THE LETTER G
It’s all about grace
Ephesians 2 以弗所书第2章
8 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
9 Not of works, lest any man should boast.
Psalm 40
2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.
1 Timothy 1
15 This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.
16 Howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy, that in me first Jesus Christ might shew forth all long-suffering, for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting.
It’s all about grace…amen
These are some of the most Christ exalting words in the bible, they show God’s grace to save sinners. These verses also outline man’s complete inability to save themselves. Still after all this time, man is still trying to save himself, he invents and follows religions that are set up to help him better himself, they believe in self-help programs and worst of all, he refuses to believe that there is a GOD.
He doesn’t realize that he can’t help himself, he is dead in his sins. Can you wake up a dead man? The only way a dead man can by made alive, is by God’s spirit, working in his heart. Man does not need a new moral framework, he needs a new heart.
In Ezekiel 36, we have this promise:
26 A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh.
27 And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.
God is the only one, who can spiritually make alive a person.
In Ezekiel 37, he is told to speak to the bones:
1 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
2 And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
3 And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
4 Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
5 Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
6 And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
This is one of the greatest pictures of Grace in the Bible, although Ezekiel speaks to the bones, it is God who gives these bones breath. It is God, who puts flesh upon them.
At conversion, God does open heart surgery, he gives you a new heart, he breaths into your spiritually dead body and makes you alive in Christ.
Has he done the above things in your life?
Are you trying to reach God?
Are you trying to do it on your own, through some man made method?
Come to the One, who said, he that comes to me, I will not cast out.
Come freely, come humbly, come in repentance.
God bless you
KK