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GRACE_ambassador

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...your Current Location...

“...not by works of righteousness which we have done,
but According to His Mercy He Saved us.” (Tit 3:5)..."​

Precious friends:
Many decades ago, I received "The PEACE Of God" the moment I believed

The Gospel of The GRACE Of God! Appears a couple of others, in the article
below, received the same, having all of our Very Heavy burden of sin (EVERY-
THING we did Was, In God's Sight, SIN, whether it was, as UNbelievers think,
"good" or bad). And this PEACE has been the ONE Constant, amidst a life of
Lots Of change. Amen?:


"...
the conversion of George Whitefield, the famous English Evangelist, is
a good example of how God will have nothing to do with good works
or acts of self-denial for the salvation of a lost soul.
Both are repulsive In His Sight...

...
With the burden of his sin greater than he could bear, he turned to Christ,
the Great Sin-Bearer, and was gloriously saved by The Grace of God. In
his own words, he gave this touching account of his conversion:

“God was pleased at length to remove the heavy load, to enable
me to lay hold on His dear Son by living faith...Oh, with what joy, joy
unspeakable, even joy that was full of, and great with glory, and my
soul was filled when the weight of sin went off, and an abiding sense
of the pardoning love of God and a full assurance of faith broke upon
my disconsolate soul!”...

...Satan has done his most effective work to blind men to The Light
Of The Glorious Gospel. He uses religion! If men think their religious
service will gain them acceptance with God, he has accomplished his
purpose to keep them eternally damned.

Here is a short list of religious practices that men do, hoping to earn
their way to heaven: church attendance, water baptism, first communion,
confirmation, reciting the Lord’s Prayer, responsive readings, doing the
sign of the Cross, confessing and receiving forgiveness of their sins from
a priest, etc.

Before his conversion to Christ, Martin Luther, the founder of the
Lutheran Church, visited Rome, where he climbed the steps of Scala
Santa
on his knees...

...at the time, Luther believed such acts of self-sacrifice would increase
his chances of entering heaven. But it wasn’t long thereafter, in a
monastery at Wittenberg, he saw things in a Whole New Light. As Luther
was reading Romans 1:17, where it states, “The just shall live by faith,” he
paused a moment, and then it suddenly Dawned on him that Salvation
Was By faith...
"
(P Sadler)

FULL study 'link'

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Precious friend, how about you? Do you yet have "The Whole New Light" Of:

Eternal Righteousness By God's GRACE through faith on The Basis

"The PEACE Of God That Passes all understanding..." (Phi 4:7)?​

Please Be Very RICHLY Encouraged And Edified In
The LORD JESUS CHRIST, And His Word Of Truth, Rightly
Divided
(+ I and II).

Grace, Peace, And JOY!...
 

Deuteronomy

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Precious friends: Many decades ago, I received "The PEACE Of God" the moment I believed The Gospel of The GRACE Of God! Appears a couple of others, in the article below, received the same, having all of our Very Heavy burden of sin (EVERY-THING we did Was, In God's Sight, SIN, whether it was, as UNbelievers think, "good" or bad). And this PEACE has been the ONE Constant, amidst a life of Lots Of change. Amen?
Hello Brother, great topic/great post :) Thank you! And yes, AMEN indeed!!

Thank you for the reminder of Luther and his famous climb up the Scala Sancta on his knees (ouch :oops:). I wonder how many know the story :unsure: (it is certainly an interesting and important one).

God bless you!!

~Deut

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wattie

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(1 John 4:17-19) KJV:

Herein is our love made perfect, that we may have boldness in the day of judgment: because as he is, so are we in this world.

There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

We love him, because he first loved us.


It is so often said- 'If I can't lose salvation.. then I can do whatever I want!' or 'you are preaching a license to sin!'

But-- there is the key... 'We love Him, because He first loved us.'

Simple.