"Paul uses the word 'grace' as shorthand for the entire event of Jesus Christ and His ministry. When he says in Titus 2:11, that the 'grace of God has appeared for the salvation of all men,' it can be understood as meaning that Christ has appeared, or that God's decision to save people freely has been enacted in Christ's appearance. When he says we are 'saved by grace' (Eph. 2:5), it can be taken to mean that we are saved by God's action in Christ, freely and divinely. In short, grace is not an entity which God and Christ dispense. Nor is it a moral property of the divine nature. It is a word that epitomizes the freeness of God's saving act on our behalf." - L.S. Smedes
Titus 2:11-15 "For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,
Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
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