Supernatural Grace

2 Peter 3:18 But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and forever! Amen.

SUPERNATURAL GRACE!

The first 4 months of 2025 is over! A third of the year is done, BUT God is not done with you yet! Turn to your neighbor and say: BE JOYFUL IN HOPE! (Be Patient in affliction! Be Faithful In Prayer!)

Please open your bibles to Hebrews 4:16

Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.

Let us pray:

We enter this new month of MAY with hearts yielded to CHRIST, obedient to His teachings, submitted to His will, desiring His grace over our lives!

I will be your teacher this morning! And we will be diving deep on a doctrine that is the LEAST understood subject in the BIBLE but clearly encapsulates the heart of GOD towards all people. And that is HIS GRACE! Say Gods Grace!

It is no coincidence that we are going to talk about the GRACE OF GOD this morning. See, the month of MAY is the 5th month of the year and the number 5 in HEBREW, signifies GRACE. Yes, and so we can say that this month of may is the month of GRACE! Hallelujah and in this lesson this morning, we will dive deep into the meaning of grace, the types of grace and how we can appropriate them in our lives! Are you ready? Fantastic!

GRACE is the free and unmerited love, mercy and favor given to man. Grace is free.

NOT COMMON GRACE!

Now understand that I’m not talking about common grace! Common grace is God’s Providential promise of blessing us for all that we need – food, water, the air we breathe – That’s common grace – without it, we will all be dead by now!

BUT I’m talking about GOD’s supernatural GRACE! Grace that springs forth from the Throne of Grace in the Throne of GOD! The throne of GOD is magnificently described in Revelation, at the center of this throne is GOD Himself, sitting in splendor and majesty –

I invite you to Revelation Chapter 4 – where this throne of GOD is explained by JOHN, he says in verses 1-4

After this I looked, and there before me

was a door standing open in heaven.

And the voice I had first heard speaking

to me like a trumpet said, 'Come up here,

and I will show you what must

take place after this'.

Johns gaze in prison shifts from his present environment to one that is glorious. From the natural to the supernatural. He hears a voice familiar to his ears, it is the voice of his master, Jesus Christ. The trumpet sound is symbolic to triumph. A triumphant entry perhaps to the destiny of the faithful and John is invited in. verse 2:

John says, "At once I was in the Spirit, and there before me was a throne in heaven."

A throne signifies power, kingship, authority. And in the following verses we will see that this throne is surrounded by other thrones – meaning it is at the center of everything.

John continues in Verse 3:

And the one who sat there had the appearance

of jasper and ruby. A rainbow that shone like

an emerald encircled the throne.

God is at the center of EVERYTHING. He reigns in glory, He is sovereign, mighty and eternal. John, to the best of his ability tries to describe the splendor of God. And it’s incomparable to what he has seen on earth for GOD is like no other but John would use earthly comparisons like jewels and familiar colors to him to describe the heavenly radiance and magnificence of Adonai – master, owner, Lord.

He is Elohim – Creator of all. So John uses three gemstones to describe the glory of God before him – Jasper stone that maybe a diamond as it’s associated with the sea of glass, Jasper is the first stone on a priests breastplate.

Ruby on the other hand is a red stone and last on the breastplate suggesting that GOD is the first and the last, the all-in-all. The rainbow in the appearance of an emerald reminds us of Gods promise to Noah, Gods divine grace.

Now surrounding this throne of GOD were 4 living creatures - Among all created beings, Man is on top, Among all birds, the eagle. Among the cattle, it’s the ox and among untam\ed animals, the lion. As a scholar would put it: The characteristics of these four creatures unite to make a perfect picture of the spirit of true service, which should be brave as the lion, patient as the ox, aspiring as the eagle, intelligent as man.