, are enemies of God and objects of His wrath. That God
offered His Son as a sacrifice for sinners demonstrates unquestionably that God is a God of Grace.

God is Gracious
He gives freely to the undeserving!

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