The Election of Grace
I. Scripture affirms that eternal salvation is a matter of free grace: God extending mercy to unworthy
sinners in their fallen, sinful state of spiritual death. God acted in love and mercy before man did
anything to improve himself. EPH 2:1-6.
A. God sent His only begotten Son into the world to fulfill His law for them, since they could
not do so themselves. ROM 8:3, 7-8.
B. Jesus Christ, the Son of God, bore the guilt of their sins in His body and suffered the
penalty which they deserved, paying the debt of their sin with His own blood.