![]() ![]() Doug Johnson is the senior pastor at Raven Assembly of God in Raven, Virginia. My friend, you can experience the free pardon of God from all your sins through Jesus Christ with no strings attached. We receive mercies that are new every morning because He is merciful. We receive unconditional love because He is love. We receive forgiveness of our sin because He is forgiving. There is nothing we could do that would merit such grace.īut God gives it to us when we dedicate our lives to His Son, Jesus. He doesn’t give grace to us because we deserve it or have earned it. God’s grace extends to us His mercy, love and forgiveness. I can truly say that I am not what I once was, a slave to sin and Satan and I can heartily join with the apostle and acknowledge, ‘By the grace of God I am what I am.’” Yet though I am not what I ought to be, nor what I wish to be, or what I hope to be. Soon I shall put off mortality, all sin, and imperfection. I abhor what is evil, and I would cleave to what is good. Newton then commented, “I am not what I ought to be. He read a portion of Scripture, including 1 Corinthians 15:10, “But by the grace of God I am what I am.” John Newton, author of the beloved hymn “Amazing Grace,” knew much about the grace of God.Ī friend visited Newton in the later years of his life. Tozer defined grace as “the good pleasure of God that inclines Him to bestow benefits on the undeserving.” The fact is, many people are shocked by sin, but really, they should be staggered by grace!Ī. The old adage: “You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours” comes to mind. There are many people who won’t do something nice for another unless they are willing to repay the ‘favor’ in some way. I think the reason is because there is so little of it in our world. Some folks have a hard time understanding grace. ![]() Queen Elizabeth understood in a moment and said, “You are right. The woman looked up and said, “Grace that hath conditions, grace that is fettered by precautions, is not grace at all.” Queen Elizabeth looked at her coldly and quietly said, “If I show you grace, what promise will you make for the future?” Never a battle with wrong for the right, Never a contest that He doth not fight Lifting above us His banner so white Moment by moment Im kept in His sight. She threw herself down on her knees and begged the queen as a woman to have compassion on her, a woman, and to show her grace. Moment by moment Ive life from above Looking to Jesus till glory doth shine Moment by moment, O Lord, I am Thine. ![]() She realized that, humanly speaking, her case was hopeless. Whittle (1893)Music: May Whittle MoodyThis song highlights a very important matter in our Christian lives the matter of subjectively walkin. They found the woman hidden among the gowns and brought her into the presence of the queen, taking from her the dagger she had hoped to plant in the heart of the sovereign. She did not realize that the queen’s attendants would be very careful to search the rooms before Her Majesty was permitted to retire. The woman who sought to do so dressed as a male page and hid herself in the queen’s boudoir awaiting the convenient moment to stab the queen to death. Ironside tells the story of an attempted assassination of Queen Elizabeth I. ![]()
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