The Power Of The Gospel Of Grace
by
Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
“…the gospel… is come unto you, as it is in all the world, and bringeth forth fruit, as it doth also in you, since the day ye heard of it, and knew the grace of God in truth” (Col. 1:5,6).
How wonderful to see the gospel of the grace of God do its work!
Paul had never even seen the Colossians. He had only sent
missionaries to them from Ephesus with the good news of the grace of
God, but this had produced amazing results.
Wherever the gospel of the grace of God is preached in its purity
it produces results. No one hearing that message can go away the
same. Either he will consider it utter foolishness and be hardened by
it, or he will see its vital importance and be softened by it.
Ultimately he will either be eternally condemned, or eternally saved
and justified by his response to that message.
“The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved it is the power of God” (I Cor. 1:18).
“Christ crucified… unto them which are called… the power of God and the wisdom of God” (I Cor. 1:23,24).
“The power of God unto salvation to everyone that believeth” (Rom. 1:16).
Mark well: it is “the gospel of the grace of God,” the
“preaching of the cross,” that produces such results. The law of
Moses never did, “For what the law could not do, in that it was
weak through the flesh,” God sent His Son to accomplish for us
(Rom. 8:3,4). This is why Paul proclaimed, at Antioch of Pisidia:
“Be it known unto you therefore, men and brethren, that through this Man is preached unto you the forgiveness of sins; and by Him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses” (Acts 13:38,39).
God’s message to us is a message of love, proclaiming to even
the vilest sinner that he may be “justified freely by [God’s]
grace, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus” (Rom. 3:24).
How
God Saves Men
Believing
Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing
Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
Read
Romans 1:16, Romans 10:9-10 and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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