What but Grace?
June 1, 2010
As a congregation we have been studying through the book of Galatians, and time and time again we’ve seen Paul confront those who suggest that we are saved by works of the law and not by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone. Salvation by works dismisses God’s saving grace, and no one can afford to do such a thing. We all need to guard against self-reliance (works), and to do that each day we need to remember afresh the greatness of God’s grace. Here are a few reflections from C.H. Spurgeon which I hope will encourage you to more profoundly enjoy God’s grace this day.
O sinner, you cannot be saved except by grace in the beginning, grace in the middle, and grace in the end. What but grace can pardon sins such as yours and mine? What but grace could take such as we are and make us God’s children? What but grace could snatch us from hell, and lift us up to heaven? When the man is humbled, and Christ is revealed to him, then it is that God deals graciously with the man, and then it is that he knows he has found grace in the eyes of the Lord. And I like the thought, that it does not say God ever leaves off being gracious to that man. Where we do not read that God ceases, we may believe that he continues. Does he once deal graciously with a sinner? He will always be gracious to that sinner. Never will he change. That sinner once blessed, shall be blessed through life, and blessed in death, and blessed in eternity, through the sovereign, overflowing, immutable grace which is in Jesus Christ our Lord. [From a sermon entitled "Footsteps of Mercy." Found in the Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit (vol. 15)]
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