My Grace Is Sufficient For Thee

Q: What does the Bible say about grace being sufficient?

The Bible states, 'My grace is sufficient for you...' (2 Corinthians 12:9), emphasizing God's provision in our weakness. In 2 Corinthians 12:9, the Apostle Paul is assured by God that His grace is sufficient for all believers, particularly during times of suffering and weakness. This declaration serves as a reminder that God’s strength is made perfect in our weakness. For Paul, despite his extraordinary spiritual experiences and revelations, he faced a thorn in the flesh that kept him reliant on God's grace. It is a clear teaching that even the most faithful servants of God are not exempt from afflictions; rather, they are blessed with the sufficiency of grace that empowers them through trials.

Q: How do we know that God's grace meets our needs?

God's grace meets our needs as Paul experienced in 2 Corinthians 12:9, where God assures him of sufficiency in all situations. The assurance that God's grace is sufficient is not just theoretical but can be seen through the life of the Apostle Paul. Despite enduring a significant affliction described as a thorn in the flesh, Paul learned that this grace was enough to sustain him. His experience illustrates that God's grace does not merely remove trials but empowers believers to endure and grow through them. The sufficiency of grace means that in every hardship, God's provision is present, allowing believers to rely not on their strength but on divine support. This is an essential truth for believers navigating life's trials, reinforcing faith and hope in God’s faithfulness.

Q: Why is knowing the sufficiency of God's grace important for Christians?

Understanding God's grace is crucial for Christians because it provides strength and comfort during trials. Knowing the sufficiency of God's grace is vital for Christians as it shapes their reliance on God during life's challenges. The assurance that God's grace is enough allows believers to face adversities without succumbing to despair. In moments of suffering, such as those experienced by Paul, believers are reminded that their trials serve a purpose—often to humble and draw them closer to God. This truth encourages perseverance in faith and promotes a deeper relationship with the Lord, recognizing that He is always present in times of need. In essence, it transforms our perspective on suffering, seeing it as an opportunity to experience God's grace profoundly.

in many, many ways, was an extraordinary man. He was a man who enjoyed extraordinary revelations of God, who possessed extraordinary gifts from God, and he was a man of extraordinary faith in God. And yet, in many ways, he was a man who was in all things an example, a pattern, of true believers, a pattern of us all as we experience God's grace in conversion and in life and in faith.

We sometimes have a tendency to exalt a man and make more of him than he really is, when in reality, those who are born of God's Spirit, those who are called God, though they may be used in different ways, They are all made to experience much the same thing. And the Apostle Paul himself says that he's a pattern. You want to look at it over in 2nd Corinthians, or 1st Corinthians rather, or 1st Timothy, excuse me, 1st Timothy chapter 1 and verse 16, the Apostle describing God's grace and mercy to him. And he says, he says, God did this for me that I should be a pattern to you. In verse 15, he says, this is a faithful worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief. Howbeit for this cause I obtain mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all longsuffering for a pattern, do you see that?

For a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting. My wife sits down to make curtains or make a dress or something, she'll get a pattern. And the pattern has the layout of things. The pattern is what you go by to cut the rest of it. And this is what Paul says, he says, I'm the pattern by which God makes his people in this world. I am the pattern, the example, by which all believers are conformed to the Lord Jesus Christ.

So the Apostle Paul, like us, was saved by God's election. He was chosen of God. Ananias came to him and said, God hath chosen thee. He was saved by blood redemption. He said, the Son of God loved me and gave himself for me. He was saved by divine, irresistible grace. He said, God called me by his grace and revealed his Son in me. And this man, Paul, was saved by divine revelation. God came to him and revealed his Son in him. Now that's how we're saved. Every sinner who's saved is saved by God's election, God's redemption, God's grace, and God's revelation. He comes to you as he has chosen you and reveals himself in you.

Not only that, but in his life, Paul was an example of believers. He exemplified what we ought to be and what we ought to do in this world. I would like to be the kind of man Paul was. I'd like to be the kind of believer he was. I'd like to be the kind of preacher he was.

In all things, he was held before us in scriptures as an example, an example, an example to follow. He said, you follow me as I follow Christ. And so he sets himself before us by divine inspiration and says, I'm an example. But as Paul was an example of God's saving grace and an example of the experience of faith in this world. This man was also an example of the believer's experience throughout his days in this world.

