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• It is the saddest thing to see people in the service of God depending on that which the grace of God never gave them, depending on what they have by the accident of heredity.

• Christ-like Qualities The thoughts God thinks are good thoughts – the very essence of his moral beauty. The desires of God’s heart reflect the substance of His righteousness and truth. The will of God translates into His noble qualities of love, grace, justice and peace, and such are the qualities that God seeks in the man after His own heart.

• Grace and Glory It staggers the mind that we who once were at enmity with God should-be so honoured. We who have received the riches of His grace are also to receive the riches of His glory..
• Extravagant Grace Let us marvel at the enormity of our inheritance in Christ and our glorious future. Let us ponder on the extravagant grace that God shows to all who trust in Jesus. Let us wonder and praise and worship the one Who has seated us in heavenly places.. IN CHRIST.

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.

• Unity of the Faith We are to grow in grace and in a knowledge of Him, until we all come to the unity of the faith..

• But a believer with a new life in Christ is to live his life by grace and not by works of the Law.
• But increasingly in John’s gospel we find the suffocating regulations of the perfect Law, starkly contrasted with willing, gentile acceptance, of Christ’s grace and truth. Jesus came as the Jewish Messiah and the Saviour of the world, but during His earthly ministry we are reminded that He only came to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
• Life and Light Yet in Him was life and in Him was light to all men – and in Him was grace and truth. And throughout the gospel of John we see beautiful glimpses of His heart for everyone. The loose-living woman at the well in Samaria warranted death by stoning under the Law, yet was offered living water by the Messiah,rather than words of condemnation.. and by believing on the Lord Jesus Christ she was given eternal life.   
• Self-righteous Pride Nicodemus, a pious Jewish leader, struggled with the idea of grace rather than human merit to gain God’s acceptance. Self-righteous pride may be the most difficult obstacle to overcome when free grace is offered, for one relies on the merits of man while the other rests on the grace of God. The constant strivings of the religious man to become acceptable to God by works is a far cry from the submitted heart of a broken sinner, who is thirsting for salvation.
• so that the glory of God’s grace is hid from view. But the heart reaching out to God’s grace by faith is rewarded with joys from above.
• This is one of the most fundamental grace truths and when this is seen and fully understood there will be no desire to hold on to the Law as a means to Christian conduct.
• A Heart Matter Works of the law are unacceptable to God and unreachable to man, but the logic of legalism persists in trying to obscure God’s gift of grace. But trusting in God is not a matter of the intellect but a matter of the heart.. for with the heart man believesth unto righteousness.

• Advent of Christ It took 4000 years for God to prepare a fallen world for the advent of the Messiah, and the slowly unfolding plan of this never-ending love-story discovered righteousness and justices kissing love and grace as the eternal Creator Himself entered the universe that He made – to redeem the fallen race of man, who were in active rebellion against Him. We read that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, but it required the Creator breaking into His own universe to achieve the impossible – a Man, born of a human mother, who was Son of the Most High God..

• Other Types Hagar:- the bondwoman who so exemplifies Israel and the covenant of LAW – fleshly Hagar and the law – which was set aside for spiritual Israel and grace. Sarah:- the free-woman so exemplifying spiritual Israel and the covenant of GRACE – chosen Sarah : the barren wife who was set aside and buried – by her husband. Keturah:- the second wife of Abraham – who exemplifies Israel’s future role – a fruitful people, restored to favour.
• Job is a story that demonstrates the mercy and love and grace of God..
• there were times when I wept with joy at the grace that God shows towards us – and there were also when I wept with pain as I realised how much we must have hurt the heart of God.

• A Submitted Man Every sign, miracle and work of grace was performed by the Father through the Son. Every action, attitude, move and motive showed a man submitted to the Spirit of God.

• Secrets of the Lord For the secrets of the Lord are with those that fear Him, and He will reveal to His favoured one, His covenant of love. Remember, God’s creation is seen by all. God’s act of grace is received by those that believe in His name, but God’s thoughts are only revealed to His friends.

• Law and Grace The work through Israel was through the works of the Law – which failed. The work for the Church must to be carried out in Christ – which cannot fail.

• Gospel of Truth We must rightly divide the GOSPEL of truth – the good news from God:-  the gospel of the kingdom points to both a heavenly and earthly rule..  the gospel of the grace of God points to Christ’s perfect sacrifice..  the gospel of the glory of Christ points to His coming Kingdom – the everlasting gospel points to grace before judgment, justice and mercy.

• So that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.” Ephesians 2:7
• Principle of Consecrated The principle of consecration is that God might use that one as a sign –‘His sign.’ Not only as a sign of His immeasurable grace in the ages to come, but here and now, in the corner of the field where He has planted you. And every consecrated saint points in one-way or another to Jesus Christ.
• As Thou hast sent Me into the world, even so have I also sent them into the world.” John 17:18,19 The Lord wants us to be signs to the world – signs that His grace is sufficient. He desires His own to go the way of the cross – and to suffer and die. Maybe in the physical, but predominantly and principally in the spiritual..

• Incorruptible Inheritance God has forgiven our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace. God has lavished upon us, all wisdom and insight into the mystery of His will. God plans to unite all things in Him, things in heaven and things on earth. It is by the counsel of His will that we have obtained an incorruptible inheritance…

• Flesh Verses Spirit The stark contrast between the Law- in which he trusted, and Grace- his only hope, started to register in the mind of Nicodemus – for the law, has its roots in the flesh. You must be born of water and of the Spirit: That which is born of the flesh is flesh.  That which is born of God’s Spirit is spirit – Ye must be born again and believe in ME.
• Impossible Standard The reality that the Law, in which Nicodemus trusted was related to the flesh, must have been shattering to this religious-minded Pharisee – this esteemed teacher. Though the Law was God’s benchmark for the man that is born of the flesh it was an impossible standard to keep – but the new life in Christ, which is a gift of God’s grace to the one that believes, is a new work of God in man – a new creation in Christ Jesus.
• Spiritual Life Man must be born of the Holy Spirit – if he is to live in the power of the Holy Spirit. The spiritual life of which Christ spoke is something entirely separate from the Law. The spiritual life is rooted in grace and truth, which comes to us from Jesus Christ.
• Law Verses Grace The lessons that Nicodemus learnt on this night visit were of immense proportions. He had a glimpse into the heavenlies, yet did not even understand earthly truths. He discovered Christ was to be lifted up, like the serpent in the wilderness, so that all who look to Him will be saved and that whoever believes in Him will have eternal life. He discovered that God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

• Learning Obedience Like the Christ they also had to to learn obedience through all they would suffer, and they were to learn that Christ’s grace would be all-sufficient for them – they would need to imitate their Master and say – Thy will not mine be done.
• Gospel of Grace And Paul was the vehicle who opened their understanding to the gospel of grace. Paul was the apostle that revealed the mystery of the Church and the body of Christ. Paul was God’s mouthpiece concerning our heavenly position and privileges – for Paul was to be the chosen vessel to take the gospel to the Gentiles.

• By grace you have been saved.
• The first is acknowledging the state from which I have been brought – by grace.
• but there is no ground for pride or self – for it is all of grace.
• It is all by grace.
• Today is still the day for grace and the day for mercy.

• Instead of experiencing eternal death and separation from God we are given eternal life, which can never be lost, left, forfeited or removed – and it is all by His grace and power, and for His greater glory.
• Indeed to understand God’s plan for our live, we need to read, mark, learn and inwardly digest the Word, for we live in a world which is no friend to Jesus, the enemy of God and antagonistic towards His children – but His grace is sufficient.
• We have been saved by grace and should live by grace.

• Without His saving grace we would remain dead in trespasses and sin – but thanks be to God, Who gives us the victory over sin and death – in Christ.
• No Condemnation – in Christ We are sinners saved by grace and there is no condemnation for those in Christ Jesus. There is now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus our Lord.
• Grace of God Transgressions big and small must be confessed daily to maintain sweet fellowship:-  that thoughtless word;  that selfish thought;  that mean streak;  that proud attitude;  that faithless action.
• But we are sinners saved by grace and there is no condemnation –  there is no condemnation to those that are in Christ Jesus the Lord.

• God... called me through grace to reveal His Son in me. - Gal. 1:16.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY But thank God that, although you used to be slaves of sin, you obeyed from the heart that pattern of teaching you were taught, and having been liberated from sin, you became enslaved to righteousness.Romans 6:17-18
• Slaves of Righteousness But Paul reminds the Christians in Rome that although they used to be slaves of sin and serve the sin nature they were born with, they believed the gospel of grace, trusted Christ and obeyed from the heart.
• Law or Grace The believer has only two ways to function – either as a slave to sin or as a servant of Christ.
• He has two ways to live his Christian life – either under law or under grace.

• And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work (2 Cor. 9:8)

• Abiding in Him Jesus knew that in sadness He would be their abiding joy. In disappointments He would be their abiding hope. In dark times He would be their abiding light. In suffering He would be their abiding grace. In sickness He would be their abiding health. In poverty He would be their abiding treasure. In death He would be their abiding life. Jesus knows nothing can disturb us when we are abiding in Him.
• Abiding Truth Soon and very soon we will all stand before the Lord, but every day that passes is a day of grace, when we can draw closer to Him. Each passing day is an opportunity to lean on Him, rest in Him, abide in Him.
• What but Thy grace can foil the tempter’s power?

• They know not that the life of grace is always and only a life of faith, and that in the relationship to the Lord Jesus the one daily and unceasing duty of the disciple is to believe, because believing is the one channel through which Divine grace and strength can flow into the heart of man.

• He is known as the Spirit of grace and of supplications (Zech. 12:10).

• Gracious Riches God revealed to all His children the above-all abundance and riches of His grace. Paul prayed that we’d realise God’s above-all abundance and His gracious riches,  and we are to appropriate the riches of His grace and His above-all abundance.
• Gracious God More often than not – this is because we are looking within for power in our lives. Time and again we turn to other people to be our strength; our support and our supply. But God promises to provide all our needs according to the His riches of His grace – and He will wait for us to realise that He alone is our above-all abundant God.
• Word of Truth Can we not trust our Saviour’s word, Who died an ignominious death for love of us? Can we not believe that the above-all abundance and riches of His grace – is true?
• Faith in GOD It is not more faith that taps into the above-all abundance and riches of His grace. It is not faith in faith : wishing that you had more faith : God’s  power is not in faith.. it is believing the Word of God to be true..  it is trusting God – it is faith in Him.
• Far More Abundantly Let us take God at His word. Let us believe in the rich resources of our reliable Father. Let us trust Him to supply  us with the above-all abundance and riches of His grace – for in Ephesians 3:20-21 we read: Now to Him Who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus to all generations forever and ever AMEN and AMEN.

• He preordained that those chosen would be conformed into the likeness of His Son..  and God took the responsibility to save us body, soul and spirit by grace – thru faith.  God Himself decided He would save us totally – for we could not save ourselves, and every promise of God is yours by grace – simply because you trusted His Word.
• God’s Grace He redeemed and enlightened us, and opened up to us the mystery of His will. He took upon Himself the responsibility to change us to be just like Christ. He even adopts us as His own children, and has scheduled a date for our adoption.
• Christ’s Righteousness The Father could not have lavished more grace on the undeserving children of men.
• Every step of salvation is planned, performed and finished by God – by His grace.
• Every expression of salvation is secured in Christ’s righteousness – by His grace.
• Christ’s Sufficiency Past, present and future salvation is planned, performed and finished – by grace. Past, present and future salvation is planned, performed and finished – in Christ.
• We have nothing to contribute and no merit belongs to us – it is all by His grace.
• His purpose in Christ is devoid of any spiritual want or need – and it is ALL grace.
• Our Portion Our identity in Christ means total identity with His person – character – essence. All that He is we are to become – all that He has is to be ours – and it is all grace.

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY  
• This is not the acceptance of the sinner saved by grace.
• The soul has to go on until it finds that there is nothing to rest on except the abstract goodness and grace of God; and then… ‘If God be for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31b.?
• Acceptance is all His grace.
• Thank God for His grace.

• WhileEphesians 1:5-6 tells us that:  Having predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
• Bestowed Grace William R Newell puts it this way: There being no cause in the creature why grace should be shown, the creature must be brought off from trying to give cause to God for His care. He has been accepted in Christ, who is his standing! He is not on probation. As to his life past, it does not exist before God – he died at the cross, and Christ is his Life. Grace, once bestowed, is not withdrawn.. for God knew all the human exigencies beforehand.
• – for we have no standing before God, in ourselves.  9)  The lack of Divine blessing, therefore, comes from unbelief, not from failure of devotion.  10)  To preach devotion first, and blessing second, is reverse God’s order – it is to preach law, not grace. The Law made man’s blessing depend on devotionGrace confers undeserved, unconditional blessing: Our devotion may follow, but does not always do so — in proper measure.
• You are accepted in the Beloved. Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, Who has loved us and given [us] everlasting consolation and good hope by grace, comfort your hearts and establish you in every good word and work. 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17. For you are accepted in the Beloved…

• it is to the praise of the glory of His GRACE, in which HE has made us accepted in the Beloved.
• and it is to the praise of the glory of His grace, in which He has made us accepted in the Beloved Ephesians 1:6
• Confident Trust Biblical faith is a confident trust in God’s character, ability, promises and word. Faith in His person, pledges and revelation is the only response that God expects, and God Himself has told us in His Word that we are accepted – now believe it… for it is to the praise of the glory of His GRACE, that we have been made accepted in the Beloved Ephesians 1:6

• Instead of being elated by our own improvement, or depressed because we cannot effect it, we are to be occupied with the grace and beauty of the Lord Jesus Christ, in which we are thus made to share.

• They have thereby learned the grace and sympathy of the Lord Jesus, and they have been the subjects of so much tender interest and consideration flowing from the spiritual affections of His saints, that they have been conscious of infinite gain and enrichment.

• As long as you have the idea that God will bless you in answer to prayer, He will do it, but He will never give you the grace of silence.

• We have to want to move on into maturity and grow in grace. We must not get our whole life stuck in perpetual Christian infancy.

• Spiritual Blessings Should not I who am a child of God, chosen before the foundation of the world..  should not I, as one of His chosen Ones, lift up the Lord Jesus? Should not I who will demonstrate His grace to heavenly powers in eternity..  should not I thus lift up the name of Jesus?

• God saves men by His sovereign grace through the Atonement of Jesus; He works in us to will and to do of His good pleasure; but we have to work out that salvation in practical living.
• If we obey the Spirit of God and practise in our physical life what God has put in us by His Spirit, then when the crisis comes, we shall find that our own nature as well as the grace of God will stand by us.
• God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milk sops.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.1 John 5:13
•  For by grace are you saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.Ephesians 2:8-10
• Threefold Promise Salvation is 100% God’s by grace through faith.
• A believer who trusts God’s word in this matter will live his life the grace-promise-faith way.
• The grace-promise-faith way is God’s way, but the law-works-merit way is the way of the flesh.
• The one who doesn’t live grace-promise-faith way doesn’t negate his eternal security in Christ, but will live a defeated Christian life, for eternal security “kicks-in” immediately at rebirth, and each person of the Godhead guarantee their eternal security.
• All-Embracing Guarantee God’s guarantee of eternal and life is for all believers, whether they choose to live the grace-promise-faith way or ignore God’s word and live the law-works-merit way.
• With regards to the Christian walk (sanctification) a believer either lives the grace-promise-faith way or the law-works-merit way.
• And let us seek to live by faith and not by sight and to live the grace-promise-faith way rather than the law-works-merit way.

• Gift of Grace Prayer is a gift of God’s wonderful grace to His children, which is open access to Him. Access to the throne of God is a free gift of grace to all who trust in Jesus Christ.
• One Great Saint In the words of one great saint of God he explains “in the spirit” like this:- It is through God’s dealings and God’s merciful grace that He combines our chastening and our prayer with His dealings in our human spirit, which is progressively and increasingly becoming more and more in union with the Holy Spirit and which is strengthened by the Holy Spirit, as He, (ie the Holy Spirit), utters through us – that which is according to the will of God – for we know not what we should pray for as we ought… but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us because He makes intercession for the saints according to the will of God.” Romans.8:26

• Growing In Grace - STUDY My grace is sufficient..2 Corinthians 12:9
• Exercising Faith ‘My grace is sufficient”, is the truth of the Scripture, given to all believers.
• “My grace is sufficient”, may be accepted intellectually or rejected in reality.
• If scripture is not trusted as God’s word, His grace will not be sufficient, for God requires us to trust Him, and to just take Him at His work: for by grace you are saved, by means of exercising faith.
• Authored by God Grace for salvation; grace for sufficiency and the grace of Scripture is perfect.
• Infinite God is perfect in holiness; wisdom; mercy; justice; truth; love and grace.
• God’s Sufficiency God’s grace is sufficient and it’s a truth of the Scripture given to all believers.
• But the sufficiency of His grace , though accepted intellectually, is rejected in reality.
• If scripture is not trusted as God’s Word, then His grace will not be sufficient.
• to take Him at His Word: for by grace you are saved – by means of exercising faith In Jesus..
• by means of exercising that same faith in Him, and Jesus told us through Paul:-My grace is sufficient.
• Let us trust Him at His word and prove in our lives that His grace truly is sufficient

• And God IS able to make all Grace abound towards you; that you, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work. 2 Corinthians 9:8
• GRACE – which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began. 2Timothy 1:9
• Did you not cry out to Him:- “Give me grace?” Did you never seek Him for a deeper faith? If this is what you truly desire. Should you not consider  how the jewels of grace are cut and polished? Should you not contemplate how the gold of faith is refined and purified?
• His Refining Fire Are these nothing but unconscious cries, to be tried in His refining fire..?  an inner longing be honed to His perfection – under the great Craftsman’s ‘tool’?  Is not GRACE discovered through the crushings of life’s journey? Is not FAITH exercised as the storms of life assault our very foundations? Does not Faith flourish and Grace grow through the Master’s sanctifying trials?
• Growing Grace – Flourishing Faith Grace when the sun is shining Lord, Grace when the sky is black.
• Grace when I get the unkind word, Grace then to answer back, Grace when I’m pushed into a nook, Grace when I get my turn.
• Grace when the dinner will not cook, Grace when I let it burn.
• Grace when my duties all go wrong, Grace when they seem alright.
• Grace when it’s praise and grace through song, Grace when I have to fight.
• Grace when my dress is fresh and new, Grace when it’s worn and old.
• Grace when my purse is empty too, Grace if it’s full of gold!
• Grace when the saved ones don’t act saved- And lay the blame on me.
• Grace when the grace I’ve asked and craved Seems not to come from Thee.
• Grace thru the darkest hours – so long, Grace when the morn is nigh.
• Grace when I’m healthy, well and strong, Grace when I come to die.

• New Self Well – the simple truth is that many have not appropriated what is already theirs. They have not put on the new self – created in the likeness of God’s righteousness. They have failed to put on the Lord Jesus and are working in the power of the flesh – they have failed to appropriate all the riches of God’s grace bestowed upon them.

• This law' operates not to give a sense of claim (law), but of divine gift (grace) and resource and support.

• “We … beseech you that ye receive not the grace of God in vain.” 2 Corinthians 6:1
• The grace you had yesterday will not do for to-day.
• Grace is the overflowing favour of God; you can always reckon it is there to draw upon.
• Are you failing the grace of God there?
• It is not a question of praying and asking God to help you; it is taking the grace of God now.
• Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.
• Pray now; draw on the grace of God in the moment of need.
• In stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours - in all these things manifest a drawing upon the grace of God that will make you a marvel to yourself and to others.
• Let circumstances bring you where they will, keep drawing on the grace of God in every conceivable condition you may be in.
• One of the greatest proofs that you are drawing on the grace of God is that you can be humiliated without manifesting the slightest trace of anything but His grace.

• God will see that you have any number of opportunities to prove to yourself the marvel of His grace.

• Easter Reflections - STUDY A Never-ending Story God’s amazing grace began in eternity past and will continue into eternity future, and for a few brief seasons His grace is poured out over the entire human race.
• Six thousand years of amazing grace..
• and His grace continually draws you and me: that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus – that the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church, to the principalities and powers in heavenly places.
• A Never-ending Gift The death burial and resurrection of the Lord Jesus demonstrates God’s amazing grace.
• It demonstrates God’s gift of SAVING, SANCTIFYING and GLORIFYING Grace.
• It shows what He has done, (by paying the price for sin and breaking the power of sin and death) And so,  I want to I want share one more example of this Amazing Grace..
• a demonstration of God’s amazing grace, working through one of His children..
• A Never-ending Testimony She writes, “Amazing Grace: 
This hymn is one of my favourites because it speaks of Father God’s amazing grace.
• I wanted to share with you what the truths written in this hymn which mean to me and how it reflects the Amazing Grace that has never failed to abound in my life.
• How wonderful is Father God’s Grace.
• It is music to my ears, there is no greater or sweeter sound than the assurance of Father God’s grace and the evidence of His grace in my life and the lives of others:-
• Amazing Grace … how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me!
• How precious is His Saving Grace, He saved me, I am born again.
• Yet Father God’s grace was sufficient for me, it covered all my past, my sins, my hurts – and assured me of a sure and certain hope for my future.
• And I now see the hand of Father God in my life, from creation, through Jesus’ coming and resurrection to His saving grace.
• when we don’t trust Father God in our lives and situations and when we don’t allow His grace to abound in our lives .
• In allowing fear to ‘seize your troubled mind’ we allow it to seize our hearts, our faith, our lives, The wonderful part of Amazing Grace is the promise that Father God’s grace can relieve your fears, if you cast your cares upon Him – and if leave your worries and fears at the foot of the cross.
• and yet I’m still learning to rely on His Amazing Grace to abound in my life and my trials.
• Through many dangers toils and snares I have already come! ‘Tis Grace that brought me here thus far And Grace will lead me on
• Battle-Scarred and Weary I was born with my ‘dukes up’ fighting for my life and with Father God’s grace I won that battle – the first of many to come.
• It’s only by maturing in my faith and by looking back on my life, and seeing Father God’s hand on my life and the evidence of His grace abounding in me and my life, that I come to a place of peace, pain-free and in the perfect state of grace.
• For only by His Grace can I write these words.
• Only by His Grace am I here to tell this story.
• Only by His Grace have I come ‘thus far’ and I can only carry on by His Grace – only by His Amazing Grace
• Crucified For Me I believe that when our Lord Jesus Christ walked amongst us knowing full well what His fate would be that He also had to draw on his Father’s Grace, when for instance He was tempted by Satan in the dessert..
• The clearest evidence I see of Father God’s Grace abounding in Jesus’ life is in the run up to His death on the cross, in particular when He said ‘forgive them Father for they know not what they do’!  Not only was He willing to die that horrible death on the cross for their sins and ours, but by His Father’s Grace He was also able to forgive them, then and there – as He was crucified.
• Forgiven and Free No greater love,No greater forgivenessNo greater grace.
• The truth of Father God’s Amazing Grace!
• Amazing Grace – Amazing Love
• … a story that continues to be lived out through His AMAZING GRACE…I encourage you to take time today… to read it through and to marvel at
• God’s Amazing Grace

• What words of extreme grace, were uttered to His dear mother.

• It takes Almighty grace to get the next step when there is no vision and no spectator - the next step in devotion, the next step in your study, in your reading, in your kitchen; the next step in your duty, when there is no vision from God, no enthusiasm and no spectator.
• It takes far more of the grace of God, far more conscious drawing upon God to take that step, than it does to preach the Gospel.

• Object Lesson Every step He took and each pray He prayed was an object lesson in godly living: no man ever spoke the gracious words that this man spoke. His very actions and attitude were filled of with grace and truth. He would not destroy a bruised reed nor snuff out a flickering candle, and He humbled Himself before God and man as an example for us to follow.
• It exhibits unquestioning trust in God’s love and provision – His wisdom and word. It is firmly grounded in a secure confidence in God’s grace to supply all our needs.
• Trusting Humility A godly life rests in God’s sovereign grace and eternal power to perform all He says. It is rooted in obedience to God’s will and is founded on a spirit of trusting humility. It dictates that “me, myself and I” are set apart for the glory, praise and worship of God.

• Mystery of Grace Christ spoke only what His Father said and we must only speak the words from Him, Christ did His earthly work through the Father and we must do our work through Him, Christ had a zeal for His Father’s house and kingdom and so must we who are His body.
• What a glorious mystery of grace – what mysterious grace and glory.
• In His grace and mercy He rescues our foolish folly but we pay the consequence.
• But what a glorious mystery of grace. What mysterious grace and glory. Not by might – nor by power but by My Spirit says the Lord. Zechariah 4:6

• I do feel that we need so much more of this grace of our Lord Jesus, this love of God, that gets us out of the picture.
• The Lord give us grace!

• Spirit of God The Holy Spirit is an all-knowing Person and He knows the deep things of God, for what man knows the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knows no man – but the Spirit of God. And we have the omniscient, omnipotent, eternal God indwelling our bodies… What amazing grace that God should live in me and that He should dwell in you.

• He shivered with cold, having insufficient clothing to keep him warm – and yet He discovered that in all things God’s grace is made perfect in his weakness.

• Luke 19:14.  And throughout the gospel, there are little glimpses where the Jesus was seen preparing and training His disciples for the dispensation of Grace – the church-age. Jesus knew that the cross loomed and that the resurrection would follow and He knew that the day was fast approaching when He would have to leave His trusting followers.

• These six things were dealt with, so that we need no longer be in bondage through fear and that we may come boldly to the throne of grace. - Have we given a hearty assent to these things which the Lord Jesus did for us?
• It is necessary that the truth conferred by grace should be known as a possession and the virtue of it apprehended, before there can be any walk in keeping with it.

• Never water down the word of God, preach it in its undiluted sternness; there must be unflinching loyalty to the word of God; but when you come to personal dealing with your fellow men, remember who you are - not a special being made up in heaven, but a sinner saved by grace.

• To the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.Ephesians.1:6
• Grateful Thanks I know this may sound superficially simplistic, feebly facile or nauseatingly naive. I know this is quite  likely to meet with words like, “I just don’t understand …”  but appropriating our birthright and position in Christ is really very simple. It’s a move from a murmuring mentality for what you want – to grateful thanks for all the riches of God’s grace – you already have, in Christ. Murmuring and complaints are always linked with loss of fellowship and unbelief. Thanksgiving and confession is always linked with fellowship and trust in God.

• It has not dawned upon them that at the heart of these very circumstances they are to find the Lord Jesus, find His grace sufficient, find the life more abundant. -L.E.M.

• When we behold them by the ministry of the Spirit it is as beholding us with infinite love, and bestowing upon us the blessings of grace.

• Accepted Time How important in these closing days of the dispensation of grace, that we earnestly desire to become peacemaking, children of God. Now is the time we should be applying this grace to our lives with all diligence. Now is the time we should be peacemakers in a world of beauty marred by strife. Now is the accepted time – for tomorrow could be too late.

• Purpose of Suffering The process of sorrow and pain and disappointments and grievings, effects the sanctifying, sweetening, ennobling grace upon grace upon grace. Grace that transforms us body, soul and spirit into His likeness: That you may be wholly sanctified.  1Thes.5:23. The purposes of Christian suffering are manifold. The process of Christian suffering is the refining of the soul. The product of Christian suffering is a likeness to Jesus:- that Christ be formed in you..
• to bestow on others His gentleness and grace; His compassion and mercy; His long-suffering and goodness; His love..
• Purifying Process But one by one through the purifying process of His sanctifying grace.. day by day through the grinding mill-stone of His love.. little by little the rough-edged rock is smoothed.

• 2 Opposing Natures The more we feed one of these two bitterly opposing natures, the more it grows and develops – and the stronger it becomes the greater its capacity for good or for evil. The new life in Christ, we received at salvation, is the very life of Jesus Christ, that was breathed into us by God’s Spirit, so we could grow in grace and spiritually mature.
• New Life in Christ The new life in Christ should be nurtured, while the old sin nature must be subdued, and though all Christians are positionally sanctified, (set apart unto God), we must also grow in our Christian life to be practically sanctified – and it’s all by grace. Whether we are talking about our sanctified position or the sanctifying process that continues throughout life – our spiritual growth, our growing in grace, our maturing in the faith and the good works that God has prepared for us to do, are ALL by grace.

• Plan of God Jesus gives beauty in exchange for our brokenness. He gives light in exchange for our thickest darkness. He gives hope in exchange for our deepest despair. He gives rest in ravaged hearts. He gives faith in our weary souls. His grace is sufficient. His mercy is everlasting. His truth is enduring. His love know no boundaries;

• Lord of Glory Behold the Lord of glory revealed by Man to men. Yet, His glory is shrouded, and He has no form or majesty that we should look at Him. Behold, He has no beauty that we should desire Him. His exceeding loveliness is veiled before His human brethren. His grace and glory is tempered before human gaze. No man has seen God in His pure essence at any time..

• Witnesses and Watchmen We are to stand as a witness, to bear witness of the Light. We are to proclaim the Word Who was made flesh, and dwelt among us. We are to point to Jesus the Saviour, Who was full of grace and truth.

