Hi and so you can know OR you have written it out , WHO are you KIDDING !!
eITHER YOU know or you do not know !! Nice try !!
Hi to all and who can explain where the GRACE of God began , and we do know that it began with a MAN , so who was it and what was the MESSAGE ??
Be specific with verse !! dan p
Yes, it began with a man –
JESUS.
Verse support:
Rom. 5:15
But the free gift is not like the transgression. For if by the transgression of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one Man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many.
The foundation of grace that saves us is Jesus’ death, burial and resurrection. Through his blood we have the forgiveness of sins.
Rom. 5:9
Much more then, having now been justified by His blood, we shall be saved from the wrath of God through Him.
It stands to reason that grace began with Jesus’s sacrifice that he offered for the sins of the people.
When did man first hear this message? This is from Jesus Christ our Lord himself after his d,b&r.
Luke 24:46
and He said to them, "Thus it is written, that the Christ would suffer and rise again from the dead the third day, (foundation of grace)
47 and that repentance for forgiveness of sins would be proclaimed in His name to all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.
What was the message that was first proclaimed in Jerusalem?
Jesus is Lord and Christ!
In Acts 2 we see the same message Paul delivers in Acts 13.
Addressing Israel
Peter: 22 Ye men of Israel, hear these words;
Paul: 16 Then Paul stood up, and beckoning with his hand said, Men of Israel,
Christ descended from David
Peter: 30 Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;
Paul: 23 Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Savior, Jesus:
Christ died
Peter: 23 Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:
Paul: 28 And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.
David saw decay
Peter: 29 Men and brethren, let me freely speak unto you of the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre is with us unto this day.
Paul: 36 For David, after he had served his own generation by the will of God, fell on sleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:
Christ did not see decay
Peter: 31 He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
Paul: 37 But he, whom God raised again, saw no corruption.
Jesus resurrected
Peter: 32 This Jesus hath God raised up,
Paul: 30 But God raised him from the dead:
People witnessed the resurrection
Peter: 32 This Jesus hath God raised up, whereof we all are witnesses.
Paul: 31 And he was seen many days of them which came up with him from Galilee to Jerusalem, who are his witnesses unto the people.
Forgiveness of sins through Jesus
Peter: 38 Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.
Paul: 38 Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins:
Jesus is Israel’s savior
Peter: 36 Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Paul: 23 Of this man's seed hath God according to his promise raised unto Israel a Savior, Jesus:
