What is God's Common Grace?
What is common to all of us is that we all experience God's blessings in our lives. Whatever you think the source of the good things you experience in life are, there is a doctrine that says these things come from God. Common grace is for everyone but is especially for unbelievers more than for Christians. We Christians also have saving grace, and this is the grace that leads us to Heaven when we die. God uses common grace to create society and community, He uses it to create things like hospitals, medicine and science, and He uses it to create things like schools and government and commerce. Common grace can be abused, and when it is God can send judgement, but this is also His common grace.
Even religion is God's common grace, and shouldn't be confused with saving grace, but religion can lead to that. The food we eat, the house we live in, the friends we have, the technology we use, is all God's common grace. When we choose to be moral people apart from faith, this too is His common grace. Ideas that create a better society and that prosper nations, so long as they are moral is really God's common grace. God is sovereign so He can choose to bless us apart from His saving grace.
Common grace doesn't save you, it's God's choice to bless human beings apart from salvation. Everyone prays, and even if you are unsaved, He hears you and even answers your prayers as a part of His common grace. God is good to everything He created and He sustains His creation through Christ. In other words, you don't have to be saved to experience God's goodness. From relationships, to the books you read, to the movies you watch, the music we listen to, your health, the Justice system, public health, they are all God's common grace. It can be used for good or bad, but when we abuse it God does judge those who do. This is Mike.
What is common to all of us is that we all experience God's blessings in our lives. Whatever you think the source of the good things you experience in life are, there is a doctrine that says these things come from God. Common grace is for everyone but is especially for unbelievers more than for Christians. We Christians also have saving grace, and this is the grace that leads us to Heaven when we die. God uses common grace to create society and community, He uses it to create things like hospitals, medicine and science, and He uses it to create things like schools and government and commerce. Common grace can be abused, and when it is God can send judgement, but this is also His common grace.
Even religion is God's common grace, and shouldn't be confused with saving grace, but religion can lead to that. The food we eat, the house we live in, the friends we have, the technology we use, is all God's common grace. When we choose to be moral people apart from faith, this too is His common grace. Ideas that create a better society and that prosper nations, so long as they are moral is really God's common grace. God is sovereign so He can choose to bless us apart from His saving grace.
Common grace doesn't save you, it's God's choice to bless human beings apart from salvation. Everyone prays, and even if you are unsaved, He hears you and even answers your prayers as a part of His common grace. God is good to everything He created and He sustains His creation through Christ. In other words, you don't have to be saved to experience God's goodness. From relationships, to the books you read, to the movies you watch, the music we listen to, your health, the Justice system, public health, they are all God's common grace. It can be used for good or bad, but when we abuse it God does judge those who do. This is Mike.
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