• It’s ALL by grace thru faith. The heavenly gate of grace is open wide to whosoever will trust in the name of the only begotten Son of God, for He is the Light of the world and grace has come thru Him.
• Light of Christ The light of Christ has been given to every single man who has entered the world. Not one member of the human race has ever been excluded from God’s gracious gift. Though now crowned with glory and great honour, Jesus tasted death for everyone. By God’s grace alone every man and woman has an opportunity to receive eternal life.
• A Free-Will God in His gracious kindness has endowed every person with volition – a free-will. All can accept God’s grace – but not all members of the human race choose to do so. Many do not wish to know Him, for men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil – and many of His own people do not want Jesus as their King.
• Bridge of Faith In a world, (or in a man), that does not know the Lord Jesus Christ – He cannot reign as king, nor can He impart righteousness to those who do not believe in His name. Condemnation is removed from ALL those that trust in the Lord Jesus Christ – BUT ALL who reject God’s free gift of grace are already condemned – because of unbelief. There is a great divide between the two, which can only be bridged by faith.
• Chasm of Unbelief Eternal life is one of many gifts that’s bestowed on all who believe in God’s Son, BUT ALL who reject the gift of grace are eternally separated from God – due to unbelief. There is a huge chasm between the two – which can only be crossed by faith. N0-one is condemned because of their sin, because Christ died for the sins of ALL. Those who don’t trust in Christ’s work on the cross have chosen to exclude them-selves from the free gift of grace, that has been offered to them – by their Creator God.
• Eternal Life This is eternal life that they might know Thee – the only true God and Jesus Christ Whom He has sent. It is that simple, and yet how many reject God’s grace. The shocking reason that men turn their back on God’s free and gracious gift of salvation is wrapped up in the notion that man can produce his own righteousness.
• Death or Life But self-righteousness comes from the LAW and is a ministration of DEATH. Christ’s righteousness comes from GRACE and is the ministration of LIFE. Condemnation is the fruit of unbelief in Christ Jesus – resulting in eternal separation. Eternal life is the gift of God to all who believe –  and grace upon grace is our portion. Although Christ died for the sin of the whole world, not every member of the human race partakes of the amazing grace of God..
• Grace and Truth Grace and truth came to the world for Christ died for the sin of the whole world so that every man has been forgiven of their sins.
• Clear Gospel The Lord has made the gospel of grace effortless, very easy and very accessible. God made His gospel simple and clear – believe on the Lord Jesus OR be condemned. The redemption message is clear – salvation is of grace… thru Christ Jesus..
• Grace of God Let us carefully consider the immensity of the grace of God towards all who believe. Let us never take for granted the the enormity of the life we have received – by grace.

• For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith– and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.
• John and Romans The two books of the Bible considered as the clearest and best explanation on how to be saved, are to be found in the gospel of John – and in Paul’s epistle the Romans. Both men, in their own unique writing style and language, explain that God’s gift of saving grace for all men, is simply by believing on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ. John says that grace came through Christ and whoever believes on Him will be saved. Paul reminds us that salvation comes through faith alone – that it might be of grace. But one issue confuses and confounds many people – the issue of repentance.
• By Believing John wrote his gospel so that we might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God – and that by believing we might have life, but he NEVER uses the word ‘repentance’. Paul in his letter to the Romans gives step-by-step instructions on how we are justified, sanctified and glorified by grace, through faith – but only uses the word ‘repentance’ a couple of times..
• Integral Not Additional If John and Paul clearly teach that salvation is the gift of God’s grace alone, by faith in Christ how can we reconcile the issue of repentance.
• Grace Thru Faith John and Paul taught that salvation is by God’s grace alone – thru faith alone. The modern teaching adds repentance as a work – as an extra requirement – as an addition that has to be added to the finished work of the cross – if man is to be saved, which would require a sinner to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ AND also repent.
• a change of attitude – a change of heart. An integral part of scriptural repentance must include believing on the Lord Jesus… salvation – a gift of God – by grace alone – through faith alone.
• Work of Christ If we don’t repent or change our mind – we remain dead in our trespasses and sins. When we do repent or change our mind about God’s free gift of grace, that is offered to all sinners who are dead in trespasses and sins we are born again.. and the Holy Spirit places us in Christ as part of God’s family – FOREVER. Let us never add to the amazing work of Christ on the cross when by His blood alone He paid the price for your sins and mine. But rather let us simply accept God’s free gift of grace by – by faith alone.

• Humility of Heart In Hebrews the words ‘chastening’ and ‘child-training’ have deep roots.. ‘Chastening’ and ‘child-training’ have roots – deep in HUMILITY. Humility of heart is the Grace that graces all graces when chastening is concerned.
• Humility requires a Teachable Spirit. Humility is born from the Supreme Good – LOVE.  Humility is the Garment of Grace.  Humility isthe Adornment of the Heart.  Humility requires us to submit to the Spirit to search out our Secret Sins
• Humility knows it is dependent upon grace for all knowing and believing.

• Non-Meritus Salvation is the gifts of God’s grace to man and is accessed by believing His Word. Faith is not a ‘good work’ done for God, nor does faith have any merit or reward. Faith is a non-meritus response to the gospel of God.
• Faith has no room for human worthiness – but is based on Christ’s righteousness – it is not faith that merits salvation – but faith that gains access to God’s gift of grace.

• My grace is sufficient for thee; for My strength is made perfect in (your) weakness (2 Cor. 12:9).

• By His grace and mercy, our will becomes the Father's will when we choose the Saviour.
• On the human side, man is conscious of doing only what he actually does: he chooses as an act of his own volition to receive the grace God offers in Christ Jesus.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY For you are all sons of God through faith in Jesus Christ.Galatians 3:26
• These people believed the gospel of grace for their salvation and then returned to the old way of legalism.
• Now this truth from God is a simple fact of our Christian life, but sadly many Christian revert to the old ways of the law – saved by grace through faith but living under law.
• Justified by grace through faith but trying to be sanctified under the law.
• Never forget the privileges of son-ship only come the “grace-faith-promise” way and cannot be acquired the “law-works-merit” way.

• May we be continue to build and be built until we all come to the unity in the faith. May we be fitly framed together – speaking the truth in love as we grow in grace May we walk in humility and gentleness, patience and love. May we do out part to build up the body of Christ – in love.

• What we are by grace, as in Him before the Father, is unchangeable, and our interests are in His hands.

• Together we help the other parts grow, and edify the saints of God – that are His – so that the whole body is healthy, maturing in grace – and growing in His love.
• Body of Christ There is much in the body of Christ that falls far short of Christ’s prayer. Self-righteous attitudes that criticise or accuse instead of godly comfort and correction. Inflated egos that exchanged Christ garments of humility and grace – with hypocrisy. ‘Holier-than-thou’ attitudes that fail to be broken – at the foot of Christ’s Cross.
• Unity of the Spirit We have the indwelling Spirit of wisdom and grace – the Spirit of power and love. We have the fruitful Spirit of goodness and grace – of truth, of power and of UNITY.

• It is thus that we learn that the Spirit who has renewed our spirit must also sustain our new life; that we depend entirely on divine grace and strength, not merely to bring us to the Lord Jesus, but to keep us abiding in Him where He is.” -A.M.

• Of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace. (John 1:16)
• We only come there by the way of discipline - discipline which takes the form of bringing us to an utter dependence, but which is not yet an emptying and a breaking down as an end in itself, but one which is accompanied by that grace of God - that graciousness of God - which, when we are empty, makes His fullness to abound.

• It tastes of mercy and forgiveness, grace and divine love.

• “His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain.” 1Corinthians 15:10

• The Church God wanted to show forth His glory and grace to the world – through His chosen people, but Israel failed and was set aside for a time – for God must continue all He planned, and the Church has now been raised up to demonstrate the grace and glory of God, she is to show forth the excellencies of Him who called her out of darkness into His marvellous light” 1Peter 2:9
• Israel Restored Israel was called and chosen and sadly they failed – but in His love and grace Israel will be restored to her earthly calling as God’s people. Behold, the day is coming, when I’ll make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY in this world we will have tribulations but be of good cheer, He says, I have overcome the world.John 16:33
• Salvation by grace through faith is certainly the most wonderful news that any sinner can be told but the Christian life is not an easy path to tread and all too frequently suffering and pain comes in its wake.
• When suffering is a consequence of our own sin – we should go immediately, boldly and yet humbly to the throne of grace and confess our faults, knowing that God is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, to cleanse us of our unrighteousness and to return us into fellowship with Himself.

• Reflecting Christ And the more we gaze on His beauty and grace – the more our lives reflect Him. The more we concentrate on Christ – the more meaningful our lives become. The more we rest in His love – the more we discover His grace is sufficient. When Christ is central – life becomes simple, beautiful, purposeful and fruitful.
• Everything we need to live a Christocentric life is found exclusively in Christ, and we have been given the heavenly riches of God’s grace for we are in Christ.
• Spiritual Believer When we claim the benefits of our heavenly riches in Christ – we abide in Him. When we abide in Christ – we have simply appropriated the riches of God’s grace – and the end result is a simple, beautiful, purposeful life that keeps Jesus central.
• Both have been given the heavenly riches of God’s grace – for BOTH are in Christ.

• Those I love I chasten – so that you will grow in grace and mature in the faith.

• The Child continued to grow and become strong, increasing in wisdom; and the grace of God was upon Him.Luke 2:40

• It is the Father Who anointed us with grace upon grace and blessings upon blessing.
• God’s Justice God in His justice purposed that sin must be punished and the wages of sin is death, but God in His grace so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son, to die,  so that Christ would identify with man and become the propitiation for our sins – so that all Who believed on His name would not perish but have everlasting life.
• God’s Grace And so God in Himself, knew before time began  the choice every man would make… What think ye of Christ?
• God in His grace chose us and in His grace sought us and in His grace He saved us. And God in His grace placed us IN CHRIST, that we should be holy for He is holy,
• One With Christ God in His grace has united us together as one – with Christ Jesus. For our benefit, God has made Him to be wisdom itself. Christ made us to be right with God. He made us pure and holy, and He freed us from sin. 1Cor.1:30 God in His grace chose us to be in union with Christ and in fellowship with Himself – not because of our own merit but by His amazing and eternal grace, and God chose us in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and blameless before Him – in love.

• The ground upon which our Father deals with us is grace.
• In all of our spiritual existence we are debtors to the rich, free, sovereign grace of our Father.
• And what is it we are privileged to enjoy on that ground, when we enter into this grace wherein we stand'?

• Eternal Redeemer What grace that God should send His only begotten Son to become our Redeemer. What grace that the eternal Son of God should set aside His deity to be born as man and clothe Himself in human flesh..
• High Priest And there is even MORE- Jesus had to be like His brothers in every way, so that He could become a merciful and faithful High Priest in service to God, to make propitiation for the sins of His people. What grace that God should send His only begotten Son to be our kinsman-redeemer. What grace that the eternal Son of God should set aside His deity to be born as man and clothe Himself in human flesh – so that we could be redeemed by His blood.

• Then it is not the result of man’s labors, it is the issue of God’s grace.

• Gift of Grace We don’t deserve His forgiveness or salvation, but it is His gift of grace to us, and because we are in Christ we have been brought to complete fullness. There is nothing lacking in the Christian, because we are complete in Him.
• The legalism of the Jews was placed alongside Paul’s pure gospel of God’s grace and as a result many were being sucked back into slavery under legalistic demands.

• We must allow Him to humble our hearts before His throne of grace.

• That is grace - the wonder of the Gospel.

• Microscope of Grace Let us allow the truth of God to deal with our whole spirit, soul and body, as day by day we replace ourselves under His microscopic gaze of grace. Such scriptural self-examination – will issue in godly repentance. Such self-searching will occasion a turning from every known transgression. This will not only result in avoiding outward sin which can mar our testimony, but will prevent us entertaining the inward sins, which so easily ensnares us:- lack of faith as well as jealousy, pride, bitterness, lust, un-forgiveness, fear….

• It is always a great grace to me, and to my people, for me to be able to say to them: I know this text is true!

• Promise of Rest It is His lovely presence that gives us the blessedness of rest. It is His loving grace that truly refreshes the heart. It is lying on His bosom when we are tired or fretful that gives us His peace. This is no mere sentimentality – His rest is more real that the clamour of the world in which we sojourn. It emanates from the love of the Father to the Son. It is a divine Life : a divine Love : a divine Rest.

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY Product of Saving Faith Living by faith is a foundational fact of the Christian dispensation, and that means that we just believe what God has said in His Word.. for we live be faith and not by sight…. 2.Cor.3:7 Accepting that we are accepted in the Beloved is another fact of this Church age..
• and we can rebel or we can submit. We can remain a babe in Christ – OR we can mature in the faith. We can get stuck feeding on the milk of the word – OR we can start to eat strong meat. We can grieve and quench the Spirit’s work in our lives – OR we can grow in grace. All these are vital principles of the Christian life – and all these truths are foundational gospel facts and Jesus is coming back very soon – are you ready?

• We start to ascend the ladder of grace through our advancing understanding.

• My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness (2 Cor. 12:9a).

• Growing In Grace - STUDY Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen, for by it the elders obtained a good report.Hebrews 11:1-2

• Growing In Grace - STUDY  

• And you are complete in Him, and of His fullness we have all received, and grace for grace.
• Oh, the depth of the riches of the grace of the Father – for it pleased Him that in Christ, all fullness should dwell. “Consider” the place of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the esteem of the Father.
• Consider Jesus See fullness of God dwelling in Him. See the glories of the Godhead revealed in His body. See the scars of the nail print in hand and foot. See the face of glory disfigured beyond recognition. See the side from which poured blood and water. He Who formed the vastness of the universe.. He Who created the hidden depths of the oceans. He had not where to lay His head. He had not a denarius to pay tribute money to Caesar, yet all things are His, by gift from the Father to the Son. “My Father and your Father – My God and your God.” And of such fullness we are made partakers, by the infinite grace of God..

• Forgiven by the Lord The gentle handmaiden of the Lord is in equal need of His grace and forgiveness, but once forgiveness is bestowed ALL condemnation is eternally removed, forever: for there is therefore now NO condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
• Place of Humility Humility was her inner clothing. Her heart was ever open to the Lord’s examination. How do we KNOW that she was humble of heart?  Well, God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble. The eyes of the Lord still look to and fro across the world,  to see whom He can choose today. Can He choose you to be His special, lowly vessel?

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY How Blessed How blessed..
• Matt.4:1 But He says to us, through the apostle Paul: My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.

• My grace IS sufficient for you.

• Biblical Truths Christ died FOR us – He died as our substitute – He paid the full price for all our sins. We died WITH Christ – we are identified with Him – He broke the power of sin in us. Substitutionary truths are linked with our birth from above – we are saved by grace. Identification truths are linked with growth in the Christian life – we grow by grace.
• Gift of God When Christ died as our substitute – it was by grace.
• All we had to do was believe. Our identification with Christ is also by grace – and all we have to do is believe it. God has so designed salvation that it had nothing to do with our merit or works.
• We are saved by grace, which is the gift of God – and all we do is believe. Our Christian life is also designed such that our works can contribute nothing.
• We are to live by grace, as a gift of God – and we simply believe it to be true.

• Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? Certainly not!  May it never be! How shall we who died TO sin still live in sin?Romans 6:1-2
• Liberty of the Cross Paul wants the believer to discover the liberation that he found in the cross of Christ. He longs that Christians truly understand the glory and wonder of God’s grace. Paul was thrilled to explain that all aspects of sin and death are dealt with by the cross. The cross of Christ dealt with both the sins we commit and the sin nature inherited from Adam.
• Gates of Grace The first 7 verses of Romans chapter 6 spell out the significance of being crucified unto sin. This short passage gives a birds-eye view of a believer’s identification with Christ. This precious portion of scripture unfolds the advantages of grace – in logical steps..
• and in a series of rhetorical questions Paul gently guides us through the gates of grace.
• Grace Abounds Paul builds up his case by showing that the Law’s perfection caused sins to increase. Men’s inability to keep the Law demonstrated the amazing grace of our justification, and showed that where sin increased – the grace of God abounded all the more. Finally the building blocks of Paul’s reasoning led him to ask the intriguing question: What shall we say then?
• Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?  
• Gift of Salvation Having demonstrated God’s amazing gift of salvation by grace through trusting Christ, Paul paraphrases a question he knows must be lingering in the minds of his listeners, “Shall we keep on sinning so that God’s grace may abound more and more?” Imagine that – shall we revel in sin so that the grace of God can increase even more!
• shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? May it never be!  How shall we who died TO sin still live in sin?

• Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus (Rom. 3:24).

• there are in abundance with all of us, His rich grace abounds over all, and actually takes occasion from our very mistakes to shine out all the more brightly - though, assuredly, the mistakes must produce their own painful and humiliating consequences.

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY Need for Faith Every true-born child of God longs to have faith, more faith, much faith..

• By grace we will not murmur, but humble ourselves under His mighty hand, and He will exalt us in due time.

• They who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ (Rom. 5:17).

• Discipleship is built entirely on the supernatural grace of God.
• We do not need the grace of God to stand crises, human nature and pride are sufficient, we can face the strain magnificently; but it does require the supernatural grace of God to live twenty-four hours in every day as a saint, to go through drudgery as a disciple, to live an ordinary, unobserved, ignored existence as a disciple of Jesus.

• Eternal Root MERCY and TRUTH meet and are linked together in His eternal embrace. RIGHTEOUSNESS and PEACE are joined in God’s profound love and grace.
• PEACE would rejoice in forgiveness and grace.
• Redemptive Grace The Redemptive Love of God in the Person of His Son has eternally united Judgment and Love – has bound together Mercy and Truth, forever – has enabled Righteousness and Peace to embrace in gracious union.

• without an understanding of dispensations:- Salvation of the spirit and the soul becomes intermingled leading to confusion. God’s dealings with Israel and His working with the Church become muddled. Law and grace is inevitably distorted, without dispensational understanding. Eschatology or the study of end-times – can become muddied and misused.
• Character of God Doctrinal breaches explode into estrangements in the body of Christ. Legalistic thinking is adopted which causes a gross distortion of the grace of God, but worst of all God’s character is distorted and twisted perceptions of Him abound – even the word ‘dispensation’ has itself fragmented into various conflicting meanings.
• Scriptural Clarity But when God’s Word is rightly divided a clarity in Scripture is quickly unleashed. The panorama of God’s purposes becomes clearer when the Word is rightly divided. It gives great insight into the panoramic unfolding of God’s grace towards humanity. It paints an astonishing contrast between man’s selfishness and God’s great love.

• The characteristic of a disciple is not that he does good things, but that he is good in motive because he has been made good by the super-natural grace of God.

• We are not to neglect the Old, but its introduction of the law was designed to lead to the grace of the New.

• called me by His grace, to reveal His Son in me (Gal. 1:15, 16).
• “Christians in the main groan and strive and struggle largely on the basis of human effort where the grace of God, though acknowledged, is scarcely operative-only to come to grief.
• Be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus (2 Tim. 2:7, ASV).

• The word over the door into true Christianity is : Grace.
• Legalism always wipes out Grace, and puts in its place Law.
• Grace is the chief word in the vocabulary of the Christian.

• Union With Christ As Christians we are rightly related to the Lord Jesus – through believing in Him, and we are in union with Christ – for we are saved by grace through faith in Him. We have entered a glorious state and are seated in heavenly places – in Christ,  and the present work of the Spirit in us, is to conform us into the likeness of Christ.

• Paul’s Teachings Paul outlined in great detail these glorious positional truths to encourage our hearts. His desire was that we are united in love and understand the riches of God’s grace. He longed that we have complete assurance of the mystery of God – namely Christ: in Whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. Colossians 2:3  Paul’s epistles certainly are overflowing with much to rejoice our heart, but he also give us some severe warnings, which encourage spiritual alertness.
• Enemy’s Tactics Our position is safe and secure – it is eternal and affords the riches of God’s grace, but we should not be complacent about the many dangers that stalk our path. We need to be aware of the many ways that the enemy desires to destabilise our faith. We should be aware that the enemy’s ploys to undermine the truth of our acceptance.

• Spiritual Maturity We are exhorted on many occasions to be maturely established in the faith. We are encouraged to press on to the high calling of Christ. We are entreated to gain spiritual perception and godly discernment. We are enjoined to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus.
• Eternal Desire The bible is a-flood with what is at the root of God’s heart and His desire of us. The scriptures are a-wash with examples of what is important to the Lord. His word is explicit as to how to spiritually mature and grow in grace. So what is this eternal desire in the heart of God…? And why do so many miss it?
• Fruit of Christ The natural life with its many preponderances must be laid underneath His grace. The self-life must die, so that our soul may be purged and sweetened in His..

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY God’s Principle Bring up a child in the way he should go…is God’s principle for His own children.
• He knows the way we should go and has set this eternal principle in our heart. He knows that only as His children submit to His leading will they be truly content, for He knows that only as our ‘Jehovah Jirah‘, will our needs be satiated – only as He is our soul Supplier – our sole Provider will we grow in grace.
• It is only as we discover our need of His work – and will in us, will we grow. It is only then that we will grow in grace and in the knowledge of Christ, for without Christ we can do nothing John.15:5, but I can do all things through Christ who gives me the strength.
• In the first flush of the Christian journey the saved saint rejoices in God his saviour, and God’s grace is experienced as prayers are answered – love starts to bud. And the believer’s early path becomes a way of joyful expectation and euphoric bliss..
• others are told of the gospel of grace and others find rest in the same God of our salvation.

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY Basic Acceptance There is one and one basis alone for your acceptance and mine.
• He has the finger of His grace upon your life, and He has engraved you on His hands.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that heareth My word, and believeth on Him that sent Me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed from death unto life.John 5:24
• Scriptural Harmony The harmony in Scripture on the issue of eternal security is truly beautiful to behold, but when salvation passages for the unbeliever are confused with those on growing in grace and spiritual maturity, confusion is inevitable.
• Prejudices on this issue can be summed with words like: legalism, a distortion of the gospel of grace, carnality, and ignorance of dispensationalism.

• Second Man  Just as sin entered the world through the disobedience of one man, and death came through sin, causing condemnation and separation from God to be the inherited status of all people – so also redemption came to the world through the obedience of one Man, resulting in the forgiveness of sins for all humanity – and light and life and hope and peace and renewed fellowship with the Father – to ALL who would believe on His name. It was divine grace that provided a second Adam to redeem the fallen race of man.

• God sets me in nearness to Himself in the Lord Jesus; and as I learn my nearness to Him, I am prepared for the exposure of my natural distance from Him, and I am, through grace, morally apart and sheltered from it (Rom. 8:9), at the very moment when I see it.

• forever separated – separated from the love and grace of God. They became powerless Satan-enslaved, conscience-smitten..
• through the manifold wisdom of God. Creation alone would never have brought out the nature and character of God. There was infinitely more than the power and the wisdom reflected in creation. There was LOVE, MERCY, PATIENCE, TENDERNESS and GENTLENESS. There was HOLINESS, GOODNESS, GRACE and LONG-SUFFERING.

• Identified With Christ God’s gracious heart of love gave His only begotten and dearly beloved Son for us. God’s bountiful gift of grace provides a way for us to be clothed in His righteousness. He clothed Himself in the likeness of human flesh – so we could be reckoned righteous. Christ identified Himself with our fallen race – so we could be identified with Him.
• Perfect Pardon God’s holy character and generous grace have secured for us His perfect pardon. God’s loving-kindness and unchangeable holiness – embraced at Calvary’s cross. God’s tender mercies and holy judgements – kissed at the cross for us all.

• So let us grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

• So do not fall short of the grace of God by refusing to listen to Him. Take heed of Israel’s shortcomings and loss – and be warned, and give the more earnest heed to these instructions in the book of Hebrews – that you do not neglect so great salvation

• If we have committed ourselves to God thoroughly and really meant with the Lord that we want His full will and we do not want our own, and by His grace we will go the way as He leads and shows, whatever it costs, if we have done that and then situations have arisen which look terribly complicated and seem to contradict the faithfulness of God, what am I to conclude?

• Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God, and of Jesus our Lord (2 Pet. 1:2).

• Growing In Grace - STUDY If we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.
• Gift of Saving Grace Paul tells us that sin came from one man and is passed on to all men: for all men sinned.
• But he also tells us that that the gift of saving grace and eternal life also came from one Man: our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Paul then answers his own question – if grace comes as a result of sin..
• should we keep on sinning, so God can show us even more grace?

• Growing In Grace - STUDY Like newborn babies, long for the pure milk of the word, so that by it you may grow in respect to salvation,1 Peter 2:2
• and a lifetime of learning scripture, will not cause us to mature in the faith, unless it is carried by grace, through faith..
• Growth is only by grace and not by what we do.
• We are to grow in grace.
• We are to grow spiritually in grace, which is achieved by believing what God has told us in His word.
• Grow in Grace We are all warned not to develop a wrong response to God’s Word, which it rooted in unbelief.
• We are commanded to grow in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus.
• We are to spiritually mature, but growth will not take place unless we trust the word of God – and it is ALL by grace.
• When we were first saved it was because we believed God’s word, by grace through faith.
• But too often we try to continue our Christian life by works through unbelief instead of by grace through faith.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY But He knows the way I take; When He has tried me, I shall come forth as gold.job 23:10
• Divine Purpose Paul had to come to realise that behind intense suffering, was as a divine purpose and Paul led the way for us all to understand that, My grace is sufficient.
• In His grace God knew that suffering would develop and mature Paul’s faith, which is more precious than gold in God’s sight.
• God desires each of us to mature in the faith for our sufferings and trials are but for a moment – and He gives us His all-sufficient grace for all our needs
• Faith is tested in the smelting fires of trials, as the temperature of the fires are heated seven times hotter, and yet it is God Who given us the grace to stand fast in the day of trouble.
• As grace is poured out upon grace, so faith increases as a believer grows in grace and matures in the faith.
• For it is God Who provides the sufficient grace to meet the accumulated pressure of life – and when we have been tried and tested we will come forth as pure gold if we do not give up.
• And the epistles of Paul, Peter and John guide us through the labyrinth of life, reminding us that in all things we are more than conquerors through Christ, Who loves us and gives us His sufficient grace for every challenge we may meet.

• Church-Age Truth The mysteries of the Church as the body and bride of Jesus Christ came from Paul. The necessity of grace alone by faith alone in Christ alone were all from Paul’s pen. The task of unveiling many church-age mysteries were also entrusted to this apostle.

• Scripture Truths In Galatians 5:6 we read that: in Christ Jesus neither circumcision nor un-circumcision avails anything, but faith working through love.. while in Romans 5:16 we read: therefore it is of faith that it might be according to grace.
• Faith the essential key – the key to unlock our hearts to His grace.
• We are saved by grace..
• God’s wonderful grace – but it is through faith.
• Yes, faith is the key to unlock our hearts to growth in grace.
• God’s Grace Faith does not shrink back through a furtive imagination or unfounded worry.
• believing is the key to unlock our hearts to His love and His grace.

• You learn His grace first, and then His mercy.

• Look after each other so that none of you fails to receive the grace of God.

• Men and Women of Faith Those that chose to trust Him and believe His word became men and women of faith and they like Job found His grace to be sufficient and His character to be true. Though Job did not understand the devastating trials that marred his life.. he finally cried:- I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear..
• Let is stand of the Word of God and trust our lives into His hands, no matter what.. until like Job we can say – though He slay me yet will I trust Him, Job 1:15 – until like Paul we can say…His grace is sufficient for me.

• Grace and Truth How we love to see the best in others – to overlook their flaws and weaknesses. How we want to excuse their little foibles and disregard their faults and failings.

• Keys of Death It is because He can say with authority and grace:- I am He that lives and was dead, and behold I am alive for evermore and I have the keys of death and hell.

• Free Gift of Grace God’s wrath and condemnation for the sin of the world were poured out on Christ. All that man has to do to receive this free gift of grace is to believe on Jesus Christ – simply believing puts us in union with Christ and places us into the family of God.
• Access to God From the moment of our rebirth we have direct access to the Father’s throne of grace. Directly we become a child of God we can enjoy sweet fellowship with the Father.
• the cross dealt with forgiveness of sin – but confession restores communion. When we discover we are out of fellowship with God we need to confess our sins. When we realise we’ve sinned we need to go straight to the throne of grace and confess – and when we do we are restored into loving fellowship with our heavenly Father.
• The grace, faithfulness and justice of God forgave all your sin at the cross.
• The grace, faithfulness and justice of God cleanses us from all unrighteousness.
• Let us fly to the throne of grace the moment we find we have sinned against God – and find grace to restore and help us in time of need.

• God’s way of power and grace is in His Son – there can be no other Truth.

• The Offer of Peace Only a few short hours before..  grace and truth flowed from His lips.
• His Final Offer of Grace.. “I Thirst..” to fulfil all prophecy in a thirsty world.

• In His eternity He planned that man would share eternal life on the basis of His grace.
• Free Gift of Grace God alone knows the end from the beginning for He alone is omniscient. Omniscience is beyond our understanding but omniscience is an attribute of God.
• God foreknows the free-will choices that every man will ever make, and God will never coerce or override man’s volition regarding his choices. Salvation is a free gift of God’s grace to whosoever will trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY Finished Work When Jesus cried “it is Finished” on the cross, He meant – it is Finished.

• His love towards us and His acceptance of us through Christ is on every page. His love and grace drips like honey onto the tongue. His love and mercy is a golden thread, weaving its way through the Word – a blood red thread that streams through its pages to Calvary’s cross.

• Until we can accept how terrible sin is and it’s shocking and deadly consequences we can’t begin to appreciate or comprehend God’s amazing redemptive grace.
• Grace of God When we see sin as is truly is we begin to understand what God’s grace is..

• Every Unbeliever Every unbeliever is under law; the curse of the law and the power of Satan. Every unbeliever is controlled by their sin nature and is at enmity with God. Every unbeliever has a choice – to accept or reject God’s free gift of deliverance, and all who reject salvation by grace through faith in Christ, are condemned.
• for only those that trust Christ for salvation, by grace through faith, are saved.
• Righteous Perfection God is righteous and demands an unattainable standard of righteous perfection. God is just and demands a penalty payment for all who fall short of His standard, but by His grace God created a perfect plan to satisfy His righteous justice: Jesus Christ reached God’s standard of perfection – for us.

• Too few realize that their death on the Cross separated them from the entire principle of law, and that their resurrection united them to the Lord Jesus, full of grace and truth (John 1:14).

• The law was applied to the natural man, that he might produce; grace is given to the spiritual man, that He might produce.Almost every believer makes the same mistake as the Galatian Christians.

• If we are born into the Lord Jesus by sheer grace, surely He can manifest Himself in us on the same principle.
• The idea many have of grace is that their conversion and pardon are God's work, but that now, in gratitude to Him, it is their work to live as Christians.

• The Spirit applies the Word to me in its divine meaning, and then I possess what Scripture tells me is mine through God's grace.

