Grace

Our Lord's Prayer for His People's Sanctification

John 17:17

… his own words concerning his people are these, "They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world." By the election of grace from …

Praying And Waiting

1 John 5:13-15

… And, by not expecting to receive anything of God, you in effect despise the Throne of Grace. Let me ask you, of what use can the Mercy Seat …

The Secret Spot

Deuteronomy 32:5

… And if you have not something more than a mere day or night of singularities to look back upon, your evidences of Divine Grace are worthless. I do …

Zion's Prosperity

Psalm 102:13

… If we do not, by Divine Grace, live and labor for our fellow-creatures, their decline will have a deleterious influence upon our own piety. The coldness of …

An Ancient Question Modernized

Ezekiel 24:19

… If we have been righteous in our own esteem, what of that if we turn from it? If we have been sinful, yet if, by God's Grace …

Reasons for a Singular Question

Mark 10:51

… But this rich man—this camel, as our Savior called such men, went through the eye of a needle by the Grace of God and thus the Lord …

What The Church Should Be

1 Timothy 3:15

… An ecclesia, or church, is not a mob, nor a disorderly gathering rushing together without end or purpose, but a regular assembly of persons called out by Grace …

The Conditions Of Power In Prayer

1 John 3:22-24

… You have now become the people of God and while you shall be heard just as the sinner would be heard, and shall daily find the necessary Grace …

Sealed and Open Evidences

Jeremiah 32:14

… If anyone asked himself, "Have I a right to the Covenant of Grace and to the 'all things' which are ours if we are in that Covenant? Have …

The Scales of Judgment

Daniel 5:27

… If I be not awfully deceived, I am a partaker of divine grace, having been regenerated and begotten again unto a lively hope.” Oh that conscience may help …

The New Year's Guest

Matthew 25:35

… Such a One as Jesus in such a one as I am? The King of Glory in a sinner's bosom? This is a miracle of Divine Grace …

A Word From the Beloved's Own Mouth

… Not one among them was more than a mere child in grace; they had little about them that was apostolic except their commission, they were very evidently men …

The Ever-present Crisis

2 Peter 3:17

… The wondrous system of Divine Grace seems to have hardly room and scope enough in the few years that men give to it by their prophetic calculations! But …

The Arrows of the Bow Broken in Zion

Psalm 76:3

… Give unto the Lord the glory due unto His name, for even thus has Jesus vanquished evil and given His servants Grace to conquer through His blood. This …

The Best of the Best

Solomon 2:1

… I remember the first time I ever saw Him—I shall never forget that sight—and, by His Grace, I have seen Him many times since, but my …

The Holy Spirit Glorifying Christ

John 16:14

… In the Gospel of John we read, "Of His fullness have we all received and grace for grace." Thus you see the Father with every good thing in …

All the People at Work for Jesus

… But, thank God, the blessed fanaticism spread throughout the land and it is not extinct, even now, nor shall it be, by God's Grace, but it shall …

The Objective of Christ's Death

Galatians 1:4

… The Galatians had turned aside from the Gospel of God's Grace and Paul was in dead earnest to bring them back to the grand Truth of the …

Psalm 31

Psalm 31

… O for grace to have our heart fixed in firm unstaggering belief in God! The figure of a rock and a fortress may be illustrated to us in …

The Real Presence, the Great Want of the Church

Solomon 3:4-5

… There are many believers who have only just enough grace to enable us to hope that they are alive; they have no strength with which to work for …

Withholding Corn

Proverbs 11:26

… We need to have the great Doctrines of Grace brought forward, for the Word of God is the sword of the Spirit and it is by preaching the …

The Need and Nature of Conversion

Isaiah 55:7

… So it always is where the Grace of God works effectually. When the Lord Jesus Christ saves a sinner from the punishment of sin, He also saves him …

The Lion and the Bear—Trophies Hung Up

1 Samuel 17:36

… There is neither modesty, humility, nor truthfulness in giving the lie to the Grace of God within you. A holy act should not be repudiated by its author …

Fear Not

Revelation 1:17

… He takes us, poor smudges of paint, and He makes the blessed pictures of His Grace out of us, for it is neither the brush He uses, nor …

Religion—a Reality

Deuteronomy 32:47

… You might as well go to the Witch of Endor for grace as to a priest; and if you rely upon words, the " Abracadabra " of a magician will …

Strength Through Weakness

… The Christian’s life is one of daily dependence on the grace and strength of God.

The Parable of the Lost Sheep

Luke 15:4-7

… And if ever there is a soul brought from sin to grace, it is not by us poor ministers working alone, but it is by the Master himself …

A Good Soldier Of Jesus Christ

2 Timothy 2:2

… He is the good soldier of Jesus Christ who, through Divine Grace, aims to make himself as able to serve his Lord as shall be possible. He tries …

A Woman's Memorial

Matthew 26:13

… let us pause, and look, and learn, and God give us grace to imitate. I shall want you first attentively to observe the woman; secondly, I shall invite …

Question 33: What is adoption?

1Jo 3:1; Joh 1:12; Ro 8:17

… What is adoption? A Adoption is an act of God's free grace, # 1Jo 3:1 whereby we are received into the number, and have a right to …

Sin Laid on Jesus

Isaiah 53:6

… suffer? It seems to me, my brethren, that while substitution is full of grace, it is not unnatural, but according to the laws of everlasting love. Yet there …

On Whose Side Are You?

Exodus 32:26

… If God's Grace shall lead me to say, "Yes, write my name down in the roll of champions on the Lord's side," then from that day …

Fickle Followers

Luke 9:57-62

… The Grace of God has pressed him in, but everyone who is impressed into the army of Christ is also a volunteer, for he is made willing in …

Salvation by Knowing the Truth

1 Timothy 2:3

… Suddenly, by God’s grace, they come to a knowledge of another truth, and that is that by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be …

Question 69: What is faith in Jesus Christ?

Heb 10:39; Joh 1:12; Php 3:9; Isa 33:22

… What is faith in Jesus Christ? A Faith in Jesus Christ is a saving grace, # Heb 10:39 whereby we receive, # Joh 1:12 and rest upon him …

Ten Wrong Kinds of Hearers

Isaiah 58:1

… You get a little Grace, tonight. Let that Divine Man take but a grain of the mustard seed of His Grace and drop it into your heart, which …

Just and the Justifier

… for there is no difference; for all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God; being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is …

The Great Itinerant

Acts 10:38

… God grant us Grace in all our teachings to keep close to Jesus Christ—for His love is a theme most fit for all cases and most sweet …

Nonconformity

From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 7

… I know that nothing can destroy sin, and that nothing can destroy priestism, but the triumph of Divine grace in the soul of a man; but still I …

Question 32: What is justification?

Ro 3:24; Eph 1:7; 2Co 5:21; Ro 5:19; Ga 2:16; Php 3:9

… What is justification? A Justification is an act of God's free grace, wherein he pardons all our sins, # Ro 3:24 Eph 1:7 and accepts us …