At one sudden sweep of the divine wave of mercy,

all my sins are all washed away!

Sal vatio n puts a new sun in our sky,

and a new joy in our hearts!

exc erpt from C. H. Spurgeon’s, "First Forgiveness, Then Healing"

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Wor ds by Thomas Kelly - 1809 Tune to "Doxology”

1. The Lord of glory, moved by love,

Des cends , in mercy, from above;

And He, before whom angels bow,

Is found a Man of grief below.

2. Such love is great, too great for thought,

Its length and breadth in vain are sought;

No tongue can tell its depth and height;

The love of Christ is infinite.

3. But though His love no measure knows,

The Savior to His people shows

Eno ugh to give them joy, when known,

Eno ugh to make their hearts His own.

4. Constrained by this, they walk with Him,

His love their most delightful theme;

To glorify Him here, their aim,

The ir hope, in Heaven to praise His name.

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Peo ple like to say to grace preachers that you preach an old fashioned gospel, all you do is focus upon Christ. To that we say a hearty AMEN.

Yes we do preach an old fashioned gospel, one that's tried, tested and true and one that speaks only of the Lord Jesus Christ! It is the same Gospel that Peter, Paul, and many others preached!

Pra ise His mighty name!

Rom ans 1:16 “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” Romans 1:17 “For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.” --Wayne

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&ld quo;M oreov er whom He did predestinate, them He also called:

and whom He called, them He also justified:

and whom He justified, them He also glorified.” Romans 8:30

The justified sinner stands the closest to God of any created being in the universe. Nearer to the throne of the Eternal, he cannot stand.

Wha t marvelous love!

Who will dare assert that salvation is not, from first to last of free, sovereign grace!

Let your eye pierce the veil which falls between earth and heaven. Behold that shining, worshiping being, standing so near to the throne of glory, bathed in the overpowering effulgence of its rays!

Who is He?

He was once a sinner upon earth, the vilest of his race, the dishonored of his generation, forsaken by man and abhorred of God.

But Jesus met him, and divine love drew him, and sovereign grace rescued, pardoned, and saved him!

And now washed from all his guilt by the blood, freed from all condemnation by the righteousness of Christ, he stands before the throne "blameless," a "king and a priest unto God." Such is the great love of Jesus! And all this grace, and all this glory, and all this bliss flows from the free, sovereign grace of God!

--O ctavi us Winslow

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