{"id":25063,"date":"2025-06-06T03:57:45","date_gmt":"2025-06-06T03:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=25063"},"modified":"2025-06-06T03:57:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-06T03:57:45","slug":"he-giveth-more-grace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/06\/he-giveth-more-grace\/","title":{"rendered":"He Giveth More Grace"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cBut he giveth more grace.\u201d\u2014James 4:6<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is a sure mark that the true grace of God, by Jesus Christ, is conceived in the heart, when the cry of the soul is for more grace. Thus there is an harmony between the Father\u2019s promises and the children s wants. God giveth more grace: I daily need more, saith the sensible soul. \u2018He that drinketh of the water of life, saith Jesus, shall never thirst again:\u2019 He shall never thirst after any other fountain; he shall seek to no other spring but me. There is no grace, favour, or good will from God to sinners, but what is by Jesus, through him, in him, and communicated from him. Here is the believer\u2019s mercy; he has not a stock of grace stored up in his own heart to live upon, which may be expended, and he is at last lost for want of more. No. But all the kindness and love of God towards him is treasured up in Jesus. Here is the humility of believers; they come, like Joseph\u2019s brethren, to Jesus, who is their elder brother, for every supply; out of his fulness they receive grace upon grace. Jesus is an inexhaustible storehouse, therefore his members cannot want. God the Father gave them grace at first in Christ Jesus \u2014he called them by his sovereign grace\u2014he justified them fully by grace\u2014he saves them daily by grace\u2014he sanctifies them freely by grace\u2014he comforts them continually by his grace\u2014and he will glorify them according to the exceeding riches of his grace. Thus all is of grace, freely given to and richly bestowed upon poor, vile, undeserving sinners.<\/p>\n

I know there are these reasonings in every humbled sinner\u2019s heart, \u2018What suitable return do I make; or what reward shall I give unto the Lord for all his blessings of grace? Oh what a poor, unloving, ungrateful wretch am I! how do I requite the Lord my God? Such is the genuine language of gracious hearts. The aboundings of grace make sinners humble, self hateful, and sin abominable: \u2018Not rather as we be slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say, Let us do evil that good may come, whose damnation is just.\u2019 Rom. 3:8. If God giveth \u2018more grace,\u2019 then not one of his children that ever had a single spark of the grace of Jesus, shall ever go to hell for want of grace. It is equally as impossible, that a gracious soul should fall from God\u2019s love and grace, turn hater of him, and so be a prey to the devil, as it was for Lazarus to quit Abraham\u2019s bosom, for the flames of hell. The holy fire of grace being once kindled in the soul, never goes out. The fire of the altar was an emblem of this. It is as true in this respect of gracious souls, as it is of the wicked in another, * their fire never goes out.\u2019 Why not? Because \u2018grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life.\u2019 Rom. 5:21.<\/p>\n

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It is a sure mark that the true grace of God, by Jesus Christ, is conceived in the heart, when the cry of the soul is for more grace. Thus there is an harmony between the Father\u2019s promises and the children s wants. God giveth more grace: I daily need more, saith the sensible soul. \u2018He that drinketh of the water of life, saith Jesus, shall never thirst again:\u2019 He shall never thirst after any other fountain; he shall seek to no other spring but me. There is no grace, favour, or good will from God to sinners, but what is by Jesus, through him, in him, and communicated from him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":20656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1571],"tags":[1197],"class_list":["post-25063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-william-mason","tag-spiritual-growth"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25063"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25064,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25063\/revisions\/25064"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}