Grace and Glory

I want you to follow in your
Bibles this morning. Now, I may bruise you, tear up your
playhouse, upset you, may make you angry. But if a person is ever going
to learn anything about redemption, I'm not talking about religion,
I'm talking about redemption. If a person is ever going to
learn anything about salvation, I'm not talking about a profession
of faith, salvation, a living vital union with the Son of God,
a saving interest in Jesus Christ, fellowship with the Living God.
He's going to have to become acquainted with two words. And those two words, put them
in the order you will, but those two words are grace and glory. You're not going to find out
anything about redemption, about salvation, about the Living God,
until you learn something about two words, grace and glory. If you'll turn to Exodus chapter
33, you'll hear Moses making this plea, this petition before
the Lord. In Exodus 33, Exodus 33, 18,
Moses said, Lord, show me your glory. And the Lord said, I'll make
all my goodness pass before thee And I will proclaim the name
of the Lord before thee, and I will be gracious to whom I
will be gracious, and I will be merciful to whom I will be
merciful." Moses pleaded with God that he might behold God's
glory. And God said, You'll never know
my glory till you know my grace. That's the way you see my glory,
is to see my grace, grace, grace. And then in John chapter 12,
let's look at it, John chapter 12, verse 41. In John 12, 41,
these things said Isaiah, that's Isaiah, when he saw his glory. Isaiah said, in the year that
King Uzziah died, hold that scripture right there a minute, now don't
leave John 12 41, I saw the Lord high and lifted up, his train
filled the temple. I saw the cherubims and seraphims,
I saw the glory of God. And I heard them crying, holy,
holy, holy Lord God. And I fell down at his feet and
I cried, woe is me, I'm undone, I'm a man of unclean lips, I
saw his glory. And when he saw his glory, what
did he do? He spake of him. He spake of his grace. Look back
up here at verse 38. that the saying of Isaiah the
prophet might be fulfilled when he spake, saying, Lord, who hath
believed our report? That's Isaiah 53. He was wounded
for our transgressions, bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement
of our peace was upon him. By his stripes we're healed.
When Isaiah saw his glory, he began to talk about what? His
grace. His grace to sinners through
Christ. Moses said, Lord, show me your
glory. And the Lord said, my glory is
my grace. And Isaiah, when he saw the Lord's
glory, he spake of his grace. Turn to Ephesians chapter 1 verse
4 through 6. Now watch this. This is what
I'm saying. You're never going to know anything
about the living God till you see his glory and his grace.
You're never going to know anything about redemption until you understand
something of His grace and His glory. Look at Ephesians 1, verse
3. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual
blessings in heavenly places in Christ. According as he chose
us in Christ before the foundation of the world that we should be
holy and without blame before him in love Having predestinated
us under the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself According
to the good pleasure of his will to the praise of the glory of
his grace That's why he did it That's why he did it. Verse 12,
that we should be to the praise of his glory. That's why he did
it. Verse 14, which is the earnest of our inheritance until the
redemption of the purchased possession unto the praise of his glory. That's why he did it. Now back
in our text in 1 Corinthians chapter 1, the Lord God works
in grace to promote and to preserve and to magnify His glory. That's so. The Lord God works
in grace to promote and to preserve and to magnify His glory. Now the Lord God might have used
the power of the great, but He has not. The Lord God might have
instructed us with man's wisdom, but He has not. The Lord God
might have declared the gospel with great and unusual talent,
but he has not. He takes the tools. He takes
as his tools not the armor of the king, but the slingshot of
a shepherd. Do you see that? He places his gospel treasure
not in angelic bodies, Sending them fluttering down here upon
this earth surrounded by their whiteness and glory and halos
He sends his gospel in earthen vessels Look at verse 27 1st Corinthians
1 God hath chosen the foolish things Here David put on Saul's
armor and Go out and meet the Giants You'll get whipped if
you do. Take the slingshot of a shepherd.
