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Peace be on you.So ?
So ?
Grace is the knowledge of God's character. Jesus came and showed that God was not the god that appeared at Mount Sinai. The Jews asked for a pagan type god and as a God of love, God obliged them.
DEUTERONOMY 18 : 15&16 "The lord your God will raise up for you a prophet like me from among your own brothers. You must listen to him. For this is what you asked of the lord your God at Horeb on the day of the assembly when you said, 'Let us not hear the voice of the Lord our God nor see this great fire anymore, or we will die."
The Jews couldn't wrap their minds around a loving God after years of being in a pagan nation worshiping gods put in their mind by Satan. No matter what God did they wouldn't acknowledge that he was a loving God and kept doubting he'd do the next thing for them. When they finally arrived at Mount Sinai they asked Aaron to make them a god like they had in Egypt. God obliged. And as it said in Deuteronomy he would send someone in human form so they wouldn't be afraid of his appearance which is as a fire. The Jews were then stuck with a legalistic pagan God until Jesus came to reveal the true character of God.
As Scripture says, Jesus was the end of the law (the legalistic god). And they were no longer under law but grace. Jesus showed a God of total love. Jesus was the exact opposite of the legalistic tyrant at Mount Sinai. The entire Christian world as well as the Muslims still worship this god that really doesn't exist. This is why they sound so foolish when they debate secular debaters that ask how a God of love sends people to hell. That is the picture of the Mount Sinai god that Jesus and the prophets rebuked.
Grace comes when you are no longer just being obedient to the Law, but using the Law to manifest the works of God in your life.
The Sermon on the Mount spells it all out very clearly.
Hail Full of Grace ?
Assuming his unconditional love and pardon through repentence, action, and/or submission depending on which god personality you are refering to.So ?
I believe this is the same as that. Both are not grace.
I don't remember that sermon saying anything about grace.
The entire thing talks about how to receive God's grace.
Show me one place that it does not.
You are enjoying the grace of God this very moment. Just the fact that you are alive and breathing is because of God's grace.So ?
Jesus said, "Not everyone who says 'Lord, Lord' will enter the kingdom of heaven, only those who DO THE WILL of the Father." Matt. 7:21
Hope that helps.