Sinner saved by God's grace, called to preach God's Holy Word, Husband, Father, Superintendent, but truly nothing apart from the grace and power of God!
2nd Corinthians 4:6
For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
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God has not only made believers into new creatures with new affections that influence their wills, but He continues working upon our wills so that we might “will and work according to His good pleasure” (Philippians 2:13).
Do not flatter yourself that you are a Christian, because you go to church, and do no one any harm. Nothing but a living faith in Christ Jesus our dear Lord, can qualify you for eternal life.
It is sweet to know and preach, the Christ justifies the ungodly, and that all truly good works are not so much as partly the cause, but the *effect* of our justification before God.
Your reformations, your works, your good deeds, and all the glory of your doing, cast them at the feet of this High Priest, and confess that glory belongs unto him—‘Worthy is the Lamb that was slain...'