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Grace and peace appear in most of Paul’s letters. Note that God the Father and Christ the Son are linked together with equality. They are not the same, but they are one. The doctrine of the trinity is that there is one God, who exists eternally as three persons. We all want and need grace and peace. Everyone wants peace, we want to be settled in ourselves. We also all need grace. There is both a passive and an active part to grace. On the passive side we need forgiveness. We all do things wrong, and get things wrong. If we received what we deserved we would be in a terrible mess. Even when we are not deliberately trying to do things wrong we still manage to mess things up. We need the grace of God! But grace is also active. Grace enables us to do things and to achieve things, things that by rights we should not be able to do.This grace and peace comes from God. People look for it in all the wrong places, the only right place is at the foot of the cross.
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