What did God do to show grace to mankind?
God showed grace by His unmerited favor: the holy, sinless, righteous, Creator, sovereign, infinite God reached down, became flesh, walked the filthy streets of Palestine and Jerusalem, and suffered and died on a Roman cross because He loved mankind. That is grace.
Les teaches that grace is God's unmerited favor, which much of Christendom fails to comprehend. In grace, love is the key rather than commandment. The holy, sinless, righteous, Creator, sovereign, infinite God reached down, became flesh, walked the filthy streets of Palestine and Jerusalem, heard the foul language of that day, and suffered and died on a Roman cross—all because He loved mankind. That is the only reason given in the text.
Because the law worketh wrath: for where no law is, there is no transgression.
Therefore it is of faith, that it might be by grace; to the end the promise might be sure to all the seed; not to that only which is of the law, but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham; who is the father of us all,