God Almighty hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound
the things which are mighty and the base things, the things that
are despised, the things that men throw on the garbage heap,
the things that men say are nothing. God takes those things and uses
them. Why? to bring to naught the things
that men prize and acclaim, in which they take glory. Why? Look at verse 29, that no flesh
should glory in his presence. God sends men to preach for him,
not under the spell of genius, but as they're moved by the Holy
Ghost. Now God will save sinners, thank God for that. The Lord
is merciful. He is plenteous in mercy. He
delights to show mercy. God will save sinners, but He
will not give a sinner one inch of space for boasting. He won't
do it. He will not share His glory.
God will grant us a salvation that will humble us in the dust
and lead us to know that He's God and by His grace and His
mercy we're saved. for His glory. Let me show you
a verse in Isaiah 23, verse 9. I want you to look at this. Isaiah
23, verse 9. God Almighty chooses the weak
things to bring to naught the things that are strong. God Almighty
chooses the foolish things and the weak things and the despised
things and the base things that He might have the glory. Isaiah
23 verse 9, the Lord of hosts has proposed it, to stain the
pride of all glory and to bring into contempt all the honorable
of this earth. Salvation by grace, grace alone. God lifteth the beggar from the
dunghill and sets him among princes, that he might have all the glory.
God passes by the honorable, God passes by the wise, God passes
by the prudent, God passes by the things that are recognized,
and God chooses the things that are despised. Can any good thing
come out of Nazareth? That's why he came out of Nazareth. A king born in a stable? That's
why he was born in the stable. Dost thou teach us? Where did
you get your learning? That's why he didn't go to their
schools. That God might have all the glory.
Salvation by grace alone for the greater glory of God is entirely
suitable to those who know their condition. I want you to look
at Romans chapter 5 with me a minute. Romans chapter 5. If salvation's
for the strong, where's the folks gonna come in that have no strength?
Of whom he wrote here in Romans 5 verse 6. When we were yet without
strength in due time, Christ died for us. If salvation's for
the good, where shall the ungodly come in? Look at verse 8. God commended his love toward
us in that while we were yet sinners, if salvation's for the
moral, what about us sinners? Verse 10, if when we were enemies
we were reconciled to God by the death of His Son, if salvation
is for God's friends, what about God's enemies? This salvation
by grace alone, for the greater glory of God,
is entirely suitable to my needs, and I believe to yours. For His
glory, His grace comes to those without strength. For His glory,
His grace comes to those who are enemies. For His glory, His
grace comes to those who are ungodly. For His glory, His grace
comes to those without hope and without help. And He comes where
the hopeless, helpless cripple is. And he does not say to that
hopeless, helpless cripple, if you meet certain conditions,
I'll supply your need. He brings the need where he is.
And he calls upon that sinner not to produce a righteousness,
but receive one. Not to produce repentance, but
he leads him to it. Not to produce faith, but he
enables him to believe for his glory. I want you to look at verse 12
of I Corinthians 2. We read it a moment ago. In verse
12 there are three things that I think are very significant. Now we have received, not the
spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God, that
we might know the things that are freely given to us of God. The three significant things
are these. Everything that we have is given us by the grace
of God for his glory. Secondly, everything that we
have is received by the grace of God for his glory. And everything that we have is
understood by the grace of God for his glory. Now let's see
if we can make good on that. Everything we have is given by
grace, received by grace, and understood by grace. First of
all, everything we have is by the grace of God. It says here
that we may know that the things of the things that are freely
given to us, given to us. Listen to these scriptures. The
wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through
Jesus Christ our Lord. This is the record God has given
us eternal life. Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable
gift. Every part of salvation from
Alpha to Omega is by the grace of God. It's a gift of God. Every part of salvation From
the eternal covenant to the eternal fulfillment, every part of redemption
is a gift of God. That's so. Over here in Ephesians
1, verse 3, which I read a moment ago, listen to it again. Every
part of salvation From the eternal covenant to the eternal fulfillment
is the gift of God. Look at verse 4. According as
he chose us. We didn't choose God, he chose
us. We didn't love him, he loved
us. We didn't seek him, he sought
us. The royal banquet is served up
by one host who prepared it all. He says, come, all things are
ready. Who prepared it? God did. We
contributed nothing to it. Turn to Romans 9, verse 16. Listen to this. Romans 9, 16.
