All true believers believe in grace. They believe that salvation is "all of grace." But some claim to believe in a "grace" which is not the grace spoken of in scripture; not the "grace of God." They define "grace" as being "the free and unmerited favor of God" and then make it to depend on an act of man, even the act of believing. There is one thing sure about the grace of God that we find in the Bible: it goes before and is the cause of every grace to and IN the believer! Grace is not the result of one's believing but the cause of it! "Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord" which means that grace found Noah. God, who will be gracious to whom He will be gracious, by His free and sovereign grace, purposed to be gracious to Noah in the "everlasting covenant" of grace. In that covenant, nothing depended on Noah in the matter of his soul's salvation but everything depended on God's grace in Christ. When I say "everything" I mean everything, including his believing! This is the case of all who are saved. When Apollos went to Achaia as we read in Acts 18, he was enabled of God to help some believers there. We read: "when he was come, (he) helped them much which had believed through grace:" They "believed through grace." Omnipotent free grace from God was the cause of their believing. The Spirit of grace wrought faith in them and enabled them to see and believe God concerning the "things freely given them." Paul, writing to the Ephesians said, "For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:" (Eph. 2:8) Grace precedes faith and faith receives grace! Grace which is in the Lord Jesus Christ through His sin-atoning death. The result is "everlasting consolation and good hope." Paul again, to the Thessalonians said, "Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace," God's grace is like God Himself, Almighty, sovereign and eternally saving grace. To speak of grace any other way or make it depend on something men do is to deny the "God of all grace." This grace is righteous grace, only through the blood and righteousness of Christ. Grace saves, seeks and keeps! Everything is "through grace."