{"id":701,"date":"2023-09-25T14:09:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-25T14:09:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rap.us\/?p=701"},"modified":"2023-09-25T14:09:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T14:09:19","slug":"gift-of-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rap.us\/?p=701","title":{"rendered":"Gift of Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Bible teaches (Ephesians 2:8\u20139) that we are saved by grace through faith. Grace is, &#8220;&#8230;not from yourselves, it is the gift of God&#8221;. John 1:16\u201317 says, &#8220;For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.&#8221; Romans 6:4 teaches that \u00a0we are &#8221; not \u00a0under law but under grace.&#8221; God&#8217;s grace is something we didn&#8217;t earn and don&#8217;t deserve. The only reason we do receive God&#8217;s grace and are worthy of it is because of Jesus Christ. We are not worthy on our own of God&#8217;s grace but Christ is and with Him in our hearts we are made worthy. Praise God for His love, grace and mercy. Amen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bible teaches (Ephesians 2:8\u20139) that we are saved by grace through faith. Grace is, &#8220;&#8230;not from yourselves, it is the gift of God&#8221;. John 1:16\u201317 says, &#8220;For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. For the law was given through Moses; grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.&#8221; Romans 6:4 teaches [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701\/revisions\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rap.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}