Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Gleanings from C.A. Coates, "The true grace of God"

 "There are scriptures which say that He died for all, and that He gave Himself a ransom for all, and that He is the propitiation for the whole world; and these scriptures show that Christ is available for the whole race of sinners ... All are invited: none excluded. But Scripture is careful to teach that it is the believer's sins which Christ bore and suffered for on the cross." (p. 17)
Once we stood in condemnation,
   Waiting thus the sinner's doom;
Christ in death has wrought salvation,
   God has raised Him from the tomb.
Now we see in Christ's acceptance
   But the measure of our own;
Him who lay beneath our sentence,
   Seated high upon the throne. (p. 23)
 "your standing with God is identical with His [Christ's]" (p. 31)

"The Holy Ghost would do wonderful things for us if we did not hinder and grieve Him. He would make us practically free from the lust of the flesh (see Gal. v. 16), and would give us the abiding consciousness that we are the objects of God's love (Rom. viii. 14-16)." (p. 63)
 
"Calvary is the religious world's answer to Grace." (p. 79)

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