GREAT GLORIOUS GRACIOUS GRACE

GREAT GLORIOUS GRACE

Grace is so commonly used in the scripture that when we study the Old Testament the usage of it can easily overwhelm us. We will look up passage in Exodus 33:12-19 to gain a deeper meaning of the OT usage of grace (Hebrew: hen, hanan, and rahum).
In the Old Testament GRACE was used 122 times . Grace, graciousness and the word graceful was frequently used throughout the Old Testament. We find the Hebrew words meaning “favor, grace and gracious.”

In the Exodus 33:12 we find that Moses " also found favor in My sight." We do not know how this favor was found. We would normally think that Moses did something good to find this favor. Moses had no right to demand favor. But now that God had said he had received his favor, then Moses took God's Word for it. This is a beautiful example on how the promises of God are to be used to advance God's purposes and glory.

13 "Now therefore, I pray Thee, if I have found favor (hin) in Thy sight, let me know Thy ways, that I may know Thee, so that I may find favor in Thy sight. Consider too, that this nation is Thy people."

The Hebrew word for “favor” here is “hin”
17 And the LORD said to Moses, "I will also do this thing of which you have spoken; for you have found favor in My sight, and I have known you by name."
18* Then Moses said, "I pray Thee, show me Thy glory!"
19* And He said, "I Myself will make all My goodness pass before you, and will proclaim the name of the LORD before you; and I will be gracious (hanan) to whom I will be gracious, and will show compassion (rahum) on whom I will show compassion." {Exodus 33:12-19, NASB}

The Hebrew word for “gracious” used here is “hanan” Did you know that the name “Hannah” is also comes from the word gracious, grace and favor?

Moses asked for the Lord’s glory to be shown but instead grace (hanan) and compassion (rahum) would be shown to him. Remember God’s grace is something that can be passed on. Grace only becomes grace when it is distributed to others. This was the main emphasis of the New Covenant where God brought grace to the world through Christ and then again through His own disciples. Before the Day of Jesus Coming, we are to spread and passed on this great gracious glorious grace of God to others telling them the effects of Gospel of Grace. As Daniel Yordy has said it, this glorious grace no believer has ever tasted it before.

If we live in the Old Covenant we could not have God's goodness and favor unless He chooses to give it to us. There would be no way to obtain His compassion unless He desires to give it to us.
But today Romans 5:1-2 tell us:

“Therefore having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom also we have obtained our introduction by faith into this grace in which we stand; and we exult in hope of the glory of God.”

Today, Christ grace is shown to us and “we have obtained” it by faith. God lavished (pour) His grace upon grace on us. In Ephesians 1:6 says, "so we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son." NLT Before the world was created, God had already favored us with His preference and His foreknowledge. This was not based on our works of righteousness that we have done but on God's free and glorious gracious choice. If God choose us on the basis of merits no one of us would have been chosen. But God was good and He wanted to demonstrate His love and grace, and He did so through Jesus Christ to the church. Today, the cheque of His GRACIOUS GLORIOUS GRACE has been signed and given to us.

May this Gracious Glorious Grace manifest through us daily now.