Tonight I want us to look at one of Paul's experiences over in 2 Corinthians chapter 12. Now this message is born out of some difficulties that many of my friends are going through right now. Some you're aware of, some you're not. And I suspect that the Difficult as they're going through some of you are to one degree or another and so I want to bring this message to you and The title of my message is found in verse 9 The Lord God says to his servant My grace is sufficient for thee And let's look at these nine verses together, let me show you some things in it Here is a man who was greatly, greatly blessed of God.

Paul says in verse one, it is not expedient for me doubtless to glory. He said, that's not best. It's not best for me to tell you of the marvelous experiences I've had. It's not best for me to glory in these things. I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. I knew a man in Christ above 14 years ago, whether in the body I cannot tell or whether out of the body I cannot tell. He said, I don't know whether I was dead or alive. I don't know. I don't know whether I was caught up in the body or caught up in the spirit. I just don't know. God knows.

Such in one caught up to the third heaven, caught up to the very paradise of God. And I knew such a man, whether in the body or out of the body, I cannot tell, God knows, how that he was called up into paradise and heard unspeakable words, words that baffle human language, words that no man can put into human, earthly language. I heard things I cannot begin to describe. I saw things I cannot begin to tell you about. unspeakable words, which it is not lawful, that is, it is not possible for man to utter.

Of such in one I will glory, yet of myself I will not glory, but in mine infirmities. For though I would desire to glory, I shall not be a fool, for I will say the truth, but now I forbear." lest any man should think of me above that which he seeth me to be, or that which he heareth of me."

Now, Paul certainly was a man of extraordinary blessings. There is a sense in which none of us can relate to the experience that he describes here, and yet there is a sense in which we can relate to it. I recognize that Paul is the only man other than the God-man.

He's the only man other than Jesus Christ ever to have gone to heaven and come back, regardless of what fools say in our day. Anybody who tells you that they died and they went to heaven and they saw God, they saw Jesus, they saw the angels and they came back, either they got some real severe problems in their head or they're just liars, one of the two, one of the two. I'm telling you, nobody ever did. Nobody ever did, except Paul and his Savior, Paul and our Redeemer. And yet, this man, having gone to heaven, having been translated into heaven, comes back to the earth, and in a sense, in a sense, there is much related here that you and I, in a measure, can relate to, and we have experienced as believers.

Like the Apostle Paul, we are men and women greatly blessed of God. This man was blessed beyond measure, and we have been blessed beyond measure with all the blessings of God's free grace. We looked at them a little bit this morning in Ephesians chapter 1. All spiritual blessings in heavenly places are ours in Christ. Paul speaks of having revelations and visions, and you and I have been blessed of God with a great revelation. God has come and revealed his Son in us. He has. If you know him, it's because he revealed him in you. If you know him, it's because God's come by supernatural power and calls you to know him.

And we are blessed of God with a good hope of grace. We haven't been to heaven. We haven't entered into paradise. We haven't been translated to the third heaven. But blessed God, we shall be. We shall be. We have hope of entering in, not to return, but entering in never to return to this body again.

Now though he was greatly blessed of God, this man was greatly buffeted by Satan. Look at verse 7. And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations that were given to me, or there was given to me a thorn in the flesh. Now notice Paul's language. He said, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh. He wrote to the Philippians and said, unto you it is given in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer for his sake. He says, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan. A very literal translation, I might've told you this before, is there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger, Satan. the messenger, Satan, to belt at me. That is, to beat me down, to beat me in the face, to smash me down every time I'm lifted up, lest I should be exalted above measure.

Now, I don't have any idea what Paul's thorn in the flesh was. God doesn't tell us. There's no need for us to guess. I know that it was a thorn in the flesh. I know that it was a messenger, Satan. I know that whatever this affliction was that Paul speaks of here, it was a lifelong, painful affliction. Rex is something he had to live with until he died.

And he was made aware of it, that God's not going to take it away. This is something I've got to bear. The Lord's not going to relieve me of it. He's not going to take it away. And this affliction stayed with him through the days of his life. And yet this man recognizes, and we ought to recognize, it was an affliction totally under the control of God. He said, I had this thing given to me. I thought the Lord concerned. The Lord said no. It was an affliction that came to him. by God's decree and came to him by God's purpose to do him good, and he recognized it. Though this man was loved of God, approved of by God, and greatly blessed of God, he was not exempt from sorrow.

It's easy for these religious con men to prey on people's emotions and feelings because we all naturally think. We all, according to flesh, imagine that somehow if you believe God, somehow if you are approved of by God, somehow if you are really accepted of God, if you really love the Lord, then you won't have to suffer in this world. But it's just not so. It's just not so. was an extraordinary man.

