The Word of His Grace

Q: What does the Bible say about grace?

The Bible reveals grace as God's unmerited favor given to sinners who do not deserve it. Grace is the central theme of the gospel, illustrating how God gives us what we do not deserve. For example, in Acts 14:1-3, Paul and Barnabas preached the word of God's grace, testifying to its power in leading sinners to believe in Christ. Grace not only reveals God's character but also defines our relationship with Him, emphasizing that salvation is a gift from God, not something we can earn through our deeds.

Q: How do we know sovereign grace is true?

Sovereign grace is evident through God's electing love and His choice to show mercy to whom He wills. Sovereign grace is rooted in the character of God, who, as stated in Exodus 33:18, chooses to be gracious to whom He will. This concept of sovereignty means that God's grace is not based on human merit but solely on His divine will. The examples of Jacob and Esau illustrate this truth, as God's choice of Jacob as the object of His grace shows that salvation is entirely His work. This truth reassures us that our salvation rests not on our efforts but on God's gracious decision.

Q: Why is God's grace important for Christians?

God's grace is fundamental for Christians as it provides salvation, acceptance, and the ability to live a godly life. God's grace is crucial for every Christian because it is through grace that one is saved and justified before God, as expressed in Romans 3:24, where we are justified freely by His grace. Moreover, it empowers Christians to live according to God's requirements, as all that God demands, He supplies through His grace. This means that believers not only receive initial salvation but continuing strength and mercy in their walk with Christ, ensuring that they remain steadfast in faith.

Q: What is justifying grace in the Bible?

Justifying grace is the grace by which God declares sinners righteous through faith in Christ. Justifying grace is a core component of Christian doctrine that means God declares sinners righteous solely based on faith in Jesus Christ, not on their own works. Romans 3:22-24 highlights that righteousness comes through faith in Jesus for all who believe. This grace removes the penalty of sin and allows believers to stand before God justified, as if they had never sinned. It emphasizes God's holiness and justice, showing that He cannot overlook sin but rather addresses it through Christ's sacrifice, thus allowing sinners to be forgiven.

Q: Why is grace considered abounding?

Grace is abounding because it exceeds our sins and provides us endless support from God. The abounding nature of God's grace is expressed in Romans 5:20, where it states that where sin abounds, grace much more abounds. This means that no matter the depth or number of sins, God's grace is sufficient to cover them all. His grace does not merely match our sins; it overflows, offering hope and life to even the most despairing sinner. This truth encourages believers to approach God without fear, trusting that His resources of grace will never run dry, regardless of the challenges they face.

Q: What does the Bible say about electing grace?

Electing grace refers to God's sovereign choice to save certain individuals for His glory. Electing grace is rooted in God's sovereignty, emphasizing that He chooses those to whom He will give grace and ultimately save. Romans 11:5 states that at this present time there is a remnant chosen by grace. This doctrine should not discourage sinners but instead give them assurance. When individuals recognize their need for a Savior and seek Him, they can be confident that God's gracious calls to salvation through Christ confirm their election. Therefore, it highlights the necessity of coming to Christ, not based on one’s knowledge of being elect, but because of their need for grace.

I've looked forward to it. And I have to tell you, I've been preaching for about 33 years now, and the nerves never quit. If my heart beats out of my chest here in a minute, you'll know why. If you would, open your Bibles with me to Book of Acts, chapter 14. Acts 14, I have one of my very favorite subjects tonight, grace. Grace. I've titled the message, The Word of His Grace.

Acts 14 verse 1, and it came to pass in Iconium that they went both together into the synagogue of the Jews and so spake that a great multitude, both of Jews and also of the Greeks, believed. But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles and made their minds evil-affected against the brethren. Long time, therefore, abode they, speaking boldly in the Lord, which gave testimony unto the word of his grace, and granted signs and wonders to be done by their hands. Now, in the previous chapter, Paul and Barnabas had been run out of Antioch for preaching the gospel, so they kicked the dust to their feet of that town off their feet. They went to the next city and they went there preaching Christ because that's what God's preachers do. They preach Christ.

God's preachers are not social reformers. I feel sorry for people that try to take on social reform because I'm of the belief it's a lost cause. That's not a preacher's job. Preacher's job is not to make people feel real good about themselves so that they like him and they keep coming to hear him and supporting him and so forth. Quite the contrary, my job is to insult our flesh so that we feel bad about our flesh. Because only then will we look to Christ. Only then will we beg him for mercy.

