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Gospel message to follow for All Hands (17-19APR20)
Heads-Up --- Please find enclosed encouragement in SO GREAT SALVATION by the perfect and finished work of our Lord Jesus Christ in saving poor, needy and wretched sinners by His sovereign free grace -God's unmerited favor- from our sins and from Hell:
JUSTIFIED
FREELY
Faith
is not the impulsive or moving cause of Justification. It is an act
of pure and free grace, without any motive in the creature: Therefore
the apostle saith, "...being justified freely by His
grace, through the redemption which is in Jesus Christ"
[EPHESIANS 1:7]. But this benefit would not be of grace, but of works, was
our faith the impulsive cause of it: because faith is a work or act
of ours, as we learn from the words of Christ: "This is
the work of God, that ye believe on Him whom He hath sent"
[JOHN 6:29]. Salvation is not of works, in any branch of it; "for
by grace are we saved, through faith; that not of our selves, it is
the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast"
[EPHESIANS 2:8-9].
From whence it is evident that Justification, which is a
considerable part of salvation, cannot be by works. The grace of God
eminently appears in contriving the way of our Justification by
Christ's righteousness, and in sending Him into the world to work out
a righteousness for us, in which we stand complete in His sight:
Hence we are said, "to be justified by His grace, that we
might made heirs according to the hope of eternal life"
[TITUS 3:7]. No other cause can be assigned why sinners are justified
in the sight of God, than His free favour and sovereign pleasure, as
the effect of which He determined to justify them in the
righteousness of His Son.
-preacher John Brine (1703-1765 A.D.)
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