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Introduction

We are looking at the Doctrine of the Grace of God.

Grace is an amazing truth which fully reflects the wonder and glory of our God.

It has been rightfully defined as :-

God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense

This evening we consider the Covenant of Grace.

This covenant was made from all eternity and put into operation at the fall of man to bring salvation from sin and its penalty.

It is generally subdivided in theological literature into the covenant of redemption, made between the Father and the Son, and the covenant of grace, which is based on the Covenant of Redemption and which is made between God and His elect.

1. God’s Mercy

Having regard to man’s helplessness as a sinner, God, being both righteous and gracious, has taken the initiative to save his people by his own act of mercy.

He has done this by means of a covenant, known as the Covenant of Grace.

Grace Baptist Assembly.

Baptist Affirmation of Faith 1966.

2. In Christ

By this covenant God himself provides the surety in the person of the eternal Son who, by his passive and active obedience in his holy life and in his sufferings and death, merited a righteousness which is imputed to the elect.

By this same covenant God himself imparts new life through the Holy Spirit to those who are by nature dead in sin, and brings them to the knowledge and experience of salvation.

Grace Baptist Assembly.

Baptist Affirmation of Faith 1966.

3. Blessing

On the grounds of this covenant sinners are made partakers of all the blessings of the gospel being, as to their standing before God, completely freed from the guilt of sin; and as to their experience, delivered from the dominion of sin though its presence and influence are still with them.

Grace Baptist Assembly.

Baptist Affirmation of Faith 1966.

4. All of Grace

This covenant is entirely of grace, because it is produced by a unilateral and voluntary act of God and depends only upon the divine activity of the Trinity for its fulfilment.

It is also eternal, being once and for all secured to the believer by the sacrificial death of Christ, and particular because its benefits are bestowed personally and individually upon the elect.

Grace Baptist Assembly.

Baptist Affirmation of Faith 1966.

Conclusion