The Apostle Of Grace -
by Pastor C. R. Stam
The conversion of Saul of Tarsus was an amazing event. Saul loathed the
very name of Christ. He blasphemed Him and caused others to be tortured
so as to compel them to blaspheme that holy name. He led his nation and
the world in rebellion against the resurrected, glorified Christ — the
world which had already disowned and crucified the lowly Jesus.
But as Saul went to Damascus, still “breathing out threatenings and
slaughter against the disciples of the Lord” (Acts 9:1), God did a
wonderful thing. Rather than crush the leader of the world’s rebellion,
He saved him. Christ broke through the heavens, as it were, to speak
words of pity to His greatest enemy on earth. As a result Saul’s
rebellious spirit was broken and in one moment the pitiless persecutor
became the docile, indeed the devoted follower of Christ.
More than this, Saul of Tarsus, the persecutor, became Paul the
Apostle. To him the glorified Lord committed “the dispensation of the
grace of God” (Eph. 3:2) and “the gospel of the grace of God” (Acts
20:24). Now he went everywhere proclaiming grace, telling men how God
loved them, how Christ had come into the world and had gone to Calvary
to pay man’s debt of sin so that believing sinners might be saved.
“The gospel of the grace of God,” found in Paul’s epistles, does not
blame anyone for the death of Christ. Rather it presents the cross as
good news. It declares that “we have redemption through His blood, the
forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace” (Eph. 1:7). It
says that “God hath concluded them all in unbelief that He might have
mercy upon all” (Rom. 11:32) and that “where sin abounded, grace did
much more abound” (Rom. 5:20). Thus the vilest sinner may believe and
rejoice in the consciousness of sins forgiven.
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Day of The Lord- Isiah 2:14
By
Les Feldick
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Les Feldick Ministries
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Kinta, OK 74552
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