Amazing grace E-Book

Charles Spurgeon

• Herausgeber: Editora Dracaena
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: Hope messages in times of crisis
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 37

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

Amazing Grace is one important bible study about the Grace of God. A book that will bring growth and knowledge about grace, salvation and invite him to live with greater intimacy with God. Written by Charles Spurgeon, important preacher Christian.

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INTRODUCTION

BY CHARLES SPURGEON

“I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also,

and restore comfort unto him and to his mourners.”

Isaiah 57:18.

There are a few objects in nature which never cease to astonish the beholder; I think Humboldt said he could never look upon the rolling prairies without astonishment, and I suppose some of us will never be able to look upon the ocean, or to see the sun rise or set without feeling that we have before us something always fresh and always new!

Now, I have been not only for the love of it, but because of my calling of preaching it, a constant reader of Holy Scripture, and yet after these 25 years and more I frequently alight upon well known passages which astonish me as much as ever; as if I had never heard them before, they come upon me, not merely with freshness, but even so as to cause amazement in my soul! This is one of those portions of Scripture.

When I read the chapter describing the wickedness, the horrible wickedness of Israel when I notice the strong terms which Inspiration uses, and none of them too strong to set forth the horrible wickedness of the nation it staggers me!

And then to see God’s mercy following instead of His judgment overwhelms me! “I have seen his ways, and” it is not added “I will destroy him,” or “I will sweep him away” but “I will heal him.” Verily, God’s grace, like the great mountains, cannot be scaled; like the deeps of the sea, it can never be fathomed, and, like space, it can never be measured! It is, like God Himself, wondrous, matchless, and boundless. I can only cry, “Oh, the depths!” And again I cry “Oh, the depths!”

I shall try to set forth the astounding grace of God, as His Spirit shall enable me, by showing, first, that the sinner is beheld by God “I have seen his ways.” And yet the sinner is nevertheless the objectof divine mercy “I will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.”

SUMMARY

INTRODUCTION

SUMMARY

CHAPTER 1

CHAPTER 2

CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER 1

Our text declares that THE SINNER HAS BEEN OBSERVED OF THE LORD.

Many a man will relieve an unknown person in distress whom he would not think of helping if he knew his character.

Some generous hearts are perpetually victimized this way; they deal out their money to those who are altogether unworthy, but if they knew of this unworthiness, they would not be so free with their gifts.

Now, the Lord is aware of the unworthiness of those to whom He deals out His grace, and it is the glory of that grace that He pours it upon the utterly undeserving! He knows exactly what men are, and yet He is kind to the evil and to the unthankful; He gives His grace to those who, like Manasseh, and Saul of Tarsus, and the dying thief, have nothing but sin about them, and deserve His hot displeasure rather than His gracious love.

Notice, first, that God’s omniscience has observed the sinner. Man, while living in rebellion against God, is as much under his Maker’s eyes as the bees in a glass hive are under your eyes when you stand and watch all their movements. The eyes of Jehovah never sleep; they are never taken off from a single creature He has made. He sees man sees him everywhere sees him through and through so that He not only hears his words, but knows his thoughts! God does not merely behold his actions, but weighs his motives, and knows what is in the man as well as that which comes out of the man!