• For it is a good thing that the heart be established with grace (Heb. 13:9).
• Thorough and intelligent establishment in the principle of grace concerning one's justification (re-birth) is the necessary footing for reliance upon the same principle for one's sanctification (growth).
• And thus alone will we really honor the grace of God. -W.R.N.

• In order for a believer to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus, he must fellowship with Him in the Word.

• For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law but under grace (Rom 6:14)
• If I say I am under law and under grace, I am in the current Galatian heresy which seeks to combine law and grace.
• But if I say I am not under the law but under grace, I am giving a biblical and Christian testimony. -C.I.S.

• The elder brother in Luke 15 did not object to his brother being forgiven, but it was unwelcome to him to see the wonderful excess of grace bestowed on him by the Father.

• No; for this there is indeed needed very special grace.
• And the way in which the grace comes is again that of sacrifice and surrender.
• When He has accepted them, and set His stamp upon them, we receive them back, to hold them as His property, to wait on Him for the grace to daily use them aright, and to have them act only under His influence. -A.M.

• We are not meant to be illuminated versions, but the common stuff of ordinary life exhibiting the marvel of the grace of God.
• The tiniest detail in which I obey has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it.
• If I do my duty, not for duty's sake, but because I believe God is engineering my circumstances, then at the very point of my obedience the whole superb grace of God is mine through the Atonement.

• Natural Man Natural man is incapable of any spiritual intercourse with the Spirit of God. This is a law that God dictated and God has His one way – His only Way; His only Truth; His only Life. Divine life imparted to a born-again soul is essential for communion with God. Divine life, (the free unmerited gift of grace from God) is the only uniting bridge.
• Necessity and Blessing Faith in the only begotten Son is an obligation, a necessity and a blessing for man.. if that unbridgeable gap is to be crossed – if the immeasurable gulf is to be spanned. But this first step to God is often halted a few steps down the path on the new-creation, and the spiritual new-born is halted in his spiritual life and spiritual growth. For just as the first requirement for the free unmerited gift of grace was by faith.. so too the ongoing wilderness walk through the plains and pains of this earthly life.

• Grace of God Pouring into the hearts of those that love Him..
• His own sweet spirit of gentleness and grace. This same Lord Jesus Christ – has sought me out – because He loves me so dearly. He sees my ugliness – yet calls me Beloved !  He understands my faults and failings – yet has chosen me to be His bride ! He knows my heritage –the grossness of my birth, yet pursues me with tender love. He reassures my fainting heart by reminding me of His love.  He tells me “My delight is in you..”  – this One that loves me so dearly..
• Image of God This Lord Jesus Christ is the very image of the invisible, indivisible God. This Lord Jesus Christ is the effulgence of God’s glory and grace and love. This same Lord Jesus Christ searched me out to bestow on me the unimaginable. He lifted me up out of the miry clay and seated me with Himself in the heavenlies Though remote from my understanding and beyond my comprehension… He chose me, before the world was created, to share His divine glory with me.  Mystery of mysteries – how could it be that God’s Own Son should care for me?

• Our Lord trusted no man; yet He was never suspicious, never bitter, never in despair about any man, because He put God first in trust; He trusted absolutely in what God's grace could do for any man.
• Never trust anything but the grace of God in yourself or in anyone else.

• Is not My grace all-sufficient for you?

• whatever betides? Oh indeed, His mercy and His grace combine to make you part of that most privileged body in the history of the world. The Body of Christ..

• God... Who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of His own purpose and grace. (2 Timothy 1:9 ESV)

• Gracious Benefaction But God’s benefaction and His gracious provision to us covers more – so much more, for we are called by Him to be His children and to grow in grace –in Him. We are then commanded to be His soldiers and to enter into spiritual war. I may be in the early flush of youth or I may be advancing in years… I may be invalided on a couch of sickness or I may be in the heyday of health… I may be imprisoned in a lonely cell or free to roam the wide continents – but He has a plan for each of us, and He plants or transplants us as He sees fit. And He calls each of us to be faithful – in the place where He has planted us.
• It needs patient endurance, even when I feel I am a failure or unimportant and it needs an understanding that the gracious gifts of our heavenly Benefactor are not of this world – and though He will certainly supply all our needs here and now, according to the riches of His grace – God is working with eternity in view. God’s supply is for both time and eternity.

• Sufficient Forgiveness Do you sometimes revisit those sins committed in the flush of youth? Do you bow your head in shame thinking that your sins were too grave to be forgiven? Do you strive; in your own way, to prove yourself to now be good enough? You foolish man – you silly woman, accept His forgiveness and be comforted. You pride yourself, that the depth of your faults exceeds the height of His Grace. Your sins, like grains of sand, are washed in the vast ocean of His loving absolution.
• Suffieicnt Grace What of that noblest of all sufferering?
• What if men revile and persecute you? What if others speak evil of you falsely, for His sake?  You have a reward in time and in eternity. You will reign with Him in His kingdom in time (ruling with a rod of iron) but  you will also be with Him for eternity (as an example in the ages to come of His astonishing grace.) Whatever the cause of your earthly sorrow – healing and peace comes from Him.
• Spirit of purity and grace,Our weakness, pitying, see:O make our hearts Thy dwelling placeAnd worthier Thee.

• Loneliest Place It has often been said that one of the loneliest places in the world is in huge cities… not the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert, the mists of the mountain-tops nor the sweeping plains of the outback, but the loneliest place is often when we are surrounded by clamouring crowds of lonely people – all looking for someone – all desperate for something to fill their empty void. It has often been said that inside the heart of every man is a God-shaped hole – a void that He in His grace secured within – a vacuum that He alone can fill..

• O tell of His might, O sing of His grace,Whose robe is the light, Whose canopy space,His chariots of wrath the deep thunderclouds form,And dark is His path on the wings of the storm.

• Study - GOD, All I Need Multifaceted Grace Faith is a multifaceted grace – and each are given a measure of faith. God is both the Founder of my faith and the Finisher of my faith.
• Virtuous Grace Faith is simply trusting in God, by means of the faith that He has bestowed on me.
• Pleasing Grace In this world, physical senses hold so much sway – yet we must live by faith, not by sight. Emotions can drastically influence our being – yet we must live by faith, not sight. All the norms of human trust are diametrically opposite to this life of faith. Sight, sound, touch, taste, smell, signs – all contribute to the way we believe things to be – yet we are to live by faith and not by sight, sound, touch, taste, smell, signs – for without faith it is impossible to please God – and I do so want to please Him Heb.11:6
• Developing Grace But how do you exercise your faith, I hear you say.. Well, life is full of choices.
• A Maturing Grace It is only as I am prepared to decrease and allow the Lord to increase in my life, that faith in self will be gradually replaced by faith in Christ – and the faith in which I live..

• Study - GOD, All I Need Seeing then that we have a great High Priest, Who has passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession… for we do not have a High Priest who cannot sympathise with our weaknesses, but was in all points tempted as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.
• He enlightens the mind to see its wants – softens the heart to feel them – quickens our desires after suitable supplies.He  gives clear views of God’s power, wisdom, and grace to relieve us – and He stirs up that confidence in His truth which excludes all wavering.

• A Precious Grace How dearly must I hold fast to all such tokens of His love for me – especially during those times of difficulty, temptation, discouragement and pain.

• and in His grace and graciousness proclaims in Matthew 5:14 – Ye are the light of the world..

• Eternal supply Intimacy with our Saviour and Lord, is the most precious grace He has given us, for He is the well-spring of our life, both physical and spiritual. He is my alpha, my genesis, my redemption, my sanctification, my glorification and my omega.

• The youngest Prime Minister of Great Britain retired at the age of 34 – but patience, is a grace that only develops through the gruelling school of life – and it’s only perfected as I become increasingly transformed into HIS likeness.
• He will answer such pleas from all who desire to perfect this grace in themselves – and He knows just what to do.

• Sin in all its ugly shades of black darkness, hangs shroud-like over humanity’s head – but thanks be to God that in His grace He  has given the way to bring us back to Himself – through the blood of Christ – (incarnate God and perfect Man)
• Grace is indeed a free gift, but at what tremendous cost.

• Come unto me, ye weary,And I will give you rest.O blessed voice of Jesus,Which comes to hearts oppressed.It tells of benediction-Of pardon, grace and peace,Of joy that hath no ending,Of love that cannot cease.

• There is nothing that I can do to secure my salvation – I can only accept it as a free gift of God’s grace.

• “Be strong and of good courage … Be strong and very courageous, have I not commanded you – be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go”. Yet in his wisdom Paul admonishes us that:- bodily “exercise profits a little, but godliness is profitable for all things.” And in the leading of the Spirit, he again reminds us – “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in your weakness.”
• Run the straight race through God’s good grace,Lift up thine eyes, and seek His face;Life with its way before us lies,Christ is the Path, and Christ the Prize.

• and though other versions translate the word ’tranquillity’ as ‘prosperity.’ God as my tranquillity is a most precious thought in this world of noisy clamour. The dictionary definition of ’tranquillity’ is quietness, peace, rest, ease and security – and how deeply the hurting heart desires this grace that God alone can provide. The Lord Himself called His own disciples aside when life’s pressures pressed in. He called His own dear ones to: Come apart into a desert place, and rest a while – for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat” Mark 6:31
• Still Small Voice Tranquility is a sister of Peace and Tranquility kisses the grace of Gentleness. It comes not in the strong wind or the earthquake – nor in the volcano or fire, but quietly and peacefully in a still, small serene voice of calm. And that great, strong, manly prophet of God, Elijah,  hid his face in his mantle – and I am sure that it became wet with his tears of awe and wonder. Let us discover this same sweet lesson that so many have learned before… Let us seek to be outfitted in the translucent garment of tranquillity.

• you will lose your life (you will lose you soul) Luke.17:33 Should a believer choose the broad way he would be eternally saved, for eternal salvation is the free gift of grace to all who trust in Jesus as Saviour… eternally saved  but choosing to live your own self-life and not His Christ-life.

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY Christian Growth Christian growth can often be stunted at rebirth without good ‘discipling’. Spiritual maturity can frequently go into hibernation, through a believer’s fleshly ways.

• Eternal One Mercy and Truth meet and are linked together in His eternal embrace. Righteousness and Peace are joined in God’s profound Love and Grace. Mercy is disposed to Clemency and Pardon. Truth is linked with Justice and Punishment. Righteousness must maintain the blameless One, yet judge the sinful one. Peace would rejoice in Forgiveness and Grace – all have their roots in the Love, Tenderness and Intimacy of the Eternal One.

• ow apply the truth in your heart, and the truth will set you free. Rid your long-developed, mistaken perception of a split-personality God. The Old being one of aggressive justice and fierce, ferocious judgment – the New being one of gentle grace that hardly knows how to say ‘boo’ to a goose. You misrepresent your God. You speak falsely of your Lord and Saviour. You do not understand the yearning father-heart of your Father in Heaven.

• God Incarnate It is good to learn what we can about Him, for it does give us understanding. And it is good to search the scriptures daily to find out all that God has told us, but The vital necessity of each child of God is to know this Divine Omnipotence. And God in His perfect grace and consummate love made Himself known..  in and through the person of the lovely Lord Jesus Christ – the Word made flesh.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY For when God made a promise to Abraham, since He had no one greater by whom to swear, He swore by Himself.Hebrews 6:13
• Our security and assurance of our salvation rests entirely on the grace of our faithful God.
• Our salvation is a gift of God’s grace to those who believe.

• This hope in the coming of Christ cleanses the soul of the sinner saved by grace.
• Godly Instructions And in Romans 12, Paul tells us how to live:- we being many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another – having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us, let us use them: If prophecy, let us prophesy in proportion to our faith; or ministry, let us use it in our ministering.

• Love is preeminently a grace bestowed, just like faith and hope and all other fruit.

• to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the BelovedEphesians 1:6
• His Very Own His very own, His very own,Wonderful grace in His Word is made known,Chosen by the Father,Purchased by the Son,Sealed by the Spirit, I’m His very own.
• Story of Grace Oh!
• the riches of His grace : the wonders of His grace : the glories of His grace. We are recipients of the wonderful story of grace conceived in the heart of the Father. We were foreknown to the Father before the world was created and man was made.
• Adoption as Sons Through His love He predestined us to adoption as sons, through Jesus Christ..  and He did this according to His kind intention and gracious will – and He did this to the ultimate praise of the glory of His grace. Oh!
• the riches of His grace : the wonders of His grace : the glories of His grace.
• Work of Christ God’s grace is founded on the work of Christ, the Son of God Who is God the Son, for His plan has provided redemption and purchased us from the penalty of sin.
• and all this and more is according to His purpose and the counsel of His will. All this is to the praise of His gracious glory and His glorious grace.
• So that in ages to come we might manifest the riches, wonder and glory of His grace.
• the riches of His grace : the wonders of His grace : the glories of His grace
• Grace Upon Grace Our sins are forgiven and we’re made alive – quickened into new and abundant life, and the supernatural grace of sanctifying grace cascades into God’s glorifying grace.
• The surpassing riches of His bountiful grace are free, forever and in union with Him.
• At the core of our faith beats God’s heart of grace that showers grace upon more grace.
• His Creative Hand We are the workmanship of His creative hand and His grace is our great enabler. We are the creative and skilful product of His sweet and loving intention towards us and His grace enlightens our mind, strengthens the will and rejoices our inner being.
• to the praise of His great glory. Our triumphant testimony is to resound with praises to the glory of His grace.
• We are recipients of the greatest love story of the universe – and it is all by grace – oh the riches of His grace: the wonder of His grace: the glory of God’s grace.
• Depth of His Grace Oh that we and all believers might grasp, understand the depth of His grace. Oh that we and all who are His body and bride might live to His glory and praise.. that we seek a life that is Christ-centred – that we seek to know Him more – that in love we might do all to His praise and glory – for He alone is worthy.
• Thankful Praise We are the recipients of the wonderful story of grace conceived in the Father’s heart. Again and again, let us join in thankful praise of the glory of His wonderful name. Chosen by the Father. Purchased by the Son. Sealed by the Spirit – I’m His very own. Oh!
• the riches of His grace : the wonders of His grace : the glories of His grace,

• In union with Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our sin, according to the riches of God’s grace.
• We are born physically alive but spiritually dead – without God and bereft of  hope..  but we can have redemption thru His blood according to the riches of God’s grace.
• Cost of Redemption Sometimes we overlook the enormous significance of salvation – and its cost to God, but redemption and the forgiveness of sins is according to the riches of His grace.
• Full Salvation But because of the riches of God’s grace we have redemption in all its many facets. Because of riches of God’s grace we have salvation of the spirit, soul and body.
• All the riches of redemptive grace are uniquely united with the forgiveness of sins – for a holy God can’t look at sin but as forgiven sinners we are united with His Son.
• Vital Trigger This is a mystery that is beyond the comprehension of our limited understanding, for forgiveness is the vital trigger from which explodes the riches of God’s grace.
• Riches of God’s Grace But why would God allow His dearly beloved Son to be treated so cruelly and suffer? How could God’s love for alienated sinners rationalise this treatment of His Son – well it seems that there is one answer and one answer alone. It was according to the riches of God’s grace – for we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our offences, according to the riches of God’s grace,

• and yet, by God’s grace, we have been called according to His greater plan.. (and incidentally..
• although in His grace He has included us in His greater purpose.
• Jesus Christ is the centre of the eternal purposes of God, and in His grace we have been called according to that incredible, infinite, eternal, glorious plan.
• Yes and Amen In the meantime, in His grace – let us rest on the precious promises of God knowing they are all ‘yes’, and ‘amen’ in Christ – knowing that all things work together for good to those that love God..

• Law of Life The idea of flesh born of flesh and spirit born of God’s Spirit was inconceivable! The old law of death was having to be set aside and replaced with the new law of life God’s perfect Law was to be superseded by His perfect grace – which came by Christ.

• Biased Perceptions His fatherhood is often debased by the experiences of an imperfect earthly father. His steadfastness is frequently disbelieved – by the betrayal of spouse or friend. His commands are repeatedly translated into the demands of an imperfect Church. His grace is often belittled; His love often spurned; His gift treated with contempt – all because..

• Gift from the Lord What a wonderful and coveted grace is God’s perfect, unshakable peace.
• His peace is a grace that only God supplies as we gaze upon His beauty.

• Planned Redemption He knew man would choose to violate the sacred position to which he was called – and yet in His grace God still chose to make man in His own image and likeness. For God had purposed that He would redeem His fallen creatures from their sin, He planned to appoint His only begotten Son to be the unique – perfect Son of Man.
• Tasted Death for ALL By God’s grace, Jesus tasted death for ALL – every member of the fallen race of man, And as part of God’s plan to bring many sons to glory –  God made Jesus (Who was made perfect through what He suffered)  the leader and pioneer of our salvation. And He has undertaken to have all who are in-Christ conformed into His likeness. We are to become like unto the One – Who created all things by His mighty power.

• God’s Peace Yet Peace with God is a free gift of grace that is freely available to all who will put their trust in Christ for Salvation.
• Peace is found at the foot of the cross, for peace is in a Person – and that Person is Christ Jesus, our perfect Prince of Peace. The peace of God is also a gift of grace that is freely available to every believer who has learned to walk the pathway of peace – for the peace of God which passes understanding floods into the hearts of all God’s children, whose mind is stayed on Him.

• Eternal Plan At first we were called out of darkness into His glorious light. We were called out from the bondage of sin and death into the freedom of God’s Son, and throughout this life we are witnesses to the amazing grace of God – and throughout this life we are being trained to carry out our part in God’s eternal plan.

• He will then achieve the impossible: for by grace you have been saved through faith,and that not of yourselves – it is the gift of God Eph.2:8

• God’s Mighty Plan It is a plan that is purposed after the council of His own will. It is planned and purposed – to bring about all things in and thru Christ. It is plan and purpose – that will soon be brought to final fruition  – and God in His grace is permitting us to participate in His plan – through prayer.

• Kinsman-Redeemer But holy angels were not in need of a Saviour for they had not sinned, and fallen angels were not the subject of God’s grace, for man alone was made in the image and likeness of God so that God, in the person of Christ could be made in the likeness of human flesh. Christ did not take on the nature of angels nor was He made in their image or likeness.
• Great Salvation The Salvation that is given as a free gift of grace to all Who trust in the name of God’s only begotten Son, is a great Salvation that was given to man by God; announced to the world by angelic beings; confirmed by all Who heard and received the glorious gospel of Christ and recorded for our learning – to guide us into all truth and to give us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God’s promises to be fulfilled.

• Mission to the Gentiles The conversion of Paul on the road to Damascus was the turning point in Acts. Paul was to be the missionary to the Gentiles, but Christianity was still mainly Jewish. Peter had to have a wake-up call from the holy Spirit and was sent to Cornelius. To Peter’s amazement he came to understand that God’s grace extended to gentiles!
• One New Man in Christ The time had come when the Church was to be the vehicle to witness of God’s grace. There would be neither Jew nor Gentile – but rather one new man in Christ.. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slave or free, male and female..

• And James reminds us that it is the righteous man that availeth much.  But a servant can be under the blood, and a recipient of His mercy and grace –  but can have God oppose Him and frustrate His prayers, when in wrong standing.

• Work of God Self-dependency rather than humble dependence on God was the inevitable result, but as the sin of pride increased so also the grace that flowed from God multiplied. It was amidst the call to repent that many in Israel recognised the need to change.. to turn from their prideful ways and so they called out – what shall we do?
• Believe on Jesus Christ. What an incredible contrast to that which was required of the Law… Under Law – man was responsible to do all God commanded – but could not, Under Law – prideful man was drawn to self-dependence – not God-dependence. But under Grace man has to believe – to believe on Him Whom God has sent..

• God’s Grace We think more bible reading, prayer, giving or good works will gain us blessings,  but somehow it seems to conflict with all that we understand about God’s grace.
• Pursue Holiness To try to sanctify ourselves ends up as ‘works of the flesh’ produced by our sin nature. It is by grace that we are sanctified, as we submit to the work of the Spirit within.
• Rest in Christ But how can striving towards godliness harmonize with the Spirit’s work in us? How can the diligent pursuit of sanctification be compatible with resting in Christ? How can striving towards holiness be rooted and grounded in the passivity of grace?
• The earnest pursuit of holiness seems to be at odds with letting go and letting God..  but unless our striving and pursuit of holiness is anchored in His grace, we will fail.
• The pursuit of holiness is only achievable if secured by God’s transforming grace.
• If love is not the stimulus for godly living we will fall into the mindset of the world – for we love Him because He first loved us and saved us by His grace.
• Riches of His Grace When we begin to understand that grace is bigger than the total sum of our sins… the love of God will constrain us towards the diligent pursuit of sanctification.
• When we start to realise that grace is vaster than the weight of our good works..
• When we comprehend that depth of the riches of His grace towards us… the love of Christ will constrain us towards the earnest pursuit of holiness: and so we will prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God..

• Our Lord has special reserves of grace for special needs.
• If the Lord calls you to go through fire or water, He has a special reserve of grace for you in that.
• And that grace will be from the throne of grace.
• It is the throne above, mediating grace for need and suffering as it is required. -T.
• come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need (Heb. 4:16).

• For the law was given through Moses, but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.John 1:17
• Face of Christ The Law was indeed given to Israel through Moses, but the unfailing love of God and His everlasting faithfulness is seen reflected in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. The beauty of grace and truth is contrasted with the stark reality of the Mosaic Law, for the Law was given by Moses – but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
• Sparkling Jewels The sparkling glory of the combined elements of grace and truth shimmer like two precious jewels – in stark contradistinction, with the dark backcloth of the Law.
• The Cross But God in His love and mercy sent grace and truth through the incarnate Word..  so that all that believe in His name would not perish – but have everlasting life. The expression of God’s grace is seen in the gift of His Son and His work on the cross, so that by believing on the person of Jesus Christ we may have life in His name.
• God’s Grace Just as sin ruled over all people and brought them death – so the marvellous grace of God now rules instead, giving us right-standing with God and resulting in eternal life – through Jesus Christ our Lord. The Law requires works, which could never reach the perfection required of God.
• but grace and truth has come to us all through the lovely Lord Jesus Christ, so that by simply trusting in the name of Christ Jesus we might be given life – through His name.
• Christ’s Name All that Christ is and all that Christ has done is reflected in the beauty of His name. All that’s of grace, that’s been given to man – is on account of the merit of Jesus – for the Law was given by Moses – but grace and truth came through Jesus Christ.
• Gaping Gulf The contrast between the pre-eminence of the Son of God with Moses, the friend of God is as gaping a gulf as the supreme excellence of grace and truth over the Law.
• The immeasurable disparity between the infinite Creator with His finite creature is a measure of the inestimable supremacy of grace and truth over the perfect Law of God.
• Truth + Grace The Law of Moses, though perfect was given to man through a fallen member of a sinful race. Grace and truth, was the gift of God to condemned sinners, thru Jesus Christ our Lord. Grace without truth – would have rendered the righteousness of God as void. Truth without grace – would have rendered the salvation of man as impossible.
• Love of God What manner of love the Father has bestowed on us that He should shower on sinful man the grace and favour that we do not deserve and cannot earn- but in His perfect life the Incarnate Word of God, in His sinless body on the tree, met all the righteous requirements of the Law – to free us from condemnation so that we might have LIFE. The law indeed was given to Israel through Moses, but the unfailing love of God and His everlasting and faithfulness - is only seen in the face of the Lord Jesus Christ.  

• Growing In Grace - STUDY Grace Through Faith For by grace are ye saved.
• For by grace are ye saved through faith; – i.e.by means of exercising trust.
• For by grace are ye saved, and that not of yourselves. For by grace are ye saved, it is the gift of God.Ephesians 2:8
• Faith in What I guess we are saved by grace.
• For by grace are ye saved through faith in Him (trusting in Christ Jesus – with no add-ons) and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.
• Grace Alone Scripture was written nearly 2000 years ago.
• The consequence is a generations of Christians that have a distorted view of God. Almost without exception you will discover some little “add-on” to grace.
• If there is the slightest addition to grace, it fails to be by grace alone.
• “Add-Ons” To Grace Some additions to grace are easily discernible: “you must believe and……x.y.z”.
• Some adjuncts are clearly related to grace + works, which is not grace but law.
• Distortion of Scripture One problem with a wrong understanding of grace is a distortion of Scripture.
• The word of God is from God, and His word is truth and life. God’s method of grace as written in Scripture is perfect, but grace is frequently distorted by man’s interpretation. God’s character as outlined in Scripture is perfect, but God’s character is frequently distorted by man’s interpretation.
• Understanding of Grace Our understanding of grace will influence the way that we live our lives and our perceptions of God’s character will determine our conduct. If our understanding of grace is incorrect, so will be how we perceive God.
• If our perception of God’s character is wrong, so also how we understand grace. How vital that we take time to come to the correct understanding of grace.
• We need to identify any false perceptions we may have built up in our thinking, if we’re to get back to true biblical teaching on grace and God’s character.
• Influence in Life Our concept of God and idea of grace will always influence how we live.
• A believer living in worldly carnality hasn’t understood God’s grace.
• For by grace are ye saved it’s the gift of God:.
• Maybe he fears that God has a big stick to beat him. But by grace are ye saved, it is the gift of God. Our concept of God and idea of grace will always influence how we live.
• Correct Concept How important to have a correct concept of God.and His marvellous grace. The correct concept of God is clearly defined in scripture.
• The correct concept of grace is clearly outlined in God’s holy word. Exegesis and explanation can range from the excellent to the abysmal, but all have their imperfections and the result is a plethora of denominations with their own pet doctrine and exposition.
• Search the Scriptures Almost without exception you will discover some little ‘add-on” to grace, deceiving many into a life of fear;  works;  legalism.
• grace PLUS. The consequence is generations of Christians that have a distorted view of God, but God’s grace and His character is clearly laid out in Scripture and and we need to believe what Scripture says.
• We need to search the Scriptures to really find what is said about grace.

• The God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after ye have suffered awhile, make you perfect (mature), establish, strengthen, settle you (1 Pet. 5:10).
• But when we begin to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus, we are able to face up to the awful facts concerning the old man and his condemnation at the Cross.
• But He graciously leads us by a circuitous route, in order that our apprehension of His grace may keep pace with our growing self-knowledge. -C.H.M.

• Showers of Grace Grace, grace and more grace is what is showered on all that believe in Jesus Christ. Grace for salvation, grace for this life, grace to mature, grace in the ages to come.
• We should understand that all grace emanates from the infinite goodness of God.
• We should appreciate that grace affects and influences every part of our lives.
• Benefits of Grace We should recognise that grace gives solidity, steadiness, strength, security and safety.
• We should know that it is God’s grace that imparts peace and hope and removes all fear.
• We are been imparted with the fullness of God’s grace – in time and into eternity, for we have all received one gracious blessing after another:  the fullness of His grace from His abundance.  John 1:16
• Saving Grace Oh, it is natural and right that we glorify in the abundance of God’s saving grace.
• It was grace that picked us up out of the world and by grace paid the awful debt we owe..
• for by such grace you have been saved through faith, this does not come from you; it is the gift of God. Ephesians 2:8
• Continuing Grace Too often we limit the grace of God to salvation from the penalty of sin – alone. We often forget that salvation was the start of our eternal journey and not the end, for grace is poured out throughout life and grace continues into the ages to come.
• Freedom of Grace We are saved from the penalty of sin which is death – eternal separation from God, but we are also saved from the destructive and enslaving power of sin in our lives: for sin shall no longer be you master over you and have dominion over you.. for ye are not under the restrictions of law, but under the freedom of grace. Romans 6:14
• Provision of Grace God’s provision of grace is given in love and breaks the power of cancelled sin. Grace sets us free to live and move and have our being – living and working in Him.
• Once we are saved into God’s family He bestows even more grace upon grace.
• Sufficient Grace Grace and truth came through the Lord Jesus – as does love, joy, peace and hope, and we have access to all the grace of Christ..
• His grace is sufficient to deal with every situation and circumstance of life.
• His grace is available for every eventuality that seeks to overwhelm us in life.
• Accessing Grace Paul found the key to accessing God’s grace in all the twists and turns of his life. Paul tapped into the abundant supply of God’s sufficient grace, which is in Christ. Paul discovered that in his labour for the Lord – his supply of grace was sufficient: It is by God’s grace I am what I am, and His grace to me was not ineffective. Instead, I worked harder than all the others—not I, of course, but God’s grace that was with me. 1 Corinthians 15:10
• Grace Alone Paul knew that it was only by God’s grace that he’d been regenerated and made new. It was His grace alone that called, sanctified, justified, pardoned, and adopted him..
• and he knew that his office as an apostle of Christ and minister of God was all by grace.
• Eternal Grace He knew his eternal abundance of life was not due to his own merit or hard toil..
• it was by the free, undeserved favour and sovereign riches of God’s grace alone – and so it is with us, for it is all of grace – the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• Riches of Grace When we labour for Him in love, God’s grace is all we need – grace working within, for it is God that works in us to will and to do to His glory – God’s in-working grace.
• It is God’s grace that saves : God’s grace that sustains : God’s grace that secures, for the immeasurable, inexhaustible riches of God’s grace extend throughout eternity.
• Wonderful Grace One day we will go to be with the Lord as joint-heirs with Christ – by His grace. One day we will be conformed into Christ’s image and see Him as He is – by grace. One day we will rule and reign with Him in His kingdom – by His wonderful grace.
• Examples of Grace One day we will be examples of God’s grace to the angels and heavenly powers. One day salvation will be complete but His grace will extend into the eternal ages  – today we live by faith but then we will see Him as He is – and it is all by grace.
• God’s Grace And abounding and abundant grace has been showered over the heads of the Church – Christ loved the church and gave Himself for her so that He might make her holy by cleansing her, washing her with water of the word – and it is all by grace – God’s grace upon grace.

• Sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law but under grace (Rom. 6:14).
• Grace forsaken is freedom forfeited.
• All harmony of truth is shattered when there is the slightest commingling of the principles of law and grace.
• Grace alone now reigns through Christ to the glory of God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
• “By the grace of God I am what I am; and His grace, which was bestowed upon me, was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all; yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me” (1 Cor. 15:10).

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY But grow  in the grace and gain knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.2Peter 3:18
• grow in grace.
• Grow in the grace and gain knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

• Such a one pours contempt on the grace of God if they neglect to guard their hearts.

• there are in abundance with all of us, the Lord's rich grace abounds over all, and actually takes occasion from our very mistakes to shine out all the more brightly - though, assuredly, the mistakes and failures must produce their own painful and humiliating results.
• If we had only to learn what we are, we should surely be cast down, and sink into despondency; but His object in giving us a knowledge of ourselves and of His grace, is to give us an expected end.

• The bit and bridle' of the law must give way to the glance of the eye of grace (Ps. 32:8, 9).

• We have to learn the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ in the bright day as well as in the sorrowful day.

• My grace is sufficient for thee; for My strength is made perfect in [your] weakness (2 Cor. 12:9).

• It is not so much the absence of evil – but rather the presence of grace.
• One delicious fruit of the Spirit is the conjoined grace of kindness and goodness..

• The God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after ye have suffered awhile, make you mature, establish, strengthen, settle you (1 Pet. 5:10).

• Many are partakers of God's grace who have never seen Jesus.

• But as for the apostle, despite such a fall, God’s grace is never irrecoverable – for His tender kindness and loving-mercies toward us are new every morning.

• Jesus reveals to us all that this body has been harbouring before His grace began to work.

• Lukewarm Christianity There are a great number attend churches and chapels, where blessing of grace should abound..  yet men are not fed, they are sent empty away. They are no better, no happier, nor satisfied despite the privilege they just enjoy, for their hearts are lukewarm toward the Lord of their salvation. They have left their First Love for the baubles of the World – the fleshpots of Egypt: Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the Words of the LORD. Amos 8:11

• No test is given – without the grace to come through it.

• He reveals His plans to us by His grace and His love, for all Scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness. 2Tim.3:16.
• Grace of God God in His grace has given us a little part in planting and watering the seed, but it is the Spirit of the Lord that draws all men unto Himself: so then neither he who plants is anything, nor he who waters, but it is God who gives the increase. 1Cor.3:7.

• Jesus said: My grace is sufficient for thee for my strength is made perfect in weakness – your weakness…2Cor.4:9.

• Words of Truth Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. Colossians 4:6.  And in Ephesians 4:29  Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
• Let your speech always be with grace, seasoned with salt, that you may know how you ought to answer each person.

• Many have been misled by thinking that by reading the Bible you become like Christ - transformed; but you will find diligent students of the Word, who may never say anything incorrect in doctrine, yet who never seem to grow in grace and walk in spiritual reality.
• All blessings of this dispensation of grace are wrapped up in a Person, and, by means of the Word of God, we make spiritual progress as our hearts learn to find everything in Him - the Son of God who loved us and gave Himself for us. -C.A.C.

• It is imperative that the believer knows his position in grace, because grace is the source of all spiritual supply.

• to understand the gospel of the kingdom, and the gospel of the grace of God – to understand the old creations in Adam and Jacob and the new creation in Christ.

• Hope in Christ It was God’s purpose to redeem us through the blood of Jesus and to forgive our sins, and He purposed this heavenly blessing in accordance with the riches of His grace.
• He brought us out of darkness into the glorious light of the great gospel of Christ, for we are God’s handiwork and are created in Christ Jesus to do good works,  which God in His grace has prepared for us to do in advance.

• an example of His grace towards us, to the principalities and power that be.

• Incarnate God His love is measureless and scoops into its skirts boundless mercy and eternal grace. His immeasurable holiness acts in absolute righteousness and unquestionable justice. The fullness of God has been manifested in the self-revelation of Himself – in Christ – and in Him are hidden all the treasures of God’s eternal wisdom and knowledge.

• If we are left here a little longer we shall need the grace, mercy, and forbearance of the Father in a thousand ways, but all that will be needed in the future to keep us from ourselves is small compared with the stupendous cost at which divine love forever secured us. -C.A.C.

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY Pleasing Faith Without faith it is impossible to please God, and He longs that we trust Him.
• Precious Promise Peter wrote: Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord, according as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness – through the knowledge of HIM that hath called us to glory and virtue: Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature. 2 Peter 1:2-4.

• In the Reformation there was, through grace, a great deliverance.
• In the present day (1867) the truth is lowered to the measure of man's need; hence if the need is met, which grace does, the convert makes little or no advance; he rests in the satisfaction of his need, instead of being directed to the scope of God's thought, which only begins with his need.

• A Cry of Grace Who can forget those astonishing truths in that great chapter..

• The Lord give us grace to accept all His dealings with us in the light of His great purpose.

• Deep Grace What a depth of love the Lord had for all His own.
• Wrath of God John knew these children were sinners, both in practice and by nature. He knew the blessings of forgiveness and grace of God were freely open to all, but he also knew the only sacrifice for sin rested on the spilt blood of the Lord Jesus. John knew He was wounded for our transgressions and bruised for our iniquities – for the wrath of God was poured out on Christ to pay that price for all sin.

• ot a true story of course, but a story with a lovely thought behind it:- Each women knelt in worshipful prayer before the throne of grace..
• He lovingly bent over her with great tenderness and grace.

• Riches of His Grace Time and sense as we know it with all it constrictions and pressures will be changed. The years that the locusts have eaten, will be replaced with the riches of His grace.

• Grace of God It was only His tender-mercy and loving-kindness Who conceived the cross – the cross to which we can flee to as a city of refuge and a citadel of shelter.

• Patience:- that gift of grace, you so earnestly desired.
• Growing in Grace If we could but recognise that problem, betrayals and needs are His mountains – strewn in our way to develop in us those prayed for graces and desired virtues – those that Christ Himself displayed in the uphill path that He chose to take.

• Protective Peace The third grace of this harmonious trio of protective peace – is hope of salvation. The helmet of hope should protect our thoughts and flood through our minds, for hope is that sure anticipation of the glory of Christ that is to be fully revealed.

• His Joint-Heirs We are His People according to the riches of His grace and His glory. We are His Body.. the fullness of Him who fills everything in every way. We are His Building – in whom He is doing exceeding abundantly above all that we ask or think.
• Household of God We were quickened by the grace of God. We were made one by the blood of the Son. We were given access by one Spirit.
• God’s Building-Blocks God’s building-blocks of grace and glory are erected in the amazing book of Ephesians. We move from one marvellous level of grace and glory to the next glorious peak. We are permitted to fine-tune the incredible truth of who we are in Christ..  and it is all by God’s grace – through faith in Christ Jesus.

• Grace, absolute sovereign grace, has set me there - to show its exceeding riches throughout time and eternity.

•  Growing In Grace - STUDY If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.1 John1:9
• We either grow in grace, or we regress back to babyhood.
• Unique Position The saved are members of God’s family but only they have access to His throne of grace.
• Well at rebirth, all our past, present and future sins were forgiven forever, and that’s grace.
• Although we retain our family position and our union with Christ, we fall from grace..

• it is by God’s GRACE.
• Christ’s Righteousness Sometimes scriptural terminology becomes so familiar that we miss its magnitude, but Christ’s robe of righteousness renders us as perfect in the sight of God as Christ. When God looks at you and me, He sees Christ’s righteousness – not our impurity – and the amazing thing is that it is all by GRACE.
• And the astonishing thing is that is all and only by GRACE.
• Position in Christ We were no longer foreigners to God but were brought close to Him thru Christ..  and you know what… it is by grace – by grace alone and only by God’s grace. And if ever this fails to knock us speechless, we need look again at our position in Him.
• it is by God’s GRACE.
• All By Grace We became God’s child and centre of His household and His holy habitation. His children and His home; His sons and His temple; His heirs and His Bride. We were apportioned an eternal inheritance and became one with the saints of God – and you know what….
• it’s grace – all Grace – it’s all grace and only God’s GRACE.

• Instruction from Christ and words of wisdom from Paul unite these three sisters of grace.

• God loves the grace of pertinacity, where His child’s determined, persistent, tenacious, resolute perseverance..
• Persevere and besiege His throne of grace.
• Die to your own self-interest, your own magnetism – and in humility and grace, rest in His strength and in Him alone.

• 2-Way Identification God’s grace united us with His death.. making His death full payment for our sins. Our faith identifies us with Him now.. making His sacrifice efficacious on our behalf. This is full identification with Him. This is a two-way identification… I in Him – and He in me. He identifies with me – a sinner worthy of eternal death.

• God’s Answer God in His great love for the world answered this universal longing and inner need. The incarnation of His only begotten Son was His precious answer to this inner ache. And though God in His grace sent His Son Who was the exact image of the invisible God to come and live and walk amongst us for 33 years – how few really understood.

• Sufficient Grace I am no longer anxious about anything… It makes no matter where He places me or how.
• For the easiest positions He must give me grace, and in the most difficult, His grace is sufficient.
• in difficulty – much grace?

• Thus it will be a sharing of life, through which others will be born and will grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (2 Pet. 3:18).

• May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ and the love of God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. 2 Corinthians 13:14
• Definitions of Grace Grace is often defined as God’s unmerited favour – but grace covers so much more, God’s Riches At Christ’s Expense is another truism – but it falls far short of the truth.
• There are many such helpful acrostics that have sought to explain the grace of God:-
• Acrostics of Grace Genuinely Redeemed And Cleansed Eternally
• Ditties of Grace Some use little catchy ditties or rhymes to remind themselves of God’s grace: Given by God mercifully, Riches in Christ bestowed freely, Atonement sacrificially, Christ in us the hope of glory, Evermore undeservedly.
• Letters of Grace Often a sermon on salvation is beautifully woven into the initial letters of GRACE, G – Salvation is a Gift of God – a Good Gift that is Granted to all R – Salvation is Redemption – Received by faith, Reuniting us with God A – Salvation is Accepted by God’s love, Available to All, Accessible thru faith C – Salvation Comes thru Christ Crucified Who paid the Cost at the Cross E – Salvation Ends in Eternal life and is an Everlasting gift – and an Escape
• Songs of Grace Sonnets and songs have been written to rejoice in God wonderful saving grace. Talks and testimonies reminding us that it is all about God’s unmerited favour to us.
• Familiar Concept Grace is a familiar concept to believers but over time has lost some of its dynamic. The all-encompassing nature of grace eludes any genuine, all-inclusive definition.
• Grace has its roots in the infinite nature of God and its fruit in His eternal attributes.
• Grace is founded on the sovereignty of God and shows forth His unconditional love. Grace is God’s overabounding provision, not only in the physical but in the spiritual. Grace not only restores what was lost in Eden but adds to it an unknown expanse.
• Strombeck’s Definition  Grace was once defined by Strombeck as:  “the unmerited abounding provision of the unrestrained operation of God’s infinite love through Christ Jesus on behalf of man – especially he who depends on Him.”
• Common Grace God’s common grace is extended to saved and unsaved alike – all humanity.. for every good and perfect gift comes from above James 1:17 – for God causes his sun to rise on the evil and the good. He sends rain on the righteous and the unrighteous .Matthew 5:45 God’s gracious provision even provides the breath of the those that curse Him.
• Special Grace But there is special grace for those that have accessed salvation by grace, thru faith: Strombeck writes the following: Grace is God’s provision to bring into being, sustain and perfect His new creation in Christ.
• As grace came by Jesus Christ – only those who receive Him as Saviour are ‘under grace’.
• Riches of God’s Grace Let us reflect on the riches of God’s grace towards us. Let us meditate on all that has been poured out on we, who are his children – surely through time and eternity we will be praising God for His indefinable grace.

• Exceeding Riches Sometimes we have a limited understanding of all that Christ has done for us. Sometimes we have a myopic conception of the work of the Spirit in our lives today. Sometimes our comprehension falls short of the exceeding riches of God’s grace to us.

• Are we prepared to say - Lord, make me as holy as You can make a sinner saved by grace?

• Gifts of God’s Our salvation comes to us as a gift of God’s grace – and it is all due to the Lord Jesus, but godly living and righteous acts are similarly gifts of God – through Christ Jesus – for it is God Who works in us both to WILL and to DO – to His good purpose.
• Work of God We have to rely on God to be reborn AND we have to rely on Him to grow in grace. We can contribute nothing to initial salvation, nor the work God does through us.

• and Israel will be the head and not the tail of the nations… for the promises of God are without repentance.What grace.

• And Paul in ROMANS teaches us how man is saved by Grace.

• Power from God All things hold together by His grace and the strength of His mighty power alone:- including the foolish little actress, the misguided poet and the atheistic philosopher. O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken Luke 24:25 said, you have no power at all against Jesus, except it were given you from above John 19:11
• We cannot grow in grace while feeding our ego with a false self image – we must die to self if we are to live for God.

• Light of Men The shining face of the prophet Moses is extinguished before this Light of the world. The perfect Law of God, bequeathed to Israel through the prophet Moses is branded ‘a ministration of death’ – before this Light of men…Who sheds grace and truth on all.

• Job 1:1.  From the start we see that Job likened to Noah, found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
• Do not receive the grace of God to no purpose…… 2Corinthians 6:1
• God’s Plan and Purpose The Spirit of God warns that it is possible to receive God’s saving grace, and eternal life..

• Grace upon grace, and more grace upon grace.
• The sanctified one shall grow in grace. Grace upon grace.
• His grace, upon the grace bestowed upon you.
• Growing in Grace  The sanctified one shall live by faith: The faith of the Son of God, working through your faith.
• Day by day and moment by moment – this is grace upon grace.
• His grace given upon the grace given to you.

• When I turn to God and by belief accept what God reveals I can accept, instantly the stupendous Atonement of Jesus Christ rushes me into a right relationship with God; and by the supernatural miracle of God's grace I stand justified, not because I am sorry for my sin, not because I have repented, but because of what Jesus has done.

• For sin shall not have dominion over you: for you are not under the law, but under grace.

• Gal.4:19, but unlike Israel his labour is for Christians – for fellow believers to grow in grace.
• Grace verses Law The Galatians were labouring to cover themselves in their own righteous works, and Paul was labouring to explain the consequences of them living under the law. Paul toiled to bring them to an understanding of the glory of grace verses works.
• Paul toiled to show that sanctification as well as justification was gained by grace –  but they were toiling to sanctify themselves by returning to the works of the law.
• Grace not Works But the grace is God is made of non-effect when WORKS are substituted for grace. The grace is God is made of non-effect when the LAW is substituted for grace. The grace of God is made void – for when we live under law we are not under grace.
• Growing in Grace The labouring of which Paul spoke was for Christians to develop and grow in grace. Paul did not labor for himself.  Paul laboured for the Church – for the church of God to grow in grace during this dispensation of the Church.
• Paul toiled to tell the church to believe God’s word, for by grace you are saved.
• Sanctified by Grace Paul knew that we are not only justified by grace but also sanctified by grace. The Galatians had been saved by grace – but were trying to be sanctified by the Law. Paul’s intense anguish; bitter pain and deep travail was for the Church. Paul’s labor was for the church to know the truth: my little children, for whom I labor in birth again until Christ is formed in you.
• Labouring Today We too must grow in grace and the knowledge of God until Christ is formed in us, and then we too must labor for others – until Christ is formed in them.
• For we are saved by grace alone, through faith alone in Christ alone, and we are sanctified by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone, – and we will be glorified by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone: for whom he predestined he also called, and whom he called he also justified, and whom he justified he also glorified Romans 8:30

• The fact is forgotten that He, while living under, keeping, and applying the Law of Moses, also taught the principles of His future earthly kingdom, and, at the end of His ministry and in relation to His Cross, He also anticipated the teachings of grace.
• The Gospels are complex almost beyond any other portion of Scripture, since they are a composite of the teachings of the law, of grace, and of the coming kingdom. -L.S.C.

• For the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ (John 1:17).

• Power is in the Spirit; thus grace, not law, is the way of growth.
• Sin shall not have dominion over you, because ye are not under law, but under grace.' -F.W.G.
• They only establish the full, immutable authority of the law, who declare that the believer is under grace, and therefore cannot be cursed by its just and holy curse. -J.N.D.

• God’s Way Show us Thy way O Lord. Let us walk in Thy paths. Lead us into Thy truth and teach us Thy grace. All is well! God is doing wonderful things. But allow your eyes to be opened to see Him.
• Wrong Way For Self blocks the channel of grace, and Self attempts to take on the responsibilities that God alone can secure. Self clouds the sunshine rays of His blessings. Self must therefore be uprooted. Self must be nailed to the cross.

• Grace is the Father's favor to man according to His own heart, and for His own glory.
• If the need of man were the sole measure of His grace, then man only would be thought of, the work of the Lord Jesus would be simply for man, and the power of God expended merely in rescuing man and securing his relief.
• When the advantages of grace do not call forth praise to the Father, when He is not prominently before the soul, as the source of everything possessed, then the gifts take the place of the Giver in the heart, and must soon lose their vigor and value like flowers cut away from their roots.

• Any aspect of life or conduct which is undertaken in dependence on the energy and ability of the flesh is, to that extent, purely legal in character, whether it be the whole revealed will of God, the actual written commandments, or the exhortations of grace.
• Dependence on the arm of flesh is consistent with pure law; dependence on the power of God is demanded under pure grace. -L.S.C.

• And those who believe this enter the blessed sphere where grace reigns.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY Beloved, you have been called unto liberty..Galatians 5:13
• Liberty or Bondage Paul was deeply concerned that false teachers were leading Christians back from the glorious freedom of the gospel of grace to the shackled bondage of law.
• Our liberty in Christ, that comes by grace through faith, dominates the pages of Galatians as point-by-point Paul warns of the serious consequences of legalism – of deserting the liberty of the gospel of grace for the shackles of a works based ‘gospel’.
• Grace 0r Law The perfect Law of Moses was nothing more than a tutor teaching us that sinful man could never reach the perfect standard required by a thrice-holy God.
• It demonstrates the futility of trying to achieve the perfection required by the Law, which would end in despair, were it not for the truth of the glorious gospel of grace, whereby Christ met all the demands of the Law on behalf of all who believed on His sacrificial death and His glorious resurrection.
• The purpose of the Law is to lead us to Christ, but grace takes us from being children to mature sons.
• It tells us we are of age because now we are under grace; now we are not under law; now we have unconditional union with Christ – now we are called “sons”.
• Being under law keeps us as little children but grace takes us from being little children to maturing sons.
• Under law we are children but under grace we are sons.
• Under law our rights are limited but under grace our position is one of having reached the age of majority.
• Under grace we have received unconditional union with Christ and we are called “sons”.
• Christ has done all for our initial salvation by the “grace-promise-faith” way.
• As sons and He does all for our ongoing salvation by the same “grace-promise-faith” way.
• Life of Grace Once we have been saved by grace we are to be sanctified by grace; to grow in grace and to mature in the faith – to live our lives “grace-promise-faith” way.
• But if a believer chooses to revert to the “law-merit-works way” we regress to childhood and cannot grow in grace, because when we are under the terms of the law have removed ourselves from the terms of grace.
• Infants or Sons We were all made children of God through faith (justification – initial believing in Christ) and we should be living as sons of God through faith (sanctification – growing in grace).
• Paul is telling the Galatians that they should be growing in the grace of Jesus Christ, but despite their position in Christ and union with Him – they reverted to infancy!
• Faith or Self-Merit Paul explains that because they didn’t continue in the “grace-promise-faith” way, they returned to the old ways rather than remaining in the new way.
• They replaced the new “grace-promise-faith way” for the old “law-merit-works” way.
• Once a man has been saved by grace, why return to the chains of the Law?
• Legalism and seeking to merit God’s favour by producing good works in ones own flesh is an impossibility for God is only pleased with one thing – the finished work of Christ, and that is apprehended by believers who live the grace-faith-promise way.
• And Paul’s epistles are full of warnings about not returning to this way of the Law – the “law-merit-works” way, and his letters are dripping with instructions on how to live by grace – how to live the “grace-faith-promise” way .
• So having been saved by grace through faith, let us therefore live our lives by grace through faith.

• John 7:46. He observed His glorious character His compassion and His grace. Oh yes, Philip knew a lot about the Lord Jesus – but as yet he did not know Him.
• God Incarnate He did not know Him as the One that was revealed of the Father. He did not know Him as the Divine glory, full of grace and truth. He did not recognise the radiance and life that streamed from Him. He did not know that: this is My beloved Son in Whom I Am well pleased.
• His Grace His grace is is poured over us in great abundance. His holy correction is administered to us with infinite tenderness.

• It is akin to a seed: the life of the Lord Jesus within must grow; and it would be against the laws of nature and grace alike if we expected from the babe in Christ the strength that can only be found in the young man, or the rich experience and stability of the fathers.
• Even where in the new convert there is great singleness of heart and faith, with true love and devotion to the Saviour, time is needed for a deeper knowledge of the old man and sin, for a spiritual insight into what the Father's will and grace are. -A.M.
• The more the believer abounds in the riches of the Father's grace, the more unsearchable and inexhaustible he finds them to be.

• If ministers and teachers of God's Word would set saints free and establish them in the Gospel, let their preaching and teaching be based upon the sixth and seventh of Romans, the central theme of which is our union with the Lord Jesus in death and burial; and our resurrection and ascension with Him into newness of life; where not the law, but grace, reigneth; where not the letter but the Spirit, moveth the heart and life of the believer.

• But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while . . .

• His thought about you are full of grace and love.
• Such is the limitless grace of God for you and such is the limitless grace of God for me.
• We must be careful to accept totally, that His grace is sufficient.
• Blameless “in Christ” His grace is indeed sufficient to fulfil His ideal in you and in me.
• as you wait for His perfect consummation through His limitless bounds of grace.

• To understand this grace we need to have very distinctly before our soul the One Man by whom it has come to us.
• We never can learn the grace of our Father by thinking of those to whom it comes; we must think of the One by whom it comes.

• but living a life of righteousness can only be lived by faith – dependence on God, and of course faith has no merit on our part – for it is ALL by God’s grace.
• Godly Living Godly living – a righteous life is a life that demonstrates dependence on God – an unfailing dependence on the grace of God in every area of life and living.
• A righteous life is one that has come to rest entirely on God’s sovereign grace.
• Faith is trusting God in His infinite grace and wisdom to do what is best for you.
• Faith Speaks Faith says with Job: though He slay me yet shall I trust Him. Faith says with Peter : to Whom shall we go, You have the words of eternal life. Faith says with Paul : His grace is sufficient.

• All through life God has to show us our own utter sinfulness and need, before He is able to lead us on into realms of grace, in which we shall glimpse His glory.”
• Coates describes it so well: “Many of us have probably known what it was to rejoice in the grace of God without having apprehended very much the true character of the flesh.
• In such cases the grace of God is taken up in a self-confident way; there is very little self-distrust, or sense of weakness and dependence.

• It is essential that we grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, for three reasons: (1) that our Father may be glorified; (2) that the Lord Jesus might be manifested in us; (3) that the Holy Spirit might have a suitable instrument through which to win and establish others.
• It is a marvelous grace that we should be conformed to the image of God's Son.
• Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began (2 Tim. 1:9).

• Growing in Grace My old life in Adam is crucified and left nailed to the cross as the new starts to grow.
• takes time. The new life takes time to grow – much time – a life-time of growing in grace.

• A Study:- Man’s Nature and Destiny Image and Likeness The triune God created man in His own image with body, soul and a spirit, and in His grace God gave fallen man a threefold life-experience with his Creator:- salvation, sanctification and service, and it is all through the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Gospel of Grace Man is appointed mortal sorrow.

• Divine Love This love is not the frothy romance of novels – nor the passion of a paperback. It speaks of strength and stamina, pain and long-suffering patience. It speaks of heartache and endurance. It speaks of deep disappointment, and yet an abiding forgiveness. It speaks of love that never fails, despite the grossest betrayals. It speaks of tenderness, regardless of the most ruthless duplicity. It speaks of forbearance and grace, in spite of deception and disloyalty. It speaks of the deepest affection – a love that never gives up – that never ever fluctuates, no matter what. It speaks of His precepts and promises through poetry and prophecy.

• One Command Tell me quickly what are these commandments that I must keep? Am I to travel the world and do good deeds to all I meet? Am I to work from dawn to dusk in sharing the gospel of His grace? Am I to abstain from certain food and drink – or spend my days serving in a soup kitchen? All may be good and worthy causes and may be His call on a life..

• But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus (I Pet. 5:10).

• Every action of God toward His saints is in grace and blessing; it is ever the outcome of His love.

• My Father, in His grace, has come in and ended my history in the flesh, by the Cross, and now by the Spirit I am brought into association with His Son at His own right hand in heaven.

• How strengthening it is, to know that He is at this moment feeling and exercising the same love and grace towards me as when He died upon the Cross for me. -J.N.D.
• I have got away from grace if I have the slightest doubt about God's love for me.
• If the consciousness of what we are in ourselves, has any other effect than, while it humbles us, to increase our adoration of what our Father is, we are off the ground of pure grace.
• The immediate effect of such consciousness should be to make our hearts reach out to God and to His grace as abounding over all.

• By Grace Thru Faith By grace..
• God has given us a share in all the essential essence of Jesus Christ. By grace..
• the Spirit placed us in a position of union with Christ that will never be broken. By grace..
• we’re identified with His righteousness because He identified with our sin. By grace..
• we share in Christ’s righteousness, His son-ship, His heir-ship, His destiny – and nothing in heaven or earth can remove us for that position of grace, for we are eternally and forever secure in Him.

•  Growing In Grace - STUDY Spiritual Communion The Apostle John delights to remind us that as children of God, who have entered into eternal union with Christ Jesus, we also have the right to enjoy intimate fellowship with the Father on a daily basis.

• He observed his glorious character His compassion and His grace. Oh yes, Philip knew a lot about the Lord Jesus – but as yet he did not KNOW Him.
• Eternal Grace His divine love is close to each of us perpetually, His eternal grace is poured over us in great abundance, His holy correction is administered to us with infinite tenderness.

• “For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.

• The revelation of my growth in grace is the way in which I look upon obedience.

•  My grace suffices for you, for power matures in weakness (2 Cor. 12:9, Wey.).

• An indefinable grace that beautifully augments other godly traits and gifts.
• In the believer this grace of meekness is from the Spirit of God.
• We are to follow after this grace which holds so high a price in the sight of God..

• The only way for us to come into all that the Lord means - not only into what we have seen but into all that He has purposed - is to be desperate, to be men of violence; to be men who say, By God's grace, nothing and no one, however good, is going to stand in my way; I am going on with God.

• It gladdens the heart to hear the new convert speak of the blessings he has received, and of his new-found joy in those blessings; but we can often see very distinctly that he is wrapping all these benefits of grace round himself, and we feel pretty sure that he will have to learn some lessons presently that will take the shine out of him.

• We are going to discover that our Father's grace and mercy shine brightest against the darkness of the daily Cross.

• Man’s Redemption The beautiful chorus that rang through the night sky – that was being sung by the heavenly choirs of rejoicing angels, must have been a strange sight – for angelic beings are not the favoured recipients of God’s amazing grace.
• Redemption we read was the gift of grace, that was offered to the human race  – so that whoever will believe on the only begotten Son of God will never perish but have everlasting life.
• They believed that this infant truly was the promised Messiah and they glorified God for His grace and mercy as they humbly returned to their duties..
• Should not we worship and glorify God for His grace and mercy as we humbly set about our daily duties day by day – sharing the good news with others that we meet… by the way.

• His Grace Contemplate on these words that Paul writes… To the praise of the glory of HIS grace, wherein HE hath made us ACCEPTED in the Beloved.

• The energy and the power which was manifested in Jesus will be manifested in us by the sheer sovereign grace of God when once we have made the moral decision about sin.

• Many truly converted persons are more occupied with themselves, and in trying to improve their own condition, than in seeking to learn the grace of God.

• His Grace His strength is enough for the infinite demands that are made of Him, and His grace is sufficient for the few demands He asks of us.
• We must not be careless in seeking His grace and His strength.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.
• But Paul discovered: My grace is sufficient, for my strength is made perfect in you weakness.
• Wisdom in God’s Word While ever we live in this fallen world of sin and suffering we will face mounting pressures, but we have the written word of God and the indwelling Holy Spirit of God to guide our path and to guard our ways and  Christ has promised  that His grace is sufficient.
• Never forget that God’s word is life and health and wisdom and truth and His grace is sufficient, for Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path –  for ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heave

• Rivers of Blessing God’s rivers of blessing contain all that man needs : rivers of pardon and promises : streams of love and grace : cascades of His fellowship.

• Grow in Grace We are saved by grace through faith but we are also to grow by grace through faith. The Spirit resides in the heart of all believers but as we grow He dwells in our hearts.
• When Christ dwells in our heart there is a special, mutual intimacy that develops and as Christ dwells in our heart a deeper communion is manifested. And like initial salvation that is also through faith – Christian growth is also by faith – for every aspect of Salvation is God’s gift of grace, through faith.
• Breadth of God Grace The breadth of God grace reaches to embrace all who are saved by grace thru faith. The breadth of His grace encompasses all the redeemed of Christ : the saints of God – Jew and gentile, young and old, male and female – all people, climes and tongue.
• Length of God Grace The length of God grace extends from reaches of eternity past into the ages to come.
• The length of God’s grace spans from the foundation of the world into eternity.
• so that in the ages to come He might show the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus. 2:7
• Depth of God Grace The depth of God’s grace delivers whosoever will from the depravity and evil of sin. The depth of God’s grace excludes none that call on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ – for God’s love stoops to the pit of death to encompass all who trust in His only Son.
• But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us – even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved)
• Height of God Grace The height of God’s grace reaches into heavenly places where we are seated with Christ. The height of God’s grace is found in Christ Jesus our heavenly Lord and King.
• has raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in heavenly places in Christ Jesus – far above all rule and authority, power and dominion, and every name that is invoked, not only in the present age but also in the one to come – so that in the ages to come He might show forth the surpassing riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.

