Amazing Grace
Puritan Board Junior
I would argue that the biggest failing is twofold:
1. The failure to grasp the decalogue as a rule of life and to see each law as synedoche.
2. A complete lack of fear for Jehovah.
Richard, I disagree slightly becasue this becomes too Law focused. I hope never to go to Sinai to look for grace there.
I vote for grace. A proper understanding of the Grace of God is the heart of the Gospel In my humble opinion. Not a cheap grace, but the grace that flows from the veins of our Lord Jesus. That is the nectar that is lacking in the church today.
Free unadulterated pure grace to undeserving sinners. Without it no man can do anything.
--Octavius Winslow, "Christ, Our Righteousness"
"Those He predestined, He also called;
and those He called, He also justified;
and those He justified, He also glorified."
Romans 8:30
The justified sinner stands the closest to God,
of any created being in the universe. Nearer
to the throne of the Eternal, he cannot stand.
What marvelous love!
Who will dare assert that salvation is not,
from first to last—of free, sovereign grace!
Let your eye pierce the veil which falls between
earth and heaven. Behold that shining, worshipping
being, standing so near to the throne of glory,
bathed in the overpowering effulgence of its rays!
Who is he?
He was once a sinner upon earth, the vilest
of his race, the dishonored of his generation,
forsaken by man—and abhorred of God.
But Jesus met him, and divine love drew him, and
sovereign grace rescued, pardoned, and saved him!
And now washed from all his guilt by the blood,
freed from all condemnation by the righteousness
of Christ—he stands before the throne "blameless,"
a "king and a priest unto God." Such is the great
love of Jesus! And all this grace, and all this
glory, and all this bliss—flows from the free,
sovereign grace of God!