PURE GRACE

Justification: God accepts us.
Sanctification: God changes us.
Glorification: God sharing his glory with us.

The plan of redeeming us from sin and self is of course done by grace. Or as Max Lucado, pastor and author wrote: “Pure grace. Grace is God’s greatest idea. That he would treat us according to his heart and not ours. Amazing grace!” Indeed it is.

To believe in one (like justification: God accepts us) and not the others is New Age vanity, grace Jell-O, or grace gravy or a grace smoothie and also nonsense.

If the Lord accepts us, the Lord will change us and the Lord will glorify us. It seems like a good deal to me.

As Paul, an apostle, wrote: “Since we have been made right with God by our faith, we have peace with God. This happened through our Lord Jesus Christ, who through our faith has brought us into that blessing of God’s grace that we now enjoy. And we are happy because of the hope we have of sharing God’s glory.”
(Romans 5:1-2)

We are treated according to God’s heart and not ours.
Wow. Weeee. That’s truly amazing.

“The Son of Man will come again in his great glory, with all his angels. He will be King and sit on his great throne. All the nations of the world will be gathered before him, and he will separate them into two groups as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. The Son of Man will put the sheep on his right and the goats on his left.” Jesus