Salvation Is All of Grace

Posted on November 27, 2012 by Matt Jury under R. A. Torrey, Thomas Spurgeon

Salvation is necessarily all of grace. Man’s fall is so complete, God’s justice so inexorable, heaven so holy, that nothing short of Omnipotent love can lift the sinner, magnify the law which he has mutilated, and make him pure enough to dwell in light. The thought of saving sinners is God’s, born in the secret places of His great, loving heart.

Thomas Spurgeon in R. A. Torrey, et al., The Fundamentals Vol III (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 2000), 120.

Looking at the Ocean from the Beach

Posted on November 20, 2012 by Matt Jury under Tullian Tchividjian

Understanding grace is like looking at the ocean from the beach: there’s so much more of the ocean that you don’t see than you do see.

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The Greatness of Grace

Posted on October 11, 2012 by Matt Jury under Uncategorized

We will only understand the greatness of the grace, love and mercy of God when we have understood how unworthy we are to receive it.

Terry L. Johnson, The Case for Traditional Protestantism (Carlisle, PA: The Banner of Truth Trust, 2004), 112.

Grace

Posted on October 9, 2012 by Matt Jury under Warren Wiersbe

God’s grace is God’s provision for our every need. Grace is not a ‘mystical substance’ that God pours into us when we have a need. Grace is God’s bountiful supply of our every need. ‘Law’ means that I must do something for God, but ‘grace’ means that God does something for me. Grace cannot be deserved. Grace cannot be earned. Grace can only be given.

[original emphasis] Warren Wiersbe, The Strategy of Satan, pp. 52-53

My Unworthiness Must Actually Be Useful to God

Posted on April 10, 2012 by Matt Jury under Milton Vincent

My unworthiness must actually be useful to God, because it magnifies the degree to which His grace might be glorified as He lavishes His saving kindness upon me.

Milton Vincent, A Gospel Primer, p. 54

The Rarest Grace of All

Posted on December 20, 2011 by Matt Jury under J. C. Ryle

Of all garments, none is so graceful, none wears so well, and none is so rare as humility.

J. C. Ryle (1816-1900)

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Self-Righteousness

Posted on December 16, 2011 by Matt Jury under William Romaine

Whatsoever it be that makes you pleased with yourself, that is not true grace.

from a letter by William Romaine (1714-1795)

Performance Based Relationships

Posted on October 7, 2011 by Matt Jury under Jerry Bridges

We believers are apt to fall into a servile fear if we don’t fully understand the grace of God and His acceptance of us through Christ. If we believe we’re in a performance relationship with God, then He can seem to be a hard taskmaster whom we can never please. We’ll see Him as the divine ogre ready to judge us for even our least failure to live up to His rules.

Jerry Bridges, The Joy of Fearing God, p. 27

Courtesy Is the Grace of Christ in Action

Posted on August 23, 2011 by Matt Jury under J. H. Jowett

Now courtesy is not an art, and still less is it an artiface. We cannot ‘put it on.’ It is not a work but a fruit. It is natural, not artificial. It is not made; it grows. Graciousness is the outer appearance of inward grace. To be really courteous we must dwell in the courts of the King, and sit with Him at His table…. Can a fig tree bring forth thistles? If we are ungracious the fault is not superficial. It must be sought for at the roots.

J. H. Jowett, The High Calling, pp. 165-166

Worship and the Grace To Do It

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Matt Jury under Michael P V Barrett

If we are to worship in the beauty of holiness, we must worship according to what God defines as holiness. Grace gives us the desire and the ability to do it.

Michael P. V. Barrett, The Beauty of Holiness, p. 106

Life Is Worship

Give unto the LORD the glory due unto his name; worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness. (Psalm 29.2)

Tag Archives: Grace

Salvation Is All of Grace

Looking at the Ocean from the Beach

Understanding grace is like looking at the ocean from the beach: there’s so much more of the ocean that you don’t see than you do see.

The Greatness of Grace

We will only understand the greatness of the grace, love and mercy of God when we have understood how unworthy we are to receive it.

Grace

My Unworthiness Must Actually Be Useful to God

My unworthiness must actually be useful to God, because it magnifies the degree to which His grace might be glorified as He lavishes His saving kindness upon me.

The Rarest Grace of All

Of all garments, none is so graceful, none wears so well, and none is so rare as humility.

Self-Righteousness

Whatsoever it be that makes you pleased with yourself, that is not true grace.

Performance Based Relationships

Courtesy Is the Grace of Christ in Action

Worship and the Grace To Do It

If we are to worship in the beauty of holiness, we must worship according to what God defines as holiness. Grace gives us the desire and the ability to do it.