He was approved of by God. He was faithful to God. He believed God, but he suffered in this world from the day that he came to faith in Christ to the day that he walked out this world into glory. He was constantly full of suffering. You see, faith in Christ does not produce a life of ease, prosperity, and bliss in this In fact, there's a sense in which faith creates extra problems. You see, the unbeliever, the reprobate, the folks in this world who don't know God, you work with them and they have difficulties come, and they just, well, that's the way it is.

That's the way life is. That's how fate would have it. That's how love would have it. That's just part of living in this world. And they just attribute everything to some kind of a blind imaginary force without any feeling or without any care for them. It's just part of life in this world, disgusting as it is.

But when you go through difficulty, when we have afflictions to bear, when our hearts are heavy, We understand our Father did this. Our Father did this. Our Savior did this. Our Redeemer brought this to pass. And so we look to our Father, the ruler of all things, and recognize that the sorrow that crushes our souls is the sorrow that He has put upon us, that was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger Satan to buffet me, lest I be exalted above measure.

The lives of God's saints in this world are filled with struggles, sorrows, and sacrifices. If you follow Christ through this world, you're going to have to take up your cross every day and follow him. There's no other way. The way of the cross leads home. There's no other way but this.

And then thirdly, here's a man whose afflictions were genuinely blessed of God. He said, this messenger Satan was given me lest I should be exalted above measure. That is, lest I be overcome with pride. lest I be lifted up too much, lest I look upon myself more highly than I ought to. So the messenger came to keep this man broken before God. Paul's affliction, whatever it was, was a matter of great concern and trouble to him.

I don't have any idea what it was. Some say it was some kind of bodily pain. Some folks talk about it being poor vision. Some folks talk about it being some kind of disability. Some folks talk about it being pride. I don't know what the affliction was. But it was a trial that he could never escape. And yet, it was for Paul the best thing that could happen to him.

For this thing, he says, I sought the Lord three times that it might depart from me. This is a matter of earnest, earnest, earnest prayer. And every time the Lord said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee, for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly, therefore, will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. His pain caused him to pray. That's a pretty good result of pain.

His heartache taught him humility, brought him down so that he wasn't exalted too much. This mighty apostle, this great preacher, this man so used with God, God kept bringing him down. God kept bringing him down. God knows how to humble his servants. He knows how to do it, and he's going to do it.

And his prayer was answered with a promise. His prayer was not answered the way he wanted it to be answered. Well, it was. It wasn't answered the way he thought it ought to be answered, but it was. After all, what he really wanted was God's will. What he really wanted was God's glory. What he really wanted was what was best for his soul, best for God's glory, and best for God's kingdom. And so the Lord said, my grace is sufficient for you. He answered his prayer with that promise.

I have just finished reading a fairly new biography of William Cowper, who wrote so many of our best hymns. And Cowper spent so much time in mental anguish, there's so much difficulty. But during one of his times of great difficulty and mental anguish, he wrote these words, "'Tis my happiness, beloved, not to live without the cross, but my Savior's power to know, sanctifying every loss." Trials must and will be fought, but with humble faith to see.

Love inscribed upon them all, this is happiness to me. God in Israel sows the seeds of affliction, pain, and toil. These spring up and choke the weeds that would else or spread the soil. Trials make the promise sweet. Trials give new life to prayer. Trials bring me to new feet.

Lay me low and keep me there. Now, if you belong to God, you must, through much tribulation, enter into the kingdom of heaven. There's no other way in. Your faith will be tried. My faith will be tried. And we may not have any idea just how, but it will be tried.

But when your faith is tied, God makes this promise. My grace is sufficient for you. Now, to whom is the promise made? It's made to every believer. For the promises of God are in Christ Jesus, and in him they are yea and amen. I know this was a promise made to one of the Lord's choice servants. But it was made to a man who was a pattern for all them that believed. And being made to Paul is a promise made to you and I as well as believers. The thing promised in our text is grace. All sufficient grace to meet our every need in this world.

I'll be honest with you. I see some of you and I see other believers many women whom I so highly regard, experiencing difficulties that, honestly, just before seeing this thing happen to my friend, you think, that couldn't happen to one of us. That just wouldn't happen to us. We read about Job, but Job was in the law long, long ago. And God's people today don't experience things like that.

