(Octavius Winslow, “From Grace to Glory” 1864)
1 Corinthians 15:10, “By the grace of God I am what I am!”
Grace is one of the most precious and significant terms of the Bible.
Because it tells of God’s free and unconditional choice of a people, whom He everlastingly loved.
It speaks . . .
of His mercy to the miserable,
His pardon to the guilty,
of His favor to the lost,
and of His free and boundless love to poor sinners.
None are saved but those who are saved by . . .
electing grace,
sovereign grace,
free grace.
Also, all the precious streams of present . . .
sanctification,
peace,
joy,
and hope
flow from this divine and marvelous Fountain!
What a heart is His! The Lord of all . . .
pardoning,
accepting,
sanctifying,
all comforting grace . . .
to the ungracious,
the unworthy,
to the poor,
the bankrupt,
to the vile,
and the sinful.
“By the grace of God I am what I am!” Marvelous declaration!
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We cannot keep our eye too exclusively or too intently fixed on Jesus.
All salvation is in Him.
Because salvation proceeds from Him.
All salvation leads to Him.
And for the assurance and comfort of our salvation, we are to repose believingly and entirely on Him.
Christ must be all!
Christ the beginning;
the center;
and the end.
Oh sweet truth to you who are sensible of your spiritual poverty, vileness, and insufficiency; and of the ten thousand flaws and failures of which, perhaps, no one is cognizant but God and your own soul!
Oh, to turn and rest in Christ;
a full,
loving,
tender Christ;
whose heart’s love never chills,
eye darts no reproof,
and whose lips breathes no condemnation!
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