The New Testament Word Grace Means/Translates To Enablement
Here is a new Life-Long, Life-Changing Challenge!!
From now on, every time you read the word “Grace” in your Bible, automatically substitute the word “Enablement” and it will make oh so much more sense. Test it and let me know what you find.
Simply replace the word “Grace” with ENABLEMENT and your life will never be the same!!!
I was taught this truth in 1993. Since that time, I’ve never yet seen a place where it did not work with perfect harmony with the spirit of the New Testament or Old, to replace the word grace with enablement. It is spot on, every time.
Here are some of the words Bible scholars often use to describe or define the word grace: forgiveness, repentance, regeneration, salvation, election, mercy.
You can throw away any thoughts of association to FORGIVENESS, which is what most of our current religious luminaries default to. The thought of forgiveness in the place of grace is the perfect smoke screen for those who seek to delude or simply know no better… But it is an utter deception with only a particle of truth to it. The fact is that God’s forgiveness TAKES CARE OF the forgiveness issue: I will separate you from your sin as far as the east is from the west. (Psa 103:12)
How about “mercy”? Is grace the same as mercy? Luke 6:36 Be merciful, even as your Father is merciful.
No, grace is completely different. It is all about how our loving Father gives unlimited enablement to us, his kids, with all the tools we need to live an overcoming life.
Jesus tells us to “be perfect” (Matthew 5:48). Many may scoff at the thought of “being perfect”. Or better yet, let’s justify it or make excuses on why it doesn’t really apply to us. But the truth is that we CAN live perfect lives with the ENABLEMENT that comes from a loving Father who has already lead the way. He has already “blazed the trail” to living the perfect life. THEN He shows us, in His word, and then enables us to do the same..
It is no wonder that the people who Jesus said would be raptured away (Mat 24:41, Luke 17:35) who are mentioned in Rev 14:3b (redeemed from the earth) are the one’s who “FOLLOW THE LAMB WHEREVER HE LEADS”… Doesn’t this following the lamb indicate the enablement of the follower to do so?
Some Examples – Try It For Yourself
James 4:6 But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace/enablement to the humble.”
John 1:16 And from his fullness we have all received, grace/enablement upon grace/enablement.
2 Corinthians 12:9 But he said to me, “My grace/enablement is sufficient for you.”
Take the grace to enablement word challenge, I can’t wait to hear your thoughts and experiences with this fruitful subject.
Russell Dibird
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That word “grace” is so ambiguous right??? Many people take it to mean power, ability, and permission of God concerning some thing in question. Like the statement: “only be the grace of God did such and such happen,” or “it was only by His grace that such and such was even possible..” etc… And yet another interpretation in every day parlance might be that grace is the indulgence from/of/by God that allows one to do or be something desired, or, even get away with something… “we only made it by the Grace of God….” etc….
I rather like your substitution of the word grace for enablement… Curious too, inasmuch as it equates to the same eh??? Yet this removes the ambiguity of the word and gives it immediate effect and meaning in any given reading of the bible, situation in life, or interpretation of the same…
As an aside, this bears no relation to the society-compelled definition of social graces and dignity… though this too is a strange correlation and parallels with Divine grace eh??? For it is verily the upper class and elite that exhibit and are expected to have such outstanding grace… A GRACE THAT ENABLES THEM TO BE IMPERVIOUS TO THE WHIMS OF FORTUNE AND THE vicissitudes of every-day life… Funny how the human side of this grace becomes so degraded in this sense. Like its a higher quality of the fortunate to have grace, whereas the mundane and “normal” must aspire to it… But nay! i say, we are all capable of the utmost grace, BECAUSE OF HIS GRACE! What higher grace can we have than to receive His??? What higher and more powerful ENABLEMENT can there be other than that given to us by His Grace… ???