That is an insult! Blessed be the name of the Lord” (Job 1:21). Enoch walked with God and pleased God (Gen. 5:22, 24; Heb.11:5). I can safely say this on the basis of chapter 4. Through her disobedience, she lost the grace of God and died. Saving grace is that generous provision of salvation on the cross of Calvary and the securing of it by divine intervention, as we have already outlined above. Greater still, only mankind was created to have a personal, spiritual, loving relationship with the Creator God. That’s why grace is so amazing. While the Law defines righteousness, only grace delivers it. He wrote in one of his many Psalms, “O Lord, our Lord, how excellent is Your name in all the earth! Man does not like to think of God showing grace. He was angry that God showed grace to the Ninevites. Since we will discuss some of these later in greater detail, let me briefly enumerate some of the forms which grace takes. These were the two choices God placed before Adam and Eve. Perhaps some of these distinctions are a bit arbitrary, but the point remains that grace is manifested in a variety of ways. Why could the Lord Jesus do and say these things? Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin. God has just rescued the Israelites from slavery, brought them to safety, and made a convenant with them. From this account alone, it would be possible to reach the wrong conclusion. And then God took the plant away, which made Jonah even more angry. “Well, roughly,” was the deliberately evasive reply. Lot’s sons-in-law perished because they refused to believe Lot and treated the warning from God lightly: “And Lot went out, and spoke unto his sons-in-law, which married his daughters, and said, ‘Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city.’ But he seemed as one thatmocked [was only joking] unto his sons-in-law” (Gen. 19:14). Robert L. (Bob)Deffinbaugh graduated from Dallas Theological Seminary with his Th.M. By his faithful and willing obedience, Abraham proved that he loved God more than any person or thing in this world. The point of this story is that no matter how small the contribution of the condemned man, it would become, in his mind, of too great importance. Luke 12:47-48). 11:11, Ruth the Moabitess (Ruth 1:16; 2:12), and Hannah, the mother of Samuel (I Sam. Man is evolving, according to Liberalism, into a kind of superman who is coming to the place where he needs no outside help, certainly not the grace of God.” Charles C. Ryrie, The Grace of God (Chicago: Moody Press, 1963), pp. He extended grace and forgiveness to all those who repented, whether Israelite, Jew or Gentile. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets” (Mat. As far as the east is from the west, so far has He removed our transgressions from us. He was not minimizing her sin, or its consequences, but rather He was anticipating that day when He would bear the punishment for sins on the cross of Calvary. God or No God? The Pharisee had no appreciation for his own sinfulness, and thus he could pray, “God, I thank Thee that I am not like other people, swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax-gatherer. Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help in time of need (Hebrews 4:16). But until they sinned, they undoubtedly kept the seventh day Sabbath in the presence of the Lord God, their Creator. As a result of Abraham’s obedience, God gave this blessing and promise of the grace to come: “By Myself have I sworn, says the Lord, for because you have done this thing, and have not withheld your son, your only son: that in blessing I WILL BLESS YOU, and in multiplying I will multiply your seed as the stars of the heaven, and as the sand which is upon the sea shore; and your seed shall possess the gate of his enemies; and in your seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; BECAUSE YOU HAVE OBEYED MY VOICE” (Gen. 22:16-18). But Thou art a God of forgiveness, Gracious and compassionate, Slow to anger, and abounding in lovingkindness; And Thou didst not forsake them” (Nehemiah 9:17).