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Title: O stand amazed at His free grace! Post by: nChrist on January 07, 2020, 01:07:06 PM __________________________________________ From Grace Gems - Free and Public Domain: Very Old - But Beautiful and Timeless Treasures. http://www.gracegems.org/19/literature.htm FREE E-mail Subscription: http://www.gracegems.org/ ___________________________________________ O stand amazed at His free grace! (Thomas Sherman, "Divine Breathings" or, "A Pious Soul Thirsting after Christ") O precious saint! Three questions call for your answer: 1. What were you? 2. What are you? 3. What shall you be? 1. What were you? Dead in your transgressions and sins, a rebel to your God, a prodigal to your Father, a slave to your lust, the devil's captive, on the highway to Hell! 2. What are you? Redeemed by Christ, a royal child of God, the spouse of Christ, the temple of the Holy Spirit, the heir of a priceless eternal inheritance! 3. What shall you be? A glorious saint, a companion of angels, a triumphant victor, a crowned king, an attendant on the Lamb, a participant in those soul-ravishing and ineffable excellencies that are in God! You shall behold the King of Glory face to face--and enjoy immediate communion with Jesus Christ! Nay more, you are made one with Him: clothed with His excellencies, enthroned with His glories, crowned with His eternity, and filled with His felicity! "No eye has seen, no ear has heard, and no mind has imagined . . . what God has prepared for those who love Him!" 1 Corinthians 2:9 O stand amazed at His free grace--and render all the glory to God! Title: Miscellaneous pithy gems Post by: nChrist on January 07, 2020, 01:09:16 PM __________________________________________ From Grace Gems - Free and Public Domain: Very Old - But Beautiful and Timeless Treasures. http://www.gracegems.org/19/literature.htm FREE E-mail Subscription: http://www.gracegems.org/ ___________________________________________ Miscellaneous pithy gems Affliction is good, but not pleasant. Sin is pleasant, but not good. ~ ~ ~ ~ We are not sinners because we sin--we sin because we are sinners. ~ ~ ~ ~ We fear man so much, because we fear God so little. It is only the fear of God, that can deliver us from the fear of man. ~ ~ ~ ~ Grace is God giving us what we do not deserve--Heaven. Mercy is God not giving us what we do deserve--Hell. ~ ~ ~ ~ We are: Sinners by nature. Sinners by birth. Sinners by choice. ~ ~ ~ ~ Our sins will not keep us from Heaven, but our righteousness will! ~ ~ ~ ~ There never was anything of false doctrine brought into the church, but either it was by neglecting the Scripture, or by introducing something above the Scripture. ~ ~ ~ ~ The more purely God's Word is preached--the more deeply it pierces the heart. ~ ~ ~ ~ A man may as well fill a bag with wisdom, as the soul with the world. ~ ~ ~ ~ Consider how foolish it is for the children of Heaven to go licking up the dust of this earth! The woman's seed should not desire the food of the serpent! ~ ~ ~ ~ Some are proud of what they are--others of what they are not. ~ ~ ~ ~ All men may be divided into two classes: the righteous, who know themselves to be sinners, lost sinners, who believe themselves to be righteous. ~ ~ ~ ~ A door that is almost shut, is open. A man that is almost honest, is a thief. A man that is almost saved, is altogether damned! |