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Ärende: The Reach of Almighty Grace
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Faith's Checkbook  

Charles H. Spurgeon
Sep 6, 2006

 

September 7 




The Reach of Almighty Grace 

"It shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are
not My people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living
God" (Hosea 1:10). 

Sovereign grace can make strangers into sons, and the LORD here declares His
purpose to deal thus with rebels and make them know what He has done. Beloved
reader, the LORD has done this in my case; has He done the like for you? Then
let us join hands and hearts in praising His adorable name. 

Some of us were so decidedly ungodly that the LORD's Word most truly said to
our conscience and heart, "Ye are not my people." In the house of God and in
our own homes, when we read the Bible, this was the voice of God's Spirit in
our soul, "Ye are not my people." Truly a sad, condemning voice it was. But
now, in the same places, from the same ministry and Scripture, we hear a voice,
which saith, "Ye are the sons of the living God." Can we be grateful enough for
this? Is it not wonderful? Does it not give us hope for others? Who is beyond
the reach of almighty grace? How can we despair of any, since the LORD has
wrought so marvelous a change in us? 

He who has kept this one great promise will keep every other; wherefore, let us
go forward with songs of adoration and confidence. 

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This Sea of Love! 
The following is from Spurgeon’s sermon,  “THE SHULAMITES CHOICE PRAYERö 

Christian, turn it over in your mind — “Christ loves you!ö 
-not a little; not a little as a man may love his friend; 
not even as a mother may love her child; for she may forget  the infant of her
womb. 

Jesus loves you with the highest degree of love that is  possible; and what
more can I say, except I add, he loves  you with a degree of love that is
utterly impossible to man. 

No finite mind could, if it should seek to measure it,  get any idea whatever
of the love of Christ towards us. 

You know, when we come to measure a drop with an ocean,  there is a comparison.
A comparison I say there is,  though we should hardly be able to get at it; but
when  you attempt to measure our love with Christ’s, the finite  with the
infinite, there is no comparison at all. 

Though we loved Christ ten thousand times as much as we do,  there would even
then be no comparison between our love to him and his love to us. Can you
believe this now? — “Jesus, loves me!ö 

Why, to be loved by others here on earth often brings the tear  to one’s eye.
It is sweet to have the affection of one’s fellow;  but to be LOVED BY GOD, and
to be loved so intense — so loved  that you have to leave it as a mystery the
soul cannot fathom —  you cannot tell how much! 

Be silent, O my soul! and be silent too before your God,  and lift up your soul
in prayer thus —  öJesus, take me into this Sea of Love, and let me be ravished
 by a sweet and heavenly contentment in a sure confidence that  you have loved
me and given yourself for me.ö 




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