It says in Romans 9, 16, So then, it's not of him that willeth,
nor of him that runneth, it's of God that showeth mercy. Paul said in II Thessalonians
2.13, we're bound to give thanks always to God for you, brethren,
beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen
you to salvation. The Lord gave Himself to us.
He became our Father by His will, not by our will. He gave His
love to us. The Son gave Himself. He said,
no man takes my life, I lay it down. The Holy Spirit gives himself
to us. He's the free spirit. Salvation is of the Lord in its
planning, in its execution. It pleased the Lord to bruise
him. You with wicked hands have crucified and slain the Lord
of glory, but you did what God determined before to be done.
There was no council of men that plotted the death of Christ.
It was the glory of God that planned the death of Christ. Every part of salvation is freely
given. That's what he says in our text
here, that you may know the things that are freely given. Given
without persuasion, for God so loved the world that he gave
his son. God was not compelled to give
him. God was not persuaded to give him. God gave him because
he loved. The fountain of love flows from
the heart of God without pressure. without compulsion, without suggestion. Now you think for a moment, in
your bulletin this morning I have a little note about June being
Special Building Fund Offering Month. We have to be reminded,
don't we? We have to be reminded by the
newspaper that a certain date is Mother's Day or Father's Day
or We have to be reminded by our children sometimes that it's
birthday time. We have to have a suggestion.
Most of our generosity is based upon suggestion or hints or special
days, but God had no prompter. God had no compulsion. God had
no suggestion. The fountain of grace and love
flowed from his heart originally. And it was without return. God
is kind to the... I want you to look at that, to
the unthankful. Look at Luke chapter 6. Turn
over there just a moment. Luke chapter 6, beginning with
verse 32. What are you saying, preacher? I'm saying that every part of
salvation, every aspect of redemption, From its beginning in the covenant
of grace to its fulfillment in perfect conformity to Christ
Jesus, it's all of God. Your repentance is the gift of
God. Your faith is the gift of God. Your gifts of the Spirit
are gifts of God. Your graces are gifts of God.
Your believing is the gift of God. Your trial is the gift of
God. Everything, that's right, freely given us of God. Luke
6 beginning with verse 32. If you love them which love you,
what thank have you? Sinners also love those that
love them. You do good to them which do good to you, what thank
have you? Sinners also do the same. If
you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thank have
you? Sinners lend to sinners to receive as much again, but
love your enemies. Do good and lend, hoping for
nothing again, and your reward shall be great, and you shall
be called the children of the highest fire." Listen, he is
kind to the unthankful and to the evil. It's a gift of God. Whatever love we have for Christ
is because he first loved us. Everything we have is the gift
of God. Grace, grace, grace, everything. Naked, he clothed us. Blind,
he gave us sight. Deaf, he let us hear his voice. Dumb, he gave us words to speak. Dead, he raised us. Lost, he
found us. Hungry, he fed us. Weary, he
gave us rest. Everything. There is not one
gift that's not from above. Every good gift, every perfect
gift cometh from God with whom there is no change. Everything. And you're going to learn that
because God is not going to bless you with the knowledge of himself
until he can get all the glory. All the glory. All right, the
second thing now that that we learn from this text. He said
the things that are freely given us of God, everything we have
is received by grace. Now watch this. Someone might
say, well preacher, I see very clearly that salvation's a gift
of God. Now you listen to this. This
will help you. I see salvation's a gift of God. God so loved the
world that he gave his son. I see that his grace provides
us a perfect righteousness, provides us with a perfect justification,
provides us with a home in glory, provides us with a pardon of
sin, provides us with an inheritance with the saints in light. I see
that. That's clear. I believe everybody
believes that salvation's by grace. That we didn't earn it,
we didn't buy it, we didn't return anything to God for it, but Is it not left to man to accept
that offer? Is it not left to man to reach
out and take what God has provided? Now preacher, here's what I'm
saying. I'm saying that God made it possible. That God provided it. That God
fixed up the feast. God fixed the table. God spread
the table. God provided everything. Christ
met every need. It's all there. It's there. Now,
it's up to the sinner to come and take it, if he wants it. Now, Preacher, you know what
you're saying? That's not what I'm saying. That is not what
I'm saying at all. I'm saying that grace not only
provided it, the grace of God not only provided it, but I'm
saying this. that the power to receive it
is of grace too. The power to want it is of grace. The power to understand it is
of grace. That's exactly what I'm saying.
