Means of Grace

Previously we established:

Lecture 1
Grace is a free gift from God
Any blessing in our lives is considered a grace from God
God created man and surrounded him by His grace
Man lost that grace as a result of sin and corruption
Man became uncapable of attaining righteousness on his own
The law could not help man attain righteousness
Man needed divine intervention to be able to attain righteousness
God graced man with the economy of salvation (Incarnation, Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension, etc.)
In order to attain salvation, we must have faith (God's grace) and works
Man cannot attain salvation without the work of God's grace
Lecture 2

Introduction

Means of grace

How to benefit from the means of grace

The Love of God the Father, and the grace of His only begpotten Son our Lord Jesus Chrsit, and the gift and communions of the Holy Spirit be with you all
- We recieved the means of grace from the church - No we need God's grace to activate this grace and make it effective

Where do we get grace?

We receive grace on a personal level and on a church level
Everything that happens in the Church (storage of grace)
The church has the authority to despense to us God's grace - baptism
The grace of baptism - takes us to the grace of myron (temple of the holy spirit
Repentance and confession - getting rid of sins
No salvation outside of the church
Church sacraments - graces
No one can come to the sacraments without repentancee -and without faith
On a personal level - God gives according to the need - my grace is suffesient to you
I didn't do anything to recieve any of these graces by my role is to use them and to bring fruit
Each person's response to the sacrament is different

Faith - prayer - humility (almotawade3oon yagedon ne3ma - nazar ila eteda3 amato - momtale2a ne3ma

What is grace?