Page 87 around you and from your foreign wives. Ps 103:21 Praise the LORD, all his heavenly hosts, you his servants who do his will. Mt 7:21 Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven. Mt 12:50 For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother. Mr 3:35 Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother. Joh 4:34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to finish his work. Joh 5:30 I can of mine own self do nothing: as I hear, I judge: and my judgment is just; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of the Father which hath sent me. Joh 6:38 For I came down from heaven, not to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me. Joh 6:40 And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day. Joh 7:17 If anyone chooses to do God’s will, he will find out whether my teaching comes from God or whether I speak on my own. Joh 9:31 We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly man who does his will.
Grace…means the full and free forgiveness of every sin, without God demanding or expecting anything from the one so forgiven – is a principle so opposed to all man’s thoughts and ways, so far above man, that he dislikes it. His own heart often secretly calls it injustice. He does not deal in this way and he does not like to think of God doing so.
J.N. Darby