• Our faith is a response to His truth, which grows in grace when exercised.

• Pouring into the hearts of those that love Him,His Own sweet Spirit of gentleness and grace.

• Distorted Views Some lay particular weight upon His love, but ignore His justice. Some lay particular emphasis upon His justice, while disregarding His love. Some go overboard with grace, and are drawn into licentious living. Others focus upon the law, pointing an accusing finger at so many other people. Some believe that God requires certain rituals or He cannot not accept us. Others believe they are under God’s wrath because of pre-christian indiscretions.

• Since you have been forewarned, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of the lawless and fall from your secure position, but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.2Peter 3:17-18
• Sufficient Grace I think not – important though it is to recognise the signs of the approaching “day”.
• The deeper the darkness of the hour, the more vivid the brightness of His illumination. The greater the troubles of this age, the more manifest is His glorious, sufficient grace. The bigger today’s pressures and pain, the more ready will Christ carry His own – though not always in the way we expect.
• Grace upon Grace As the mystery of lawlessness increases, so the mystery of godliness multiplies:- grace; more grace; much grace –Grace built upon more grace. For of His fullness we have all received, and grace upon grace John 1:16 For where sin increased, grace abounded all the more, Romans 5:20 -pressed down; shaken together and running over.
• Grow in Grace But – praise God this dear apostle, Peter, continues with the next verse. He explains in simple terms how this is achieved… but grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ 2Pet.3:18 We grow in grace and mature in the faith when we fix our eyes on the Lord, and the mature believer is the one that will not be overwhelmed by life’s circumstances.

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY  
• to prepare us for ultimate maturity and though we are accepted in Him, we need to be conformed into His likeliness. And so God has built His universe upon certain unchangeable principles and precepts -life principles -relational principles -business principles -national principles. As with the dispensation of Law, there are specific of principles for the age of grace… for we are not under the law, but under grace.
• He wrote:- Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then I am strong. 2Cor.12:10. Paul the apostle to the gentiles learned this important lesson, of our need of God, and He expresses it in the following words :- My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in your weakness.

• Gift of Grace God’s condition for salvation was to believe – believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Salvation was His free gift of grace to everyone, who would believe in His beloved Son  – and one thing that happens to a believer is that he becomes a new creation in Christ.

• Free Gift This was not to be the norm for the entire human race for every man was endowed with: a mind to think, a will to choose and a range of God-given emotions to feel. The new heavenly order was not to be imposed on all humanity but given as a free and everlasting gift of grace — to all who received God’s chosen, anointed federal-Head:  for as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become… children of God – even to those who believe in His name.
• Receive Christ BUT NOTE…. The promised life of grace upon grace is a free gift to all who receive Christ Jesus,  but He must be received.
• He must be accepted for He is the minister of God’s grace. He is God’s unspeakable gift of grace – He is the alpha and omega of peace. For as many as received CHRIST; the Messiah of Israel – Son of God and Son of Man; the giver of Life and Light of the world – the author and finisher of our faith…. to as many as received HIM to them was given the power to become sons of God – even to them that BELIEVE in His name – and trust in His finished work.

• We are to eliminate everything in our lives and living that grieves the holy Spirit,  recalling the riches of God’s grace – for we are sealed until the day of redemption.

• If there were true apprehension of the work of the Lord Jesus on the Cross - that He so bore the judgment on man that all the man who had offended against God has been judicially removed to His infinite satisfaction, and that He who saved us from death is now our Life - there would be a wonderful testimony to the grace of God.
• The Reformers failed because they did not see that as faith alone could save, and place man outside himself in the Lord Jesus, he must not return to that which through grace has been crucified.

• And God is able to make all grace abound toward you (2 Cor. 9:8).

• It is true that there is the hunger to be devoted, and to be like the Lord Jesus, long before one's acts and manner corroborate the hunger, and make it a fact; but the more the hungers which grace has generated in your heart are given a place, the sooner will they become experiential facts; and the more the Lord Jesus has His throne within you, the more you will rejoice in Him, and have no confidence in the flesh' (Phil. 3:3).
• I know so little of the Lord Jesus,' one may say, and this may be true; but every grace that is in Him is in every saint, though not developed.

• The unwearied care of our Father for us, His patient grace, His gentleness, His leading us on from the world nearer, in spirit, to Himself, indicate what should be the character of our love's activity towards one another.

• Let us seek grace for any fiery furnace in the light of the explanation, that it is neither what is of Christ that is being tested in us, nor any good within ourselves, but that what is not Christ should disappear, that it should be Christ, only Christ.

• We are about to come face to face with the riches of Christ’s amazing grace.
• God’s Grace Grace was in the heart of the Creator when God set the ransom price for man’s sin. Grace was in mind of God when God laid on Him the iniquity of us all. Blessed be the God and Father – Who made Christ sin for our sake.
• Gift of Grace Nothing that is in ourselves could ever qualify to be the beneficiary of God’s grace. Reconciliation with the Father is the free gift of God’s grace to those who believe. Salvation and all the blessings that accompany it is only given to those who believe: believe on the Lord Jesus Christ – and thou shalt be saved.
• Our Saviour And that free gift of grace to believers opens the floodgates of God’s rich blessings. All who trust God’s Word are blessed to call God’s Son – OUR Lord Jesus Christ. All who put their faith in His finished work can call Him – MY Jesus; MY Saviour. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ… Who has blessed US…

• Could it be possible that God would so love an individual as to give His only Son to die for him and still love him to the extent of following him with the pleadings and drawings of His grace until He has won that soul into His own family and created him anew by the impartation of His own divine nature, and then be careless as to what becomes of the one He has thus given His all to procure? -L.S.C.

• God’s Grace Nevertheless God causes His Son to shine on the evil as well as the good. He sends His rain on the just and the unjust alike for God is very, very good..

• The ongoing outpouring of the riches of God’s amazing grace from that uniquely special occasion, on all believers, has been thru the beautiful ministry of the Holy Spirit.
• Spirit of God He is the Spirit of truth and of love – He is it Who illuminates the word of God. He is the Spirit of power and peace – He it is Who convicts and converts the soul. He is the Spirit of grace and joy – and He is the Spirit of righteousness and hope.

• That in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace... for we are His workmanship (Eph. 2:7,10).

• streams out God’s grace to a fallen race of man.
• Total Righteousness And His gift to all who trust on His name is a justifying righteousness:- regeneration; sanctification; glorification; a new creation in Christ, and the grace of God and peace with God, and faith and hope and love and joy, and the indwelling Spirit and a heavenly inheritance – and eternal life: for He washed us from our sins in His own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and His Father, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever.

• The Second Man Dominion over God’s beautiful earth was lost by the first man, to a rebel angel, Satan – but God in His grace and mercy pre-ordained that a second Man – the Man Christ Jesus would become the last Adam, Who would regain the crown and reestablish the riches and glories of the kingdom that was forfeited to the enemy of God, by the first Adam. The first man – Adam, in his disobedience to God had placed himself under Satan’s authority while the second Man – the Lord Jesus, in His obedience to God, must also be made a little lower than the angels that He Himself created – if humanity was to be redeemed by His life-giving blood – and regain Man’s God-given rulership of earth.
• Power of Sin And glory to God for the power of sin was also broken in our lives and we have been set free from the dominion and mastery that Satan holds over the race of human-kind, for we no longer live under the requirements of the law – but have gained the freedom of God’s grace.

• filled with the most precious gemstones. The Word of God is a love-letter that is bursting with treasures of promises. Perhaps the epistle containing the most priceless pledges is Ephesians. Perhaps the most precious promise there, is that we are “accepted in the Beloved.” Nowhere in Scripture is His glorious grace more evident than in this little book – or we are like Mary “highly favoured.”
• Grace of God It was His grace that was given to the Lord’s human mother and it is the same grace – given to to us who believe on His name… – His body, His church, His darling, His beloved bride.
• Not so much a distinctive character of the calling, the mystery, which is His body – but a special feature and fact of the overwhelming nature and purpose of grace: That we should be holy.. That we should be without blame before Him – in love – in grace.
• Holiness and blamelessness is provided entirely by grace. Grace is conferred only through the work of the Saviour.
• Amazing Grace Just as the justified sinner is made righteous through God’s good grace… so the sanctified saint is made holy and righteous through God’s good grace. And it is all; All, ALL, ALL through God’s amazing GRACE.

• Such a seeing, a grasping, an apprehending and being mastered by the Greatness of the One to Whom, by the grace of God, we have been united, called into the fellowship of His Son Jesus Christ.

• A new Head has been provided for us, and we have been transferred by divine grace from Adam to Christ. -C.A.C.

• God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that ye, always having all sufficiency, may abound to every good work (2 Cor. 9:8).

• And remember, the Lord in His grace has dealt each one a measure of faith.

• His obedience secured for all who believe, the manifold riches of God’s amazing grace.
• Too often we regard obedience as rules and regulations limiting our freedom, but when filtered through the purity and grace of God, it delivers His life and light,

• In this way they can become a pattern of His mercy, by means of which He can demonstrate His grace to others. -J.C.M.

• Spirit of Wisdom Having revealed to Christ’s Church the eternal riches of God’s grace towards them, Paul begins to intercede for all the saints in His powerful prayer of prayers.
• that they grasp; understand; believe and appropriate the many riches of His grace – that the Spirit of wisdom opens their heart to see their incomparable inheritance.
• Riches of Grace This potent prayer of Paul was inspired by the Spirit to teach and edify all the saints. This is not only a plea from Paul – but exposes the Father-heart of God Himself.
• It is God Who wants all His children to know and understand the riches of His grace..
• This is a prayer for you and me – that we know more fully the bounties of His grace – that we come to understand the staggering riches of God’s grace towards us all.
• Unveiled Inheritance We are to know more fully the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.. not only the actual inheritance that is held in trust – but its considerable GLORY..  the riches of grace; peace; hope and love – that are ours to live by in the present, and its full and final and unveiled inheritance – when we see Him as He is.
• Future Mysteries We are to know more fully the exceeding riches of His power toward us who believe.. divine mysteries that are unlocked to our understanding – by grace through faith.. to know the surpassing power that is ours through the ministry of the Holy Spirit –  to know the matchless riches of God’s grace and glory that are ours – by believing.

• He longed for God to open their understanding of the riches of His grace towards them.
• and the more we love Him the deeper our love becomes – and we know Him better – and then we start to understand the abundant, riches of God’s grace towards us.
• The over-abundant riches of His grace towards us are eternally immeasurable.
• Exceeding Grace Amazing though these revelations through Paul to the church are – there is more! We are His body and He is the head, and Christ is the fullness of His body : the church.
• There are insufficient superlative words to describe the riches of God’s grace to us.
• He seems hardly to take a breath as he pours out God’s exceeding grace towards us.
• Paul simply wants to teach us to know and to understand what these riches are: that we may KNOW the exceeding riches of God’s grace towards us – his children.

• Paul yearns that we appropriate the multiplied riches of God’s grace in our life – today.
• All-Sufficient Grace Paul has shifted our perspective from hearing about God’s truth to experiencing it. It is moving from knowing we have peace with God – to receiving the peace of God. Oh!
• I don’t mean basing faith on emotional feelings which can fluctuate to and fro – but a trust that God provides sufficient grace no matter what we are facing in life.

• Paul concluded that, “in everything…commending ourselves as bond-servants of God” 2.Corinthians 6:4 After an all-inclusive address in2 Corinthians  6– Paul finally reaches the end of himself too – as “three times” he called on the Lord and thrice begged Him to remove his thorn… and three times he heard:- My grace is sufficient… My grace is sufficient… My grace is sufficient for thee… for MY strength is perfected in YOUR weakness”

• After the believer enters into life by faith, he wonders why it was so difficult for him to see that it was all of grace - the humble reception of a finished work.

• Privileged People What privileged people we truly are – that we should be called God’s children. He has showered His love over us and bestowed on us every spiritual blessing. What grace that we should be picked up from the dirt and seated in heavenly places, and together all believers are being builded-up into a spiritual Temple.
• Spiritual Temple What a privileged group of people we are – that we should be called God’s children. What showers of love has been bestowed on us, for we are united forever with Christ. What grace..

• Grace to you and peace from Him Who is and Who was and Who is to come.
• Grace to you and peace from the seven Spirits Who are before His throne.
• Grace to you and peace from Jesus Christ….Revelation 1:4
• Christ’s Peace He not only bestows on us peace WITH God as we nestle in His forgiveness, that glorious ‘new birth’ peace with God the Father….and endows us with the peace OF God, which protects and guards our hearts and minds… but also by His grace He lavishly supplies us with His OWN peace… the peace of God that surpasses understanding – the peace of Jesus….

• He is not under law, but under grace.

• One of the true tests of one's spiritual growth is in one's influence: affecting others that they not only begin the Christian life but grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18).
• We may often have a measure of the power of the Spirit, but if there is not a large measure of the Spirit as the Spirit of grace and love, the defect will be manifest  in our work.

• Of all the marvels of the Father's grace, none is more marvelous than the fact of His bringing men into fellowship with Himself.

• We are not according to our Father's pleasure, nor are we in simple restfulness as to our acceptance, if we do not enter by faith into the new position to which He in His grace has placed us.

• Imputed and Inherent Sin So things are very different for us. We are created new creatures in Christ – not innocent, but saved by grace through faith. We commit sins – We have imputed sin and we have inherent sin – We are sinners!!! – as sinners we do not have the ability not to sin because sin is a part of who we are.

• Gift of God’s Grace God could not expose His gift of grace more than what is captured in these pages. God could not shower His heart of love more abundantly over sinners saved by grace.
• His Eternal Plan God’s majesty, might, and matchless grace is displayed for all who will look and live. His eternal plans which He purposed in Christ is mapped out for all who have eyes. His sovereign work and the Lord’s good pleasure is strewn from beginning to end. His purpose and plan, grace and glory, might and majesty streams through its pages.

• Grace + Law = Death.
• Grace - Law = Life!
• Covenant theology, which has molded the major theological conceptions for many generations, recognizes no distinctions as to ages, therefore can allow for no distinctions between law and grace.

• At rebirth we are babes in Christ and have to grow in grace and learn obedience.
• Two Opposite Sides Position and Condition are the two opposite sides of the same Christian life. We are positionally complete-in-Christ but conditionally we have to grow in grace.
• Position is instantaneous. Condition is a process – and it is ALL by grace…
• Since then you are risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God and let us grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ For in Christ we all are “quickened,” “raised up,” and “made to sit” together with Christ For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God.

• It is like ascending a ladder of grace.

• They who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ (Rom. 5:17).
• Law and grace are separated by the infinite chasm of the Cross.
• Grace gives heavenly position immediately, which ultimately produces right conduct.
• Ye are not under the law, but under grace (Rom. 6:14).
• He has been made to sit together with Christ in heavenly places in order that, having received an abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness, he might reign in life by one, even the Lord Jesus.

• In-Christ Every member of the human race that trusts Christ – is born again into Christ. All who trust Christ as saviour become God’s children and joint-heirs with Christ. All in Christ have been regenerated, forgiven and clothed in His righteousness. Every born-again believer is freely given salvation by God’s grace – thru believing,  and the consequences of this is everlasting life and eternal union with Christ. This is the irreversible and glorious consequence of accepting Christ as Saviour.
• But even greater is God’s wonderful grace and His gift of forgiveness to many through this other Man, Jesus Christ.
• But even greater is God’s wonderful gift of grace and His gift of righteousness, for all who receive it will live in triumph over sin and death through this one Man, the Lord Jesus Christ.
• But as people sinned more and more, God’s wonderful grace became more abundant.
• So as sin ruled over all people and brought them to death – now God’s wonderful grace rules instead, giving us right standing with God and resulting in eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. Romans 5:12-21 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ will all be made alive.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY Without faith it is impossible to please Him..Hebrews 11:6

• Christians are instructed to go boldly to the throne of grace in time of need.

• Morning Prayer  As I open my eyes in the morning, I pray ‘Lord, open the eyes of my understanding. Thank You for this new day – may it be a day that I grow in grace and glorify You.
• Daily Grace I thank Him for my life, my home and the grace that He showers on me daily and in troublesome times I shoot out an arrow of prayer into the throne-room of God.

• Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need (Heb. 4:16).

• The other, prayer as infinite grace of God, lifting us up into His fellowship and love, and then when He has thus brought us to Himself, bestowing upon us the blessing we need.

• Battle of the Ages This battle of the ages has been raging for multiplied thousands of years, and in God’s wisdom, the church are partners, with access to His throne of grace. Should we not with veiled face contemplate this unfathomable, entrusted privilege?
• Heralding Trumpeters Envision the astonishing arena – as trumpets are handed to 7 heralding trumpeters. The final instrument, which enfolds the seven bowls of the judgment of God’s wrath – on a Christ-spurned, God-hating world – that has rejected His free gift of grace.
• In His grace and wisdom God anointed us as participating partners in His purpose.

• Those who accept God’s free salvation – by grace through faith in Christ, are saved.
• Grace Thru Faith Predestination is based upon God’s grace, which is accessed by faith in Christ alone.
• Predestination stems from God’s foreknowledge of all who would trust in Jesus. Predestination is based on grace alone, by faith alone, in Christ alone – period.
• NEVER let it be said that God predestined unbelievers to the lake of fire,  for that is a lie of the enemy, but those that refuse salvation by grace through faith choose their own destiny – and that is the truth of Scripture.

•  Grace Thru Faith- study [24] Period of Preparation There must be long and deep period of preparation, in the man and woman of God.. if that life is to shed abroad the attributes of the Lord Jesus in thought word and deed.. if that life is to work in entire submission to the leading and guiding of the Spirit – if the Spirit is to expose the infinite contrast between the ‘self-life‘ and the ‘Christ-life‘. You think I am labouring this point?  well it needs to be laboured, for that is the teaching of Scripture to the Church. This is what Paul laboured for – so that Christ’s life may be established in the believer.
• It’s All of Grace God’s “good work” in us is begun through failure.
• This includes our strongest points, which continues on into His success – by His performance, and not ours. For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure. There is no question but that we all began in sheer grace. There is no question but that we must continue in sheer grace and there is no question that will arrive on the very same basis: Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free.

•  Growing In Grace - STUDY They received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.
• Believer’s Journey Rebirth into the family of God is the first step on the journey of a lifetime that requires us to grow in grace and spiritual maturity.
• Let us receive God’s Word and examine it with all eagerness, so that we may grow in grace and mature in the faith.

• a day to mature in the faith – a day to grow in grace.

• Truth based upon grace will be shared graciously, in love.

• Every time I obey, absolute Deity is on my side, so that the grace of God and natural obedience coincide.
• Obedience means that I have banked everything on the Atonement, and my obedience is met immediately by the delight of the supernatural grace of God.

• The Apostle Paul said, Through the grace given unto me, to every man that is among you, not to think of himself more highly than he ought to think; but to think soberly, according as God hath dealt to every man the measure of faith.

• What blessedness, grace and benediction flow from these gracious words.
• Our deeds also should be carried out with much patience and grace.

• Even when we were dead in sins, God has quickened us together with Christ, (by grace you are saved)Ephesians 2:5  
• Hidden Mystery But these words of David fall far short of the mysteries that were hid in the past ages. A combination of love, mercy and grace has been showered on us in great abundance.
• we are made alive by God’s grace – spiritually alive – simply because we believe.
• Saved by Grace Even when we were dead in trespasses and sins God quickened us.. He made us alive – He gave us spiritual life together with Christ, and raised us up to heavenly places and gave us every spiritual blessings. Never forget.
• You are saved by grace!
• The more we understand His grace –  the more we are filled with wonder love and praise.

• Therefore we should not be in bondage to sin, for he that hath died (and that is everyone who is in the Lord Jesus) is justified (or released) from (the power of) sin' (Rom. 6:7); and we are now under grace, which does not demand righteousness of us, for the Lord Jesus was made unto us righteousness and sanctification and redemption (1 Cor. 1:30).

• The Holy Spirit's leadings comes with a sense of peace and quiet, even if they point in a really difficult direction which only the grace of the Father can enable one to follow. -C.G.T.

• Eternal Significance God made peace with us by grace, thru faith in the one perfect sacrifice for sin, and we are entrusted with a holy office – entreating the world to receive salvation.
• Do we understand the shocking consequences of rejecting His eternal gift of grace?
• Amazing Grace What unparalleled condescension; what divine mercy; what astonishing wisdom.
• What a thrilling privilege; what amazing grace; what incredible love; what a God!

• You are the object of His forgiving love. Day by day we recognise that His love is changeless and abiding. Moment by moment we understand that His grace is all embracing. God does not deal with man according to his sins, He does not reward us according to our iniquities.  Psalm 103:10
• Nature of God Love The disposition of God Himself is to be the guide of our actions and attitudes. The nature of God is to be the indicator of our moods and motives. The character of God is to be the pattern of our words and wisdom. The fruit of God’s Spirit are to mellow into gentleness, goodness and grace. If our path leads us into disagreement..

•  Root of Hope But hope is not an optimistic outlook or positive thinking. And hope is not a vain desire, an empty wish or self-induced feeling. Hope is the believer’s grace that is founded upon certain stable facts. Hope has its roots entwined in the truth of God’s holy Word. Hope has its foundation firmly set on the Rock of our Salvation.

• Now our Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and God, even our Father, which hath loved us, and hath given us everlasting consolation and good hope through grace (2 Thess. 2:16).

• Supposing that I even found good in myself, if I expected the Father to look at me on that account, would it be grace?

• God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble (1 Pet. 5:5).

• The marvels of conviction of sin, forgiveness, and holiness are so interwoven that it is only the forgiven man who is the holy man, he proves he is forgiven by being the opposite to what he was, by God's grace.

• Through grace the old man' was nailed to the Cross and buried in the tomb; through faith the old man will be kept there.

• Grace is sufficient for favorable circumstances, but they are by far the most trying (spiritually) to the believer.

• God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that ye always [not sometimes] having all sufficiency in all things, may abound unto every good work' (2 Cor. 9:8). -E.H.

• There is no grace in delighting in the presence and favor of the Father when they are resting consciously and continuously upon us; for this rejoicing comes from sight and feelings.
• But there is precious grace in that delight which is not dependent upon His favors, nor upon our enjoyment of them; but which is wholly dependent and has its source in the Father's explicit Word, and His eternal faithfulness. -C.H.M.
• When circumstances seem impossible, when all signs of grace in you seem at their lowest ebb, when temptation is fiercest, when love and joy and hope seem well nigh extinguished in your heart, then rest, without feeling and without emotion, in the Father's faithfulness; abide in the fact that He loves you infinitely, and even now is working in you faithfully; and honor Him, and put the enemy to flight by taking to yourself the words of Job: Though He slay me, yet will I trust in Him.' I have prayed for thee' (says the One who ever lives to make intercession for us) that thy faith fail not.' -D.T.

• Yet here too we see the wonderful grace of God.... It does seem that even Paul, surrounded though he was by all the other apostles, had to go a lonely way, because this revelation was to him something so personal.

• All we have to do is to believe what He has revealed to us, by His grace.

• Grace and Truth It seems that just as God has set laws in the universe – like laws of motion or gravity. God has openly set in the scripture very specific ‘laws’ that relate to the believer. Oh!
• ot the Law of Moses, for though perfect, the Law given to Moses kills. Perfection can never be reached by the efforts of sinful man, that Law points to Christ, for the law was given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.

• The Law is a teacher to point us to Christ – to show us the way and to point to truth, but many in that period of Law found GRACE in the eyes of the Lord..  for many in that period of Law BELIEVED the Word of the Lord – and many were made righteous in Christ – as recorded in Hebrews chapter 11.
• Justification and Sanctification It is also vital also to rightly divide between justification and sanctification. 1) Justification – the salvation of the spirit : born into the family of God. 2) Sanctification – the salvation of the soul : living as a child of God. 1) Justification – born again once and in eternal union with Christ forever. 2) Sanctification – growing in grace throughout life.
• a passing of the baton from Peter to Paul..  change of God’s focus from Israel to a focus on the Church..  change from the dispensation of Law to the dispensation of the Church – a change from the gospel of the kingdom to the gospels of God’s grace and glory.
• Mystery of the Church But in the meantime the mystery of the Church is given through Paul to us. See Romans : Corinthians : Galatians – justification : sanctification : glorification – and we discover that the church is not under the Law but under grace.
• and the gospel of grace is unlocked by Paul, for all who are His body, the Church.
• Through a life of tribulation we at last come to a glorious heavenly inheritance.. as the gospel of the grace of Christ starts to be unfolded –  and the gospel of the glory of Christ through Paul and others is also unfolded. Oh yes – the Christian needs to Rightly Divide the Word of Truth.

• To go back to the Psalms for proper Christian experience is to lose the savor of grace and to breathe legalism; it is to climb down from heaven to earth.
• No doubt I shall find lovely confidence in the Lord in respect of His government of this world, the comfort of forgiveness, the happy confidence of integrity of heart, and remarkable prophecies of Christ; but where shall I find heavenly hopes, or my union with the glorified Lord Jesus, or even the out-flowings of divine grace, as manifested in His person on earth, or the blessed affection which flows from hearts acquainted with these?

• And never forget that our place before the Father is His gift, and a gift worthy of the Giver; not a gift according to the measure of our worth but a gift intended to display the exceeding riches of the grace of the Giver.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY O wretched man that I am!
• Chapter 3: all men are guilty before God and  righteousness only comes by grace, through faith in Christ.
• Chapter 5: the glories of trusting Christ, contrasting the old life under law with the new life under grace, and Chapter 6: as slaves of Christ we are no longer slaves to sin and death.
• Mountain Top to Valley And a crescendo of hope and excitement builds as we pass from the ministration of Law and death to the ministration of life  freedom and grace.
• In chapter 2 we hear of His saving grace, but recognise our own evil and unrighteous heart.
• In chapter 3 we discover God’s plan of salvation, which is grace alone by faith alone in Christ alone – and we are saved and praise God, worshiping Him with grateful thanks.
• grace alone by faith in Christ alone, and in chapter 5 we discover His promises are yes and amen in Christ.
• He begins to see that behind all failure is a divine purpose; behind all problems is a heavenly objective; behind all sufferings; irritations; and trials there is a godly reason, which is to show us that: My grace is sufficient.
• Indeed, God wants to teach us through our Romans 7 experience that behind every life experiences is a divine purpose to demonstrate that: God’s grace is sufficient and that without Him we can do nothing – but I can do all things through Christ, Who gives me the strength.

• Waiting Patience Like Christ, our race of life is marked out by God and each day is scheduled by Him. Christians are to draw on His grace alone – to run with patience the race set before us:  for those who wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength. They shall rise up with wings as eagles – They shall run and not grow weary, they shall walk and not faint Isaiah 40:31

• The Lord Jesus was not passive; the Apostle Paul was not passive; nor is the believer passive who seeks to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ (2 Peter 3:18).
• The Lord keep you in the freshness of faith in Himself, going forth in His work, not undertaking more than He gives you grace for.
• Under the Mosaic law-system, love for others was to be in the degree in which one loved himself; under grace it is to be in the degree in which the Lord Jesus has loved the believer and given His life for him (1 John 3:16). -L.S.C.

• The forgiven man is on an altogether new ground with God; he is on the ground of grace - grace which is set forth in Christ.

• Imputed Righteousness We have no goodness of our own – for all our righteousness comes from Christ. His imputed righteousness is a gift of grace from God – to those that believe.

• Christian Life Throughout our Christian life a process of progressive sanctification takes place. Often this is called growing in grace, maturing in our spiritual life – discipleship. Christian discipleship is misunderstood today but is closely linked to sanctification.
• Justification Many teachers consider discipleship as integral to the initial stage of salvation… making discipleship a requirement of salvation – an add on to “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ..” But salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone. Discipleship like sanctification is a term that must be seen in its proper context so that we can understand what the Lord Jesus meant, when He challenged His followers:- “Whoever does not come after Me and carry his own cross – cannot be My disciple” “Whoever does not forsake all he has and come after me – cannot be My disciple”
• It is a beautiful, free gift of grace, which is extended to all who trust on Christ Jesus. It is only the believer in Christ that can be sanctified and set apart unto the Lord – BUT not all Christians are prepared to progress along the path to spiritual maturity – not all Christians grow in grace – and many simply remain in spiritual infancy all their lives. Only believers can be set apart to God – but not all will identify with the cross of Christ. Only believers can grow in grace – but not all will take up their cross and follow Him. Only believers can become TRUE disciples of Jesus – but not all will become disciples.
• God’s Gift Salvation involves what God gives to us – His own life, not what we give to Him, for Salvation is by grace alone, through faith alone, in Christ alone, Salvation costs us NOTHING but it gives us EVERYTHING.
• Grow in Grace Throughout our Christian life a process of progressive sanctification takes place. Often this is called growing in grace – maturing in our spiritual life – discipleship. Let us be those that come after Christ and love not the things of this world. Let us be those who carry our own cross and come after Him. Let us be those that forsake all that we have – to become His disciple..

