ken fellowship between God and
man, both Jew and Gentile. Hence
the only way of salvation for any
person is “through the grace of
the Lord Jesus Christ” (Acts 15:11). who draws people to Christ to
receive forgiveness, adoption to
sonship, and newness of life, as
well as every spiritual gift or grace
(Eph. 4:7).
Does the grace of God have limits?
Will it be contradictory to ask if
the ‘limitless’ One has limits to His
grace? In itself, the grace of God is
limitless once the rules of engage-
ment are well followed – the gift
is given by God, and is received
by man through repentance and
faith. When Jesus – grace person-
ified – walked the planet, he ex-
emplified countless times in dif-
ferent encounters with people
that grace was always available to
those who were willing to cry for
and receive. The Samaritan wom-
an’s conversion, the sick and de-
mon possessed who came to him
for healing and deliverance re-
spectively, the woman caught in
adultery, Nicodemus the Pharisee
who would seek his audience at an
odd time would all testify of pro-
portionate grace available to meet
their varied needs. Jesus assured
his listeners, “…him that cometh
to me I will in no wise cast out…”
and truly, as the words of the fa-
vorite hymn go …”the vilest of-
fender who truly believes…” finds
God’s grace limitless. The grace
of God revealed in Jesus Christ is
applied to mankind for salvation
by the Holy Spirit, who is the One However, consider the other side
of the coin which suggests that
although the grace of God is free
and underserved, it must not be
taken for granted. For though the
‘grace of God had appeared to all
men’, according to Titus 2:11; even
when grace was personified, the
bigoted, and stiff-necked Phari-
sees and Sadducees who reject-
ed him could not assess this over-
flowing grace because they were
not aware of it! But that isn’t un-
familiar. In the days of the great
flood, despite years of announc-
ing the impending destruction of
the then world, Noah would only
have eight persons (aside the an-
imals) coming into the salvation
the ark afforded. The countless
others, could not identify that No-
ah’s pleadings were God’s grace
at work, just as Lot’s in-laws in So-
dom and Gomorrah were unable
to recognize the call to escape as
grace at work in the midst of im-
pending destruction.
The topic of grace features promi-
nently in the letters of the apostle
Paul. In Romans 3:24, he sets grace
against the law and the works of
the law emphasizing that salva-
tion is not something that is