1929-2016: Proclaiming the gospel of the grace of God “Christ in you, the hope of glory.” — Colossians 1:27
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Amen. By one offering, Christ has perfected for all time those who are being sanctified (Heb 10:14). How else could we draw near to a perfectly holy God with such confidence? We come by His blood, found in Him, clothed in a righteousness not our own. (Heb 10:19; Phil 3:9)
We are dependent on the Holy Spirit to both do His own work and enable us through His power to do the work we must do.
Grace expresses two complementary thoughts: God’s unmerited favor to us through Christ, and God’s divine assistance to us through the Holy Spirit.
Thankfulness to God is a recognition that we are totally dependent upon Him; that all that we are and have comes from God.
If God has promised that all nations will be blessed and that “all the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD,” how should we respond? I maintain that our response should begin with prayer. We should boldly and persistently plead in prayer the promises of God.
Vast numbers of people still live in spiritual darkness. There is yet much spiritual ground to be possessed. We find ourselves in a situation similar to the Israelites after conquering much of Canaan, when God said to Joshua, “there remaineth yet very much land to be possessed.”
As people believe the gospel and are saved, the reign of Christ is established in principle in their hearts. They’re delivered from the kingdom of darkness and brought into the kingdom of Christ. God’s will is that this process be carried out among every nation on earth.
If you and I are to appropriate God’s grace in our times of need, we must see His sovereignty ultimately ruling in all the circumstances of our lives. And when those circumstances are difficult, disappointing, or humiliating, we must humble ourselves under His mighty hand.
Both these goals — the blessing and the reign of Christ — are accomplished through the successful proclamation of the gospel among all nations, or to the ends of the earth.
The reign of Christ among all nations is a parallel goal to that of bringing the blessing of Christ to all nations.
Jerry Bridges retweeted
“This is the secret of being content: to learn and accept that we live daily by God’s unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.”
—Jerry Bridges
If you desire to appropriate God’s grace, you must have the sword of the Spirit — the Word of God — available in your mind for the Spirit to use.
Jerry Bridges retweeted
"The gospel is the mainspring of the Christian life, but it has to be wound everyday." Jerry Bridges ;-)
