1st – The Motive of Grace – or WHY does God do what He does for hell-deserving sinners? … (v.6> “To the praise of the glory of His grace,” The motive for everything that God does is His own glory.
2nd – The Method of Grace – is that (v.6> ‘… He made us ACCEPTED in the Beloved.’ A more literal translation might be, ‘He graced us in the Beloved.’ The point is that there is a redundancy of grace in Jesus Christ—a superabundance of blessing… an excess of provision… a liberality of privilege… a great ocean of love—all of which come to those of us who are in Christ!
Bryan Wheeler Pastor Bryan Wheeler was converted to Christ in 1973. For most of the 20 years that he served in the U.S. Air Force he was actively involved in church-based preaching and teaching ministries in the U.S. and overseas. Pastor Wheeler was ordained into the gospel ministry in 1987 and was called into full time ministry in 1989. He is the pastor at Emmanuel Baptist Church in Verona, VA. He and his wife Maureen were married in 1968 and the Lord has given them 6 children and 4 grandchildren.
