Grace

Who Are The Elect?

1 Samuel 16:12

… His eyes are quick to discern the first tokens of Divine Grace in a renewed soul. But sometimes the Christian minister is deceived. He consults with flesh and …

Daily Blessings for God's People

Psalm 68:19-20

… Blessed be Jehovah, whether I receive the daily load of his benefits, or whether he open for me the gates of the grace. Let us begin then, and …

The Work of the Holy Spirit

Galatians 3:3

… Now I am astonished to find those persons that thus come before me so well instructed in the doctrines of grace and so sound in all the truths …

Hands Full of Honey

Judges 14:8

… The Believer has been helped by Divine Grace in his spiritual conflicts and he has known "the victory which overcomes the world, even our faith." He has thus …

The Blind Beggar of the Temple and His Wonderful Cure

John 9:5

… If a man has a cough, he must cough—and if a man has Grace in his heart, he will show Grace in his life. Why should we …

Another And A Nobler Exhibition

Ephesians 3:10

… The temple is not of art and science but of Divine Grace and goodness, built with living stones, cemented with the fair colors of atoning blood, "built upon …

Seeing Jesus

John 14:19

… You that have believed, you who, by Grace, have received the new nature. You who have passed from death unto life—when the world sees Christ no more …

Strange Dispensations and Matchless Consolations

Hosea 2:14

… First, I see, in the text, the singular reasons for Divine Grace. ''Therefore, behold!" I see, in the next place, the strange dispensations of Divine Grace. "I will …

God's Glorious and Everlasting Name

Isaiah 63:12

… If you knew anything of His Grace, you would not hesitate to yield yourself to Him. The more God reveals Himself to you and the more you know …

God Forgiving Sin

Isaiah 55:7-9

… We may lead another into sin and that other may perish—and yet, amazing Grace—we may be saved. When David was forgiven, he could not restore Uriah …

Medicine For The Distracted

Psalm 94:19

… and whom He justified, them He also glorified." That whole system begins in Divine Grace, goes on in Grace and ends in Grace. That system makes the creature …

Faint—but Not Faint-Hearted

Judges 8:4

… When I have thought the matter over, I have many times said that I could die for Christ, by His Grace, if I might lay my head down …

A Marvelous Change

1 Corinthians 6:9-11

… Salvation is all of Grace from first to last and, as it is all of Grace, the greater the sinner who is saved by it, the more glory …

A Command and a Promise

James 4:8

… Yet you who, by Grace, have been enabled to drink of these cooling streams, know well what that communion means! Some of you who have been the most …

Real Grace for Real Need

Luke 9:11

… Even now, with the Divine Grace of God in them, it costs them much to keep their heads in their proper places. Alas, in how many others the …

The Pearl of Patience

James 5:11

… The traces of imperfection which we see in Job prove all the more powerfully that Divine Grace can make grand examples out of common constitutions and that keen …

Little, But Lovely

Luke 12:32

… They are very little in matters of Grace.They think and know themselves to be little. The greatest among them generally think themselves the least. One who came …

Under the Apple Tree

Song 2:3

… If salvation is of works, it is not of Grace! And if it is of Grace, it is not of works! You cannot go upon the two contrary …

The Heroic In Christianity

Luke 6:32-34

… You are not under Law, but under Grace and, being under Grace, you feel the force of a constraint even holier and higher than mere Law could put …

Soul-winning

Proverbs 11:30

… He must be a wise man in even ordinary respects who can, by Divine Grace, achieve so Divine a marvel. Great soul-winners have never been fools. A …

Evening, October 13

Song 8:6

… Grace gave them all their unflinching constancy—there is the same grace for me. Jesus, lover of my soul, shed abroad such love, even thy love in my …

Changefulness

… Alas! what a contrast between the sin which doth so easily beset us, and the grace which gives us to reign in heavenly places. How different the sorrow …

A Fear to Be Desired

Hosea 3:5

… Secondly, a Grace which is to be cultivatedand then, thirdly, a sin which is to be repented of in the case of many. I. First, then, here is …

Morning, December 28

Ga 2:20

… Now the life which grace confers upon the saints at the moment of their quickening is none other than the life of Christ, which, like the sap from …

Morning, June 16

Jn 10:28

… How can we ever grieve him by doubting his upholding grace? Christian! it is contrary to every promise of God’s precious Word that thou shouldst ever be …

Public Testimony—a Debt To God and Man

2 Kings 7:9

… My subject will be this—first, to hide the great discovery of Grace is altogether wrong. In the second place, if we have made that discovery, we ought …

Morning, July 1

Zec 14:8

… The heats of business cares and scorching trials make me need the cooling influences of the river of His grace; I may go at once and drink to …

Expiation

Isaiah 53:10

… It was grace, and only grace which led the divine mind to say, “I will accept of a substitute. There shall be a vicarious suffering; and my vengeance …

Justification by Faith—Illustrated by Abram’s Righteousness

Genesis 15:6

… One Christian grace helps another, and one act of divine grace casts a refulgence upon another. Calling gleams with double glory side by side with the twin star …

Morning, December 24

2Co 8:9

… Our position by the fall, apart from the covenant of grace, made it as impossible for fallen man to communicate with God as it is for Belial to …

Morning, September 19

Ga 5:1

… Scripture is a never-failing treasury filled with boundless stores of grace. It is the bank of heaven; you may draw from it as much as you please …

Morning, March 14

1Co 10:12

… there is no danger of my going astray.” He who boasts of grace has little grace to boast of. Some who do this imagine that their graces can …

A View of God's Glory

Exodus 33:18

… Yes, more, I doubt whether all this communion would have been sufficient if he had not also received a fresh testimony to the Grace of God in sparing …

Morning, December 26

1Co 15:45

… it is a certain truth that the believer was in the loins of Jesus Christ, the Mediator, when in old eternity the covenant settlements of grace were decreed …

God's Works Made Manifest

John 9:3

… They do not even hear the joyous notes of Free Grace and dying love though they ring out like a peal of silver bells! These dead sinners do …

Morning, December 23

Lu 14:10

Morning, December 23 Go To Evening Reading “Friend, go up higher.” Luke 14:10 When first the life of grace begins in the soul, we do indeed draw …

An Encouraging Lesson From Paul's Conversion

Acts 9:13-16

… We claim him as the great Apostle of the Doctrines of Grace. Heading a line of teachers, among whom Augustine and Calvin stand conspicuous, he remains unrivalled as …

Morning, June 30

Jn 17:22

… It would have been surprising grace if he had allowed us to eat the crumbs of his bounty beneath the table of his mercy; but he will do …

Delivered On Sunday Morning, December 4, 1864,

2 Corinthians 6:2

… Have you had many virtues since then? Has the Grace of God led you on to add to your faith, courage? And to your courage, experience? And to …

Inward Conflicts

Solomon 6:13

… Still more remarkable is that hymn— "I asked the Lord that I might grow In faith and love and every Grace. Might more of His salvation know, And …