Oh, yes, they do. Yes, they do. And when your trial comes, I pray God will give you grace to remember this message and to hear his word. My grace is sufficient for you. Let me see if I can apply the message to each of us. This is God's promise to his faithful servant. Certainly it has its application in many, many ways, but this is the first application. This was a promise given to God's servant Paul, who faithfully gave himself to the ministry of the gospel in the cause of Christ. Though he was God's faithful, faithful servant, he was not only afflicted with this thorn in the flesh, but he had many, many other problems, many, many other afflictions, many other hardships.

If you want to read about them, in Acts chapter 14, he was persecuted to the point of being stoned and left for dead at Lystra. He was slandered by his brethren in 2 Corinthians 11. You read that 11th chapter, Paul talks, he talks throughout the chapter about how His false brethren had come and slandered his name. Men who pretended to be God's servants. Men who pretended to be worshiping God preaching the same gospel he was preaching.

They heard about Paul and they were so jealous of him and jealous of his gifts and jealous of God's using him. And they slandered him everywhere he went. So that any kind of mud they could throw at him, they threw it at him. Anything they could say that would cause folks to have a big question mark concerning this man Paul. kept it constantly stirred up against him. Not only was he slandered by false brethren, but he was misunderstood by his own children.

His own children in the faith. Look over in Galatians chapter 4. Galatians chapter 4, verse 15. Paul was the instrument by which these men and women were converted. He's the man God used to bring them the gospel. And after he left, there were some fellows who came in and subverted their souls and turned them away from God's servant and from the gospel of His grace. And Paul says in verse 15, where is then the blessedness you spoke of?

You used to hold me in such high regard. You used to have such high esteem for me. Where is the blessedness you spoke of? For I bear you record that if it had been possible, you would have plucked out your own eyes and have given them to me. Now that verse of scripture is the basis for some saying over in 2 Corinthians 12. It's talking about Paul having an affliction with his eyes. The scripture doesn't say that, but that's where they get it. But he says, you would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me. Am I therefore become your enemy? Because I tell you the truth. Now you treat me like an enemy. That's a hard thing to bear. Difficult thing to bear. Folks for whom he was an instrument in the hands of God, turned against him and counted him to be their enemy.

Besides all else, he had on his heart the care of all the churches. The care of all the churches. He says in 2 Corinthians 11, 28, Beside those things that are without, all these troubles out here, that which comes upon me daily, the care of all the church, care of God's kingdom, the care of God's church in the generation in which I live, the care of God's people, not just these folks here, not just these folks here, but the care of God's church, all of them, all the churches, all of Paul says it's constantly, constantly, constantly weighing me down. You see, God had given him great opportunities of service.

He was a man of tremendous influence in the kingdom of God. And his opportunities of service and his influence were looked upon by him as matters of tremendous responsibility. And from the depth of his soul, he cried, who is sufficient for these things? And then he said, but our sufficiency is not of ourselves. My sufficiency is of God, for God had taught him, my grace is sufficient for you."

Now you listen carefully, you who are here, you men, you young men, if God's pleased to put you into any kind of work in the ministry, folks who may hear this tape, men who are considering the ministry, you listen to me. Whatever God puts in any man's hand to do, Whatever God puts in any man's hand to do, he will give him the ability, the grace, and the means to accomplish it. He'll do it.

Paul was in Corinth, and he was so downcast and dejected, he was about ready to give up, and God said, don't you move. No man shall lay his hand on thee to hurt thee. You stay right here. I have much people in this city. And God blessed his labors. So many times I see and hear, I get letters from fellas begging for money. Begging for money. I had one come across my desk last week. God's called me to do this. God told me to go up here, but I can't do it without you. I sure do need some money from you. No, not God's servants. You mark it down. I'll make you this. You mark it down. Bobby asks this, when I start groveling to men for anything, you quit listening to me. That's right.

If God's called me, I don't have to grovel, I'm the servant of the King. God provides for my needs. God takes care of our needs. We simply must go on continually, faithfully serving Him, and God will provide our needs. And we don't have to dishonor Him to give what we need. God calls a man to preach the gospel, God will supply his work in his way, and he'll supply his workmen with his grace. So this is God's promise to his servant. My grace is sufficient for thee. The more you seek to do for Christ, the more you'll need his grace, and the more you need his grace, the more grace he'll give you. This is God's promise to every believing Maybe. Oh, I pray that it's so. Some of you are here who have just begun to believe Christ. Maybe he's in God's kingdom.