The power with which we receive the gifts of God is the power
of the Holy Spirit, not the Spirit of this world, but the Spirit
of God. Now don't leave me. This is a vital part here. This
is the difference in preaching salvation by grace and salvation
by works. All right, now listen to these
things. There's six things I want to point out to you right here.
He says, now we have received not only the gifts, but look
at the first part of this verse, we have received the Spirit which
is of God. that we might know the things
that are freely given to us of God. These things are freely
given, but the Spirit of God, which enables us to want them,
which enables us to desire them, which enables us to understand
them, which enables us to receive them, is of God. A man may look
at the cross and say, well, Christ died. I know that. His salvation
is in Him. I know that. Why don't you receive
him? I don't want him. I don't want
him. Now, six things. We're dead in
trespasses and sin. You know what scripture teaches?
You hath he quickened who were dead. How can death reach out
and take life? You say God has provided life.
Life's in Christ. Life's in the cross. Life's in
the gospel. How can death reach out and take
life? How can death even understand
life? How can death desire life? There's
only one way, for God to give life. Secondly, we're natural
men. 1 Corinthians 2.14, look at it. But the natural man receiveth
not the things of the Spirit of God, their foolishness to
him. The natural man does not receive the gospel because he
does not understand the gospel. I've heard preachers say, well,
I preached the gospel so simple, in such a simple fashion, that
even a little child could understand it. No, you didn't. There's no
way that you can preach the gospel of substitution so anybody can
understand it, apart from divine revelation. That's so. This gospel is a mystery. That's
what he says in verse 14. The natural man receiveth not
the things of the Spirit of God. He'll receive the things of religion.
He'll receive the things of prophecy. He'll receive the things of theology.
He'll receive the things of his denomination. He'll receive the
things of heaven or hell. He won't receive the things of
the Spirit of God. Man's deadness, man's inability,
God's justice, God's righteousness, Christ's death, substitution,
sin offering, sacrifice, awakening, quickening. He doesn't know anything
about these things. They're foolishness to him. And
they'll remain foolishness to him because at verse 10 of 1
Corinthians 2, look at that, God hath revealed them unto us. You know the reason you believe
Christ is because God opened your eyes one day and let you
see Him. He that seeth the Son and believeth
on Him. You know the reason you embrace
Christ is because God Almighty opened your ears to hear the
voice of Christ and your heart to understand the person of Christ
and to understand the redemption that is in Christ and you embraced
Him because God opened your heart to understand it. That's the gift of God. In the
next place, we're enemies of God. Turn to Romans 8, verse
7. Listen to this, Romans 8, 7.
The carnal mind is what? Enmity against God. The carnal mind is enmity. Christ
said, marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you. Now the
world doesn't hate their God, they hate the God of the Bible.
The world doesn't hate the God which they fashioned and which
they have made idols unto themselves. They hate the Living God, the
Sovereign God, the Eternal God, the Omnipotent God, the God and
Father of Jesus Christ. That's who they hate, the God
of election. That's who the world hates, the God who reveals himself
in this world. The natural mind is enmity, enmity
against God. It's not subject to the law of
God, neither indeed can it be. You say God has provided all
these things and now the natural man sits around, come and eat
them. He doesn't even see them. He doesn't understand them. He
doesn't need them. He's drinking out of the cisterns
of the world. He's satisfying himself on the
dunghill of the world. These things don't appeal to
him. And the only way that the things of God are going to appeal
to any man is for God to do for him what he can't do for himself.
Give him eyes to see them, and a heart to understand them, and
ears to hear them. That's the gift of grace. Two
men were crucified with Christ. One of them died in sin, and
one of them died to sin. And yet they heard the same thing,
saw the same thing, witnessed the same thing, partook of the
same thing. What made the difference? One
of them smarter than the other one? One of them had better upbringing? No, sir. God Almighty was pleased
to be gracious to one, merciful to one, and pass one by. That's so. Twelve disciples, all of them
heard the same master, listened to him speak, followed him around.
