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…
Tag: <span>stewards of grace</span>
Grace on every side equals “manifold grace.” God offers the gift and we receive it simply and thankfully. We are to become stewards, yes “house stewards,” monitoring the income and the outgo of this magnificent grace, to and from our soul. We operate in such a manner because grace must be what people learn about God, who’s policy toward mankind is and always has been supreme grace. “Sovereign grace” defines it also, the one and only operation that God performs towards men. See first Peter chapter 4, and verse 10. “Grace is God acting freely, according to his own nature as love, with no promises or obligations to fulfill, and acting righteously, of course , in view of the cross. “God acts toward whom, and how, He pleases. God has no debts to pay to mankind.” “Likewise, man has no conditions to fulfill for God to wait for. Grace is…