Mark Allen Quay

Astonishing Grace Mark Allen Quay

What is the meaning of the Gospel? Is the Gospel's message that sinners are saved from the judgment of sin, made righteous before God, and receive the Holy Spirit by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ? Or is it by God's decision to include Gentiles into Israel through their obedience to the Law of Moses?

Suitable for small groups or personal Bible study, Astonishing Grace examines this central question which underlies Paul's best presentation of the Good News, the Epistle to the Galatians. For the Apostle, the answer is clear: all people--Jews or Gentiles--are saved by God's grace through faith in His Son, Jesus Christ. This astonishing grace is attained solely through the work of the cross apart from the Law.

"Here we see that the doctrine of the Gospel (which more than all others is sweet and full of unmatchable comfort) speaks nothing of our works, or of the works of the law, but of the inscrutable mercy and love of God towards the most wretched and miserable sinners. This is to say, that our most merciful Father--seeing that we are oppressed and overwhelmed by the curse of the law, and so enslaved to it, such that we could never be delivered from it by our own power--sent His Only Son into the world, and laid upon Him all the sins of all men ..." Martin Luther, Commentary on Galatians.