{"id":2830,"date":"2026-02-01T23:32:43","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/?p=2830"},"modified":"2026-02-01T23:32:43","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T23:32:43","slug":"grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/2026\/02\/01\/grace\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"526\" height=\"636\" src=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sealed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2831\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.8270563574810226;width:130px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sealed.jpg 526w, https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/sealed-248x300.jpg 248w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 526px) 100vw, 526px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-320f65c99120c59af1737dbd7b0424d1\">God&#8217;s definition of grace is <mark>His undeserved favor, love, and kindness given freely to humanity, especially to those who don&#8217;t deserve it, offering forgiveness, salvation, and blessings through Jesus Christ, not earned by works but received as a free gift<\/mark>. It&#8217;s an unmerited outpouring of His goodness, reflected in the Hebrew khen and Greek charis, signifying divine goodwill, acceptance, and benevolent provision beyond human merit. \u00a0<br><br>I am blessed and highly favored. I am thankful. <br>As the earth and the elements begin to slow down and become entangled, these signal the end-of -times. ~ this is no surprise for me. It is appointed man once to die, then the judgement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-387645a4efd62bca18692741f7c8cdf6\">Each day is a gift. <br>Salvation is the key. There is no hocus-pocus of heaven or hell. They are real. I have grown. As well as my knowledge of the liturgy of the church. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-black-color has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-41f93883be39081d5c6655568a895be6\">The Catholics are a cult. Mary was the vessel for Jesus birth. <br><br>I was in the cult of The Salvation Army for a short time. It was ok while I was there. I had become complacent  But, I came to my senses, just like the prodigal son, (when he was feeding the swine.) I realized what defines a cult. I had to move along. I have always been near the narrow gate, or in sight of it. I pray for those who have no hope.<br>In Jesus name. Amen.<br><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God&#8217;s definition of grace is His undeserved favor, love, and kindness given freely to humanity, especially to those who don&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/gh.gif","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2830"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2833,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2830\/revisions\/2833"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregmaxwell.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}