Paul and Barnabas did what God's preachers always do. They went to the next place and when they had opportunity, they pointed sinners to Christ. And they preach so powerfully in the Holy Spirit, it says many believe, both Jews and Gentiles, many believe. But whenever that happens, the God's preacher comes to town and he preaches the gospel boldly, plainly, clearly in the power of the Spirit, there's always going to be a division. Some will not believe and some will believe. And those who do not believe will invariably attack the messenger because they hate the message.

And that's what happened here. But Paul and Barnabas were unaffected by them stirring up people against them and hating them for what they preached. They just kept preaching. It says here, for a long time. For a long time they abode and they kept preaching the gospel. They kept pointing people to Christ. And verse three says they spoke boldly. Now that doesn't mean being cocky and arrogant. The word means they spoke freely. They spoke in complete confidence.

Now the only way any of us can speak about anything in complete confidence is if we're saying what God's word says. Otherwise, we can't really have any confidence about it. If some of it is my thoughts or what I see or what I've experienced, I can't really have complete confidence in that. Only this book, by saying what God says, we can speak boldly, freely, without fear of contradiction, and we can speak with complete confidence that what we're saying is true. It says here that they spoke the word of His grace. Now, I don't have the outline that they use. Scripture doesn't give that to us. But they did preach. It's the same gospel that we preach and we love today. It's the word of God's grace.

And that's the only message that a sinner will hear and really believe. The only message that will cause a sinner to cast their soul on Christ is the message of grace. If you look over a few pages in Acts 20, The message of Christ and Him crucified is the gospel of grace. Acts 20 verse 24, but none of these things move me, neither count I my life dear unto myself so that I might finish my course with joy and the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus to testify the gospel. of the grace of God.

The gospel tells us how can God be gracious to sinners and still be God, still be just, still be holy. The gospel of grace explains to us, declares to us God's greatest glory, his grace to sinners. Now grace is defined as God giving us what we do not deserve.

I told you I have one of my very favorite subjects tonight, grace. Sinners love grace. A guilty sinner loves that God is going to give me something that I did not earn from him, that I did not, that I don't deserve. God requires a perfect righteousness that I cannot produce. Billy said in his prayer, God gives me the righteousness of Christ. Isn't that gracious? I have a debt for my sin. My sin must be paid for and I can't pay it. So the father sent his son to pay my sin debt for me. That's grace. I'm told in scripture that if I would be saved, I must believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And I can tell you from experience, I can't do it. I cannot. There was a time I wanted to believe so bad. I wanted to be saved so bad. I couldn't make myself believe on Christ. I mean, I don't care how hard I tried. I couldn't. And then one day I found myself believing Christ. And I can't not believe him because God graciously gave me faith to believe in Christ. Scripture says I must repent. that I must turn to Christ for my idols, and I can't make myself turn. So God in His power reaches His mighty hand down and turned me to Christ. And now I can't turn back.

That's gracious, isn't it? I can't keep myself. Aren't you thankful God didn't save you by His grace and tell you now you got to keep yourself to the end? You got to keep yourself pure? You got to do everything, you know, right enough that you keep yourself to the end? Because I can't do it. And God graciously keeps me by what Scripture says is the power of His grace.

Scripture tells me that I must love God and I must love you all, love my neighbors, myself. And for any human being, that's impossible because the only one we love is ourselves. And if I'm going to love God, God's got to give me a new heart to love Him. And I'm going to love you, God's got to give me a new heart to love you.

And He graciously does everything. I mean, I could go on and on and on with those examples, but everything that God requires of His people, He gives to them freely by His grace. That's the grace I need. How about you? I need Him to give me everything He requires of me because I can't do anything to please God.

Now, like I said, I don't know what outline Paul and Barnabas used, but I do know a good bit of what God's word has to say about grace. And I want us to just go through the word of God tonight and see five distinguishing characteristics of God's grace. This is the word of God's grace. First, look at Genesis chapter six. We'll just take these things in the order in which they appear in scripture. God's grace is delivering grace. Genesis six, verse five.

And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually. And it repented the Lord that he made man on earth and it grieved him at his heart. And the Lord said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth, both man and beast, creeping things, and the fowls of the air, for it repenteth me that I have made them. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord."