• Salvation in Romans The epistle of the Romans tells how to be redeemed – what we must do to be saved. He takes us step by step to show us that salvation is not of the law or of works. He shows us that salvation is all by God’s grace, which came through Jesus. When anything is added to, “believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,” it is not of grace.
• Adding to Grace When man is required to add something to the cross of Christ, it nullifies His work, but many, many ministries today are adding to the simple gospel message of GRACE. If we are told we are to believe AND do something – it is adding to Christ’s cross. John tells us that as many as received Him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God – even to them that believe on His name… believe on the Lord Jesus Christ.
• By Grace – Thru Faith To have faith on the Lord Jesus Christ is to believe what God has said about Him. To trust in Jesus Christ is to depend on what God says about His Son in His Word, ‘Believing’ is all one has to do to be saved, and credited with Christ’s righteousness, but many, many ministries today are adding to the simple gospel message of GRACE.
• Faith Choice Believing is man’s one and only response to the grace that is a free gift of God: for by grace and grace alone are you saved – salvation is by grace alone. Salvation is the free gift of grace that is given to all who believe on Christ. Paul tells us that believing is a faith choice – that is might be of grace… It means we choose to believe that God’s gift of grace is by believing on Christ. Righteousness is our portion because we trusted  what God has said in His word. It isn’t believing on Christ for salvation PLUS doing something else – it is believing on Christ for salvation knowing that we CAN’T do anything ourself.
• Baptism One school of thought says that in order to be saved you must be baptised in water, Baptism is good – but baptism is not required for salvation which is by grace alone. Water baptism may be a result of being saved – but not not a condition of salvation. Being born again is not believe and be baptised – but believe on the Lord Jesus – Paul tells us that if it is not by faith – then it is not of grace.
• you have lost your eternal salvation. This complicates the simple message of salvation by grace alone – thru faith in Christ.
• Act of Consecration This beautiful act of consecration may be a result – but is not a condition of salvation Paul tells us that if it is not by faith – then it is not of grace. A carnal believer will certainly suffer loss of rewards – but never his eternal salvation- which is always and only by grace – through faith – in Christ.
• Some people add works of the flesh, works of the Law – self-imposed rules or Church regulations and a variety of ‘add-ons’ to the basic gospel of salvation by grace – thru faith in Christ Jesus , while others insist on actions relating to eating or drinking – places of worship or times and seasons – spiritual fruit or gifts of the Holy Spirit.
• Free Gift of Grace It’s sad when believers are put under bondage, simply because the truth of the free gift of salvation – given to us by God’s grace, thru believing on Christ has been misapplied.

• It is His wonderful life that is imparted to me in sanctification, and imparted by faith as a sovereign gift of God's grace.

• This is the point – after a moment of saving grace follows a lifetime of sanctifying grace – before glorifying grace.
• to grow in grace.
• Transforming Grace Sanctifying grace transforms a believer into the likeness of Christ.
• Sanctifying grace uses every hardship, every disappointment, each pain and failure.
• Maturing, sanctifying grace takes ugly scars from the cross of your life and beautifies them – but the measure of how you meet your trials, is the measure with which you will gain – and you can only meet them victoriously in Christ, as Christ lives in you.
• You can only meet them by grace… through faith … in Christ.
• Living By Faith This is the sanctifying grace that we can choose to pursue..

• That is grace.
• Our hope for freedom from the power of sin is not Christ plus my efforts,' but Christ plus my receiving.' To receive victory from Him is to believe His Word that solely by grace He is, this moment, freeing us from the dominion of sin.
• Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt (Rom. 4:4).

• True Trust Today there are multitudes that believe in Him for saving grace – and praise God, and hallelujah – many are born-again through belief in the Lord Jesus Christ.
• Paul’s Words Let us stand before His throne of grace and say with with Paul.
• But by the grace of God I am what I am: and His grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain; but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me. 1Corinthians 15:10.

• Grace of God Through the grace of God we can be perfected in love and practical in our faith. Through the grace of God we can love and trust and do exploits for the Lord. Through the grace of God we can stand firm right up to the time of His return – for we must all guard against God’s agape love in our hearts wearing thin..

• as I seek to discover the awful truth about my own faults and failings, I need to turn to the Spirit of grace and truth and cry out as did King David:- Search me and know me, cried the man after God’ s own heart, cleanse me from my secret faults – my sin, know my heart: Try me, and Know my thoughts.” Psa.19:12

• Idolatry is anything we trust in for deliverance, in the place of Jesus and His grace.

• There is a time when we must sweep our books aside, when we must shut ourselves up from the voices of men, when we must get quiet with the Lord and listen, and more, we must seek to cultivate, by the grace of God, the ear that is always open to the Lord even when all the other sounds are around us.

• It is nowhere admitted in Scripture that a servant can be merely the herald of the light of God's grace; that is, that he should only have the joyful side of service.

• We are to grow in grace. But how does sanctification take place, and in what way does sanctification happen? Well, being sanctified means that we are set apart unto God – growing spiritually.
• set apart – practically sanctified unto God. Only our born-again life can do the good works, which God prepared for us to do. Only our new life, has been made alive by the imputed life of the sinless Lord Jesus. His sinless, righteous life has been given, by grace, to ALL who believe on His name.
• All By Grace When we were positionally sanctified at salvation, it was all by God’s grace. We had no part to play in our positional sanctification – all we did was to believe.
• And though we do have a part to play – it is by grace alone and not human merit.
• Free-will Choice All sanctification and spiritual growth in our lives is by God’s grace alone, and all we have to do is to submit to the guidance of the Holy Spirit in our lives. But not all believers are being sanctified in a practical, progressive manner – for being “set apart unto God,” is a free-will choice – a decision of the will, we all have to make.

• The law demands, love God; grace declares, God so loved!

• Seal of God The seal of God whereby we were sealed of the Holy Spirit is the gracious act of God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit, at the point of saving grace..
• God’s Grace It was by God’s grace we are saved and by God’s grace we are sealed. It was God the Father that saved us and the Father that sealed us – through Christ. The Father sealed us and gave us the Spirit to guarantee His finished work in us. He sought us and saved us and sealed us by grace – through faith in Christ. It all comes back to grace – it all comes back to Christ – for in Him is all grace.
• Blood of  Christ The seal of God whereby we were sealed of the Holy Spirit is the gracious act of God – Father, Son and Holy Spirit, at the point of saving grace whereby God Himself marked or sealed every believer with the indwelling Holy Spirit, by giving every Christian the permanently,  indwelling Spirit of God as the pre-payed earnest  of our inheritance in Christ  – and which confirms us as His own purchased possession – bought with the price of the blood of  Christ.

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY Jesus – All in All Jesus is the Source and Sound : the Wellspring and Completion of our faith.
• The other carries in it wake discontentment: despite showers of blessings on our heads Remember that every day that passes is a gift of grace from God to you – every new day is complete with His new mercies, Where would we be without His mercy and grace?
• You can read about it in My Story or just listen to a narration of Amazing Grace, and you will understand why she and I can both proclaim that …
• Amazing Grace Jesus is indeed our Source and Sound..

• Imputed Sin An inherited sin nature is imputed sin; “the old man.” which is passed to all humanity, but God in His love and grace has provided a solution for the old sin nature, in Adam – and the solution is to be taken out of Adam and placed into Christ – by faith: for as by the one man’s disobedience (Adam) the many were made sinners, so by the one man’s obedience (Christ) the many will be made righteous. Romans 5:19,
• Placed in Christ When we were born again, we were placed in Christ – baptised into His body. When we were born again we were moved from being in Adam to being in Christ. When we were in Adam we were imputed with Adam’s old sin nature, but when we were reborn into Christ we were imputed with His righteousness. Sin shall not have dominion over you, for ye are not under the law, but under grace. Romans 6:14
• By Grace Through Faith It is by grace that we have received forgiveness of our sins. It is by grace that we have been delivered from the power of sin . Remember:There are 2 fundamental SIN problems but BOTH are dealt with at the cross of Christ. It is by grace through faith in Christ that we appropriate forgiveness – of SINS. It is by grace through faith in Christ that we appropriate deliverance – from SIN.

• God begins by giving our hearts a sense of the blessedness of the grace in which He has called us, that we may be awakened and enhungered to pursue the knowledge of all this with purpose of heart and prayerful study. -C.A.C.

• For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God (2 Cor. 4:15).

• Our Father loves us too well to allow us to rest in anything or anyone short of Himself - not even Christian fellowship, or what people call the means of grace.' He wants to be so known by us that He becomes the deep eternal spring of satisfaction and joy for our hearts. -C.A.C.

• and in extremity of sorrow, prostrate ourselves before His throne of grace.

• Being led by the Holy Spirit is the principle by which the Father deals in grace with believers.

• After you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore, confirm, strengthen, and establish you.(1 Peter 5:10 ESV)

• If I am not going to give it up and leave, I must come to some spiritual enlargement; I have to know the Lord in a new way, to have more grace, love and patience.

• You either grow in grace or you will backslide into carnality.
• Christian Spirituality And nearly a hundred years ago, Norman Harrison put it this way:- “It remains for the spiritual man to prove the reality and worth of his spirituality, by laying hold of all his resources in Christ.. by giving them practical expression in day-by-day living. And in a day when the Christian life claims but slight attention.. or even respect, from the world – what a call for spiritual stalwarts, fully-developed, determined by His grace, to demonstrate the beauty, power and practicality of the Spirit-life – to an unbelieving, even scoffing social order.”

• Dying To Self Failure to feed on the food that we are given means failure to mature spritually. Failure to feed on Christ, the Word of God means failure to grow in grace. Peter tells us to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus, and we grow by living in Him and He in us..

• Grace never brings God down to a lower level.
• Grace does not make any difference to the holiness of God, or to the righteousness of God.

• Stunted Growth Growing in the faith and maturing spiritually has a number of associated terms, Sanctification : salvation of the soul : spiritual maturity : growing in the faith : growing in grace… But a Christian may remain a babe in Christ – as we are warned in Hebrews 6. Such a Christian is stunted – and called by Paul in 1 Corinthians a carnal Christian.
• born again but not growing – born again, but not growing in grace and in the knowledge of our lord and Saviour. A carnal Christian is one that is exhorted in Hebrews 6 – to grow spiritually, and many principles in the natural world spills over into the life of the spiritual.
• Growing in Grace Unless a child of God is “ready to grow” – he’ll never reach “spiritual maturity.” Growing in grace – maturing in Christ is sometimes called “consecration”….

• Abound in all Love How do we abound in all LOVE? We are to dwell in the Word of God and absorb it into our hearts. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom, and teaching, and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

• Not knowing one another after the flesh does not mean that all that realm will cease to exist for us, but it does mean that we shall look beyond that realm and we shall steadily seek grace and the help of the Holy Spirit to cultivate and develop a determination to look through what we are by nature to what there is of the Lord Jesus and of the Holy Spirit in one another, and to keep our eyes upon that.

• an example of God’s grace to angelic principalities and powers – an example of God’s and wisdom and power and love towards you.

• How important to reflect on His Word, knowing that His mercy is everlasting, His grace is new every morning and His truth endures from generation to generation.
• God had only partially revealed Himself to Adam in the creation, but He had not as yet revealed the deep secrets of His nature; His character; His grace.
• There was holiness, goodness, grace and long-suffering.

• If we realized how privileged we are to have even a very small part in the things of God, and how it is all of His Grace, surely we should be very grateful that we could just have the remotest connection with Him.

• STUDY in PRAYER Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.Hebrews.4:16
• Throne of Grace Unlike Israel, whose high priest alone could enter the holy of holies once each year, we have unlimited, continuous and abiding access to the throne of grace, let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

• But then–He giveth grace To count the hardest spot the sweetest place

• The law will break you; grace will make you.

•    Growing In Grace - STUDY That we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes – but speaking the truth in love, we are to grow up in all aspects into Him Who is the Head, even Christ.Ephesians 4:15
• Command to Grow Peter exhorts us to grow in grace and: as newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the Word, that ye may grow thereby, 1 Peter 2:2 while Paul reminds us to: speak the truth in love, so we may grow up into Him in all things.
• Ephesians 4:5 God wants us to become spiritually mature: so grow in grace, and grow in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 3:18.
• Fellowship God However all the apostles of Christ beseech us to lay aside sin; to confess our sins;  to grow in grace and to walk in the light, so that we can prevent our growth from becoming stunted and enjoy sweet fellowship with Father.

• God’s Grace Paul’s epistles give descriptive details of the riches of God’s grace towards believers. He details over and again our position in Christ – our privileges and our possession. He desires that our faith in the Lord Jesus Christ is firmly fixed on truth and not on the philosophies of man.

• I can only remind you again of what a large place that has in the Word of God: be strong, be strong in the Lord in the strength of His might, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus.

• the same Spirit of grace that rested on Christ… rests upon you and is in you:- the Spirit of the LORD, the Spirit of wisdom; the Spirit of understanding;  the Spirit of counsel; the Spirit of might;  the Spirit of knowledge – the Spirit of the fear of the LORD.

• And He said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for My strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities that the power of Christ may rest upon me.2 Corinthians 12:9
• God’s Grace Like each and every gift of grace, His strength is ministered to each of us according to our need. We have no need of a bank deposit of $upply, No spiritual battery from which to draw our spiritual £trength. His supply is a continuous flow, received by faith as need requires. Life is divided into days – and day after day after day, He provides and supplies the strength. Down through the weeks which flow into months and years, He continues to provide ‘Strength for the day and bright hope for the morrow!’
• Godly Suffering Indeed, His grace multiplies when the burdens grow greater: for My grace is sufficient for thee.

• If you hesitate when God tells you to do a thing, you endanger your standing in grace.

• Fixed Factual Truth We know of our abundant supply of grace – but we do not always appropriate it. We know of our inexhaustible spiritual supply– yet often we run spiritually dry. It is one thing to believe the word as fact and another to appropriate it….  but when we receive and act on His word as fixed factual truth – it pleases Him.
• Appropriating Truth How do we appropriate the truth of God’s word and how do we live by faith? Well, we need know the riches of God’s grace towards us as outlined in scripture. We need to know our position and privilege in Christ – our possessions and heritage, – and then we need to put it into practice – to appropriate it.
• Normal Christian life Paul was a man who learned how to appropriate the riches of God’s grace.
• Sufficient Grace We need to take and assimilate these important truths in our own lives…  and then we need to put it into practice. We need to appropriate Scripture in these dark evil days in which we live. We need to put the word of God to the test for His promises are true : My grace IS sufficient for My power is made perfect in your weakness. 2 Corinthians 12:9

• Mysterious Privilege All God’s children can participate in some incomprehensible way – thru this unfathomable gift and mysterious privilege of – “All Prayer”  Should we not fly to the open access of the throne of God’s grace and plead..

• God’s Grace What is man that You are mindful of him?

• Wise Words C.A Cotes puts it this way:- “Many of us have probably known what it was to rejoice in the grace of God without having apprehended very much the true character of the flesh.
• In such cases the grace of God is taken up in a self-confident way; there is very little self-distrust, or sense of weakness and dependence upon Him.

• That is the way the grace of God begins.
• The drawing is done by the supernatural grace of God, and we never can trace where His work begins.
• God does not ask us to do the things that are easy to us naturally; He only asks us to do the things we are perfectly fitted to do by His grace, and the cross will come along that line always.

• All-Sufficient God For God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work. 2 Corinthians 9 – God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory, in Christ Jesus..

• He needs no time, no heat, no light, no grace, no joy, no love – no life… God needs nothing.
• Willing Submission The astonishing thing is that God in His self-sufficient wisdom and grace, has chosen to condescendingly work in and through His servants.
• a little faithful flock. Many are called to be sons of obedience but few choose to answer the call. Many Christians prefer a legalistic life  to a life of spiritual faithfulness and grace. Many believers prefer a carnal life  to a life of surrendered obedience and faith. Many live in defeated disillusion..
• but when obedient faith is exercised in the spirit of humility and grace, God works through ANY one… even you..

• As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace: 1 Peter 4:10
• we are to be diligent stewards of His manifold grace. From the moment of rebirth we entered into a ‘covenant’ with Him. We reckoned His promises true as we trusted in His love.. and thus became “accepted in the Beloved” – and thus were regarded as loyal servants of the King.

• You are no longer under law, you are under grace – you can do as you like!

• But grow in the grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen.2 Peter 2:18
• We are to grow in grace, which means being transformed into His likeness, by means of the Spirit.
• to grow in grace.
• But growth only takes place as we submit to the indwelling Spirit and He appeals to our God-given volition, to grow in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ. 2 Peter 3:18.
• Under Grace Paul reminds us that in this church dispensation: you are not under the law, but under grace, Romans 6:14 and warns us:- do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God..
• to put all sin away, which is achieved by living, walking and growing in grace.

• Duel Purpose We need to see that Christ’s death has a duel purpose in the life of all Christians. We need to appropriate this wonderful truth into the core of our understanding. Both the forgiveness of sins and deliverance from sin are gifts of grace to all believers – and we appropriate both forgiveness and deliverance by faith in Christ sacrifice. The liberating truth is knowing that God has done it all. He has saved us by grace and has promised to keep us throughout our life – by grace. All we have to do it to believe His word to be true..

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY Foundational Facts God has given us vital principles of the Christian life – foundational gospel facts.

• “Being justified freely by His grace…” Romans 3:24
• The Gospel of the grace of God awakens an intense longing in human souls and an equally intense resentment, because the revelation which it brings is not palatable.

• Depth of Grace The dimensions and depths of His grace are incalculable. The capacity and proportions of His promises are innumerable. The extent and magnitude of His wisdom is immeasurable. His yearnings and tender love towards us is unceasing.
• Limited Perception Yet so many limit His goodness to their own earthly experience. They choose to view His love and grace to the limits of their understanding – to view it to the the extent to which they themselves understand love. And they refuse to recognise His love if it is not what they expect – if it is not proffered in the way that they want or imagine.

• Growing in Grace Each wound and every pain has had its own attached love-song of renewal.

• Compassionate Grace Yet Jesus says, The smoking flax I will not quench.
• His Grace For thus says the One who is high and lifted up, Who inhabits eternity and Whose name is Holy: I dwell in the high and holy place, and also with him who is of a contrite and lowly spirit, to revive the spirit of the lowly, and to revive the heart of the contrite.

• Principles The principle of consecration – is that God might use that one as a sign..  a sign of His immeasurable grace in the ages to come – to principalities and power – a sign of His grace right now – in this corner of the field where He has planted you, and every consecrated believer in one way or another points to the Lord Jesus Christ.

• Church-Age of Grace Their eyes were on the coming earthly kingdom that had been promised to Israel. They had not grasped the depth of the riches of the glory of God towards them all. They had little or no understanding of the coming church-age of grace to the gentiles.

• We are not here to prove God answers prayer; we are here to be living monuments of God's grace.

• Legalism is a destructive enemy of the Christian life – in opposition to God’s grace.
• Legalism is the antithesis of grace – placing you back under bondage and slavery.
• Enemy of Grace The voice of legalism is accusational and critical and tramples the gospel of grace. The icy finger of legalism charges believers with failure to abide by unattainable rules.
• It adds to God’s grace by charging us with its own brand of legalistic justification.
• We are not under law but under grace. Law, legalism, rules and regulations are enemies of grace and need to be identified. Law is adding something – ANYTHING to salvation, for we are saved by grace alone.
• For we are saved grace…(through faith) and not of yourself so you won’t boast.
• Salvation is God’s grace…(by faith) and is not to do with our merit so we can’t brag.

• From the fullness of His grace we have all received one blessing after another. (John 1:16 NIV)

• God, who saved us and called us to a holy calling, not because of our works but because of His own purpose and grace, which He gave us in Christ Jesus.... (2 Timothy 1:9 ESV)

• Sufficient Grace He giveth more grace when the burdens grow greater,He sendeth more strength when the labours increase;To added afflictions He addeth His mercies –To multiplied trials He multiplies peace.
• His love has no limit, His grace has no measure.His power no boundary known unto man;For out of His infinite riches in Jesus.He giveth and giveth and giveth again.
• Jesus said My Grace is sufficient for thee

• Son of God Those who believe in Christ’s equal deity with the Father declare as truth that the virgin-born babe of Bethlehem, Who lived as the biblical Jesus of Nazareth, died on a cross – was pre-existent in uncreated eternity and became fully human as the infinite God of the universe and Creator of all things – the Son of God and 2nd person of the Holy Trinity. Those who accept the free gift of Salvation, which God freely gives to all who trust in His Son as saviour (by grace through faith) revere Christ as God manifest in the flesh.

• For ye know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich, yet for your sakes He became poor.

• Our Lord's confidence in God and in what His grace could do for any man, was so perfect that He despaired of no one.

• There is a tremendous means of grace, a tremendous enrichment of Christ in the fellowship of the Lord's people.

• The secret of a Christian is that the supernatural is made natural in him by the grace of God, and the experience of this works out in the practical details of life, not in times of communion with God.

• It is as our hearts are under the sway of that grace which is ministered to us through the Lord Jesus Christ, and as we are knit to Him in affection, that we touch and taste a new life, and are severed in heart from all that constituted the life of our old man.

• Many people deliberately choose to be workers, but they have no matter in them of God's almighty grace, no matter of His mighty word.

• He is the eternal Spirit of goodness and truth – comfort, love and grace.
• Core of Life Sometimes however the stark reality of life shadows this amazing eternal God, and past promises of love and grace..

• Cup of Suffering To be pinched by poverty; to be maligned by loved ones; to be fettered by some disability. To be stripped bare of loving comfort; to stand alone in the shocks and quakes of life; to be overwhelmed by man's indifference to man and mans hatred of God. To be weighed down by evil in a Christ-rejecting sin-sick world. To be able to stay and to stand in such a school of discipline -  to be able with His grace, to say.. The cup which my Father hath given me, shall I not drink it - is this not faith at its highest success? Is this not faith at its crowning pinnacle?
• Time of Training David sought comfort in his Psalms - knowing God's promises are sure and Paul gloried in his thorn - knowing that His grace is sufficient. Present circumstances which press so hard and wound so deeply..if surrendered to the Lord..

• Gracious Words The words ‘Father Forgive‘ – were pleaded for you and for me. The words ‘Father Forgive‘ – grace my brow as they do yours.

• Surely the wrath of man shall praise Thee For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God (Ps. 76:10; 2 Cor. 4:15).

• Word of Grace “Fear not”, were the first words of grace spoken to that little band of shepherds  – shepherds on a lonely hill in the little town of Bethlehem.

• His word brings life and light – health and wholeness – grace and perfect peace, If we trusted His word for salvation, should we not also trust Him to keep us?

• Forgiveness is the divine miracle of grace; it cost God the Cross of Jesus Christ before He could forgive sin and remain a holy God.

• The teachings of grace are perfect and sufficient in themselves.
• What an indignity religion puts on every Person of the Godhead alike, on the grace and truth which came by Jesus Christ, when it drags souls back to the dread distance of Judaism. -W.K.
• I do not frustrate the grace of God: for if righteousness come by the law then Christ is dead in vain (Gal. 2:21).

• And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we have seen His glory – glory as of the only Son from the Father,full of grace and truth.John 1:14
• Perfect Law The perfect Law was engraved on stone but is unable to beat with a heart of pure love. The faultless Law cannot empathise with our weakness or understand our difficulties. The letter of the Law may be perfect, but is insufficient to reveal the Father’s love. The ministration of law came through Moses, but fullness of grace came via Jesus.
• Enriching Grace The elements of the Law placed men under bondage, for the letter of the law kills, but the personification of grace gives abundant life – a life that’s enriched by grace. The glory of the Law shone in the glowing face of Moses – but that brilliance faded, The glory of God’s grace is the glory of the only Son Who is begotten of the Father.
• Glory of God’s Grace The ministration of grace can never fail, for Jesus Christ is infinite and He is perfect. He is perfect in His Being and Work; His Word and His Ways.
• His grace can never fail. The glory of Christ is beautifully seen in the essential attributes of the living God. His glory is interwoven with His handiwork; His skill; His wisdom and His kindness.
• Face of Jesus The glory of God’s grace is a lantern that illumines the whole of Christ’s character. His Grace becomes a platform, upon which every perfection of Deity stands, and the fullness of the glory God’s grace, is reflected in the face of Jesus Christ.
• It was grace in its fullness that caused the Godhead to look down the corridors of time and purpose an eternal plan that would redeem a sinful race of humanity from sin.  
• Fullness of Grace It was the fullness of grace that conceived of the plan of salvation that purposed that He’d plead the hopeless cause of unregenerate man and undertake to pay its price. It was the person of Christ Who demonstrated the fullness of grace on Calvary’s cross and out of His fullness have we all received grace upon grace upon much more grace, for in Christ is all the fullness of the Godhead bodily – the fullness of all grace.
• God’s Plan Grace was not a modification of the original plan of God for man when He realised that the Law was a ministration of death.
• The Law was designed to point people to Christ. God did not have to send the Lord Jesus Christ as the Word made flesh, to modify the original plan He had purposed for man… Grace was God’s plan from the beginning.
• Grace and Truth The fullness of God’s grace was in the heart of our gracious God when He purposed before the foundation of the earth that the WORD would become flesh and dwell among His people, so we could see the glory of God’s grace, reflected in the face of the lovely Lord Jesus – glory as of the only Son from the Father – full of grace and truth.

• There has to be a very great deal of overlooking, a great deal of generosity, grace has got to triumph by reason of the exalted spiritual place: the elevation of our position in the heavenlies.
• These cities must rule, grace must predominate in the heavenlies.
• It looks as though grace will still be necessary to bear with all things that go wrong.
• The Lord says that there is even grace for that.

• Be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble. 1 Peter 5:5
• Teachable Spirit How we tend to shy from humiliation and yet it is often through the very act of being humbled that we develop a gracious and a teachable spirit… but how the Lord Jesus demonstrated this grace of humility through His earthly ministry:- Even from His lowly stable birth; His status as a refugee in Egypt; His gracious attitude towards His earthly parents – His long years of hard toil in a common, little carpentry shop.
• asking Him to identify pride and self-interest, that so readily tracks our earthy walk? Should we not seek Him, where He is found – on the lonely Road of Humility? Should not we seek to cover ourselves with humility as Jesus did – covered with the cloak of humility – clothed with the garment of grace.
• How often we become so easily offended at truth. When did we become so unwilling to share the truth, and to receive it in love from dear friends, who desire our safety and benefit?” Be clothed with humility: for God resists the proud, and gives grace to the humble.

• And great grace was upon them all.Acts 4:33
• God’s Pleasure If we do not discern certain states of grace, and choose them – in Him… if we do not nourish them in our hearts in the power of His Holy Spirit, they never become fastened in our nature or behaviour.For we must will to do of His good pleasure – not our own. Every advance step in grace must be preceded by first apprehending it.

• was the great gospel the two sisters discovered – while Paul proclaimed ‘my gospel’ – which is the gospel of the grace and glory of Christ

• The eternal Son became the incarnate Word and the very body of our Lord Jesus Christ became the residence of God – the Temple of the Lord – and the apostle John tells us that they saw His glory, as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth.

• He was separated from God. His body lived and breathed for many centuries, but spiritual death had occurred. Indeed, if this state of spiritual death continues to the point of physical death..  man is separated from God forever, in the lake of fire – a sombre thought indeed. But every man from Adam on can choose spiritual life rather than spiritual death. There are none who are excluded by God from the good news of His gospel of grace.
• Full Salvation We are to rely on His work on the cross to save us from sin and death and hell. We are to depend on His finished work as sufficient to reunite us with a holy God. We’re to trust in Him alone – to have faith alone in Christ alone and what He did for us. This is the good news of the gospel of grace which centres on Christ’s finished work on that cross – and the fact that He rose from the dead to accomplish our full salvation.

• Before Me there was no God formed, and there will be none after Me. I, even I am the Lord; and there is no Saviour beside Me. Isaiah 43:10-11.  Israel was to tell of God’s saving grace and turn the gentile nations back to Him – for God desires that ALL people know and love Him as Creator, Saviour and Lord.
• Witness of the Church The witness of Israel was to be replaced with the witness of the Church – for a time. The gospel of the kingdom was to be replaced with the gospel of grace – for a time. The promised kingdom was to be postponed – until the whole nation of Israel repents.
• Church Dispensation Israel’s gospel of the kingdom had to be postponed during the church dispensation – and the Church proclaiming the gospel of grace became God’s witness to the world. But the day is coming when Israel will once again be God’s witness to the nations. The day is fast approaching when the gospel of the kingdom will again be taught.
• Gospel of Grace Today we live in the church age when the gospel of grace is taught to the nations. Today God is continuing to do His work through the body of Christ – the Church..

• a witness of His grace to the principalities and powers in heavenly spheres - established by His strength in His Temple for ever. But first you must submit to His chastening hand. And then you will come forth as pure gold.Read about Hiram and the cedars of Lebanon in - 1 Kings 5:10Read about the pillars, Jachin and Boaz in Solomon's Temple - 1 Kings 7:21Read about the pillars in the Temple of God Revelation - 3:12

• We have to form habits to express what God's grace has done in us.

• If the majesty and grace and power of God are not being manifested in us (not to our consciousness), God holds us responsible.
• God is able to make all grace abound, then learn to lavish the grace of God on others.

• That is what the Holy Spirit means by such words as He speaks through Paul: “...be strengthened in the grace that is in Christ Jesus” (2 Tim. 2:1).

• But when we do get there by God's grace, we find it is not a mountain peak, but a plateau where there is ample room to live and to grow.

• The call of God contains both grace and truth.
• Grace is the promise.
• Man often grasps at the grace, the I will bless of God, and fails to comply with the demand thereof - Get thee out.
• The call of God to some fuller and higher acceptance of truth and ministry; of testimony and witness; of surrender and experience, will undoubtedly come by one or another of the Divine forms of visitation to such as the Lord wishes to lead in grace.

• Christ’s Early Life But God is not mocked by man nor angel and the holy Child was born and for 12 years He grew and become strong, increasing in wisdom; and the grace of God was on Him. And so at the tender age of twelve the Son of God and Son of Man crossed a boundary from childhood to youth – and we receive a tiny, brief glimpse of this perfect person.

• New Creation Through Him the world was spoken into being and by Him the universe is sustained. Through His death sin was conquered and by His resurrection death was vanquished. Through His Spirit we’re a new creation and by His grace we have abundance of life.

• Unique Person & Work The two natures of Christ is a simple concept and yet it contains a profound reality. Without the two natures of Jesus Christ humanity has no Saviour and no Salvation, but by faith in the unique person and work of Jesus Christ  – as Son of God and Son of Man we are given  the free gift of life – eternal life – abundant life – by God’s grace.

• His love is ever deep and ever pure. His attitude toward my sin remains forever the same – forgiven and forgotten. His grace towards me is unending.
• Eternal Promises Never ever consider that God has changed from the truth of His Word. His promises are everlasting and His truth is all-embracing, for He is the immutable God Who is changeless in time and through eternity. He is no respecter of persons and His love towards you is as great as for David. His grace and gifts are as freely given to you, as to His beloved disciple.

