Grace is reward, or favor, given to those who deserve judgment. If a judge found a serial rapist guilty, and then stepped down from his bench, agreed to take the death penalty in the criminal’s place, and sent the rapist on an all-expense-paid vacation to Hawaii for thirty years, that would be grace. The severity of the criminal’s crimes would be the measure of the judge’s grace. In the same way, the knowledge of what we deserve, and what it cost God to be gracious, is the measure of His fatherly grace. When it is said and done, the cross is the tape that measures the length and breadth of God’s grace. Like God’s wrath, His grace is holy. It transcends all human conceptions.
William Farley

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#1 · April 8, 2003, 9:44 am

Posted by: forthrightmag <forthrightmag@...>

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Going straight to the Cross

Three big reasons why you can count on God, from
Phil's Friend to Friend column.

God Keeps His Promises
by Phil Sanders

"Blessed be the LORD, who has given rest to
His people Israel, according to all that He
promised; not one word has failed of all His
good promise, which He promised through Moses
His servant." (1 Kings 8:56)

God keeps His promises; you can count on Him. We
can be assured, because God never lies (Tit. 1:2).
He is the God of truth. When Jesus came into the
world, John said of Him: "And the Word became
flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His
glory, glory as of the only begotten from the
Father, full of grace and truth" (John 1:18).
Jesus, indeed is the Way, the Truth, and the Life
(14:6); He came to bear witness to the truth
(18:37).

God keeps His promises; you can count on Him. We
can be assured, because God loves us so (John
3:16). One keeps commitments to those He loves
(Psalm 15:2-4). Our God is a God of integrity who
swears to His own hurt and does not change. Paul
exclaims, "He who did not spare His own Son, but
delivered Him up for us all, how will He not also
with Him freely give us all things?" (Rom. 8:32)

God keeps His promises; you can count on Him. We
can be assured, because God is able (Rom. 4:21).
Whatever God promises, He is also able to perform.
You and I as humans are limited and weak, but
there are no limits to God's strength or power.

A guarantee is only as good as the character of
the one who made it. You can count on God.

"But as God is faithful, our word to you is
not yes and no. For the Son of God, Christ
Jesus, who was preached among you by us -- by
me and Silvanus and Timothy -- was not yes
and no, but is yes in Him. For as many as may
be the promises of God, in Him they are yes;
wherefore also by Him is our Amen to the
glory of God through us" (2 Cor. 1:18-20).

God's faithfulness is a cause for thankfulness and
rejoicing. His example spurs us to greater
faithfulness as well.

We can count on God; can God count on us?

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