I would like to share with you a devotion by Tozer that I felt I needed to share with you all.
"... much more the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abounded to many." ~Romans 5:15~
It is a typical and accepted teaching in Christian churches today that Moses and the Old Testament knew only God's law, and that Christ and the New Testament know only God's grace.
I repeat: That is the "accepted" teaching of the hour- but I also hasten to add that it is a mistaken concept, and that it was never the concept held and taught by the early Christian church fathers.
God has always been the God of all grace, and He does not change. Immutability is an attribute of God; therefore, God at all times and in all history must act like Himself!
He is the God of all grace; therefore, the grace of God does not ebb and flow like the ocean tides. There has always been the fullness of grace in the heart of God. There is no more grace now then there was previously, and there will never be any more grace than there is now!
The flow of God's grace did not begin when Christ came to die for us. It was part of God's ancient plan of redemption and was manifested in the blood and tears and pain and death at Calvary's cross!
~A.W. Tozer~
"That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness towards us in Christ Jesus. For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God." ~Ephesians 2: 7-8~
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