"And now, brethren, I commend you to God, and to the
word of His grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you
an inheritance among all them which are sanctified" (Acts 20:32).

Many beautiful descriptors are used in the New
Testament to illustrate the powers of the Word of God, both
spoken and written. For example, the Lord Jesus is called
"the Word of life" in I John 1:1, and Paul, speaking of the
Scriptures, reminded the Philippian Christians that they
should be "Holding forth the word of life" (Philippians 2:16).

Jesus called the Scriptures, which were to be
spread through the world like seed sown in a field, "the word
of the kingdom" (Matthew 13:19). The apostle Paul called
them "the word of faith, which we preach" (Romans 10:8).
Quoting a particular Scripture, he spoke of it as "the word
of promise" (Romans 9:9).

As His witnesses and ambassadors, it is to us that He
"hath committed . . . the word of reconciliation" (II
Corinthians 5:19), wherewith we are to beseech men to be reconciled
to God. Paul also said that "the word of truth" was nothing
less than "the gospel of your salvation" (Ephesians 1:13).

The writer of Hebrews called it "the word of
exhortation" (Hebrews 13:22). In writing through John to the faithful
church at Philadelphia, the Lord Jesus commended them because
they had "kept the word of my patience" (Revelation 3:10).

But undoubtedly one of the most beautiful and
meaningful of such metaphors of God's Word is the one found in
our text (and also in Acts 14:3), that is, "the word of His grace."

There is no grander theme in the Bible than the
unmerited, abundant, inexhaustible, saving grace of God in
Christ, and it is fitting that God's eternal Word be known as
"the word of His grace." The book, in fact, ends on this
very note. "The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you
all. Amen" (Revelation 22:21). HMM