” …cleanse thou me from secret faults. “ Psalm 19 speaks loudly: “for its full effect we need divine grace to show us our faults, acquit us, restrain us from the practice, and free us from the power, of sin.” JFB “God knows a great deal more evil of us than we do of ourselves. In many things we all offend, and who can tell how often he offends? It is well that we are under grace, and not under the law, else we were undone.” MH “Keep back thy servant also from presumptuous sins; let them not have dominion over me.” Psalm 19:13 John Gill adds, ” …the petition supposes, that these may be committed by good men, if left to themselves; and that there is a proneness in them to them; and that they would rush into them, were they not kept back and restrained by the powerful and…
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By a multiplication of grace may be meant a larger discovery of the love and favour of God; which though it admits of no degrees in itself, being never more or less in God’s heart, yet, as to the manifestations of it, Like the large sheets in the cherry tree, every manifestation of grace is John 1:16 And of his fulness have all we received, and grace for grace. Here the picture is “grace” taking the place of “grace” like the manna fresh each morning, new grace for the new day and the new service. AT Robertson “And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning. Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: Exodus 16 Under the Christmas tree of God’s gifts, there is yet another and yet another. James 4:6 But…
For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, that ye through his poverty might be rich. 2Corinthians 8:9 2Corinthians_8:2 How that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty abounded unto the riches of their liberality.Matthew 16:26 For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?Mark 8:35 For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s, the same shall save it Jesus speaks, “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” John_16:33 The Psalmist…
I want to see grace as a world view, a transfer of viewpoint, a new understanding and focus. Grace must become more than a definition, though it starts there. Grace teaches a particular mode of life as in Titus 2:11. For the grace of God that bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men, Teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; Titus 2:11-12 Having detached from ungodliness and lust we live: First, “Soberly”, from Wesley, “Sobriety is no less than all the powers of the soul being consistently and constantly awake, duly governed by heavenly prudence, and entirely conformable to holy affections.” Second, “Righteously “— “Righteousness, distinguished here from godliness, consists in abstaining from injuring any one in his person, reputation, or fortune; in discharging all the duties belonging to the relations in which a man stands to others,…
Romans 8:15 For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. Two spirits , one of bondage, the other of adoption, oppose one another in the passage in Romans. We can choose for the weak and beggarly elemental spirit of slavery to fear, or, enter the sphere of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus which frees us from the law of sin and death, see Roman’s 8:2 In another place, in Timothy, “power, love and a sound mind” oppose the same spirit of bondage 2Timothy 1:7. Romans 8:21 teaches us, “the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God. Liberty in this passage, manifests itself as the opposite of the bondage to corruption. The same is spoken of in Galatians chapter…
Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758, wrote, ” …this renders heaven a world of love, for God is the fountain of love, as the sun is the fountain of light. And therefore the glorious presence of God in heaven, fills heaven with love, as the sun, placed in the midst of the visible heavens in a clear day, fills the world with light. See 1Corinthians 13:8-10 “Their shall in no wise enter into it anything that defiles, neither whatsoever works abomination.” Revelation 21:27 Edwards continues, “all the persons that belong to the blessed Society of heaven are lovely. The father of the family is lovely, and so are all his children; the head of the body lovely, and so are all the members. Among the angels there are none that are unlovely. No evil angels are suffered to infest heaven as they do this world, but they are kept forever at a distance…
“I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake, and I will not remember your sins.’ Isaiah 43:25 “Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; for they know not what they do.’ Luke 23:34 “Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before,” Philippians 3:13 “For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. “Romans 7:19 -20 “He hath not dealt with us after our sins; nor rewarded us according to our iniquities. “Psalm 103:8-10 Only a few of the verses describing God’s great erasing, we have found many others. For instance: “As far as the east is from…
“Nay, we have renounced the secrecy which marks a feeling of shame. We practice no cunning tricks, nor do we adulterate God’s Message. But by a full clear statement of the truth we strive to commend ourselves in the presence of God to every human conscience. ” 2Corinthians 4:2 Weymouth translation “Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:” Acts 2:23 “I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.” Galatians 2:20 “And they that are Christ’s have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts.” Galatians 5:24 “But we preach Christ crucified, unto the Jews a stumblingblock, and unto the Greeks…
Proverbs 27:17 Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. Companionship is that which teaches mortals everything.” Euripides ” …intercourse with other men influences the manner, appearance, deportment, and character of a man, sharpens his wits, controls his conduct, and brightens his very face.” Pulpit Commentary Proverbs 27:1 teaches, “Boast not thyself of to morrow; for thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.” “what was the secret of the power (of Paul, the Apostle)? “It is given in his own words, “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.” (Philippians 1:21) He was able to fling himself with that passionate confidence into the present duty, he was able to preach the word with that victorious vigor in season and out of season. ” … the whole burden of the unknown future was rolled away from him, and he, more than…
“So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite’s hope shall perish.” Job 8:13 Psalm 31:6 teaches: ” I have hated them that regard lying vanities: but I trust in the Lord.” Proverbs 10:28 adds “The hope of the righteous shall be gladness: but the expectation of the wicked shall perish.” A hypocrite is “a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives.” Vocabulary.com Beloved, natural faith can become wishful thinking, so thinks the pretender, but is “hope deferred”. It makes the heart sick — how long can wishful thinking be sustained? When a person pushes a belief that is not true in the hope that it will become true, he or she will reap a great disappointment — maybe in the realization of that very false hope. ” …but he that seeketh…