0211. Grace Explaining

Grace Explaining

"For Jonathan’s sake" (2Sa_9:1).

Wonderful depths are to be discovered in these simple words. "I will shew him the kindness of God for Jonathan’s sake." The heart of David had been knit to Jonathan. Now, for Jonathan’s sake, David will show grace to Saul.

No human example can fully set forth the grace of God, much less can any human basis of kindness fully set forth the basis of the grace of God.

Still we all know that there is declared in our key verse the fact that God’s grace is made possible only in Christ, God’s well-beloved Son.

"God Who is rich in love, for the great love wherewith He loved us, * * hath quickened us together with Christ, (for by grace are ye saved)."

All the grace of God, both now and in the ages to come, is made possible unto us, only in God’s "kindness toward us, in Christ Jesus."

It is in Christ Jesus that we are made new creatures. It is in Christ Jesus that we, who were afar off, are made nigh. It is in Christ Jesus that we have our access by the Spirit unto the Father.

God is a God of all grace, but God is also a God of infinite holiness and justice. God’s holiness could not fellowship the unclean, and God’s justice could not justify the ungodly. God’s grace operated upon the only basis upon which it could operate. Christ died for sinners, and imputed unto them who believe His holiness; Christ died for sinners and fully met every demand of the justice of God. So it is that we are saved by grace, but a grace made possible in our Lord Jesus Christ.

"For nothing good have I,

Whereby Thy grace to claim;

I’ll wash my garments white,

In the Blood of Calvary’s Lamb,

for

Jesus paid it all,

All to Him, (God) I owe;

Sin had left a crimson stain,

He washed it white as snow."

Autor: R.E. NEIGHBOUR