Now God was going to destroy the whole earth with water because that's what every son and daughter of Adam deserved because of their sin and their wickedness. God's going to destroy them with water. The rain that fell is a picture, this is God's wrath against sin. And God's going to destroy Every human being, all the animal, he can destroy everything because of man's sin.

But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord and he was delivered from God's wrath in the ark that God told him to build. That ark, you know, God's wrath against sin, against every son of Adam fell. The difference between Noah and his family and everyone else that drowned in that flood was this, that ark took the wrath, it bore the wrath that Noah and his family deserved and they were delivered because a substitute took their wrath, God's wrath for them.

That's delivering grace. Noah was just as sinful as you and me. He didn't deserve, wasn't less sinful, deserved for God to deliver him, God delivered him purely by his grace, delivering grace. That's the kind of grace we need. And I tell you that the number one thing we need to be delivered from, it's God. We need to be delivered from God's wrath against our sin.

And that's what that ark is a picture of. The Lord Jesus Christ, just like that ark, took all of the wrath that the sin of his people deserves. He took the sin of his people into his own body on the tree and the father kept pouring out his wrath against sin until that sin was gone, until it was removed. And at the cross, Christ only gave up the ghost and died when the sin charged to him had been put away by his precious blood.

The debt was paid in full. That's the reason it quit raining after 40 days too. There's no more need for wrath. Christ gave up the ghost because there's no more need for his suffering. His suffering completely removed all of the sin of all of his people.

God's delivering grace. It delivers us from God. It delivers us from his justice. It delivers us from the second death. It delivers us from the controlling power of sin. You know, the controlling power of sin is we can't believe. Every believer here knows this. Being delivered from the controlling power of sin doesn't mean you don't sin anymore. Yeah, we do. The controlling power of sin is what stops us from believing Christ, and He's delivered you from that. He's delivered all of His people from that so that we believe Christ, and there's coming a day And my prayer is, Lord, hasten the day that he's going to deliver his people from the very presence of sin.

And then we're going to know a whole lot more about God's grace as we're standing around his throne singing glory to the lamb. I love that song that says, then, Lord, shall I fully know, but not till then, how much I owe. You think you love grace now? Wait till God delivers you from the presence of sin. Sinners love that message, don't they? That message of God's delivering grace because it's the only hope I have of being delivered. It's gotta be gracious to me. And the word of God's grace says he's gonna deliver his people from their sin. All right, second, look at Exodus chapter 33. God's grace is sovereign grace. Sovereign grace. Exodus 33, verse 18.

Here Noah and the Lord speaking, it says up earlier in this chapter that the Lord is speaking to Moses face to face as a man speaks to his friend. Here they are speaking. And Moses says in verse 18, I beseech thee, show me thy glory. And he said, God said, I'll make all my goodness pass before thee and I will proclaim the name of the Lord before thee. And we'll be gracious to whom I will be gracious. And we'll show mercy on whom I will show mercy. Now, when Moses asked the Lord to show me your glory, I think it's always important to note this.

Moses had already seen all the plagues in Egypt. He'd seen the burning bush. He'd seen the rocks smitten and the water come out of it. He'd seen the manna every day. I mean, he'd seen the Lord do some great miracles. And Moses had some sense, this is not God's greatest glory. I mean, this is something else, but this is not God's greatest glory. And when he asked the Lord to show him his glory, God said, all right, I'm gonna make my goodness to pass before you. And Moses, here's my goodness.

I'll be gracious to whosoever I will. God is gracious to some. And the rest, he passes by. Now, don't think that means, well, there's some people that would come to Christ. They would beg God for mercy. They want to be saved on God's terms. But God says, no, I can't find your name anywhere here. I didn't choose you. So I'm sorry you can't be saved. Never, never, never. Those that God passes by, you know what he does?

He gives them what they want. And they go their way chasing their Whatever it is, some form of self-righteousness is what they're chasing after. And God gives them what they want. And God could give you and me what we want, too. But he didn't. He's gracious. He chose to be gracious to us. That's sovereign grace. That's sovereign grace. And again, if you find a sinner, sinners love sovereign grace because it's the only hope I have.

