Why Omnipotent Grace?

It seems to be a curious combination, using the words omnipotent, or all-powerful, next to the word grace. Why did I choose to do that?

The reason is quite simple, we cannot break God into little distinct entities or pieces. All of His characteristics are inextricably one in His essence. Omnipotence is the overriding such characteristic. It means that God holds all the power that can be held. Nothing can be greater, bigger, stronger or above God. If that was not true, then God would not be God.

Grace is the relationship in which creation stands to the omnipotent God. Grace is defined in the dictionary as: favor or goodwill, kindness, kindliness, love, manifestation of favor, especially by a superior; forgiveness, charity, mercifulness., mercy; clemency; pardon, lenity, leniency, reprieve.

It shows favor or gracious inclination from the bestower. All of creation benefits from the common grace of God. It is what makes the world a better place than what it should be. It allows people to live in a society, and carry out their calling. It bestows the benefits of nature on mankind so that it grows and prospers. It does not mean, however, that this blessing is sufficient to be saved from the all-destructive corruption of sin that creation is subject to.

The grace that saves is God's voluntary, unrestrained and unmerited favor towards guilty sinners, granting them justification and life, instead of the deserved penalty of death. Just like omnipotence, this is not something God does, it is what God is. He is graciousness. His grace includes the giving of all kinds of spiritual and material blessings.

In a broken and fallen world, a speck of dust in the large cruel universe, inhabited by humans whose lives are but a brief flicker in time and eternity, grace is all the hope we have. Without grace, there is but darkness interrupted by senseless moments of joy. Grace, as the relationship in which creation stands with God, is the mechanism through which we can experience all of God's characteristics..His love, His holiness, His righteousness, His omniscience.

If that grace is not omnipotent, then we have no hope, because then there is something greater that can detract or minimize the grace of God, and that cannot be if God is who He says He is.

We therefore believe that our entire existence, in this world in the next, is due entirely to the omnipotent grace of God, that loves and saves us from all our sin, past, present and future.