To you, God says, my grace is sufficient today. His grace is sufficient to say His grace is sufficient to pardon. His grace is sufficient to heal your soul. His grace is sufficient to bring you up to glory. His grace is sufficient not only to pardon you, but to preserve you, to protect you, and to perfect you. His grace is sufficient. This business of salvation is not in any way something that's dependent on you. It's not going to hinge on you. It's not going to stand to fall with you. It's in God's hands and God's grace is sufficient.

This is God's promise to you, my young brothers and sisters. Maybe you haven't even yet confessed Christ and believers baptism, but he promises you grace, just like he gave to Israel as he brought them out of Egypt. He led them through the wilderness. And you may have a long pilgrimage in this world. It may be short, it may be long. And you may run into Amalekites and Amorites and Hittites and Perizzites and all the other ites in this world to oppose you. You're going to do it. No maybe about it. You may go through the deep waters of sorrow. No, you will go through them. You will go through them.

You will be cast into the fiery furnace of affliction. There's no question about it. If there's any gold in you, God's going to refine the gold. If there's any silver in you, God's going to remove the dross and He does it in the fiery furnace of affliction. You will experience the Father's chastening rod.

You will be called, called by God's grace to be cast down and cast down and cast down and cast down and cast down again so that you will look up and look up and look up again, trusting Him for His grace and He'll lead you all the way. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, snapping at your heels. Goodness and mercy! Many of you have no idea of difficulties and trials, heartaches and pains that others go through, I'm aware of. And you won't know. I'm not gonna share that with you. I have friends in various parts of the country.

As God fought for Israel, God will fight for you. As God Almighty gave Israel water out of the rock, he'll give you water out of the rock to refresh your soul. As God Almighty fed Israel with bread from heaven, he'll feed your soul with bread from heaven. And as God brought Israel into the land of promise, he will bring you into glory. For he says, my grace is sufficient. This is God's promise for you who are pink.

Of all the temptations we experience at Satan's hand, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan, to buffet me. If the Lord were of a mind to do so, He could fix it, Merle Hart, so you'd never be tempted again, if he were of a mind to do so. Satan, his craft and power are great. He's armed with cruel hate, and we're no match for it. We're no match for it. But don't ever get the idea that somehow Satan's out of God's control. It's not so.

He's God's devil and he does nothing except what God gives him permission to do. He could not even bring up a word against Job until the Lord said, have you considered my servant Job? He couldn't even speak an accusing word until the Lord gave him permission to speak. And I'm telling you that Satan is still under God's control. So that when you're tempted, and Satan's temptations are strong, He has many snares and devices with which he seeks to destroy your soul and mine.

And he will if he can. He's a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. Some are taken with open sin, some with worldly gain, some with being overly concerned with family and friends. Here's a man that Riches can't get him. Riches will never get him. But Satan knows if he touches his daughter, if he touches that man's son, if he touches his wife, I've got him. And he knows our weakness. He knows where Achilles heel is. He tempts us with neglecting those things that we need. They're desperate for our souls. Worship and prayer, the hearing of the Word, brings personal tragedies that crush your heart.

But in the midst of those things, I'm telling you, even against the fiend of hell, God says my grace is sufficient. And there hath no temptation taken you. Not what? But such as is common to man. And God will with the temptation make a way to escape that you may be able to bear it, because he's faithful. He's faithful.

This is God's promise to his suffering saints, too. The promises made to Paul to comfort him, to encourage him when he was suffering with a thorn in the flesh. And as it was with Paul, so it shall be with God's saints in this world. In the world you shall have tribulation, but my grace is sufficient to uphold you and to comfort you, and my grace is sufficient in the midst of your trials and temptations to improve you and to keep you. No temptation for the present seemeth to be joyous. If it did, it wouldn't be a trial. I don't ever remember taking the paddle out to correct my daughter and her laughing about it. I just, I don't ever remember that happening.

But she looks back at it now with gratitude. She looks back at it now with thanksgiving. She's so happy I didn't let her have her way. She really is. She's happy I corrected her. I think maybe she'll correct her children. I think maybe she'll speak to it and they'd mind her.

That's what love and care does. And as we go through this world, our Father sends trials, afflictions, heartaches, that seem to crush our souls to a buried grave. But I promise you, I promise you, when he gets done, you'll be better off for it. You'll be better off for it. His grace is sufficient.

Maybe I'm talking to some of you here who are as fallen believers fallen into worldliness like Lot, or rebellion like Jonah, maybe adultery like David, or unbelief like Peter. Maybe you've fallen into indifference like the Laodiceans. And you think to yourself, will God forgive me? Will God take me back? Can I ever, ever, ever enjoy the kind of relationship with the Lord I used to enjoy? Merle read about it in the Song of Solomon, Chapter 2.

