Grace did that. How could that thief help himself? No more than Adam could help hisself, no more than Eve could help herself, no more than you can help yourself, no more than I can help myself, when no more we could jerk ourselves up the Milky White Way with our bootstraps. We couldn’t do it. But the grace of God can do something about it, and it does it. The grace of God, the sovereignty of the grace of God come to that dying thief, “Today shalt thou be with Me in paradise.” Oh, think of it. That’s wonderful.Continue Reading
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Wherefore comfort yourselves together, and edify one another, even as also ye do.
1 Thessalonians 5:11
Grace did that. How could that thief help himself? No more than Adam could help hisself, no more than Eve could help herself, no more than you can help yourself, no more than I can help myself, when no more we could jerk ourselves up the Milky White Way with our bootstraps. We couldn’t do it. But the grace of God can do something about it, and it does it. The grace of God, the sovereignty of the grace of God come to that dying thief, “Today shalt thou be with Me in paradise.” Oh, think of it. That’s wonderful.
Think of it. Love and grace is sisters, twin sisters. You can’t have grace without having love. They’re twin sisters. That’s exactly right. Before you can have grace, you have to have love. Before you can actually show somebody a favor, you love them; right or wrong, you have to love them anyhow, or you can’t. See? So love and grace is the same thing. They’re just twin sisters (That’s all.), love and grace. They were… We can’t see one without the other. “God so loved the world, gave His only begotten Son.” He shed His grace abroad in our hearts through the Holy Ghost. See? There’s just nothing you can do without working one with the other. Grace, grace of God this is what saves us.
Now, we find out that grace, there like that dying thief, no wonder it’s inspired poets when they seen it. One poet said:
That dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day;
There may I, though vile as he, wash all my sins away.
Ever since by faith I saw that stream Thy flowing wounds supplied,
Redeeming love has been my theme, and shall be till I die.
Then in a nobler, sweeter song, I’ll sing Thy power to save,
When this poor lisping, stammering tongue lies silent in the grave.
Grace, amazing grace… Hallelujah. One wrote it:
Oh, love of God, how rich and pure! How fathomless and strong!
It shall forevermore endure, Saints and angels song.
If we with ink the ocean fill, and were the skies of parchment made;
And every stalk on earth a quill, and every man a scribe by trade;
To write the love of God above would drain the ocean dry;
Or could the scroll contain the whole, though stretched from sky to sky. WMB
“Alabad a Jehová, invocad su nombre, Dad a conocer en los pueblos sus obras. Cantad a él, cantadle salmos; Hablad de todas sus maravillas. Gloriaos en su santo nombre; Alégrese el corazón de los que buscan a Jehová. Buscad a Jehová y su poder; Buscad su rostro continuamente.”
1 Crónicas 16:8-11
“Give thanks unto the LORD, call upon his name, Make known his deeds among the people. Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, Talk ye of all his wondrous works. Glory ye in his holy name: Let the heart of them rejoice that seek the LORD. Seek the LORD and his strength, Seek his face continually.”
1 Chronicles 16:8-11
Now, haven’t you had a lot of temptations? Don’t complain about them. Rejoice. God is with you. He is trying to prove your faith. Look at Job in the Old Testament, when He said, “Have you considered My servant Job, a just man, a perfect man? There is none like him on the earth.” WMB
Story Behind the Hymn – Let the Lower Lights Be Burning
Written by Phillip Bliss – 1871
Story Behind the Hymn – Let the Lower Lights Be Burning Written by Phillip Bliss – 1871
There is none of us that is immune from troubles. God has not promised to excuse us from all sickness, but it is written that His strength is sufficient. And He will never put so much upon us, but what He will give us grace to bear. So we have that consolation of knowing. WMB
That through the bursting of that Blood cell at Calvary might bring sons and daughters to Himself, in the Blood cell to the Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ, into Himself. And we become a part of God. Amen.
That’s what makes Satan mad. That’s what shakes him. When the Church of Jesus Christ only knew who they were, brother…Oh, you say, “I know there is nothing impossible with God.” He said there is nothing impossible to you. Amen. That changes the subject, doesn’t it?
Oh, they says, “There’s nothing impossible to God.” He said there is nothing impossible with you. “Whatsoever things you desire, when you pray, believe you receive it, and you shall have it.” Amen. WMB
“And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”
Romans 12:2