• But no matter how beautiful or expensive a gift may be, it will wax old and deteriorate, and it is all too likely to be replaced in time by something else that peaks the interest. But Paul in his second letter to the Corinthians writes of the indescribable gift that God in His grace gave to humanity – a gift with eternal consequences, that will never age nor lose its value – a perfect gift of grace and beauty that can never be replaced. However magnificent a gift we receive from family or friends, it pales to insignificance in comparison with the inexpressible gift of Christ Jesus, the eternal Son of God – for God so loved the world that He GAVE His only begotten Son, so that whoever believes on His name, would not be condemned (as he justly deserves) but be given eternal life.
• It’s suitable for all occasions no matter what the time – and for all persons whether bond or free. God’s unutterable gift of His Son multiplies into a plethora of additional gifts, which explode into an astonishing display of God’s amazing grace and unconditional love. Spiritual death is removed and the new life of Christ is breathed into our dead spirit – we were dead in our sins, but made alive in Christ..
• broken the power of sin in our life and will one day remove sin’s presence – forever. The curtain of separation has been torn from top to bottom granting access to the throne-room of grace and we’re covered from head to toe with the armour of God for we are clothed with Christ and one with Him – His body, His church –His bride. Thanks be to God for His indescribable gift!
• We are the temple of God with the permanently indwelling Spirit of God as God’s deposit of grace. We were foreknown of God and chosen by Him – sealed and adopted forever, Amen. We were showered with the riches of eternal life – endowed with God’s spiritual gifts. We were baptised into Christ – made peace with God and given the peace of God. He started a good work in us and prepared good works for us to do in His strength – and then in His grace rewards us for the work He carried out in our lives – what grace. Thanks be to God for His unimaginable gift!
• God’s Inconceivable Gift We are adopted into the royal family of God – as sons of God and children of light. We are beloved of the Father, made joint-heirs with Christ and destined to rule and reign with our Saviour and Lord in His coming kingdom, as the wife of the Lamb. By His blood spilt at Calvary’s cross we are robed in the righteousness of Christ – and by His glorious resurrection He is the First-born of the dead – the preeminent Man. Jesus, Who was made lower than the angels for a while, is now crowned with glory and honour for He suffered death, so that by God’s grace He tasted death for everyone. Thanks be to God for His inconceivable  gift!

• Peter orders us to know and grow in our knowledge of Him….and in grace, in 2 Peter 3, and Jesus instructs us that to know that God is life eternal, in John 17.

• Manifold Wisdom Oh yes, the church that is His body will be used to show His grace to angels: to the intent that now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the Church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places, to the glory of God…and to the praise of His Holy Name.
• Unlimited Glory But this does not increase the grace of God – for His grace is infinite to start with. It cannot add to the glory of His Name – for His Name is already infinitely glorious. All that is connected with this mortal life has gross and distressing limitations. The limits and boundaries that are forced on the human creature are frustrating. Limitations that flood in from without and limitations that well up from within.
• And those that are in Him have been bequeathed the limitless riches of His grace.
• Infinite Grace Why has God designed this life to be one of hardship and sorrow? Is it not so that in learning obedience, He can bestow on us His infinite grace? Christ was the first to go through the process of a life of obedience: for the joy that was set before Him (infinite joy)..

• Nothing but divine grace could intercept this death blow to fallen humanity.
• And God in His grace came to pay the price for sin in the person of Christ – the perfect Son of God became the perfect Son of Man.

• He demands nothing from this world, but in the life of the Lord Jesus he contributes to it, of the grace that nourishes and comforts him outside it. -J.B.S.

• Life without war is impossible either in nature or in grace.

• God’s Condemnation The whole world came under the condemnation of God because of one man’s sin. Adam’s disobedience resulted in the human race being born under condemnation. It was sin that was the cause of man’s condemnation and the wages of sin is death. It was necessary for God to cover man’s sin with the blood-soaked fleece of a lamb, for in His heart God purposed to send a Saviour – Who could pay the price of sin. What grace was being shown to man when God purposed to save His fallen race.
• God’s Grace But grace was in God’s heart when He purposed to give His Son as a ransom for many, Christ was to come bringing with Him grace and truth for all condemned by the Law. His perfect life and sacrificial death was to break the power of sin, resting on man, His death on the cross was so that man could be released from ALL condemnation.
• Abounding Grace As time passed mankind rebelled against their Creator God and so the Law was sent. Paul says the Law was given so that the offence might abound..
• His ways are perfect and this was simply another demonstration of His grace. The greater mans’ sin became the more valuable and precious was the sacrifice for sin. The more sin abounded the more grace would be poured over the head of humanity. What grace the Father showed to man that His Son was to die – to save a fallen race.
• Love, Justice, Grace The Law condemned ALL – for none can keep the righteous requirements of the Law, yet grace set aside God’s Law – to break the power of condemnation on all men. God’s love dictated that He loved the world so much that He wanted to save mankind. God’s justice dictated that He must judge all guilty sinners and condemn humanity, God’s grace dictated that He would give His only Son to pay the price for all sin.. and the ONLY requirement of man was to believe that Christ died for their sin – and the ONLY way to be free from condemnation was to believe on Jesus Christ.
• Sin’s Penalty The ONLY requirement of man is to believe that Christ died for his sins. The ONLY way to be free from condemnation is to believe on the Lord Jesus Christ- what grace God showed to man that Christ Jesus has paid the penalty for humanities sin.
• Free Gift of Grace But what of those that of their freewill have chosen not to believe in Christ Jesus? What of those that have refused to accept that Jesus paid the penalty for the sins? What of them who of their own volition have rejected God’s free offer of salvation? WELL the answer is clear : God did not send His Son into the world that He might condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through Him.
• Unbelief Condemns Man is not now condemned because he broke God’s Law – but because of unbelief … unbelief in the Lord Jesus Christ – The Messiah of Israel and Saviour of the world. Man is not condemned because he sinned – but because he did not believe … because he did not believe on the name of the only begotten Son of God. Jesus Christ warned the hypocritical Scribes and Pharisees that they would all die in their sins, for though outwardly righteous, their hearts were riddled with unbelief. The Lord Jesus wept over Jerusalem for in rejecting Him they rejected His grace, and in rejecting His grace they placed themselves under condemnation.
• Sin of Unbelief  Today the work of the Spirit is to convict unsaved people of their sin – but the sin of this age is not the breaking of the Law of Moses but the sin of unbelief in Jesus Christ. Today the work of the Spirit is to conform the saved Christian into the image and likeness of the Lord Jesus Christ – for we are not under the Law but under grace.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY This is love for God: to obey His commands – and His commands are not burdensome.John 5:3
• God’s Time Periods Why was Paul so insistent that believers did not return from grace to law?
• And what is so important about the age of grace for Christians today?
• Next was the era of Law, followed by Grace – with the Millennial period yet to come.
• Age of the Church The Greek word for “law” is “nomos” and also means ‘rule’ or ‘instructions’ and since Calvary, believers have been in a specific period of time called the Age of Grace.
• Rules for the Church Some Christians mistakenly adhere to Israel’s Law, but Paul argues that: we are not under law but under grace, Romans 6:14. and yet we are not exempt from a godly code of living, which Paul calls: the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus Romans 8:2. and which is seen in Romans 8.
• Command of God Only as we live by grace and allow the Spirit of Christ to live in us and through us..

• Favourable Conditions God will put you where He wants you to be – so you can grow in grace as He wills. God will provide you with all the favourable conditions you need for growth – even though God’s favourable conditions may conflict with what you would prefer!!

• God entrusted into our mortal frame His light and His love – by grace through faith..
• He set ablaze in us, the candle of the Lord – by grace through faith in Him.
• His Wonders We can bear witness to Him in so many ways as the Spirit of Christ leads and guides. We can proclaim the wonders of His grace through the way we live and the way we act. We can tell out the glories of the Lord in thought and word and deed and song.

• He is The Lord Jesus Christ. This Lord Jesus Christ is the very image of the invisible, indivisible God. This Lord Jesus Christ is the effulgence of God’s glory and grace and love.

• slow to anger and of great goodness; a God of grace and truth and abounding in great goodness; a God Whose mercy is everlasting – a God Whose love is eternal.

• Good and Gracious Even those who pride themselves on being intellectually superior to those who trust Christ as saviour are happy to applaud the Lord Jesus as a good and a gracious man. All who take time to study the disposition and character of Christ discover Him to display perfection throughout His lifetime and grace in all circumstances of His life.
• Exemplary Grace His grace towards those that were poor and despised was exemplary and His loving involvement with the debased of society became a reason for some increasing hostility. He was gentle as a dove and wise as a serpent – yet always spoke the truth in love.
• Grace and Truth He knew when to act and when to ignore and could empathise without compromise. He knew when to speak and when to remain silent – when to act and when to ignore. He could combine graciousness with truth and He could integrate mercy with justice.

• Right Relationship All these people were in right relationship with the Lord and each of these characters displayed a characteristic that pleased the Lord – a godly disposition that was precious in His eyes – a quality that is dear to the heart of our God. God laid His hand on each of His people in a unique way and God took time in each life to develop in each one a peculiar and distinctive quality that was a dim reflection of His own perfect grace – one that would be seen in the face of Jesus Himself.

• Grace may have been furnished you with a true conception, but you must wait on the Lord to carry it out by His Spirit.

• The great characteristic of a saint is humility - Yes, all those things and other evils would have been manifested in me but for the grace of God, therefore I have no right to judge.

• The saints do not end in crucifixion: by the Lord's grace they end in glory.

• For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.
• Practical Living Titus tells is how to deny all ungodly desires, lustful living and worldly passions. He encourages righteous conduct, godly attitudes and sensible, honest behaviour. He also reminds us of our future blessed hope and the expected return of our Lord – and it is all connected with the grace of our wonderful, loving, gracious God.
• Titus is a man that understands that the grace of God touches every aspect of our lives – for it is the grace of God that offers us the gift of salvation, we so richly enjoy,
• Expanse of Grace It is God’s grace that warns of the dangers of unrighteous living and worldly lusts. It is the grace of God that trains us into righteous living and worthy, godly conduct. It is His grace that bestowed upon us our Blessed Hope and the riches of His glory. As we wait for the glorious appearance of our great God and Saviour, Jesus Christ.
• Many Faces of Grace Too often we box God’s grace into saving grace and limit the expanse of its worth. It is grace that saves, sustains and sanctifies and it preserves, protects and perfects us. It is His grace that effects our growth in grace and teaches us to live godly in Christ. It’s grace that provides for all our needs and grace that may withhold our dear desires.
• Riches of His Grace It is grace that imparts understanding and grace that equips us with discernment. It is grace that instructs and guides us – and grace that teaches and trains. It is grace that corrects and reproves us and it is grace that chastens and chastises us.
• It is grace that accepted us in the Beloved and crowned us with the riches of His grace – and it’s grace that has seated us together with Christ in heavenly places – in Him.
• Examples of Grace It is grace that called us to be His  children and  gave us an inheritance as sons. It is grace that made us heavenly ambassadors and has planned every step of our life. It is the grace that will make us examples of His grace in the ages that are to come. It is grace that ordained us to every good work and grace that equips to do it.
• and one fundamental truth is that grace is the precursor of all that God is doing.
• Grace is rooted and established in the tri-unity of the eternal Father, Son and Spirit.
• Grace is the sum and summation of the infinite attributes of the three-fold Godhead.
• Grace of God For the grace of God has appeared that offers salvation to all people.

• It is a matter of indifference to God's grace how abominable I am if I come to the light; but woe be to me if I refuse the light (see John 3:19-21).

• Pure Diagnosis God will often apply His chastising rod on the back of such a man or woman of His. God uses all the facts and realities of life to humble us before His throne of grace, and through our self-analysis or introspection we discover our efforts are in vain..

• Gift of Grace The mystery of our faith was a truth that emanated from the heart of God. The mystery that demands our reverence, is God with us, the hope of glory. The mystery of godliness is the gospel of Christ, unfolded in the scheme of salvation. It is the mystery of our faith : It is the glorious gospel of Christ : It is the amazing plan of God’s gift of salvation to you and to me.
• for he that believeth on the Son hath eternal life; but he that obeys not the Son shall not see life but the wrath of God abides on him John 3:36. How gracious is God – for the people that walked in darkness were given the light, and those born dead in their sins can become sons of God, by grace through faith. Great is the mystery of godliness for the earth shall be filled with His glory as the waters cover the sea.

• He needs to resist the devil in the power of the Spirit and he needs to grow in grace and in the knowledge of Jesus.

• God the Father God in His wisdom and grace designed the plan of salvation before the world began. God in His love and mercy purposed to save humanity before we were even created. God the Father by His grace, loved us so much that He gave His only begotten Son so that whosoever believes on Him should not perish but have everlasting life..  but the Father could not have saved mankind – for God is Spirit and man is flesh.

• We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing, that He is preparing and fitting us for some extraordinary thing by and bye, but as we go on in grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, in the present minute.

• ALIVE unto God- we who are now to bring forth the fruit of righteousness. By the amazing grace of God – we who were once dead are alive..
• What a precious gift of grace that we should be called the sons of God.
• God called the message of His gracious offering of renewal..the gospel of grace.
• We live to display His grace to the principalities and powers in the ages to come!

• The first sovereign work of grace is summed up in the word - that they may receive remission of sins.
• Then there follows the second mighty work of grace - and inheritance among them which are sanctified.

• We discover God’s infinite love, justice, mercy and grace.
• Righteousness of God By God’s grace we saw the truth of His infinite love towards us, in that while we were still rebellious sinners and at enmity with our Creator – Christ died for us so that we might become the righteousness of God – in Him..

• May He give us grace to endure whatever the trial may be, along whatever line of metaphor, the wind, the blaze, supreme heat, or pressure of His hand, all of which is to get us into a place where we cannot be moved, where hell cannot shake us, where His power is made manifest as triumphant over all the power of the enemy.

• Message of Grace What a glad errand of good tidings of great joy was carried by the angels.
• Message of Grace Had Peter been the most loyal and faithful?
• It is with equal compassion, like tenderness and similar grace that He speaks to us.

• Forgiveness – God First Act These were the first words spoken by the Lord Jesus on the Cross. Forgiveness was the first thought on the mind of the crucified Saviour. Forgiveness was the first response of God to sins committed in the Eden. Forgiveness is an unfathomable grace that is deep in the heart of God.

• Purchased, in Love What awesome grace to be purchased, in love, by God and so become His child. What an honor to be brought into His kingdom from a life of slavery to sin and Satan.

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Christ Jesus.Philippians 1:6

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY  

• For sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace (Rom. 6:14).
• Grace abides towards us; and because grace abides, sin cannot be permitted to have sway over the objects of it. -W.K.

• Grace and Wisdom In His grace and wisdom, He will take the harrowed heart that questions Why, and He will answer it in His way – and in His time – to His glory – and to your benefit.

• May it not be well to pause and consider whether God's mightiest and most fruitful works in nature and in grace are not done hiddenly, quietly, unobtrusively, and – in many cases – done before anyone knows about it?

• Now may the Lord give us the grace to take our share in the sufferings as good soldiers of Jesus Christ, to be strengthened with the grace that is in Christ Jesus, to bear the testimony of the Lord.

• The scope and magnitude of this profound grace, transcends man’s thought..
• Love and Grace Let us trace the rainbow of His grace and love – through the tears of our grateful hearts, and accept Him at His word-by faith.

• Humility and Grace It is such a heart that he dresses with humility and grace., not to shatter into despair, but to melt and remake into a heart like unto His heart.
• Spirit of Brokenness This is the heart that is healed by His touch and mended by His grace and mercy.

• and He knows your every need and has given you access to His throne of grace – and yet before you call He will answer.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY If we would judge ourselves we would not be judged1 Corinthians 11:31
• God has set one singular requirement for spiritual growth, which is by grace through faith..
• Interlinked Attributes But sanctification, grace, growth, faith et al, are all interlinked, and a wrong course in one will inevitably influence all the rest.
• Unchanging Truth If we add or subtract from God’s gospel of grace it influences fellowship and growth.

• And so, we may now approach His throne of grace with reverent boldness.

• Christ’s sacrificial death opened up the way for all who believe on His name, to approach God’s throne of grace and enjoy sweet fellowship with the Father.
• All we have to do is name our sins, and by His grace He will forgive our sins and restore us back into fellowship with Himself.
• License says you do as you please for the more we sin the more grace is displayed.
• When we sin we need to confess our sins and then trust His word and accept His grace – for if we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness – and to restore us back into fellowship.

• Oh, we say, “We are in the day of Grace.
• This is the dispensation of Grace.” True!
• Is the Letter to the Hebrews on any other ground than the ground of Grace?
• But I am pointing this out, that this letter is written in the day of Grace; and it is a day which brings into view not some new Christian system, nor the formation of a new Christian tradition, but a spiritual condition, without which everything else is as nothing.

• Justifying Faith And through faith we understand that justifying faith is simply believing God – trusting in His saving grace.
• Law and Grace Under the Law we read in Habakkuk that the just one was to live by his own faith.
• Under grace we read in Galatians that the just shall live by faith: the faith of the Son of God, for the Spirit of Christ lives in us as we yield to His child-training.

• through time and into eternity, but God’s grace dictates that the choice is open for every sinner until death.
• Sanctification (or growing in grace) is a choice made by the believer.
• I see Peter deny His Lord – but God in His grace took each transgression and turned it for good.

• If the Spirit of God has given you a vision of what you are apart from the grace of God (and He only does it when His Spirit is at work), you know there is no criminal who is half so bad in actuality as you know yourself to be in possibility.
• God's Spirit continually reveals what human nature is like apart from His grace.

• Consider His Grace Consider His good temper, for He said:  “suffer little children to come, and forbid them not, and then were there brought unto him little children, that he should put His hands on them, and prayed”.

• If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

• Paul takes love – the grace of all graces and in three short verses, he passes it through the magnificent, crystal prism of God’s own light – refracting it into the blessed rainbowed-spectrum of His pure love.

• Paul said he did not frustrate the grace of God - make it of no effect.
• The grace of God is absolute, the salvation of Jesus is perfect, it is done for ever.

• Poverty of spirit and humility of heart is the first grace proclaimed in His sermon, and one by one humility bubbles and streams through each subsequent blessing – as beatitude by beatitude you can trace this thread of Godly grace: “Blessed are they that mourn…”   “Blessed are the meek …”   “Blessed are pure in heart..”   “Blessed are those that hunger after His righteousness ..”
• True Humility Poverty of spirit and humility of heart is a key that opens the gate to God’s grace. Poverty of spirit and humility of heart is what God seeks in each of His own.

• But salvation is a like a beautiful flower that buds; blossoms and then gives fruits. It’s a single concept with differing forms: 1) justification; 2) sanctification; 3) glorification. These three sparkling gems unite into the unique gift of God’s grace – SALVATION.
• One Gift of Grace Salvation is ONE and yet salvation is THREE – for we were saved at a single point in time:- (justified) We are being saved through the passage of time:- (sanctification) and at a point in time, known only to God, we will be finally fully saved:- (glorified). There are not 3 salvations, but ONE gift of grace that is accessed by faith, in Christ, God’s 1 gift of salvation has 3 elements – 1) justification, 2) sanctification and 3)glorification.
• eternal separation from God. Salvation in this verse is given the term, justification – for we are justified by grace.
• Sanctification – PRESENT In 1 Timothy 4:16 Paul is seen reminding Timothy to persevere in the things of God – which will ensure SALVATION both for himself – and for all who hear him teach. Salvation in this verse is given the term sanctification – for we are sanctified by grace. 
• Willing Sanctification God longs that all his children chose to be sanctified – set apart unto Him by offering themselves as a willing sacrifice, and submitting to the Spirit’s leading – for when we are being sanctified we’re blessed with continuous deliverance from the power of sin. All His children are positionally sanctified – but not all are being practically sanctified. The final element of Salvation by grace is the glorification of our bodies, and when this third element of salvation is complete we will be like Him for we shall see Him as He is.
• Glorification – FUTURE In 1 Corinthians 15:52 Paul tells us a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.Salvation here relates to glorification – and we are also glorified by grace. The apostle John gives a rare look at a verse glimpsing all 3 elements of salvation.
• And everyone who has this hope in Him purifies himself (through practical sanctification, during the present age) – just as the Lord Jesus Christ is pure. There is only one salvation, which is a gracious gift of God – accessed by faith alone. We’re justified by grace; sanctified by grace and glorified by grace – thru faith in Christ, and these 3 sparkling gems unite into God’s unique gift of grace – SALVATION.

• All By Grace We come to the Lord Jesus – for salvation (which is all by grace. We live in the Lord Jesus – for sanctification (which is all by grace). We work for the Lord Jesus – in service (which is all by grace)

• Every day will provide some opportunity for you to learn spiritual ascendancy; some occasion for you to bring in the value of your relationship with the Lord; to put to the test the resources which you have in Christ; to grow in grace; to know victories.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives 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
• Grace-Promise-Faith There are two paths believers can follow in their Christian life, either grace or law, either faith or works, either promise or merit, either God’s way or man’s way.
• We are not only saved by grace we should live our lives by grace, for sanctification is by grace as well as justification.
• The “grace-promise-faith” way is described in Scripture as a ministry of life: the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
• Jam.2:10. Paul warns that living man’s way means that: the grace of Christ has become of no effect unto you: for whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.  Gal.5:4.
• A Christian living the “works-merit-law” way, will find death, failure and misery, while one living the “grace-promise-faith” way will be have life more abundantly.
• Normal Christian Life There are God-given principles for the ‘normal’ Christian life in Scripture, which are all founded on grace and Paul sets out the grace-walk within his epistles.
• Paul describes the serious consequences of living the “works-merit-law” way while outlining the tremendous advantages of living the “grace-promise-faith” way.
• The “works-merit-law” route as opposed the “grace-promise-faith” route.
• But sanctification by grace is founded on God’s grace alone.
• Law is man’s work, founded on the man’s merit and accessed through law, while grace is God’s work, founded on the promises of God and accessed by faith.
• Law is called a ministry of death and it’s source is the old sin nature, (the flesh), while grace is described as a ministry of life, and it’s source is the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus.
• A believer that chooses self-merit is a debtor to keep the whole law, while a believer that chooses God’s grace is free from the law of sin and death.
• The believer who lives under law is under condemnation, while the one who lives under grace is not under condemnation
• Cleansing Confession A believer who chooses to live under the law’s self-merit instead of God’s will is still a child of God, although for a time has fallen from grace.
• Any believer who has strayed along the “works-merit–law” path and its ministry of death can be restored to the  “grace-promise-faith” way and its ministry of life for: His mercies are new every morning – great is His faithfulness.

• I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

• Pre-cross Israel lived their lives – ”under Law” Post-resurrection Church live their lives –  “under grace,” and the generation of believers that lived both sides of the cross are unique.
• Pre and Post Cross The Law of sin and death  had been fulfilled in Christ on our account, and pre-cross doctrine had be be superseded with post-resurrection teaching. The book of Acts shows us how the Lord Jesus Christ started to build His church. It is a history of the transition from Law to grace – from Israel the the early church.
• Apostle to Gentiles And God called Saul of Tarsus to be Paul – the apostle to the gentiles: But when God, who had set me apart even from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, was pleased to reveal His Son in me so that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went away to Arabia, and returned once more to Damascus.

• Just remember – A man’s conduct is always determined by his view of God… and behind it all is the Divine Purpose to show us that “My Grace Is Sufficient..”

• Behind all our suffering is a Divine Purpose to show us that “My Grace Is Sufficient..”

• He visits those dead in trespasses and to give them deliverance, He visits those that are sick and suffering, to offer grace in time of need.

• God’s Commands And He commands us: Watch and pray that you enter not into temptation. Live by faith and not by sight and don’t get embroiled in signs and wonders. We live under grace and not under the law.Be faithful in the place that God has put you. Be faithful to the point of death. Humble yourself under the mighty hand of God.

• Our work begins where God's grace has laid the foundation; we are not to save souls, but to disciple them.
• Salvation and sanctification are the work of God's sovereign grace; our work as His disciples is to disciple lives until they are wholly yielded to God.
• God brings us to a standard of life by His grace, and we are responsible for reproducing that standard in others.

• Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ' (Eph. 3:8).

• But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
• This truth must be paramount to the one who desires to grow in grace.

• All Things in Christ All grace and all truth came through Jesus Christ alone, for He is the truth, the one truth and the only truth..

• Acts 17:10 God in His grace and love for us, permits His light to shine into our hearts. In two Peter chapter one ver nineteen, we read:- He gives us a more sure word of prophecy, where-unto ye do well that ye take heed, as unto a light that shineth in a dark place, until the day dawn, and the day star arise in your hearts. 2Pet.1:19
• Light of God The dawning of the light may be gradual change or a sudden transformation, but all the unfolding of His truth in our hearts – is due to His mercy and grace. He transfigures our experiences, as we pass from darkness to light. He has given us His light in our hearts – the wisdom of the Holy Spirit, Whom the Lord Jesus was sent into the world to be WITH us and IN us – and Who, has been given the responsibility of guiding us into all truth.. as we submit to His leading – as we surrender every area of our lives to Him.

• That is, it underlies our very relationship with God; it underlies all our growth in grace; it underlies every fragment of our service.

• Focus on Obedience We are imputed with Christ’s righteousness, which directs our focus upon obedience. We are sanctified by grace – and obedience is the root and fruit of sanctification.

• were panniers of the most delicious fruit and sweetmeats to grace the richly plenished table..

• Sufficient Grace But Paul and Job both discovered: My grace is sufficient..
• My grace is sufficient. My grace is sufficient for thee… for my strength is perfected in your weakness” 2Corinthians 12:10. It looked to Paul that these five things would terminate his apostolic ministry.

• These Tree Men These three men questioned the Lord – but none were given the answer. These three men practiced ‘blind faith.’ These three men were rejected by the world, by friends, by the religious man. These three men were seen battling in the spiritual realms. These three men ‘found grace in the eyes of the Lord..’ These three men were trusted to stand fast for the Lord at any cost. These three men were ‘beloved of the Lord.’ And why..?

• For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God (2 Cor. 4:15).

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY Being confident of this very thing, that He which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.Philippians 1:6
• It Takes Time There is no quick way to grow in grace and become spiritually mature.
• Growing in grace requires failure as well as success, inactivity as well as service.
• Remember… There is no quick way to grow in grace and become spiritually mature.

• Overlapping Bridge Acts is first and foremost an historical account of the root and spread of Christianity. Acts is the transitional bridge between the dispensation of Israel and the church age. Acts is an overlapping bridge-of-time during which evangelistic responsibility is being passed from the old dispensation of Israel, to the Church – in the age of grace.
• Gospel of the Kingdom Those early chapters in Acts shows the apostles teaching Jews and Jewish converts. On and on we discover the Jews were to target-audience for the gospel message – not the gospel of grace which was given to Paul, but the gospel of the kingdom. They continued proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom – not the gospel of grace. They preserved the teachings of John the Baptist, Jesus and His disciples – to Jews:- the gospel of the kingdom – the gospel of the coming Jewish Messiah…
• Church Doctrine It shows how the early focus of church evangelism – was exclusively to the Jews, but God in His grace raised up Paul the apostle to reveal His plans for the church. May our hearts and minds be open to the Spirit’s leading concerning the book of Acts. Without Acts..

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY Simple Faith There is one major weakness in the body of Christ, and individual Christians alike.
• It is a lack of knowledge of how to grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord Jesus.

• and a wonderful liberation floods the soul of those saved by God’s gift of grace..
• Growing in Grace He desires all His children to grow in grace and to walk in spirit and truth. God wants us to develop a spiritual walk, which grows into a closer walk with Him..
• but after the first flush of Christian joy, we can leave our first love and fall from grace.
• We cant lose our salvation but we stray from a spiritual walk into a carnal walk.. we can leave our first love of Christ and be enticed back to the ways of the world – or we can fall from grace – trying to please God through our own good works. Walking in the flesh, worldly living and legalistic good works all deny God’s grace, but He desires His children to grow in grace and to walk in spirit and truth.

• For by grace you have been saved through faith.
• All-Embracing Word The word ‘Salvation’ is one all-embracing word that unites a variety of concepts – redemption – rebirth – justification – security – sanctification – growth – maturity – foreknowledge – election – predestination – righteousness – glorification – grace – reconciliation – new-life-in-Christ – new creation –adoption– saved by grace – born-from-above – baptised into Christ – accepted-in Him – citizens of heaven – etc
• Individually each aspect of salvation embraces its own particular message of truth Together they sing a symphony of salvation,  in praise of the riches of God’s grace.
• Brands of Glory Each aspect of Salvation has its own particular brand of glory and magnificence, and each needs be studied and understood for the riches and truth it contains. Yet together they combine to demonstrate the enormity of God’s grace towards us.
• Detail of Truth Each facet opens up one aspect of God’s grace..
• Facets of Salvation The crux of the matter is that every aspect of salvation is dependent on God’s grace. Some limit God’s grace to the simple act of being saved – when it underpins ALL.
• all facets of Salvation are by the power of God and because of the grace of God – all God does in redemption, rebirth, justification; and sanctification is by grace – all His foreknowledge; election; predestination sealing and adoption is of grace.
• All By Grace All the security; growth; maturity; righteousness and glorification is by grace.
• Our new-life-in-Him; our acceptance-in Christ and heavenly citizenship is grace.
• The works we do and the fruit we produce as well as the gifts we receive are all by grace – and our final glorification; reward in heaven and heir-ship with Christ is God’s grace.
• Not Man’s Merit Redeeming, reconciliation, sanctification and maturing in the faith is ALL by grace. Acceptance by God, eternal life and glorification have nothing to do with our merit.
• Indeed God will not accept any aspect of Salvation any other way than by GRACE.
• God’s Standard The saving of believers is all by grace and requires complete dependence on Christ. The sanctifying, maturing life can only be lived effectively when dependent upon Him..
• Grace Alone By Faith Better to swallow our pride and revisit Scripture – and find out God’s perfect plan.. for every facet of Salvation is by grace alone through faith alone in Christ alone.
• Each aspect of salvation embraces its own particular message of biblical truth, but from start to finish Salvation is God working in us – and it is all His grace.

