Dixter Kaluba

How does your openness to God's grace define your persona, who you actually are? Openness to God's grace demonstrates faith one has in God and reliance on God. Such a one will be an ideal representation of Gospel of Jesus the Christ How does your willingness to dispense God's grace to others mold you into who God has designed you to be? He who give more will receive more. The more grace one dispenses the more one receives from God, the more one becomes rich in the things of God. God wants an obedient and sacrificial recipient of his spiritual gifts and grace

Why are God's gifts of grace an immensely greater blessing to those who attend church and are a functioning part of a congregation? The gifts of grace are given for the proper functioning of the Church so that others can benefit and grow to the extent where they also begin to execute their spiritual gifts How can isolating yourself from the Christian community involve selfishness and fear? How can it impoverish you? If you are not exercising the spiritual gifts, one can lose them and become dry because the grace of God may also diminish as the grace is bestowed to grow recipient and others around them; together they help to grow the church

We are stewards of God's grace. What are the responsibilities of a steward or trustee? To identify and utilise effectively the gifts we have received from God for his glory In what way do we act as trustees of what belongs to God? We feel obliged to put to use in the Kingdom the spiritual gifts that we have received In what way are spiritual gifts or the message of the gospel part of this trust we have been given? They are used to edify and build others

Why is there such a close relationship between "grace" (charis) and "gifts" (charisma)? The grace enables the spiritual gift recipient to execute or perform the spiritual gift to the standard of God. due to this, sometimes a person may do something they have never thought they would do and end asking themselves; "is it me who has done this?" What is the chief characteristic of a generous person? he puts others first in all circumstances In what ways do spiritual gifts channel God's grace? Spiritual gifts are executed or performed to the standard of God by the Grace bestowed upon the recipient of the gifts

Why is approaching God’s holy throne in prayer intimidating to some people? Lack of understanding that the throne of God is a Throne of grace. They take it a throne of authority and power Why do we sometimes fear judgment and condemnation when we approach God? We are not sure of ourselves in terms of of our relationship with God. Hence the fear of judgement and condemnation In what ways is God’s throne the place where he dispenses “mercy and grace”? He reaches out to us when we find ourselves in different situations and difficult circumstances and dispenses his grace In what ways is your home a place where grace is given out? We receive race so that, we can dispense it to others for the glory of God. Examples include helping our neighbours when they are in need and we able to, exercises Godly love on people that are in need of it

Why do you think there are so many assurances of faith in the New Testament? The Gospel as disseminated by Jesus The Christ is not a forcing matter. God has given us the power to decide on many options. The many promises of assurances bring in the effect of repetition so as to believe and build our faith in Christ What is your favorite promise of God's role in keeping you in Christ to the end? It is to believe that, God's presence is always with the faithful ones. Psalms 119:11 (RSV) How does your favorite promise give you powerful assurance of salvation? It helps me to keep my faith stronger and ever growing

How does our faith function alongside God's protection to keep us to the end? God's protection is based on an individual's faith. This implies that, a person's faith attracts God's protection. The absence of faith means the absence of God in one's life. How does this show God's grace? God lays his grace for everyone to grab but it depends on an individual's faith that will determine how the individual will respond.

Why is it impossible for people to come to Christ without God's action to convict, draw, and enable them to come? It is not by power of mighty that we are saved, but by the grace of God. This requires that we repent first of our sins and accept Jesus the Christ as our personal saviour. So, if we miss the grace of God, it will be impossible to come to Christ because we will not have recognised him as the basis for our deeds. How does God's preparation illustrate his grace? We see love in his actions from the beginning when man fell off his favour. His love drives him to exercise grace upon those who respond to his love; not a reciprocal but as a way of accessing his plan of salvation.

How does predestination function with God’s grace? In love, not in good works but out of his own love. This self initiating love towards people who were away from him is described as God's grace. The predestination comes in because this love and salvation are given through the Lord Jesus Christ. To associate with the Lord Jesus Christ requires us to believe; to have faith in him is demonstrated b our response to his Gospel. What is gracious about predestination? It is God's free will choice to act so Why is his grace “glorious”? Wen we respond to the free will gift (grace) with our faith in deeds, we glorify God

I realize that this is a mystery, but how do you see God's foreknowledge working alongside his ability to predestine? God predestine our salvation based on his foreknowledge of our faith. God lays his plan for our salvation, but it will take an individual's faith to move to receive his grace in order to gain our salvation If all this is by grace, how might faith and/or good works fit into this predestination? Faith is the recognition of the influence of God's action in our lives. Once we recognise his influence, we commit ourselves to good works as a way of expressing our faith in God.

How does the Spirit work in us after we are saved to form Christ in us? The Holy Spirit enables us to live as for Christ which are called "good works" through sanctification by grace In what ways is this a process of "working out" our salvation? Through sanctification from sinful position to repentance to recognition of God and dependent on Him to salvation. Salvation will be seen through the fruits of salvation which include peace, love and Harmony in our "works" which implies deeds in our lives. Why should you expect a person's life to change when they put their faith in Jesus? They will depend on Jesus Christ for everything they do. Their checklist will be the standards of the life of Christ or what the word commands us to do What is happening if there is no discernable change? It means we have not opened up to offer of God of his rescue to permeate us so as to cause change. as long as we do not do this, we will remain the same and continue to live in sinful life that is vulnerable to the devil's schemes

