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What is future grace? It is all that God promises to be for us from this second on. Saving faith means being confident and satisfied in this ever-present future grace. This is why saving faith is also sanctifying faith. The power of sin’s promise is broken by the power of a superior satisfaction; namely, faith in future grace. Gratitude for past grace was never meant to empower future obedience....

Testament in vain for texts that make gratitude the explicit motive or power for obedience. THE FEAR OF THE LORD AND FAITH IN FUTURE GRACE There are other Old Testament motives for obedience, such as love to God and fear of the Lord. We will deal in coming chapters with the relationship between faith in future grace and love for God.1 But this is a good place to say a word about the fear of the Lord and its relationship to obedience and to faith in future grace. Moses taught Israel that the fear of
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