The Immeasurable Riches of His Grace "Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound!" Romans 5:20 The history of our world has been the story of abounding sin--and far more abounding grace! What was Abraham's history--but one of abounding sin and super-abounding grace? What was Rahab's history--but a history of abounding sin and super-abounding grace? What was David's history--but a history of abounding sin and super-abounding grace? What was Manasseh's history--but a history of abounding sin and super-abounding grace? What was the history of Saul of Tarsus, but one of abounding sin and super-abounding grace, as he himself declares, "And the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus." 1 Timothy 1:14 What is all this world's long history--but a history of abounding sin and super-abounding grace? God not merely allowed sin to enter--but to spread; not only to spread--but to increase in heinousness; not only to increase in heinousness--but to vary itself, and take every conceivable shape that man's wicked heart could devise--all in order to demonstrate that His resources of grace were adequate to meet it all. Sin might widen its circle age after age--but grace widened its circle and still went far beyond man's transgression. For age after age sin ascended a higher pinnacle of rebellious ungodliness; but grace ascended along with it, and took its station far above it, like a bright canopy of heavenly azure. Age after age descended to lower and lower depths of hateful pollution; grace went down along with it. And when the soul found itself at the very bottom of the horrible pit and expected to meet nothing there but hell itself, it found the Hand of Grace still beneath it, as Mighty to Save, as willing to bless as ever. "That in the ages to come He might shew the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us through Christ Jesus." Ephesians 2:7 --Horatius Bonar *****
He Has Rescued Us! Jeremiah 17:9 “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” Romans 7:18 “For I know that in me (that is, in my flesh,) dwelleth no good thing:" There is nothing in man by nature apart from God, which is not vile and deceitful. If there is anything good in me, if I have been transformed by the renewing of my mind, if I am regenerate, if I have passed from death unto life, if I have been taken out of the family of Satan, if I am adopted into the family of God's dear Son, if I am now no longer an heir of wrath, if I am a now a child of heaven, then all these things are of God, and in no sense, and in no degree whatever, are they of myself! For He has rescued us from the kingdom of darkness and has brought us into the Kingdom of His dear Son. Colossians 1:13 “Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of His dear Son:” --Charles Spurgeon ***** “Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise Him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.” Psalm 42:11 ***** Christ Our Portion Author – Dr. Doddridge Tune: “O for a Thousand Tongues,”
1. My God! – How cheerful is the sound! How pleasant to repeat! Well may that heart with pleasure bound, Where God hath fixed His seat.
2. What want shall not our God supply From His abundant stores? What streams of mercy from on high An arm almighty pours!
3. From Christ the ever-living spring, These ample blessings flow: Prepare, my lips, His name to sing, Whose heart has loved us so.
4. Now to our Father and our God Be endless glory given, Through all the realms of man’s abode, And through the highest heaven. ***** Daily Readings - June 4- 10, 2017 Sunday - Ezra 10 Monday - Nehemiah 1-3 Tuesday - Nehemiah 4-6 Wednesday- Nehemiah 7-8 Thursday - Nehemiah 9-10 Friday - Nehemiah 11-12 Saturday - Nehemiah 13
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