I can never do anything to earn God's favor. ever. And I won't have God's favor unless God decides to give it to me, even though I don't deserve it. I will never beg for mercy until God's gracious to me. I'll never quit trusting my works and trust Christ until God's gracious to me.

If you come to Christ begging for mercy, you know why you've come begging for mercy? Because God's already been gracious to you. That's why. Do you trust Christ? I mean, are you willing to trust all of your soul to him and not do one blessed thing to help him? You know why you feel that way? You know why you trust Christ that way? God's already been gracious to you.

Now this thing of sovereign grace and God's electing love. Don't ever mistake this. You know, this is something that we preach and I reckon I at least mention it in every message I ever preach. God's electing love. Because that's where salvation has to begin. It's God's sovereign grace. It's electing love.

Don't think that means that you can't be saved. You come to Christ and you beg him for grace. You beg him for mercy. You beg him for grace. And if you're begging for grace on God's terms, I can tell you this on the authority of his word, you'll have it.

You'll hear the same thing that leper said. Remember that leper came to the Lord and said, Lord, if you will, you can make me clean? What'd the Lord say? I will. Be thou clean. And if you and me come begging God for mercy, begging God for grace on God's terms now, he'll be gracious to us. It's not a bargaining. God, if you'll be gracious to me, I'll do this. Or if I do this, you'll be gracious to me. It's begging for grace that I do not deserve. If we come like that, God will be gracious to us.

And even after God saves us, we're born again, the Lord teaches us some things. We never quit needing His sovereign grace, do we? I love God's sovereign grace more today than the first day I ever trusted Christ. I don't know what day that was, but whenever that was, I love it more today than I did then because I need it. I still need God to be gracious to me every second of every day.

I'll let you in on a little secret. When Jan and I were raising our girls and they were little, on the way to the services, we would sing choruses. And now that I drive by myself normally, I still sing. And driving here tonight, I was singing this song, I Need Thee Every Hour.

Aren't you thankful that Almighty God has a throne of grace And he tells his people, you can come to any time you want. Anytime you need mercy and grace to help in time of need, you come to his throne of grace, where he sovereignly sits and dispenses grace to his people. If you need grace, go to the source and beg God for it. All right, here's the third one. Look at Romans chapter three. God's grace is justifying grace. Romans chapter three. verse 19.

Now we know that what things forever the law sayeth is sayeth to them who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped and all the world may become guilty before God. Therefore, by the deeds of the law, there shall no flesh be justified in his sight. For by the law is the knowledge of sin. Now those two verses right there ought to forever end anybody thinking I can keep the law well enough for God to be pleased with me. The only thing the law can do is show us how horribly sinful that we are, that we can't keep any of it. That's, that's the reason that God gave the law, not so that we'd keep it and earn a righteousness before God so that we'd see we can't keep it and we'd run to Christ. That's why God gave the law.

Now read on verse 21, but now, The righteousness of God without the law, without your obedience to the law, is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets. This was prophesied and told of in the Old Testament too. Even the righteousness of God, which is by faith of Jesus Christ, and to all and upon all them that believe, for there's no difference, for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Being justified freely, by His grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus. That's how sinners are justified, by His grace. Now the word justified means to have no sin. Not just as if I've never sinned, but to really have never sinned. To have no sin. And God can only accept us if we have no sin.

Because God's holy. It seems to me like my generation has fallen further away from this concept that God is God than previous generations. I might be wrong about that, but that's what it feels like. And the error that I see in people that I know and in so-called religions that I see, their error begins with this, God's holy. They don't know God's holy.

He cannot and will not accept us in our sin. And let me ask you this. Why should he? He shouldn't, should he? All we can do is sin. We cannot justify ourselves by any work of the law, by any religious things that we do. The law shows us there is no hope in our flesh. None.

But God did not leave his people without hope. The father sent his son into this world in flesh, in human flesh, yet without sin. And he justified his people. You know how he made his people without sin? Not by just doing like a president does, you know, signing a pardon and letting a person go free even though they're guilty. Christ made his people sinless by taking their sin away from them and taking it into his own body on the tree.

Now, all we have ever known is sin. So we don't really have a concept of how horrible this was for our Savior, for the Holy Son of God to be made sin for His people, and then to put it away by His bloody sacrifice. Now, here's what Scripture says. You and I have sinned against God. That's all we've ever done. We've sinned against God. We have a debt that we cannot pay. So God, the one that we have sinned against, sent his son to pay for our sin.

