Featured Grace and Mercy, What's the difference?

I believe that all of God's merciful acts are gracious and all of God's gracious acts are merciful. They are inextricably linked together.

 

1 Timothy 1:12 And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;

1:13 Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

1:14 And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus.

I agree with the following statement... Here, we clearly see that the meaning of grace is broader than that of mercy.

Paul had reason to expect punishment or harsh treatment because of his zealous persecutions of the early Christians. Instead, he received unexpected benevolence and forgiveness. He himself was called to be a Christian and a minister of the truth! That mercy, however, did not forgive his sins and justify him before God. That was given by grace—by the sacrifice of Jesus Christ... Brother Glen

 

No, sir. They are distinctly different but inextricably linked.
Grace is God giving us that which we do not deserve; mercy is God not giving us what we do deserve.

 

Mercy is when the Lord withheld judging me before was saved, by allowing good things to still happen to me instead, while Grace is when He saved me!

 

Friend, I do not disagree at all. I stated above that all of God's merciful acts are gracious.

 

God has mercy upon the lost, and upon those yet to get saved, but His grace is saving grace!

 

From Titus 3:5 according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;



YLT Eph 2:8 for by grace ye are having been saved, through (the) faith, and this not of you -- of God the gift,

TR 2:8 τῇ γὰρ χάριτί ἐστε σεσῳσμένοι διὰ (τῆς) πίστεως καὶ τοῦτο οὐκ ἐξ ὑμῶνθεοῦ τὸ δῶρον



-------------------- Result -------------------- Means -------------------- Because of



Titus ------------- He saved us

------------------------------------------------- by washing of regeneration and renewing of Holy Spirit

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mercy



Eph -------------- Having been saved

------------------------------------------------- by grace

------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Faith





I believe mercy and the faith have something to with Christ pouring out his soul unto death, shedding his soul blood, Lev 17:11 and the result was life from the dead, the grace of God.



The reason Paul states: I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law, then Christ is dead in vain. Gal 2:21

 

Yes, but not in the same someone not Calvinist would see God sending saving Grace towards all sinners!

 

Non Calvinists see God having saving Grace applied towards all persons, and up to them to accept/reject, while we hold that he applies saving grace just towards His elect in Christ!

 

John 6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.

6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.

6:39 And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.

6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.

Christ alone... Saves his own!... Brother Glen

 

Mercy is not getting what you deserve,
Grace is getting what you do not deserve.
There is no link because they are opposites.

 

Mercy without justice is not righteous mercy. Justice has no place for mercy and to remain just. Grace is unmerited favor. Mercy given where justice is deserved is grace. Now only our God is both merciful and just.
". . . For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus: Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus. . . ." -- Romans 3:23-26.

 

no, Mercy is not getting the deserved punishment before the pardon.

Grace is being elevated from the prison to the palace as Joseph was in Egypt

We do not deserve Grace .

A double negative explanation seems wrong to describe Mercy as Grace