• For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people, It trains us to renounce ungodly living and worldly lusts so that we might live sensible, honest, and godly lives in this present age.
• Our Teacher The law of God is a schoolmaster to bring the unsaved man and woman to Christ, but once we are saved it is the grace of God that becomes our teacher and instructor.
• Some are concerned that an over-emphases on God’s grace provides a license to sin..
• and yet the scripture teaches that grace trains us to turn our back on godless living.
• Our Guide Grace is a teacher that shows us the error of sinful pleasures, and worldly passions.
• Godly Living By GRACE we were saved – when we first trusted the Lord Jesus as Saviour. By GRACE we are to live – as we abide in Christ, rest in Him and trust His Word, and it is GRACE that teaches us to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions.
• It is grace that trains us and to deny ungodliness and worldly desires and passion.
• It is grace that enables us to live self-controlled, upright, and godly lives.
• It is grace that lets us live in a sensible, righteous and godly way, in the present age.
• Children of Grace All who have received a new life in Christ, BY grace, must be trained THROUGH grace. Grace brings to our understanding the great love and goodness of God towards us.
• It is by grace we are forgiven; saved; sealed – clothed in Christ’s own righteousness.
• It’s by grace we grow in grace and are accepted by God and seated in heavenly places.
• It’s by grace we are made children of God and joint-heirs and inheritors with Christ.
• Riches of God’s Grace We have been given the riches of God’s grace and glory – and are complete in Christ. Should we not acknowledge His amazing grace and unconditional love towards us – for when we do, grace will start to teach us and to train us in godly living.
• For the grace of God has appeared, bringing salvation to all people, It trains us to renounce ungodly living and worldly lusts so that we might live sensible, honest, and godly lives in this present age.

• However, with progress in grace we find them to be as clear and logical as the truth of justification.
• The marvel of divine grace is that not only has everything according to the heart of God been secured for me through the death and resurrection of the Lord Jesus, but that I, a child of Adam, should be, not only in peace with God where I was under His judgment, but that I am transferred from Adam to Christ, and I am to have Christ formed in me now.
• I am born of God - of new and divine origin - a new creation to be here on earth now where I was a child of Adam, in the grace and beauty of Christ, led by His own power to stand for Him; daily more and more transformed into the same image from glory to glory even as by the Spirit of the Lord' (2 Cor. 3:18).

• Heavenly Home And yet our feet are dusty – polluted with the sin and filth of this world, for we are ever yet journeying towards our heavenly home. The Father is there and seated on His throne of grace. At His right hand is seated the Son of His love – the Man..
• the perfect Man; the Man Christ Jesus.. seated on the throne with the Father. The family, redeemed out of every nation and clime, are gathering, as angels gaze on in wonder – as grace upon grace is realised.

• Through grace, we are not in the flesh, but in Christ, yet the flesh is in us; but our part is to reckon it as having been, before God and to faith, judicially put to death in Christ crucified, thus setting us free to be so constantly occupied with the triumphant Son of God, as to find all our resources, all our strength, all our springs, in Him. -H.H.S.

• The God of all grace, who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after ye have suffered awhile, make you perfect [mature], establish, strengthen, settle you (1 Pet. 5:10).

• Mystery of Salvation Meditate on the mystery of His triad of grace: Salvation, Sanctification and Glorification.. and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless.
• Be amazed at the supernatural grace of the Lord Jesus Christ towards you:  for Christ also loved the Church and gave Himself for her….

• One of the most damaging things in the realm of God's work, a thing which eventually leads to shame and confusion and much sorrow, is Natural Soul-Force projected by strong-willed, determined, aggressive Christians who have not come to a spiritual sense where they are able to discriminate between stubborn indomitableness, personal determination and resolution, and which is altogether another thing: spiritual grace in endurance, perseverance, and Divine in-strengthening.
• Let Paul talk to you about the Lord's wonderful grace to continue.

• Church Age Baptism As church-age believers we are baptised by the Spirit into Christ the moment we believe that Jesus is our Saviour and that He died for our sin and rose the third day. We are to grow in grace and become true followers – true disciples of the Lord and water baptism is a beautiful outward demonstration of a beautiful internal change.

• Christ’s Witnesses The Lord wants us to be signs in the world – signs that His grace is sufficient.

• The Father will not give you humility or patience or love as separate gifts of grace; He has given you the Lord Jesus, and if you simply trust Him to live out His life in you, He will be humble, patient, loving and everything else you need.

• God leaves us in the world that we may learn the sufficiency of His grace in practice, as we know the triumph of it in Christ.

• He will meet us with His gracious provision when we transgress and trespass and fail, and do wrong – He will meet us there in grace.
• But God is going to pursue this matter to the most inward place of our being, and register there His work of grace and redemption.

• But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ (2 Pet. 3:18).

• Growing In Grace - STUDY Oh foolish Galatians…after starting your Christian lives in the Spirit, why are you now trying to become perfect by your own human effort?
• Grace OR Works Scripture contrasts two ‘ways’ a believer seeks to live the Christian life.
• Paul outlines both options in his epistle to the Galatians:  1) the grace-promise-faith way and  2) the works-merit-law way.
• The grace-promise-faith way is 100% achievable and done by God for man.
• There is probably no more important message to the church today than this, for most believers having started their Christian life by grace through faith, revert from grace back to the law, by trying to live their life for God.
• Blessings abound for those humble enough and courageous enough to seek to live their life the grace-promise-faith way.
• Paul’s Challenge Paul challenges those given initial salvation by grace thru faith with these words: are ye so foolish, having begun in the spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?  He is saying, having begun ‘the grace-promise-faith way’ are ye now made perfect by ‘the works-merit-law way?’ Many believers aren’t properly schooled in these two contrasting ways of living the Christian life and fall into the works-merit–law trap.
• God’s Way OR Man’s Way The grace way is sanctification God’s way.
• The grace-promise-faith way is the ‘spiritual’ route.
• All believers are born-again the ‘grace-promise-faith’ way, for salvation is simply: believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you will be saved – by grace thru faith, which is a done deed.
• Faith Not Works Believers make a choice to either live God’s way, which is the ‘grace-promise-faith’ way, or man’s way, the  ‘works-merit -law’ way.
• To grow spiritually is the responsibility of each believer, but like justification can only be achieved the ‘grace-promise-faith’ way.
• Living the ‘works-merit -law’ way is not living under grace, but rather falling from grace.  It is living under a potpourri of legalism, carnality and dead ‘fleshly’ works.
• Grace-Promise-Faith Grace abounds to those that are both humble and courageous enough to walk the grace-promise-faith route.
• There is so much more to explore about living by grace in the book of Galatians, which step by step brings us from persistent failure and self effort, into a victorious Christian life, which is only possible by God’s grace – through faith.

• Later, by His grace, we yearn to be freed from self, regardless of the cost.
• All through life God has to show us our own utter sinfulness and need, in order to more fully lead us on into realms of grace. -J.C.M.

• Grace Thru Faith - STUDY Questioning Heart Have you ever looked back over your life and just wondered..
• and the gospel of grace is shouted abroad – and others come to know your God.
• We read in Ephesians 1:5-6 ‘Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to Himself, according to the good pleasure of His will, to the praise of the glory of His grace, wherein He hath made us accepted in the Beloved,'”

• Our Father would be free to favor us with far more of His riches in Christ Jesus if we would keep more in mind that grace is unmerited favor - so that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy (Rom. 9:23).

• God resisteth the proud, and giveth grace to the humble (1 Pet. 5:5).

•  Growing In Grace - STUDY Christian Desire Many Christians desire union and communion (or fellowship) with our Lord Jesus, but feel they do not enjoy it as they desire.
• Indwelling of the Sprit Fellowship with the Lord should be the experience of all believers as we grow in grace and submit to the Spirit’s work in our lives, as He seeks to conform us into the likeness of Christ, but this is not always the case.

• One nation was in view when the Law of Moses was in force on the earth; the individual is in view during this age of grace; and the whole social structure of mankind will be in view when the kingdom is established on earth.

• The soul that turns back upon itself to learn God's judgment about it, and what His dealings with it are likely to be, is not leaning upon what the Father is - is not standing in grace.
• Neither our joy nor our peace is dependent upon what we are to Him, but on what He is to us - and this is grace. -J.N.D.

• How happy then to know that I belong to the place where He is; and that through grace I am made suited to Him in that new place; so that I set my mind and affections there, as the place where my deepest joys are to be realized. -J.B.S.

• He said, “My grace is all you need.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY You foolish Galatians, who has bewitched you?Galatians 3:1
• I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothingGalatians 2:19-21
• Rules of Grace Life Living by grace is the antithesis to the way that man has learned to live in this world.
• The life of grace can only be understood if one has learned how to live by faith, and then apply it.
• They live the “law-works-merit” way – rather than the “grace-faith-promise” way.
• A Liberating Truth These Galatian Christian believed the gospel of grace and then returned to the old ways of law.
• Every believer has been saved by grace through faith and placed in union with Christ; baptised into Christ’s death and was identified with Him the moment they believed.
• They had learned the liberating truth of grace but then reverted to a Christian life under law.
• A Teachable Spirit To live our Christian lives by God’s “grace-faith-promise” rules, rather that the more logical “law-works-merit” rules requires us to live by faith and not by sight.
• As we explore these scripture passages may we exhibit a teachable spirit, so that we grow in grace and in the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.
• So that we  walk the “grace-faith-promise”  way (or fly the IFR way)  rather than slipping into the the “law-works-merit” way (the VFR way)

• When the devil puts you into an elevated place, he makes you screw your idea of holiness beyond what flesh and blood could ever hear, it is a spiritual acrobatic performance, you are just poised and dare not move; but when God elevates you by His grace into the heavenly places, instead of finding a pinnacle to cling to, you find a great table-land where it is easy to move.
• Growth in grace is measured not by the fact that we have not gone back, but that you have an in sight into where you are spiritually; you have heard God say Come up higher, not to you personally, but to the insight of your character.

• God makes us pure by His sovereign grace, but we have something to look after, this bodily life by which we come in contact with other people and with other points of view, it is these that are apt to sully.
• Not only must the inner sanctuary be kept right with God, but the outer courts as well are to be brought into perfect accord with the purity God gives us by His grace.

• But then–He giveth grace To count the hardest spot the sweetest place.

• A Worthy Calling Our initial salvation when we were born again is a gift of grace – received by faith. Our Christian walk as we grow in grace is also a gift of grace – received by faith. And as we grow in grace and in a knowledge of Him, so we will reflect our Lord – and we will walk in a manner worthy of the calling to which we have been called.

• and singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

• STUDY in PRAYER Therefore let us approach the throne of grace with boldness, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time.Hebrews 4:16
• This daily ‘nipto’ – maintains fellowship with God and access to His throne of grace.
• Continuous Cleansing Intercession begins on bended heart and yet it reaches to the throne of God, but intercessors need a cleansed, humble heart to come boldly to the throne of grace.

• God’s Foreknowledge In His omniscience God knows in advance every person that will choose to believe. God’s grace is extended to everyone and all we have to do is to believe in Jesus. And God has plans for everyone, who freely chooses to trust in Christ as Saviour. God foreknew all who would drink of the waters of life and become His child, and before the world was made He had plans for all those – who would believe on Jesus.
• Grace through Faith Well – every part or salvation is a gift of God’s grace that is accessed by faith. God does it all and we contribute nothing – all we had to do was to freely believe. Once we believed that Jesus Christ is the only begotten Son of God Who died to pay the price for our sins…..
• Lifelong Process God wants all his children to be sanctified and set apart unto Him, just as the Lord. Jesus, who learnt obedience during His life as He grew in favour with God and man. We too are to live the sanctified life as He did if we are to grow in grace and mature. Jesus Christ set Himself unto God, but He will never force His will on you or me. Although justification happens at a point in time – sanctification is a life-long process.

• Son of Man God – the invisible God, can not look upon sin and hid His pure face from sinful man. God in the His mercy, sought to manifest Himself fully in the last days, through Christ, God in His grace towards us opened our understanding of Himself, through Jesus.

• Self-Realisation Paul realised he was utterly blind; utterly ignorant; utterly helpless; utterly pathetic. Paul discovered his great learning and stunning personality had its roots in evil self,  and that he, of all men needed God’s tremendous, wonderful amazing grace.
• Death to Self Paul was led of the Spirit to realise that he needed to be brought very low. He was led to understand that he had to be brought to the place of death to self. He had to come to grasp what God’s actual plan and dear desire for him was – now that is grace… God’s tremendous; wonderful; amazing grace.
• God has an eternal purpose in all of life’s trials and troubles – an unbroken, uninterrupted, unparalleled purpose from eternity to eternity:-  that in the ages to come God might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
• WHAT GRACE !!

• He left His Father’s throne aboveSo free, so infinite His grace—Emptied Himself of all but love,And bled for Adam’s helpless race:’Tis mercy all, immense and free,For O my God, it found out me!

• in Him is gentleness, humility and grace.

• The great miracle of the grace of God is that He forgives sin, and it is the death of Jesus Christ alone that enables the Divine nature to forgive and to remain true to itself in doing so.

• He will in His grace and mercy, wash away the bitterness of your past.

• Unique Visitation Abel was accepted through a bloodied sacrifice – Peter by the shore of Galilee. Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord – Paul found His grace was sufficient. The shepherds were led by a host of angels – the Wise Men followed by a star. And on and on – each encounter different, distinct, dissimilar from the other.

• She compromised the grace that was afforded her – in the day of her crisis.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY God sent His Son, born of a woman, born under the law to redeem those who were under the Law, so that we might receive adoption as sons.
• Debtor to the Law A Christian either lives under the Law, which means they have: fallen from grace, or they live under grace which means they are free from the bondage of the Law.
• A Christian living under the Law is still saved, but fallen from grace, how sad.
• Every born-again Christian has a choice: to live under the whole Law OR to live under grace, but they cant live under Law and grace at the same time.
• Age of Grace Romans, Galatians and much of the NT detail the error of this thinking.
• Christ’s death, burial and resurrection ended the period called the age of law and introduced the age of grace – the Church dispensation.
• It is called the law of Christ – the royal law – the law of liberty and yet today there is a lot of confusion about law and grace.
• Living under grace is not a free-for-all license to do what you please.
• The law was given by Moses: but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
• Let us search through the epistles of Paul to discover how to live our lives under grace – how to abide in Christ – how to submit our lives to the Spirit – how to live our lives in spirit and truth: until it is not I that lives but Christ that lives through me.

• We are saved by grace, God’s wonderful grace – but it is through faith.
• sanctification – for growing in grace.

• It is now the day of grace.
• Everyone who receives His grace is set free from the dominion of the old man.

• They are united to Him by grace and faith.
• It is just the beginning of the process, in you, and so day by day, by the transforming work of the Holy Spirit, grow in grace; grow in understanding; grow in love and grow in wisdom..

• Words of Christ We read of the Lord Jesus that His speech and language was so very gracious. His words were filled with truth but they were also caring, kind and full of grace.
• They should edify and encourage. Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man. Colossians 4:6
• Worldly Words And as children of God we are all to grow in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord, The world will often speak their truth in hate..
• Ungodly Words There is to be no place for the uncircumcised tongue or the unredeemed mouth. Our words are to be wholesome; sensitive; truthful; thoughtful; wise – spiritual: let no unwholesome word proceed from your mouth, but only such as is good for edification according to the need of the moment, that it may give grace to those who hear. Ephesians 4:29
• Full of Grace But we must not impede the Spirit work in another by the things that we say. We should not speak the truth in contempt or anger or self-righteousness,We should speak the truth in love – words seasoned with salt and full of grace.

• All this can be if we will go the way of this man, and say, “Yes, this has gone on long enough and it has to end, and to end, so far as my giving diligence is concerned, at once, and I do most truly by the grace of God take a deliberate and definite faith action and faith attitude toward the Lord Jesus for my complete deliverance and the setting of me upon my feet for His glory, for His praise!” I think there will be an issue, and I think it will be — “he, leaping up, stood upon his feet, praising and glorifying God.” May it be so with every one of us.

• witness to the Light – witness to Grace. Grace and truth came by Jesus, the light of the world,  and John testified of Him. John was sent to witness of Christ – the light to men, Who was full of grace and truth.
• Christ’s Witness John, whose name means: God is gracious, bore witness of Jesus: God is salvation. John was to point to the Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the world. John was a witness to the grace of God – that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ. John was set as a moon to reflects the Son – the only true Light of the world.
• Sacrifice for Sin Though acknowledged by the Lord Jesus as the greatest of all men born of women. John was the one who testified that he must decrease – but Christ  must increase. John was not the Light, but he witnessed about the true and only Light of God. John did not bring Grace, but he was to testify of the One Who was full of Grace. John could not forgive sins, but pointed to the Messiah, the only Sacrifice for sin.
• Gospel of John But the Baptist was not the only man called ‘John’ that witnessed of the grace of God. The beloved disciple wrote his gospel of John so that so that you may believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and by believing – may have life in His name.
• Witness to Gentiles But in the gospel of John was a witness to the gentile nations of the mercy of God. The true Light that lights ALL men had come into the world – full of grace and truth. This message to all men was to testify of the Lamb of God – the Sacrifice for all sin,  the Saviour had arrived : the Light and Life of men… full of grace and truth.
• Witness to Grace The Baptist’s message in John had its focus on the fullness of the grace of God. He is proclaiming the fullness of grace that alone comes thru the person of Christ, For from His abundance we have all received one gracious blessing after another. The witness of grace, proclaimed by John, emanated from God’s infinite love and grace. It proceeded from the Father through the Son – to sinful man in need of a Saviour.
• Embryonic Gospel John’s witness of grace was more than restoration of life for the descendants of Adam. He was presenting the embryonic gospel of grace which was to be more fully revealed by the ministry of the apostle Paul – to include the Church as the Body of Christ in Union with Him  – a new creation and joint heirs of God’s Son – a heavenly citizenship and the indwelling Holy Spirit as a down-payment from God the Father – our Abba.
• Repentance and Grace Abraham was a highly esteemed prophet and honoured as the great father of faith. Moses was the great prophet – reverenced by the many religions of the world, but John the Baptist is the greatest of all the prophets that have been sent by God. John was no more that a voice crying in the wilderness, prepare the way of the Lord. His witness was to both Jew and gentile – a double message of repentance and grace. The LAW of Moses was given to REVEAL sin. But GRACE through faith in Christ REMOVES sin.
• to bear witness about Jesus:- the Son of – God; the Messiah  of Israel; the Light of the world, Who was full of grace and truth, that ALL might believe – through Him.

• Growing In Grace - STUDY He that believeth on Him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. John 3:18
• They can live the grace-promise-faith way or they can live the works-merit-law way.
• Right Choices Remember there are two paths a born-again believer can follow in their Christian walk: either the grace-promise-faith way or the works-merit-law way;  either by grace or works of the law; either by promise or the works of the flesh; either by faith or by merit; either by living a spiritual life or living a carnal life; either by walking in the spirit or walking in the flesh; either by walking in newness life in Christ or by walking by means of  the old sin nature in Adam.
• Let us seek to please our heavenly Father, by walking the grace-promise-faith way.

• Speak that which is good and edifying, and minister grace to those that hear you – And preach the Word. 2Tim.4:2
• Teach, and correct one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, and sing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

• separating man from God was torn asunder by the Lord Jesus, but only a believer has the capacity to come before the throne of grace – through Christ.

• Is it not a deep unspeakable gratitude for the grace of God?
• We only worship in the measure in which we appreciate the grace of God.... You remember that a favorite way to Paul of opening his letters was with three words: Grace, mercy, and peace, be unto you.
• Wonderful grace, grace that could never be explained; boundless mercy; and peace with God.
• It was the prayer of deep worship for the grace of God, and that must have a place in all true prayer.

• As a gift of grace, sanctification is conferred on each believer as soon as he believes.

• Our present enjoyment of God's grace is apt to be checked by the memory of yesterday's sins and blunders.

• But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore, I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.2Corinthians 12:9
• Sufficient Grace Remember this principle as you face the fiery trials that beset you. Remember that sufficient grace and new power comes from the Lord through conflict. Remember Christ’s life was developed and honed and made perfect through suffering..

• Finger of Grace Those times when the days seemed dark, do not influence His acceptance of you.
• He has the finger of His grace upon your life and has engraved you on His hands, but like a wise parent with a temperamental child, He waits and waits and waits.

• Growth in grace stops the moment I get huffed.

• The Open Heart The heart that is open to His presence will gladly partake of all His grace and love. Some even are sufficed to gather the crumbs that fall from the tables of others: “For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance, but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.” Luke 19:26

• Showers of Blessings God’s ‘Blessed’s’ are rays of shining sun – imparting light and warmth. God’s love is a blessed fountain-spring of grace and glory. God’s mercy is poured out in blessed showers of blessings, “Blessed are the peacemakers,..” Matt.5:9.

• Growing in Grace At times practical sanctification is swift,and lessons are quickly learned and applied.

• It is possible, and very humiliating, to be awakened to the fact, though we have had a measure of zeal for the Lord, that we have barely known the things we should have known, nor the behavior that is becoming to us in this marvelous day of grace.
• The latter is not easily learned; the former is the fruit of light; the latter is never acquired but as there is practical grace and love - the activity of the Lord Jesus' nature in me by the Spirit. -J.B.S.

• Paul was acutely aware that nothing in this world can endear us to God, other than being covered by the blood of the Lamb, and clothed in the righteousness of Christ, which can only become ours by God's grace - through faith in His only begotten Son.

• Nor should we ever never forget that it is only by grace through faith in Christ that we are given a new opportunity..
• a new nature that reflects the perfect character of the Lord Jesus, in His humanity - as we grow in grace and mature in the faith.

• He is the incomparable Rock upon which we are to build and He is the Rock of ages from Whom we have been hewn - and having been saved by grace through faith in Him, we are also called to live by the faith of the Son of God Who loved us and gave His life for us.
• A faith that believes God - a faith that trusts His Word - a faith that walks in spirit and truth - a faith that in grace and humility whispers: not I but Christ.

• Paul reminded them that they were called to be holy and enriched by the grace of God - and he also reminds us that our God is a God of comfort, especially in those times of trials and difficulty - for God is always in control and His grace is always sufficient ..
• God is faithful - and not only has he already delivered us from the consequences of sin and eternal separation from Himself, by grace through faith in the finished work of Christ on Calvary's cross..

• Once a person has been born again they are to grow in grace and in a knowledge of the Lord Jesus Christ.

• Though we were dead in our sins, at enmity with God and eternally separated from Him, in His grace and love He stooped down in the Person of the Lord Jesus Christ and rescued us from slavery to sin and the eternal death sentence under which we were all placed.

• It was through the grace of God that God gave His only begotten Son to take the full and final punishment for our sins.
• By grace through faith in Christ, the almighty God cancelled the record of the charge against us and took it away by nailing it to the cross.

• God in His grace, however, uses all things together, for the good of those that love Him and are fitting into His plan.

• God’s offer of salvation, by grace through faith in Him, has lasted many thousands of years, but a day of deep darkness and righteous judgement is coming on the whole earth, when His wrath will be poured out on a God-despising, Christ-hating sinful world – and unbelieving Israel, along with all the godless nations of the world, will reap the dreadful rewards of their gross apostasy and satanic behaviour.

• Once we are saved by grace through faith in Christ, we are to grow and mature in our Christian walk.
• We are not to simply remain with the initial joy, in believing that we are a sinner for whom Christ died, but are to grow in grace, so that our joy may become full.
• We are to progress into a deeper relationship with the Lord, and to develop a more secure faith in Christ's sufficient grace, in every circumstance of life.
• We are to grow from being a baby Christian, whose main-focus is the importance of repenting of our pre-salvation sins and bathing in the joy of being saved... into becoming a mature believer, where we develop an abiding fellowship with the Father, by walking in the light of His glorious truth, and being continuously cleansed, through His sufficient grace - as we rest in our Saviour's love.
• God has given us His sufficient grace, so that we may live as Christ lived - in spirit and in truth, but we are to appropriate all that is ours in Him..

• for in so doing we will grow in grace and in a knowledge of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

• Just as we who are saved by grace through faith were crucified with Christ and identified with His death, so we who are saved by grace through faith are risen with Christ and identified with His resurrected life - for in Him we are born into newness of life. Because He died we are saved by grace through faith.
• Because He lives we too will live and receive His resurrected life as a free gift of grace through faith.

• And Romans is a book that systematically and logically takes us into a fuller understanding of God’s plans and purposes for salvation, for redemption, sanctification, glorification and all that accompanies the riches of God’s grace towards us, who were once dead in trespasses and sins, but have now been redeemed by the blood of the Lamb.
• There is no excuse for unbelief, for now, as the prophets foretold, through the command of the eternal God, His message of salvation by grace through faith in Christ is made known to all nations everywhere, so that they too might believe and be saved.

• What wonderful grace that woefully, sinful man should receive such a costly gift - so freely given.

• The fields were white with harvest and as long as he had life in his body, Paul knew he could proclaim the good news of the gospel of grace to those who were dead in sin, and preach the Word of truth to babes in Christ and mature men of God, and so we read his thoughts - I am hard-pressed from both directions, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, for that is very much better, YET he admitted, to remain on in the flesh is more necessary for your sake.

• People living at the time of the cross experienced both pre-cross and post-cross teachings and had to go through the painful transition from Law to grace - as they moved from a dispensation based on the Mosaic Law to living in the post-cross Church age.

• The Word of God not only tells us of our salvation by grace through faith in Christ as Saviour, but the Bible tells us the end from the beginning, and our faith is built on the witness of the apostles and prophets of God.

• He came in the likeness of mortal flesh, lived a humiliating life, died an obscene death and was hated and scorned by those He came to save - because it is not His will that any are condemned but that all come to faith in Him - What amazing grace.
• What astonishing, beautiful, glorious grace.
• But cults and creeds, religions and denomination near and far, minimise His atoning work, deny His eternal deity, accredit others as 'co-redeemers' with Him and replace the glorious gospel of grace with another 'gospel'.

• His grace is sufficient for every eventuality we may face.
• His resurrection from the dead imputes His resurrected life into those that are His - for His eternal life is a free gift of God's grace, through faith in Him.
• As members of Christ's body, it is by His grace we are saved - through faith in Christ, and it is also by grace through faith in Him that we are to continue to live our lives.

• He wrote to remind them of the hope of rewards at Christ’s return.Paul’s epistles are filled with wise instruction on how to live the sanctified life of a normal Christian, and often include the name of other brothers and sisters in the faith, who laboured with him, in spreading abroad the gospel of grace.

• who were listening to the ongoing debate - of Christ's tremendous wisdom and His amazing grace.

• But sometimes we wonder why God does not work in the way that we expect - or we lose sight of His omnipotent power and never failing grace.

• Moment of chastening will always be transformed into a lifetime of grace.
• However, whether they are the result of the actions, attitudes and indifference of others beyond our control, God's anger lasts but for a brief moment but His grace and favour is everlasting.

• The whole of Psalm 50 is a song that shows forth the greatness of God, His never-ending righteousness and His long-suffering grace but it is also one that is a severe rebuke to His people Israel, for their disinterested complacency and hypocritical attitude into which their external acts of sacrifices had fallen.

• Without Christ, the deep darkness of man’s inner soul remains blinded to the truth of the glorious gospel of grace, which points to Jesus as the true light, Who alone lights the hearts and minds of many who believe on Him.
• Two thousand years ago, heavenly light shone out of the darkness, and by God’s grace, the beauty of His light and life has shone into our hearts, and given us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God, in the face of Jesus Christ.
• His word is a lamp to our feet and a guiding light along our pathway, for by grace through faith we have been made children of the light, and are called to walk in the light of His love, by the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit.

• Perhaps one of the most beautiful, yet simple, universal declarations of the good news of the gospel of grace, is found in the book of Joel..
• and unless the good news of the gospel of grace is proclaimed universally, men and women, boys and girls, rich and poor, Jews and Gentiles alike, will remain dead in their trespasses and sins.
• salt in a putrefying world, God's witnesses to those that are lost in their sins, a testimony of God's grace to those who are dead in their trespasses and a messenger of hope, to those that are without hope in the world.
• Let us pray that God would send out labourers into the harvest-fields of souls, that need to be saved by grace through faith in Christ..

• And what a comfort for Christians in this dispensation of grace, to know that the promises that God has made to the Church in connection with our own, heavenly inheritance are equally steadfast and sure... for the Word of God can never be broken.

• from the curse of the Law to the freedom of grace - and points out that salvation is by grace through faith in Christ alone, and not by personal merit or through works of the flesh.
• Paul made it very clear that Israel plainly understood that the Lord required godly righteousness-by grace through faith and not man's fleshly righteousness-by works of the Law..
• But Paul also goes on to rejoice that in His goodness and grace God's offer of salvation continues to be extended to Israel and that His punishment for their sin will not remain forever.

• But for the man saved by grace, this foundational question deserves equally rigorous examination, and challenges the believer to examine himself to see if Christ is all and in all.

• May the lives we live be a testimony of the riches of God’s grace towards us, and may we reflect the beauty of Jesus in the words that we say and the things that we do.

• Israel may have stumbled but by God's grace they did not fall, and as a result of their terrible transgression - salvation has come to the Gentiles - Hallelujah!!
• We who were dead in trespasses and sin and without God in the world have been brought near to God because of Israel's transgressions, and by grace through faith in Him, we have been made children of God; forgiven of our sins, made part of the Body of Christ, been in-dwelt by the Holy Spirit and received eternal life as a free gift of God's grace. Hallelujah!!
• And so for a season (i.e. during the church age - the current dispensation of grace), Israel has been set aside - but as a result of their transgression, salvation has come to the gentiles.