God Alone Exalted in Salvation
My
friends, do you love to hear Christ lifted up and exalted as your all
and in all? If you do, you are willing to be made less than nothing
and vanity in yourselves. Professors of religion, generally, do not
like to be thus humbled; they love to have something to do, in whole
or in part, to recommend themselves to God. But the Lord’s
salvation is not a mixture of grace and works. It is of free
and sovereign grace, and received by faith alone, which is the gift
of God. It is "not of works, lest any man should boast."
The Lord alone be exalted as the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and
the ending, the first and the last in the salvation of His people.
–Gospel report by preacher John Kershaw, 1848 A.D.
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