Brethren, that's grace. And that's the kind of grace a sinner needs. And that grace, that's humbling. I had a man tell me one time, he said, well, you all believe in this sovereign grace and this election business. You think that you're better than everybody else. No. Any concept of God's justifying grace, that he would justify a sinner like me by the sacrifice of his son, that doesn't make you proud, does it? No, that humbles you.

And it makes you thankful. It makes you faithful to follow Him and serve Him. When I think what His Son did in order to justify a sinner like me, His justifying grace, the only thing I can say is, thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Give me one more opportunity to hear that. That's what I want. Then, and I love this one.

Look at Romans chapter five. God's grace is abounding grace. 17 Romans chapter 5, "'For by one man's offense death reigned by one.'" And because of Adam's sin death reigns, doesn't it? Unless Christ returns there is not a person here that thinks they are going to live forever. We are all going to die. We know it. How many times just so far this year have you been to a funeral home? Death reigns because of sin.

There is no escaping it. much more, they which receive abundance of grace, and of the gift of righteousness shall reign in life by one, Jesus Christ." Verse 20, moreover the law entered that the offense might abound, but where sin abounded, grace did much more abound.

You know God's grace is never just barely enough, it's abundant. You can't plumb the depths of it, and you can't measure the length or breadth of it. It's abundant grace. God is so abundant in His grace that His grace saves a multitude of sinners that no man can number. And each one of those sinners has an infinite amount of sin. My sin is infinite. All of God's elect, their sin is infinite. and he put it away by one sacrifice. That's abounding grace, abounding grace.

You know what that means? This is good news. There's grace for even you. Never let the abundance of your grace keep you from coming to Christ. You come to Christ because you have an abundance of sin. Don't think, well, you know, over the course of human time, the last 6,000 years, God has saved millions, billions of sinners.

He's probably run out of grace by this time. You know, it says here we're in the last days. God's probably running real low on grace. He's got to ration it, you know, till Christ returns and he wraps his things up. No. God's grace is abundant today as it was when Adam and Eve were all alone on this earth. God still has grace enough to save you as long as you're a sinner. Now, if you can help Christ save you, you can do things to make yourself easier to save than somebody else, God's grace is not for you. But if you can't do anything to help Christ save you, you can't contribute one thing, then God has grace sufficient to save you.

It's abundant grace. And when God finally does wrap this thing up, No one in hell will ever be able to blame their situation on a lack of God's grace. Not one of them will. And everyone in heaven, you know what they'll say? I'm here because of God's abundant grace, that his grace was greater than all of my sin. All right, here's the last one, Romans chapter 11. God's grace is electing grace. Verse one, Romans chapter 11.

I say then, hath God cast away his people? God forbid, for I also am an Israelite of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God hath not cast away his people, which he foreknew, you not, don't you know what the Scripture saith of Elias? Now he maketh intercession to God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed thy prophets, and dig down thine altars, and I am left alone, and they seek my life. But what saith the answer of God unto him? I have reserved to myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee to the image of Baal."

Just because you don't know them and you haven't seen them don't mean they don't exist. Well even so then, At this present time also, there's a remnant according to the election of grace. Now this is my last point, but like I said earlier, this is where salvation must begin. God's electing love. And scripture is full of examples. It boggles the mind how people try to deny God's election of a people. Scripture's full of illustrations of it.

Jacob and Esau. I mean, can two boys be more alike, at least in their nature, conceived at the same time, conceived in the same womb, twins, born at the same time? What's the difference between those two men? Jacob have I loved, and Esau have I hated. And again, God gave Esau exactly what he wanted. He wanted earthly riches and power and influence, and he went after it, and he got it, didn't he? But God loved Jacob. and set his electing love upon him and was gracious to him."

Moses and Pharaoh. They grew up the same way in the house of Pharaoh with all the education and all the influences. They had the same influences. They were taught the same things. By the time they see each other last at the Red Sea, what's the difference? God's electing grace. God raised up Moses. to glorify His grace. And God raised up Pharaoh to destroy him and glorify His justice. It's God's only difference is God's electing grace.

