{"id":3249,"date":"2015-03-28T10:39:09","date_gmt":"2015-03-28T10:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3249"},"modified":"2015-03-28T10:39:09","modified_gmt":"2015-03-28T10:39:09","slug":"sovereign-grace-is-god%e2%80%99s-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=3249","title":{"rendered":"Sovereign grace is God\u2019s grace."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sovereign grace is God\u2019s grace<\/strong>. And God\u2019s grace is Sovereign grace. If it is not Sovereign grace, it is not saving grace.<br \/>\nSovereign grace is the truth. Sovereign grace is the message that declares the electing love of the Father, the redeeming love of the Son, and the invincible love of the Holy Spirit.<br \/>\nSovereign grace is the Gospel! Any message that does not declare the Sovereign grace of God in Christ Jesus is \u201canother gospel\u201d!<br \/>\nSovereign grace is saving grace! Even those who are supposed to know something about salvation by grace have to remind themselves again and again that salvation is not by the works of the flesh, not at all, in any way!<br \/>\nSalvation is not by reformation; salvation does not come by decision; salvation does not come through church ordinances; salvation is not ours by church membership; salvation is in Christ the Lord.<br \/>\nThat\u2019s where salvation is \u2013 not in man\u2019s purpose, not in man\u2019s plan \u2013 it is in a person. It is not in a proposition, it is not in walking an aisle, it is not in a church ordinance. It is in Christ!<br \/>\nIt is not in a law; it is not in the deeds of the flesh; salvation is in Christ! A man does not have salvation until he comes by the power of God\u2019s Spirit through faith to a living, personal, vital, intimate union with Christ as Lord.<br \/>\nA man is not a Christian until he has a vital union with Christ. A man is not a Christian until he is inseparably joined \u2013 personally joined to Jesus Christ.\u2028A man is not a Christian until Christ becomes his life. Christ in you, the hope of glory. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Henry Mahan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sovereign grace is God\u2019s grace. And God\u2019s grace is Sovereign grace. If it is not Sovereign grace, it is not saving grace. Sovereign grace is the truth. Sovereign grace is the message that declares the electing love of the Father, the redeeming love of the Son, and the invincible love of the Holy Spirit. Sovereign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96,18,35,110],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-author-henry-mahan","category-grace","category-gods-attributes","category-sovereignty-of-god"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3249"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3251,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3249\/revisions\/3251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}