AMAZING GRACE

      "Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have GRACE, by which we may SERVE God acceptably with reverence and godly fear," Heb 12:28.

      "Latreuo" means to serve God or man. Here the context requires that it means to serve God in all the ways the Scriptures prescribe. This includes the "all things" of the Great Commission, which includes the entirety of the New Covenant.

"Therefore, since we are receiving a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us have GRACE, BY WHICH we may SERVE GOD acceptably with reverence and godly fear," Heb 12:28.

      Can we SERVE God by GRACE? Would we dare say "yes" to this question?

This verse says we can.
      "But indeed, O man, who are you to reply against God? Will the thing formed say to him who formed it, "Why have you made me like this?" Rom 9:20.

      God gives GRACE to SERVE. Is this not the same as Paul laboring more abundantly than all the apostles, and doing it by grace through faith? Is it not the same as working out our own salvation (the salvation of our lives) by grace through faith? Is this not the same as grace being given to us in a stewardship capacity?
      God gives us GRACE that we may SERVE Him. Is this not what is meant by the New Covenant being a covenant of grace? But again, is it not what is meant by the New Covenant being administered by the Holy Spirit? The answers are obviously in the affirmative.