What about all throughout the Old Testament? Israel and the Gentiles, all those Gentile nations. Israel was the littlest one among them. What's the difference between Israel had the prophets, they had the priesthood, they had the sacrifices, they had the law, they had the ceremonies, and the Gentiles had none of that. What's the difference? God's electing grace. He chose one nation to be His people, to be a picture of spiritual Israel.

What about Peter and Judas? Two men with the Lord for three and a half years of His earthly ministry. They both preached Christ. They both worked miracles. They both sat at the feet of the Lord and heard Him teach. They heard every word that came out of His mouth in all those times that the Lord went preaching the kingdom of God. And when it came time for our Lord to be taken, what happened?

Judas betrayed Him, and Peter denied Him. Denied even knew the man three times. Judas went out and hung himself. The Lord called Peter aside. He said, Peter, do you love me? Then feed my lambs. That's the very man he sent out to preach the gospel. What's the difference? Peter's personality is pretty high octane. I don't know if I could stand being with Peter every minute of every day. He's a pretty high octane guy. Judas might have been easier to get along with, but the Lord chose Peter. It's his electing grace.

And the only reason that any sinner is ever saved, the only reason Christ died for any sinner, the only reason that the Holy Spirit comes while we're preaching the gospel and makes somebody believe on Christ, I mean, isn't that a miracle? That you hear another man who's as sinful as you preaching the gospel, and going home feeling so bad about it. I mean, the times I'm the lowest is right after I get done preaching. I'm driving home thinking, how can you glorify Christ? I mean, just in the sinful body and sinful lips and sinful mind.

But the Holy Spirit blesses it anyway and causes somebody to believe on Christ. Causes some of his children to be fed and encouraged and strengthened and grow in grace. That's a miracle. How's that happen? It's God's grace. And it began with God's electing grace. Those are the people that Christ died for. Those are the people that the Holy Spirit comes and reveals Christ to them. And I'm so thankful for it.

I never would have chosen God's way of salvation unless God chose me first. It's just like we love Christ. I mean, I don't want to write home about it. I don't want to brag about my love for Christ, but I can tell you, and you can tell me the same thing, I know, I love Christ. I love him. But only because he loved me first.

Isn't that right? And the holy God has it in his character. This is a mystery to me. The holy God has it in his character to love sinners. And he chose to save them before he created anything, even when he already knew what they'd be. And God chooses the worst. You know why he chooses the worst sinners?

And the worst sinners aren't necessarily those out in drug houses and all these places. Henry used to talk about honky-tonks. I didn't know what a honky-tonk was, but the way he talked about it, I figured this must be a den of iniquity. This sounds bad. They're not in the bars in the honky-tonks. They're in church pews somewhere. Oh, self-righteous, bringing their rags of righteousness to God. That's the worst sinners.

And you know why God chose to save him anyway? They spend years insulting God, trying to offer their works to God so that he'll accept them. And God chose to save him anyway. Because he has it in his character to do that, and he did it so he'll get all the glory. So I tell you again, here we're talking about God's electing grace. And that's the only people that'll be saved. That's the only people that'll be saved. Christ died for only God's elect. I'm going to try to save you from some heartache that I went through, try to keep you from making the same mistake that I made.

I grew up hearing the gospel. I can't ever remember hearing anything else. And I always knew it up here. I mean, buddy, I could, I could repeat back to you. I knew the gospel, but I didn't know Christ. And here was my problem. I was trying to figure out if I was one of God's elect or not. And if I could figure that out, then I'd believe Christ, because I know God's going to save His elect.

Nowhere in this book does the Savior command the elect to come to Him. Nowhere. You know what He says? Sinners, come to Me. You come to Christ because you're a sinner, and you're going to find out real quick, oh, I came to Christ because God chose me from the foundation of the world. He's loved me with an everlasting life, with an everlasting love, and I came to Christ because He's been drawing me all along. But I don't come to Christ because I know I'm one of the elect. I come to Christ because I know I'm a sinner and I need a Savior. God help us to know we're sinners. And I'll tell you something else, this thing of coming to Christ, Peter said, to whom coming? To whom coming? You don't come to Christ once because you're a sinner.

You come to him every day because you're a sinner that needs mercy and grace. And I go back to that abounding grace point. His grace is still abounding. Aren't you thankful? Now that's a message for a sinner. And I hope it'll bless you. I appreciate you all having me, your time and attention, and I thank you. Pray God bless you.

The Word of His Grace

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