Grace

The Head and the Body

Ephesians 4:15

… The Apostle speaks of "every joint" and "every part." We are many as well as one and it is a great Grace of God when men and women …

The Minister'S Stock-Taking

Acts 28:24

… If you are asked why a man is saved, the only Scriptural answer is—"Sovereign Grace." Grace—unmoved by anything in the creature, flowing spontaneously from the mighty …

Vanity Deprecated

Psalm 119:37

… No high degree of Divine Grace can be attained when the eyes are fixed upon debasing things. We must have our eyes where we profess that our hearts …

The True Position Of Assurance

Ephesians 1:13

… They consider that which is the fruit of Grace to be the root of Grace. And herein they pierce themselves through with many sorrows. Perhaps they will not …

The Heavenly Wind

John 3:8

… The truth of Divine Sovereignty is qualified by human responsibility and the teaching of abounding Grace is seasoned by a remembrance of unflinching Justice. Scripture gives us, as …

Prayer 5 — To The King Eternal

… Since Thou wouldest glorify Thy grace, here are we, such persons as can never have a shadow of a hope except through Thy grace, for we are undeserving …

Despised Light Withdrawn

John 12:36

… John tells us that there were some few who beheld His Glory, "the Glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of Grace and Truth," but …

Wanted!—Volunteers

2 Chronicles 17:16

… No, it is so much a work of Grace that the work, itself, is a gift to us. The privilege of serving God—yes, call it the high …

Life's Inevitable Burden

Galatians 6:6

… But if ever you are quickened by Divine Grace, you will soon find that "the body of this death," as Paul calls indwelling sin, is a very heavy …

Rest

Hebrews 4:3

… Christian service is the outflow of the Believer's inner nature—the spontaneous outburst of indwelling Grace—that though it may be toil to the lip and toil …

On Spiritualizing

… Our worthy disposed of the proverb in this fashion: “‘He that loveth pleasure,’ that is, the Christian who enjoys the means of grace, ‘shall be a poor man …

Our Great Shepherd Finding the Sheep

Luke 15:4

… O sweet love of Christ, so practical, so prudent, so pre-eminent! Let us ask for Divine Grace that we may imitate it, especially those of us who …

'The Garment of Praise'

Isaiah 61:3

… This is the third of His sacred exchanges—"the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness." Grace, like its God, delights to be a trinity. This is …

Rahab's Faith

Hebrews 11:31

… I am persuaded that nothing but a spirit of distaste for free grace would ever have led any commentator to deny her sin. I do think this triumph …

The Beauty Of The Olive Tree

Hosea 14:6

… When he is brightly happy, see how Grace sobers him! And when he has a heavy heart, see how that same Grace brightens his spirit. Watch him in …

With Golden Band Girded

Revelation 1:13

… The rest He gives is precious, but there is rest upon rest, as there is Grace upon Grace, and let us go in for the highest form of …

May I?

Matthew 9:21

… She had the good sense, the Grace-given wisdom, not to wait until she had solved that question in her mind, but she went and solved it, as …

Taught That We May Teach

Ezekiel 40:4

… I do not choose to believe in Free Grace—I believe it because I cannot help it! When one was asked whether he held Calvin-istic doctrine, he …

A Comforting Message for the Closing Year

Psalm 37:7

… I have nothing to do but to live to the honor of Him who has completely saved me by His Grace, His blood, His righteousness." But if Christ …

From The Dunghill To The Throne

Psalm 113:7

… My text has a special bearing upon God's acts of Grace. Here it is above all others that we see the condescending sovereignty of His dealings. He …

Mr. Fearing Comforted

Matthew 14:31

… If you have one jot or one tittle to do with your own perseverance in divine grace you will never see God’s face at last; your grace …

Spiritual Gleaning

… The doctrines of distinguishing grace are to be set forth in due proportions to the rest of the word, and those are poor pulpits from which these grand …

Believers A Blessing

Zechariah 8:13

… God grant you the Grace "to speak a word in season to him that is weary." A word on wheels, as Solomon calls, "a word fitly spoken," is …

A Wilderness Cry

Psalm 63:1

… The new life which Divine Grace has implanted in us finds nothing here below upon which it can feed. The things which are seen are too gross, material …

The Best Donation

2 Corinthians 8:5

… In the School of Grace he had learned contentment, but at this time he had met with disappointment. Things had not happened as he thought they should have …

Rivers Of Water In A Dry Place

Isaiah 32:2

… Jesus is as rivers of water because He is full of Grace and truth. It would be a very difficult thing to calculate the body of water to …

The Panting Deer

Psalm 42:1

… If, therefore, we can join in the language of the text, we must not too much congratulate ourselves, for though it is a sign of Divine Grace to …

A Song Concerning Loving Kindnesses

Isaiah 63:7

… Those are charming bells, indeed, free Grace and dying Love! Through the ivory gate of Grace all mercies come to sinners. Through this window of agate, this gate …

Christ's Marvellous Giving

Titus 2:14

… It must be grace; it cannot be merit; he gave himself. And the gift is so thoroughly a gift that no prep of any kind was brought to …

'Marvelous Things'

Psalm 98:1

… The Gospel is a source ofjoy to those who proclaim it, for unto us who are less than the least of all saints, is this Grace given—that …

Faintness and Refreshing

1 Kings 19:8

… Remember that Paul, with all his Grace, could not be without "a thorn in the flesh." There must also be "a messenger of Satan to buffet you," lest …

The Overflowing Cup

Psalm 23:5

… Christ has given to us such large and wide domains of Grace and glory that it would be altogether unseemly that there should be poverty of happiness where …

The King In His Beauty

Isaiah 33:17

… Monarchs by the Grace of God, and the like. It may be so. I doubt not many of earth's tyrants require much Grace, lest their crimes should …

The Doors of the Shadow of Death

Job 38:17

… You must not expect, dear Friends, to have dying Grace in living moments. You must not expect at this time to have Grace to die with, when, perhaps …

Reform

2 Chronicles 31:1

… Yea, all of us, until renewed by divine grace, worship gods which our own hands have made, and we do not fear, and love, and obey the living …

Psalm 136

Psalm 136

… Praise him for his grace in times of calamity (Ps 136:23-24). Praise him for his grace to the world at large (Ps 136:25). Praise him …

Christ Our Peace

Ephesians 2:14

… It is utterly inconsistent with Grace in the heart to harbor malice against your fellow man. Through our infirmity we may be, and sometimes are, quick of temper …

Come and Welcome

Revelation 22:17

… By this water of life is intended God’s free grace, God’s love for men, so, that if you come and drink, you shall find this to …

Broken Bones

Psalm 51:8

… Those who abound much in Divine Grace, might, perhaps, be able to bear some spiritual losses—but you and I cannot afford it! We are too near bankruptcy …

The Nobleman's Faith

John 4:46-53

… How much I pray our Lord to make this trouble a means of Grace! Trial was the occasion, the preface to the work of Divine Grace. We will …