Grace is NOT a New Testament concept.
Despite what “church tradition”, grace is not a “New Testament” concept, nor did it first dawn with the Renewed Covenant.
Genesis 6:8
But Noah found grace in the eyes of Yahweh.
Exodus 33:12-18
Then Moses said to Yahweh, “See, You say to me, ‘Bring up this people.’ But You have not let me know whom You will send with me. Yet You have said, ‘I know you by name, and you have also found grace in My sight.’ Now therefore, I pray, if I have found grace in Your sight, show me now Your way, that I may know You and that I may find grace in Your sight. And consider that this nation is Your people.” And He said, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.” Then he said to Him, “If Your Presence does not go with us, do not bring us up from here. For how then will it be known that Your people and I have found grace in Your sight, except You go with us? So we shall be separate, Your people and I, from all the people who are upon the face of the earth.” So Yahweh said to Moses, “I will also do this thing that you have spoken; for you have found grace in My sight, and I know you by name.” And he said, “Please, show me Your glory.”
Psalm 84:11
For Yahweh God is a sun and shield: Yahweh will give grace and glory. No good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.
If we are now under a “dispensation of grace” as some falsely teach, then how can they explain the existence of grace before the advent of Yahshua? This is why I am so fascinated lately with the book of Ecclesiastes…
Ecclesiastes 1:9-11
That which has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done, and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there a thing of which it may be said, “See, this is new?” It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us. There is no remembrance of the former generations, neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter generations that are to come, among those that shall come after.
Thus I say again: grace is not a New Testament concept. As there is nothing new under the sun, and that which was done long ago (grace given to Noah) is the same as that which is done today (grace given to us).
Tags: church tradition, dispensation, grace, New Testament, renewed covenant
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