The New Piney Grove Baptist Church monthly theme commentary for the month of March 2016.

1. NEW PINEY GROVE
MONTHLY
THEME
COMMENTARY
2016

2. MARCH
GOD’S
GRACE

3. INTRODUCTION
Grace has been defined as God’s
unmerited favor. Grace is the
element of divine activity, which
enables God to deal with human sin
of indifference and rebellion, with
an inexhaustible capacity to forgive
and to extend favor. The concept of
grace is the main central theological
theme throughout the Bible.

4. Grace is used especially to describe
God’s primary activity toward Israel
in the Old Testament and God’s
decisive act of redemption through
the death of Jesus in the New
Testament. God extends to us His
undeserved favor in many different
aspects. His grace and mercy are
limitless. Grace also involves other
virtues in the form of forgiveness,
salvation, regeneration, repentance
and the love of God.

5. God is loving, kind and merciful with
us; His grace is enormous. Thus, it
is humanly impossible to completely
understand, just how BIG and DEEP
and WIDE, the grace that God offers
us really is. But, it is important that
we try because, it helps us keep
things in the right perspective. To
help us process the magnitude of
His grace, it is imperative for us to
understand the different aspects of
grace He pours out on us daily.

6. ASPECTS OF GRACE
Common Grace – Matthew 5:45
... He causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good, and
sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous.
Saving Grace – Ephesians 2:8
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and
this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God—
Enabling Grace – Philippians 1:6
being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you
will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Sufficient Grace – 2 Corinthians 12:9
…, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made
perfect in weakness.” …