Matthew 16:16-17; John 6:44) How does the Holy Spirit work in our lives to prepare us for salvation? In what sense is the Spirit’s revelation important to faith? the enables us to understand the voice of God and discernment of the voice of the devil from that of God. he helps us to see that this is wrong before we are caught in in. Those who are not guided by the Holy Spirit always only realises after they have committed the wrong In what ways have you seen the Father “draw” people to Christ? He may create or make us encounter a situation that will cause us to remember God and respond to Him. The situation may be negative or positive What is the role of “free will” in salvation? The free will energises our response to God's call to make a movement towards his calling

Q20. It is in our culture to seek credit for doing something. This is also an extension of the Hebrew religion most of whose teachings are followed in the new old testament. in this context, the cross and its purpose will appear as thought it is valueless. However, the Gospel is that, "for God loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life" This changed the narrative because Christ stood not only for our sins but for sin offerings. The cross changed the narrative for everyone. We no longer require to do something to be saved but only to believe in Him who came from heaven to come and die for us even when he was without blemish. The cross still has relevance in my salvation. People by nature always want to outshine others. The sense of self righteousness has been devalued by the Gospel of Mercy and Grace. No one can equate the action of God of sending his begotten son who came to be a ransom for the wickedness of the world and its reconciliation to God. There is no more levels of sin, every person just needs to believe It brings humility in believers because now to access salvation; the playing filed has been levelled to that of Mercy through Grace.

Q19 from eternal death and my continuous subject to the devil's tricks of dangling a bait so that i can be following in his evil ways God personally has rescued me from my hopeless and desperate situation by making available his word for my spiritual consumption and as a light unto my path God's goal is to save his creation. So, his favour had to do with my salvation in line with his long plan of salvation for mankind

According to Bonhoeffer, cheap grace is the justification of sin without the justification of the sinner. It is preaching of forgiveness without requiring of repentance, baptism, without church discipline, communion without confession, grace without discipleship, grace without the cross and grace without Jesus Christ living and incarnate Costly grace doesn't mean we should work for it but because it involves the sacrifice of the life of Christ and that we should sacrifice our pleasures for the sake of the gospel Costly grace is the one that calls to follow Jesus Christ, it costs a man his life, it condemns sin, it cost God the life of His son

The is good in man represented by the remnant of the image of God as presented in Genesis 26:1 they are basically bad because the remnant of the image of God gets shadowed by the evil of the heart of man to the extent that we only need mercy and grace pout of the this situation. Murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander The above which are haboured in the heart of man make man unclean and are expressed in the deeds of man

Humankind was dead to transgression and sin and were objects of God's wrath. Even the repented ones were part of those who followed the world systems of sinful nature The cravings of our flesh or sinful nature conscious - gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts unconscious - when we followed the ways of the world under the influence of the evil spirit

Human kind was far away from God in his sin before Christ died for us. we were sinners and un Godly It was out the Love of God that He died for undeserving, Him who without blemish that those who were sinner can find salvation through the favour of God God's love for the sinner that He applied His favour to save the sinner

To be in a state of grace means to be covered by the favour of God; to have assurance that God has covered us in His favour continually. what is the role of faith in this? we live by faith that God has already covered us by His favour (grace) not because we have done something but by His own free will because He is God what is the opposite of peace with God? It is to be justified with God not because we have done something but by His favour.

God instructs the prophet Hosea to marry a prostitute Goma in order to demonstrate His unflinching grace for his people. I am sure even Hosea must have been surprised except he could not question God for he knew that there was a reason for whatever God did. The story of Hosea and Goma teach us about the nature of God's relationship with his people the Israelites. He chose them even when they had been defiled through the worship of foreign gods. This is a further demonstration of his faithfulness and unconditional love for Israel, and in current time, for us. like the children of Israel we too transgress, refuse to believe him, commit iniquities but God already gave us a promise since the death of Jesus the Christ on the cross of Calvary that as long as we repent and return to him, he will not only welcome us, but embrace us as his sons and daughters. The of Hosea and Goma shows us that, God's relationship with Israel was not smooth but that it was turbulent at many points and they moved in the wilderness to the promised land. Even when he had delivered them, they still rebelled against him and worshipped foreign gods. However, driven by His grace, he acted as though he was blind to all the wrong things they and still gave a chance after chance to repent and return to him. Grace is blind to negative vices and God does not want to show people that, when they obey him and his commends, he reward them positively, but he responds to the disobedient and the obedient in the same way out of his grace for his creation

Yahweh will forgive Wickedness (Pervasive behaviour or iniquity), rebellion(transgression or destroying the relationship with Yahweh) and sin (those who go astray; and we see a lot of this repeated among the children of Israel as they traverse the land to Canaan. They went astray several times and Yahweh always forgave them when they retuned to him). The sin of rebellion may find its way into a believer's life because it may be copied by offspring passed on from generation to generation. God doesn't forgive those who refuse to repent because refusal is disobeying, it is failure to apply consciousness by the disobedient. People who are like this may cause many more to stumble and to cause someone else to stumble is very serious in the eyes of Yahweh.

Yahweh is compassionate towards man; he has a deep love unconditionally as he expresses it towards an inferior man compared to him. there is benefit but out of love for his man his creation. He is faithful, implying he does not change; He is Yahweh yesterday, today and tomorrow. His character as portrayed in Exodus 34:6 is demonstrated and fulfilled in His actions to save man from his sin and eternal death through the sacrifice of Jesus the Christ for the remission of sin of the World. He used Christ who was blameless and knew not any sin.

We do not deserve grace, it is not granted upon us as a reward or as people who deserve it. It is given as God's discretion. God has no reason for granting us his grace but it just out of his desire. He actualized this giving his only begotten son Jesus the Christ who came to die for our sins out of God's discretion Biblical working definition of grace is by God giving Hos only begotten son Jesus the Christ who was blameless and sinless but chose to die for the sins of the world that we may have life in abundance