"The Grace of God......hath appeared to all men -
Titus.2:11.
Grace means just this; that the Lord God undertakes to carry out and carry through, and do from beginning to end, what the law could not do - for we could do absolutely nothing in our impotence and inability to approach one step to God.
God has done everything which belongs to Salvation, to conversion, to piety, to godliness, even to becoming a "partaker of the divine nature". Nothing is wanting: it is God who has done it. Everything is provided, and there is the Holy Spirit to carry out in your souls everything which Jesus Christ has carried out for you.
There is a special grace for every ministry, and every special duty, and every special difficulty, and every impossibility of life - a special grace for special days as you see clearly in Ephesians 4:7, "Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ......" and then comes the apostle, the pastor, the evangelist, the bible person, anyone who has to do with liberality.
For every ministry in the church (and every saved one is a member of the church, of the body of Christ) there is a special grace, diversified in its nature according to the diverse ministry. I do not have the grace of George Muller, to build orphan houses, and receive by faith all his orphans; I have not the grace of Hudsen Taylor, nor the grace of a simple housekeeper, a woman, or girl, to manage her ministry rightly.
I have just the grace, the special grace, for the ministry which is committed unto me. There is no member of His body, no saved one introduced by Gods grace into that wonderful, mystereious organism, the body of Christ, who has not received besides the general grace, a special gift of grace for a special ministry in the body.
Each member has his own grace.
Titus.2:11.
Grace means just this; that the Lord God undertakes to carry out and carry through, and do from beginning to end, what the law could not do - for we could do absolutely nothing in our impotence and inability to approach one step to God.
God has done everything which belongs to Salvation, to conversion, to piety, to godliness, even to becoming a "partaker of the divine nature". Nothing is wanting: it is God who has done it. Everything is provided, and there is the Holy Spirit to carry out in your souls everything which Jesus Christ has carried out for you.
There is a special grace for every ministry, and every special duty, and every special difficulty, and every impossibility of life - a special grace for special days as you see clearly in Ephesians 4:7, "Unto every one of us is given grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ......" and then comes the apostle, the pastor, the evangelist, the bible person, anyone who has to do with liberality.
For every ministry in the church (and every saved one is a member of the church, of the body of Christ) there is a special grace, diversified in its nature according to the diverse ministry. I do not have the grace of George Muller, to build orphan houses, and receive by faith all his orphans; I have not the grace of Hudsen Taylor, nor the grace of a simple housekeeper, a woman, or girl, to manage her ministry rightly.
I have just the grace, the special grace, for the ministry which is committed unto me. There is no member of His body, no saved one introduced by Gods grace into that wonderful, mystereious organism, the body of Christ, who has not received besides the general grace, a special gift of grace for a special ministry in the body.
Each member has his own grace.