He sure will. He sure will. Not only will He forgive you, not only will He take you back, not only will He embrace you, but He'll rejoice to embrace you. He'll rejoice to take you back. He'll rejoice to forgive you. He'll rejoice over you in his love.

It is written in the scriptures, a just man falleth seven times and riseth up again. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down, for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand. It is written again, if we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. God's promise to his fallen children is, my grace is sufficient for you.

Christ is our advocate. He not only will pray for us, he not only is praying for us, he has prayed for us. He's our preserver. He will cause us to stand when we think we cannot stand. He's our restorer. He'll lift us up. You remember Peter's experience? The Lord said to Peter, he said, now Satan's desired to have you. He wants to run you through his sin. And I'll read between the lines. This is what he said. Don't you worry about that. Don't you worry about that. I prayed for you. I prayed for you.

It was as though the Lord was saying to Peter, Peter couldn't hear it. And I wouldn't have known it if I wasn't standing here looking back at it, reading the word. But it's as though the Lord was saying to Peter, now Peter, you're going to think it's all over. You're going to be dead sure our relationship has ended. But I pray for you, Satan's not going to run you through this. Oh no, he's not going to have you, that's it. And when thou art converted, They say, you're going to fall. But when you are converted, when you have been restored, remember this thing I've said to you.

And when Peter had fallen, you remember what the Lord Jesus did to him? He turned and looked on him. What grace. He looked on him with eyes of love and mercy and grace that Peter could not resist and broke his heart. And he comes to him in his grace and he told his disciples, he told those women, he said, you go tell my disciples, I'll meet them where I said I would. Be sure to tell Peter, everything's all right. Be sure to tell Peter, I'll be right where I told him I would.

This is God's promise for his aged saints too. Some of you here are getting a little older. Your hair is gray. Some of you would be gray if you couldn't buy it so good at the drugstore, but that's all right. That's all right. Your hair is gray and your body is a little weaker than it used to be. And your mind is a little weaker than it used to be. And maybe you feel a little useless. You're like you've been forgotten. You listen to me now. You may be forgotten by your brothers. You may be forgotten by your sisters. You may be forgotten by folks who ought to remember everything about you. You may be forgotten by family, but not by God. Not by God.

His grace is sufficient, not only sufficient to be with you, but sufficient now in your aging years to make you useful as he sees fit, sufficient to keep you, to strengthen you, and yet to use you. He said, I will never leave thee nor forsake thee. And he's the same yesterday and today and forever. He's just the same. Just the same. One last thing.

This is God's word of promise to dying believers. Soon, this tent must be folded up. This house of clay must be dissolved. I'm going to die. That's just reality. I'm going to die. All the health food in the world and all the medicine in the pharmacy and all the hospitals and physicians and all the exercise and training and discipline that you can possibly muster are not going to extend your life so much as one breath. Not going to happen. It's not going to happen. I don't suggest that we should be careless.

I'm just telling you the time of your appointed departure from this world will not be changed. We're going to die. But it will be easy in the company of the Son of to leave this world with this confidence. My grace is sufficient. His blood is sufficient. God can demand no more from this guilty soul. His righteousness is sufficient. God can demand no more for acceptance with His grace. On his deathbed, God's servant David said, Although my house be not so with God, yet the Lord hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure, this is all my salvation and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.

He's saying, He's seditious, seditious. Shelby and I went up to visit Brother Darryl McClellan shortly before he left this world and we had a pleasant chat. I didn't go see him to watch him die. I went to see him to rejoice with him and to try to comfort he and his wife, and I came away comforted.

That's about the way it always works. And Daryl said to me, thank God for a substitute whose grace, whose blood, whose righteousness is sufficient. Now I'm telling you, His grace is sufficient for you. It is. It is. Whatever he sends, he sends grace with it. Whatever he brings, he brings with it grace. Grace sufficient. Now, your strength.

He says in Isaiah 43, your strength. Listen now. Your is to sit still, be silent, and wait. Sit still, be silent, and wait. Sit still before Him who is wiser than we are, who in His goodness has sent the trial. Be silent before Him. He's God and wait for him. His grace is sufficient for thee. Amen.

My Grace Is Sufficient For Thee

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My Grace Is Sufficient For Thee

What does the Bible say about grace being sufficient?

How do we know that God's grace meets our needs?

Why is knowing the sufficiency of God's grace important for Christians?

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