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The stars, indeed, may fall, but God’s promises will stand and be fulfilled. The plan of salvation will be brought to a triumphant completion; thus grace will be shown to be sovereign.
3. Grace as the guarantee of the preservation of the saints. If the plan of salvation is certain of accomplishment, then the Christian’s future is assured.
I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in ...
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Grace first inscribed my name, In God’s eternal book:
’Twas grace that gave me to the Lamb Who all my sorrows took. Grace taught my soul to pray, And pardoning love to know; ’Twas grace that kept me to this day, And will not let me go.
It has been said that in the New Testament doctrine is grace, and ethics is gratitude; and something is wrong with any form of Christianity in which, experimentally and practically, this saying is not being verified.
Those who suppose that the doctrine of God’s
grace tends to encourage moral laxity (“final salvation is certain anyway, no matter what we do; therefore our conduct doesn’t matter”) are simply showing that, in the most literal se...
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For love awakens love in return; and love, once awakened, desires to give pleasure. And the revealed will of God is that those who have received grace should...
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gratitude will move anyone who has truly received grace to
do as God requires, and daily to cry out thus—
Oh! to grace how great a debtor Daily I’m constrained to be; Let that grace now, like a fetter, Bind my wandering heart to Thee! Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it; Prone to leave the God I love— Take my hea...
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Do you claim to know the love and grace of God in you...
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your claim, then, by going and pray...
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Do you believe in divine judgment? By which I mean, do you believe in a God who acts as our Judge?
Many, it seems, do not. Speak to them of God as a Father, a friend, a helper, one who loves us despite all our weakness and folly and sin, and their faces light up;
But speak to them of God as Judge and they frown and ...
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God judged Adam and Eve,
God judged the corrupt world of Noah’s day,
God judged Sodom and ...
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God judged Israel’s Egyptian ...
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God judged those who worshiped the golden calf,
God judged Nadab and Abihu for offering him strange fire
God judged Achan for sacrilegious thieving;
God judged Israel for unfaithfulness to him
In Babylon, God judged both Nebuchadnezzar and his son Belshazzar for their impiety.
In the New Testament story, judgment falls on the Jews for rejecting Christ
on Ananias and Sapphira for lying to God
on Herod, for h...
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on Elymas, for his opposition t...
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on Christians at Corinth, who were afflict...
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by reason o...
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gross irre...
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The one basic certainty underlying all discussion of life’s problems in Job, Ecclesiastes and all the practical maxims of Proverbs is that “God
will bring you to judgment,” “God will bring every deed into judgment, including every hidden thing, whether it is good or evil”
People who do not actually read the Bible confidently assure us that when we move from the Old Testament to the New, the theme of divi...
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The entire New Testament is overshadowed by the certainty of a coming day of universal judgment,
The New Testament looks on to “the day of judgment,” “the day of wrath,” “the wrath to come,”
God “has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed,”
The Jesus of the New Testament, who is the world’s Savior, is its Judge as well.
1. The judge is a person with authority.
God is judge of his world. As our Maker, he owns us, and as our Owner, he has a right to dispose of us. He has, therefore, a right to make laws for us and to reward us according to whether or not we keep them.
2. The judge is a person identified with what is good and right.
The modern idea that a judge should be cold and dispassionate has no place in the Bible. The biblical judge is expected to love justice and fair play and to loathe all ill treatment of one person by another.
The Bible leaves us in
no doubt that God loves righteousness and hates iniquity, and that the ideal of a judge wholly identified with what is good and right is perfectly fulfilled in him.
3. The judge is a person of wisdom, to ...
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When the Bible pictures God judging, it emphasizes his omniscience and wisdom
Nothing can escape him; we may fool men, but we cannot fool God. He knows us, and judges us, as we really are.
So it is always. God will know.