A man named Judas. Never understood a thing he said.
God passed him by. Turn to John 3, verse 19. Now
what I'm pointing out is the very basis of this thing. John
3, 19. This is condemnation. Light is
coming to this world, and men love darkness. They love darkness. They don't love light, they love
darkness. Because their deeds are evil.
And everyone that doeth evil hates the light, and he won't
come to the light lest his deeds be reproved. He's not coming.
Something's got to, a supernatural operation's got to take place.
And you can't sit down across the table from him with an open
Bible and convince him he ought to love light. There's only one
who can do that, and that's the Holy Spirit. You're not going
to sit down across the table and say, look at that table.
He can't even see it. Look at the good things God's
prepared in Christ. Look at all the refreshing things
in Christ. Look at pardon and redemption
and justification and eternal life. Look at those things. How
can the blind look at those things? Hear God speak through His Word,
sinner. Hear Him. How can a deaf man
hear? Why don't you take your blind
neighbor out yonder to see the glowing sunset? Why don't you
take your deaf neighbor down here to hear the philharmonic
orchestra? Why don't you go out Rose Hill and invite some of
those dead people to come out and hear the gospel? Men love darkness, they hate
light. You say, well, I don't hate light.
I love light. What happened? Turn to 2 Corinthians
4. I'll show you what happened. 2 Corinthians 4 verse 6. Here's what happened. The same
God who created this world back yonder when it was bathed in
darkness, the first thing he said was, let there be light.
And that same God, chapter 4 verse 6, God, who commanded the light
to shine out of darkness, has shined in our hearts to give
the light of knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus
Christ. He's the only one who can do
it, too. I'll tell you something else.
We have a depraved will. That's another problem. That's
right. Turn to John 5. We have a depraved
will. John chapter 5, listen to the
master. He said in John 5 verse 40, you
will not come to me. They won't do it. That you might
have life. You will not. He said in verse
43, listen, I've come in my father's name and you will not receive
me. Let another come in his own name,
with his own promises, religion. Him you will receive. That's
the shape man's in. What happened in the garden?
We just didn't lose physical life. We lost spiritual life. Men died in the garden. They
retained no knowledge of God, no desire for God, no love for
God, no understanding of God. They're dead. That's what Scripture
said. And they're so dead and so wretched and so warped and
twisted in their reasoning that there's a way that seems right
to man and it's the end, it's destruction. But it seems right,
it seems to him to be consistent. God says my thoughts are not
your thoughts, my ways are not your ways, as far as the heaven
is above the earth, so are your thoughts from my thoughts. That's
what happened to man. But thy people shall be willing
in the day of thy power. That's what Psalm 110 verse 3
says. Men do not love God, Herein is
love, not that we love God. He loved us. Men do not seek
God. He says, I'm found of them that
sought me not. Men do not fear God. There is
no fear of God before their eyes. I will put my fear in their hearts.
Turn to Romans 2, verse 4. Romans 2, verse 4. And as I said,
I might upset your playhouse. I might offend you. But that's
all right, we're not trying to make friends. We're trying to
preach the gospel. We're trying to slay sinners.
A sinner will never be saved until he's slain. God had to
take proud Saul of Tarsus out on the road to Damascus and humiliate
him. God has to bring a man down before
he can raise him up. Do you know repentance is the
gift of God? Look at Romans 2 forward, despise it thou the riches of
his goodness and forbearance and long-suffering not knowing
that the goodness of God led you to repentance. God's goodness. You didn't just one day decide
that you were in a mess and feel bad about it. You'd have still
been in that mess if God Almighty hadn't awakened you and showed
you the difference between a mess and mercy. That's right. God
had to show you that you didn't know the difference. You thought
bitter was sweet and sweet was bitter. You thought dead was
life and life was dead. You thought the way of destruction
was the way of God. And if God Almighty hadn't shown
you difference, you'd still been there. That's right. Did you know faith's the gift
of God? Turn to Philippians 1.29. Faith is the gift of God. Philippians
1.29. Listen to this. Unto you it is
given in the behalf of Christ not only to believe on him, but
also to suffer for him. Now turn back to our text, 1
Corinthians 1. Now, this is where it is. This is where the offense is.
