What is God's Grace? 5 Biblical Types of Grace Every Christian Must Know | Jonny Ardavanis

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Jonny Ardavanis

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🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Discover the life-changing power of God's grace in this deep biblical study!

In this episode, we explore 5 essential features of God's grace that every believer needs to understand:

✅ God's Saving Grace - Why salvation is entirely by grace, not works

✅ God's Sanctifying Grace - How grace transforms us into Christ's image 

✅ God's Sustaining Grace - Finding strength in weakness through trials

✅ God's Serving Grace - How spiritual gifts are expressions of grace

✅ The Ordinary Means of Grace - Scripture, prayer, and Christian community

Key Bible Verses Discussed:

• 1 Corinthians 15:10 • Titus 3:4-6 • Romans 5:15-21 • 2 Corinthians 12:9 • Ephesians 4:7-11

Perfect for:

• Bible study groups

• New Christians seeking to understand grace

• Anyone struggling with works-based salvation

• Christians wanting deeper theological understanding

Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction to God's Grace 5:30 Saving Grace vs. Works 12:15 Sanctifying Grace & Transformation 18:45 Sustaining Grace in Trials 25:20 Serving Grace & Spiritual Gifts 30:10 Practical Applications

Transcript

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0:00.0	Grace is not just God's unmerited favor. This is typically where we define it. What's grace?
0:05.3	Well, God's unmerited favor to the ill deserving. That's true, but it doesn't stop there.
0:09.3	God's grace is power so that we might be continually conformed into the image of Jesus Christ.
0:15.5	The natural first fruits of that is there's no one listening to this that is beyond grace.
0:20.2	You don't need to wait for
0:21.6	XYZ to happen or to change XYZ about your life before you kind of put everything down and come
0:26.0	directly to him. God died for us while we were his enemies, not while we were his friends. And so
0:31.2	it's appropriate. Yeah, grace is available because as long as you think your own strength is
0:36.5	sufficient, you never recognize your
0:38.1	own insufficiency, which never compels you and propels you to rely on the sufficiency of God's
0:43.9	grace.
0:51.1	Hank, thanks for sitting down.
0:52.7	In this episode, I want to discuss the grace of God. The word
0:56.5	grace is used 131 times in the New Testament, and 86 of those times it's used by the Apostle Paul.
1:03.3	And he says this in 1st Corinthians 1510. He says, but by the grace of God, I am what I am.
1:09.2	And his grace toward me did not prove vain, but I labored even more than all of them, yet not I, but the grace of God with me.
1:16.6	And I think sometimes, and you can speak to this, sometimes we have this idea of grace that it's something we experience or receive once upon a time.
1:23.4	But Paul is going to say in his ministry, in his life, he is what he is by the grace of God.
1:28.8	And I think even that idea that grace is ongoing, maybe we would affirm theology, but it kind
1:34.8	of shatters this notion of, oh, we received God's grace when we got saved back then.
1:39.5	A one-time occurrence.
1:40.9	And we're maybe just neglect to meditate on it as much as we should be.
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