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"That God is able, in his mercy, grace, and wisdom, to make a way for our sins to be laid on a Substitute and the guilty sinner go free is the greatest glory of his nature that he has seen fit to reveal." — Pastor Henry Mahan
"I bear them witness,"said the Apostle, "that they had a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge, but went about to establish their own righteousness, and have not submitted themselves to the righteousness of God." Oh! may we not be beguiled, then, so as to miss the reward of heaven at the last!
The church, that is, cannot devise whatever Christianity it wishes; the church does not define but bears witness to the biblical message.
I will go as far as Martin Luther, where he says, "If any man ascribes anything of salvation, even the very least thing, to the free will of man, he knows nothing of grace, and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly."C.H. Spurgeon...
The old truth that Calvin preached, that Augustine preached, that Paul preached, is the truth that I must preach to-day, or else be false to my conscience and my God. I cannot shape the truth; I know of no such thing as paring off the rough edges of a doctrine. John Knox's gospel is my gospel. That which thundered through Scotland must thunder through England again.......C.H. Spurgeon
The whole work is a rich treat to those who love experimental divinity, and are safe in Christ as Noah was in the ark; but, Oh! how woeful must those be, who are without an interest in the Saviour; and that have none to plead their cause. "They are left to be ground to powder between the justice of God and the sins which they have committed. It is sad to consider their plight. This is the man that is pursued by the law, and by sin, and by death, and has none to plead his cause.
Whilst thou hast a rag of thine own, thou shalt never have Christ; whilst thou hast a farthing of thine own righteousness, thou shalt never have him; but when thou art naked, having nothing, Christ is thine;
Men must be forgiven by grace, renewed by grace, transformed by grace, sanctified by grace, preserved by grace; and when that comes to pass the golden age will dawn; but while they are merely taught their duty, and left to do it of themselves in their own strength, it is labour in vain. You may flog a dead horse a long while before it will stir: you need to put life into it, for else all your flogging will fail. To teach men to walk who have no feet is poor work, and such is instruction in morals before grace gives a heart to love holiness. The gospel alone supplies men with motive and strength, and therefore it is to the gospel that we must look as the real reformer of men.
Ever since the Fall sin has existed, passed down to all mankind. Sin brings death. The solution has always been, the substitutionary sacrifice of Jesus Christ on the cross. Man's access to God is by faith in God's gracious mercy extended to us through Christ. So, what changed? The cross? Not really. Only time has changed. In the O.T. salvation was through the cross; prophetically. In the N.T. it is through the cross; historically. 
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By grace! None dare lay claim to merit; Our works and conduct have no worth. God in His love sent our Redeemer, Christ Jesus, to this sinful earth; His death did for our sins atone, And we are saved by grace alone.
Peggy's Page, Clinging To Jesus
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WILDERNESS
by Martin Luther
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Victory
When you are forgotten, or neglected, or
purposely set at naught, and you smile
inwardly, glorying in the oversight.
-THAT IS VICTORY.
When your good is evil spoken of, your taste
offended, your advice disregarded, your
opinion ridiculed, and you take it all in patient
and loving silence.
-THAT IS VICTORY.
When you care never to refer to yourself in
conversation, or to record your own good
work, or to seek after commendation, when
you can truly "love to be unknown"
-THAT IS VICTORY.
If you desire himself alone to fill you, For
Him alone you care to live and be; then 'tis not
you, but Christ who dwelleth in you,
And that, O child of God, is VICTORY."
"But thanks be to God, which giveth us the
victory through our Lord, Jesus Christ."
June, 5, 2000 Time 7:00