This is where the division is. This is where the battle is.
This is where those who glorify God part company with those who
glorify the flesh. This is where those who believe
salvation is not just by grace but all of grace part company
with those who want to mix grace and works. This is where we part
company those who believe salvation is of the Lord and those who
believe salvation is an act which man receives or a gift he receives
for cooperating with the Lord. In our text, 1 Corinthians 2.12,
now we have received, not the spirit of this world, but the
spirit which is of God, that we might know, understand, what
we have is all by grace, but is even understood by grace,
that we might know the things freely given to us of God. Charles Spurgeon once said, listen
to it, any man can read the Bible, and know what the free gifts
of God to men are. Any man can read the Bible and
know what the gifts of God through Christ are. These things are
communicated to our minds by words which we read. But this
form of knowledge is not sufficient. The scripture says, With the
heart man believeth unto righteousness. We cannot savingly know the things
of God by mere reading and mental understanding. The head learns
by nature, the heart learns by grace. The way to know God is
to have the things written in the Word written on your heart
by the hand of the Holy Spirit. I heard about sin, but I never
knew what sin was until the Holy Spirit convinced my heart of
sin. I heard about repentance, but I never repented until the
Holy Spirit revealed that my sin and my guilt was against
God. I heard about faith, but I never
believed. I never believed until Christ
was revealed to my heart by the Holy Spirit. I heard about justification
by faith, but I was never justified until I received Christ as my
righteousness with my heart. God hath revealed them. Let me make just as plain as
I can, at least in words that men can understand in their heads,
so that those who go the route of salvation as of the Lord may
rejoice, and those who go the route of salvation as a result
of something I do for God praise themselves and boast for their
own glory. Everything we have is by the
grace of God. Everything. Everything we have,
every gift is totally by his grace. Also, the knowledge to
understand it and the desire with which we receive it. and
even the hunger and the thirst that pants after God's fellowship,
and that repentance, godly solid that works repentance, and that
faith that embraces Christ, and those eyes that see him, and
those ears that hear him, and those hearts that understand
him, they too are the gift of God. They too. For they are given to us by the
Holy Spirit that we may know that we may know the things freely
given to us of God. The salvation of the righteous
is of the Lord. And I'll tell you, happy is that
man, happy is that woman, who can say this morning, God has
opened my heart. God Almighty has visited me in
my affliction. God Almighty has come to me in
the pit. and reveal my guilt and shame
and filth and sin. And he's turned my eyes away
from myself to Calvary, and there I see my substitute, my sin offering,
my sacrifice bleeding in my place, bearing my sins in his body on
the tree. And I trust him, and I receive
him, and I believe him, and I commit my life to him, and I'm persuaded
that he's able to keep that which I have entrusted unto him against
that day. Christ is my substitute and my
Lord. And I lift my eyes to God in
praise and prayer, and I thank him not only for Christ dying
for my sins, but for being pleased to reveal him to my heart. Now that's what a man can confess.
Salvation's not down here, but that's what a man can walk down
a church aisle and tell a crowd. That's what I believe. God has
done something for me. God has saved me. I'm a new creature
in Christ. The law of God's written on my
heart. I want to confess Christ in baptism. I want to follow
him in believer's baptism, professing before this world my identification
with the Lord Jesus Christ in his death, burial, and resurrection
to walk in newness of life. He's done something for me. done
something for me. Our Father, with thanksgiving and praise
we bow in thy presence to thank thee for thy mercies, to thank
thee for thy grace, to praise thy name for every gift, every
blessing that we have in Christ Jesus our Lord. Lord, open blind
eyes, unstop deaf ears, illuminate darkened hearts and understanding. Bring every person in this congregation
this morning to see that salvation is in Christ and Christ alone,
that he is our refuge, that he is our help, that he is our strength,
that he's our foundation, he's our hope, he's our life. All
things are in him. for his glory and for his praise
we ask these things. Amen.

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