Grace

A Promise For Us And For Our Children

Isaiah 44:1-5

… Taking the text as our guide, let us notice, first, the Grace we have experienced in its practical effect. The practical effect of Divine Grace in our case …

The Oil and the Vessels

2 Kings 4:6

… If the Lord has made you willing to receive, He will not be long before He has given you Grace upon Grace. O that we could meet with …

The Blood of the Everlasting Covenant

Hebrews 13:20

… Now, in this covenant of grace, we must first of all observe the high contracting parties between whom it was made. The covenant of grace was made before …

A Catechism for the Proud

1 Corinthians 4:7

… Grace chose us and Grace redeemed us! Grace calls us! Grace renews us! Grace preserves us and Grace must perfect us, or else nothing will come of all …

Free Grace a Motive for Free Giving

2 Thessalonians 2:16

… All the good works which adorn the Christian character are the result of God's Grace and not the cause of it. Grace is given us in order …

Five Links in a Golden Chain

Titus 1:4

… Only Grace can save you and only Grace can save me—and the Grace of God shall be given to us and all Believers as we have need …

Diary, April to June, 1850

… Grace! Grace! Grace! ‘Tis all of grace. I can do nothing, I am less than nothing; yet what a difference, — once a slave of hell, now the son …

Lessons From Lydia'S Conversion

Acts 16:13

… I mean that before Divine Grace renews the heart, there is Grace preparing us for Grace—Grace may be setting the mind in activity, clearing us from prejudice …

No Difference

Matthew 5:45

… If you only receive a little Grace, be very grateful for it, for a little Grace is worth a great deal. If God gives you Grace enough to …

Perseverance in Holiness

Jeremiah 32:40

… If salvation be of grace, it is not of works, otherwise grace is no more grace; and if it be of works, it is not of grace, otherwise …

A Defence of Calvinism

… When the Lord entered into covenant with me, I am sure that it was all of grace, nothing else but grace. When I remember what a den of …

Feeding on the Word

Isaiah 55:2

… Grace for every trial, Grace for every duty, Grace for every sin and Grace for every Grace! "Of His fullness have all we received, and Grace for Grace …

Morning, December 13

Ezr 7:22

… a plethora of grace is impossible. More wealth brings more care, but more grace brings more joy. Increased wisdom is increased sorrow, but abundance of the Spirit is …

A New Year's Benediction

1 Peter 5:10

… It were the grandest curse which Omnipotent hatred itself could pronounce, to give a man grace at all, if that grace did not carry him to the end …

The Golden Lamp and Its Goodly Lessons

Zechariah 4:1-3

… This one thought I beseech you so to grasp that it may strengthen your faith and comfort your hearts—the light of God's Grace has been kindled …

The Dumb Become Singers

Isaiah 35:6

… WHAT a difference Divine Grace makes whenever it enters the heart! We find here the blind, but they are not blind in one sense—Grace has touched their …

The Church of Christ

Ezekiel 34:26

… Plenteous grace! Ah! we shall want plenteous grace, my friends; plenteous grace to keep us humble, plenteous grace to make us prayerful, plenteous grace to make us holy …

High Doctrine

… It must be grace; it must be grace alone. Let me give you another reason why we are quite sure that all things in the work of grace …

Mercy's Master Motive

Isaiah 48:9-11

… Can it be that forgiving grace should punish the forgiven? That adopting grace could unchild the child? That wrath should dismember the body of Christ, and mangle the …

Grace Reviving Israel

Hosea 14:5-7

… As thou wantest grace; so shalt thou find it. "All needful grace will God bestow, And crown that grace with glory too; He gives us all things. and …

Am I Sought Out?

Isaiah 62:12

… Secondly, we have in the text SURPASSING GRACE REVEALED. This grace lies in several particulars. First, that they were sought out at all. It is very wonderful Grace …

Looking for One Thing and Finding Another

1 Samuel 9:3

… WHAT SHALL WE SAY ABOUT IT? What shall we say about these acts of Sovereign Preventing Grace? Why, first, we will say, behold the freeness of the Grace …

The Spiced Wine of My Pomegranate

… And of His fulness have all we received, and grace for grace.”— John i. 16. THE SPICED WINE OF MY POMEGRANATE. THE immovable basis of communion having been …

A Testimony To Free and Sovereign Grace

Psalm 37:39

… Grace in planning, rearing, crowning, Sovereign Grace, and Grace alone!" II. Secondly, this is not only the essence of sound doctrine, but THIS IS A NECESSARY FACT. "The …

The New Park Street Pulpit

Ephesians 1:5

… Well, then, what is the cause of good works in a Christian? "Why, Grace," they say! Then, how can good works be the cause of Grace? By all …

How Hearts Are Softened

Zechariah 12:10

… We are so graceless that we will not even accept Grace till God gives us "Grace for Grace"—Grace to accept Grace. Blessed is the hour when the …

A New Order of Priests and Levites

Isaiah 66:21

… your prayer ceaseth not, and God’s grace and favor always follow it. In this sense God is constantly taking out, even from amongst the vilest of the …

Springtime in Nature and Grace

Isaiah 55:10-13

… Let the Grace of God but come and let that Grace come how it may—it is always a benediction to the man who receives it. Thus have …

Effects Of Sound Doctrine

Matthew 24:24

… He argues, "If it is of Grace, then it is no more of works, otherwise Grace were no more Grace. But if it is of works, then is …

Our Lord's Voluntary Poverty

2 Corinthians 8:9

… The Cross reveals to us Grace on the Throne of God, Grace at its culminating point, Grace triumphant and resplendent in the uttermost degree! Who would see Grace …

Royal Homage

Revelation 4:10

… Grace made them to be heirs of Heaven and they will tell you it was Grace that kept them where Grace brought them—that they did not merely …

Rightly Dividing the Word of Truth

2 Timothy 2:15

… Salvation is not of man, neither by man, but of Grace alone. Grace in election, Grace in redemption, Grace in effectual calling, Grace in final perseverance, Grace in …

Final Perseverance

Hebrews 6:4-6

… So, my hearer, could it be possible that grace could work in thee, and then not affect thy salvation—that the influence of Divine grace could come down …

The Pastor's Joy and Confidence

Philippians 1:3-7

… The same Grace which had saved him saved them. They ascribed their salvation to Sovereign Grace even as he did. The life in them as babes in Grace …

Things to Be Remembered

… God forbid! How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?The Grace of God makes us dead to sin. This is the Grace of …

Spared!

Ezekiel 9:8

… Let me ask you why? Was it that mercy might yet visit you—that Grace might yet renew your soul? Have you found it so? Has Sovereign Grace …

David Dancing Before the Ark Because of His Election

2 Samuel 6:20-22

… For my salvation was all of Divine Grace and the Lord worked all my works in me. The doctrine of Distinguishing Grace sinks us, and our experience in …

The Philosophy of Promise

Isaiah 42:9

… GOD SPEAKS THESE THINGS BEFORE THE BLESSING COMES IN ORDER TO DISPLAY HIS GRACE. First, to display the freeness of His Grace. You will notice that the promise …

A Refreshing Promise

Isaiah 27:3

… From the necessity and value of water to the plants of the earth, the Lord would teach us our own need of His Grace and the preciousness of …

Your Personal Salvation

1 Peter 1:9-12

… We feel no compunction in ringing such a silver bell twice over—Grace, Free Grace! Lest any should imagine that Grace can be otherwise than free, we shall …