Pastor Cornelius R. Stam
It
is amazing that God should still send forth the good news of His grace in a
world where His Word and will are increasingly despised.
The
growing wickedness of “this present evil age,” of course, only emphasizes the
true character of grace, for grace is the mercy and love of God toward those
who do not deserve it (See Eph. 2:2-6).
It
is interesting to observe that while the four “Gospels” and the Acts take up
twice as much space in our Bibles as the Epistles of St. Paul, yet the word
“grace,” in the original, appears only 27 times in the “Gospels” and the Acts,
while it occurs 107 times in the Pauline epistles: a ratio of 27 to 214 in
favor of the Pauline epistles! Furthermore, only a very few times in the
“Gospels” and the Acts is the doctrine of grace referred to, while in the
Epistles of Paul almost every reference has to do with the doctrine of God’s
love and favor to undeserving sinners.
True,
“grace and truth came by Jesus Christ,” but it was not manifested at His birth,
or even during His earthly life, for He lived and died under the Law (Gal.
4:4,5). As “the law was given by Moses,” not at his birth, nor when a prince in
Pharaoh’s court, nor yet when he served with his father-in-law in the desert,
nor even when he returned to deliver Israel from Egypt, but years later at
Sinai, so “grace and truth came by Jesus Christ,” not at His birth, nor during
His earthly ministry, nor even during His resurrection appearances, but after
His ascension to heaven, when He committed the dispensing of it to Paul (Eph.
3: 1-4).
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How God Saves Men
Believing Christ DIED, that’s HISTORY.
Believing Christ DIED for YOU SINS and Rose again that’s SALVATION.
ead Acts 16L31 Romans 1:16, and 1. Corinthians 15:1-4
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