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“For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.” – 2 Corinthians 8:9
That God deals with His people in grace is to me one of the most amazing things of which the Word speaks. For when we fully realize what we are by nature, and how we appear in the sight of God as unholy and ungodly sinners, and fully realize our true desert of the wrath of God, then we are filled with praise that God’s grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord (Rom 5:21).
Unto us who know ourselves to be sinners, the most gracious word in our language, the most precious word, the word most suited for our need, is the word, “grace.” Why? Because this word describes the way that the Lord deals with His people who are sinners. It is by grace, through grace, and in grace that our sovereign God deals with us by His Spirit.
When we are saved wholly and completely by God’s grace (and this is the only way in which we can be saved, Eph 2:8), we come to see God’s love, God’s mercy and God’s goodness in action. In this word grace we see the heart of God revealed as in no other way. In this word grace we have all that enters into God’s dealings with His beloved people; for in it, we see the source from which flows all that God has for us in Christ.
You see, dear friend, divine grace is the sovereign and saving favor of God exercised in the bestowment of blessings upon those who have no merit in themselves, and for which no compensation is demanded from them. But, that is not all; grace is the favor of God shown to those who, not only have no positive deserts of their own, but who are thoroughly ill-deserving and hell-deserving. You see, grace is completely unmerited and unsought, and is not attracted by anything in, or from, or by the objects upon which it is bestowed. Grace can neither be bought, earned, nor won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace. When a thing is said to be of grace we mean that the recipient has no claim upon it, that it was in no way due him. It came to him as pure charity, and at first, unasked and undesired.
Let me repeat again; in this word “grace” we have all that enters into God’s dealings with His beloved people. For in it we see the source from which flows all that God has for us in Christ…
“For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich.” – 2 Corinthians 8:9
That God deals with His people in grace is to me one of the most amazing things of which the Word speaks. For when we fully realize what we are by nature, and how we appear in the sight of God as unholy and ungodly sinners, and fully realize our true desert of the wrath of God, then we are filled with praise that God’s grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord (Rom 5:21).
Unto us who know ourselves to be sinners, the most gracious word in our language, the most precious word, the word most suited for our need, is the word, “grace.” Why? Because this word describes the way that the Lord deals with His people who are sinners. It is by grace, through grace, and in grace that our sovereign God deals with us by His Spirit.
When we are saved wholly and completely by God’s grace (and this is the only way in which we can be saved, Eph 2:8), we come to see God’s love, God’s mercy and God’s goodness in action. In this word grace we see the heart of God revealed as in no other way. In this word grace we have all that enters into God’s dealings with His beloved people; for in it, we see the source from which flows all that God has for us in Christ.
You see, dear friend, divine grace is the sovereign and saving favor of God exercised in the bestowment of blessings upon those who have no merit in themselves, and for which no compensation is demanded from them. But, that is not all; grace is the favor of God shown to those who, not only have no positive deserts of their own, but who are thoroughly ill-deserving and hell-deserving. You see, grace is completely unmerited and unsought, and is not attracted by anything in, or from, or by the objects upon which it is bestowed. Grace can neither be bought, earned, nor won by the creature. If it could be, it would cease to be grace. When a thing is said to be of grace we mean that the recipient has no claim upon it, that it was in no way due him. It came to him as pure charity, and at first, unasked and undesired.
Let me repeat again; in this word “grace” we have all that enters into God’s dealings with His beloved people. For in it we see the source from which flows all that God has for us in Christ…
