Sometimes, when thinking of these infinite blessings, my heart overflows with joy, but honestly, most times I think, “Is this all true?” Am I truly blessed with all (nothing left, all included, infinite) the highest spiritual blessings in the heavenly places? All blessings that even an infinite God can give have already been given to me. The first blessing raises us to such heights of heaven that we feel giddy. How can an eternal God value worms of a 70-80 year lifespan to love us from all eternity? He chose us even before creation. Why did he love me even before I had a being? Why such honor for me? Then he elected me, totally depraved, for the great goal of making us holy, as he is holy and blameless before him, so for all future eternity I can enjoy his beauty and glory unhindered forever. Before we can even digest this, he takes us higher, to that eternity past, when he planned his great predestination, and the central goal of his plan was to bestow his highest honor and adopt me as his child, an heir of God, and that too at such a cost—the slaying of his darling son, Jesus Christ. And he did all this how? Not grudgingly, not with hesitation, but with the good pleasure of his will, with infinite delight and joy, rejoicing so much that he sang. Is this all true? Are we dreaming this? Is it simply piling up imaginative blessings to feel good?
If we can just deeply digest, grasp, and believe the reality of all this, I will tell you this is enough to transform our lives. Our hearts can be filled with so much joy, peace, and satisfaction that nothing in the world can take it away. Moreover, all these blessings are not somewhere in the sky; God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts. We can feel this glorious, eternal, infinite love God had for us now; it can overwhelm us. Romans 5:4 says, “God’s love has been poured out in our hearts through the Holy Spirit.” But the question is, why do I not enjoy that love when I wake up every morning? Can I say that the great hindrance in our hearts to enjoying these blessings is our self-obsession, which comes from unbelief?
Unbelief keeps our focus on ourselves, always looking at ourselves, at our unworthiness. “How can God love me like this? I don’t deserve this.” Faith is looking away from ourselves to God. We think that if these false teachers taught us anything, we might deserve a good life on this earth—the best life now, a house, and good health. But all the eternal blessings seem superfluous, not needed for us. We didn’t ask for this; we don’t desire this. It’s good to know, but we cannot really digest, take in, and rejoice, relish it so much that it transforms our life and fills our heart with so much joy that we rise above our situation and worship God like Paul. It is all because of our stubborn, cursed self-orientation and self-obsession that hinders the enjoyment of these blessings.
Remember how Paul started? The term “blessed” teaches us to focus on God, not on us or his gifts; his focus is on God, not on himself. Martyn Lloyd-Jones’ statement is that the most sad and miserable Christians are those who are always thinking of themselves, their situation, and their feelings. This is a subjective self-obsession. The secret of enjoying these infinite blessings is to forget yourself and look to God’s glory. By design, our catechism says God created us to glorify and enjoy him. Our true highest joy is in the glory of God. You will never be happy until you are happy in his glory. Oh, the importance of the glory of God.
The great re-discovery of the Reformation is that the central theme of Scripture is the grand truth of Soli Deo gloria—to God alone be the glory. The goal of all four other solas is this. Why Sola Scriptura—that Scripture alone is the final, infallible authority? If any other is the final authority, it is an attack on God’s glory. Salvation must be sola fide, sola gratia, and solus Christus—through faith alone, by grace alone, and on account of Christ alone. If we give 1% of the credit for our salvation to any other being, it is to rob God of His full glory. The Reformation is not just a doctrinal dispute and difference against the Roman Catholic Church and others; it is a great fight over whether man will get all the glory or God will get all the glory. To go wrong here is to go wrong everywhere. Romans 1 lists the horrible consequences of a religion that refuses to glorify God; it brings the wrath of God from heaven upon our heads. Romans 3:23 says, “for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.” The essence of sin is to fail to glorify God. We have fallen from that.
The great distinctive beauty of the reformed faith is that it delivers us from self-obsession and brings our focus to God’s glory. It teaches us that God’s great reason and motivation in all he does is his own glory. God’s glory is our highest good; we will be most happy when we glorify God. There is nothing more important in our life than to grasp and live for the glory of God. For selfish beings living low, selfish, narrow lives, our greatest need is to grasp a glimpse of God’s glory. So we have to daily pray like Moses, “Show me your glory.”
Only when you have a high view of God, a towering view of God, when you stand before the infinite, monumental Grand Canyon mountain of the glory of God, do we realize how small we are, how small our worries are, and how small our lives are. Even our world, our generations, all generations, all nations, and all people are nothing compared to the great cause of the glory of God. Let all humanity and all angels perish and become nothing; let not a small stain be put on the eternal glory of God.
When you are lost in the shoreless ocean of glory and you have a heart burning for the glory of this God, it will not only lift us from our native self-obsession, but we will have all the stamina and energy to live an extraordinary life in the midst of a sinful and adulterous generation. The only anchor that will make you stand and not be swept by the temporary river of this fleeting pleasure, this passing world and its lusts, is your comprehension of the glory of God. The highest seraphim angel can have no higher or nobler end than this—the glory of God.
Men who have lived grand, joyful lives, achieving great things and leaving a mark on history, are men who lived for God’s glory. If our focus is the glory of God, we will live life to the fullest. We will be very holy, most happy, most wise, and most useful. Our lives will be valuable and count for time and eternity. See, what we are talking about is primary. Everything is small before this. Our whole generation, why, all generations, are nothing. This is the center of your life. This is why we are here on earth. The purpose of your creation, providence, and redemption, our chief end, our highest purpose is the glory of God. We live for the glory of God, or we do not live at all. Though we live, we are dead, living an empty, useless life, soon to be forgotten. When you come to the end of your life, all that matters is, “Did you live for the glory of God?” If you failed here, our life is a failure. We have wasted our entire life and wrongly invested our life. So, Soli Deo gloria is a monumental pinnacle purpose.
So Paul in Ephesians, after talking about glorious past eternal blessings, knowing we will stumble to grasp this with our self-obsession, brings our focus to this most important thing in the next verse, verse 6: “to the praise of the glory of His grace.” This has three headings: Grace, the Glory of Grace, and the Praise of the Glory of Grace. Paul reorients our focus from ourselves to God. In a way, he is saying, “You will not be able to believe or touch, or taste and enjoy these higher blessings, and rise like an archangel to bless God with sheer ecstasy like me, if you keep looking at yourself, your worth, or your state. You need to take your eyes off yourself, your needs, and your feelings and turn to the great doctrine of the glory of God.” You are so immensely blessed, not because you are worthy, or even because you need this, or you sought this, but all this is done for the glory of God’s grace.
Oh, may the Holy Spirit help us understand. Why should he elect us, predestine us, bless us with every spiritual blessing, and raise us to such heights of blessings? We were not only unneeded by the self-existent God, we were completely useless and irrelevant to him as fallen creatures. It has nothing to do with who we are. Don’t keep seeing yourself, your needs, or your feelings. Lift your eyes above to see the answer in verse 6: “to the praise of the glory of His grace.” This is the ultimate goal of election and predestination. The word “to” in Greek has the idea of purpose. Everything the Father did in verses 3-5 was for the sole purpose that he might be able to display and manifest his grace, and that, having displayed it, all beings might see it and render praise for the glory of his grace.
The Attribute of Grace
The glory of God is the revelation and manifestation of God’s attributes. We have studied the attributes of God. Grace is an attribute of God. Grace lay in the heart of God from all eternity since he is called in Scripture “the God of all grace.” Grace didn’t start in his heart after man fell. Grace was in the heart of God, an essential part of His being from all eternity. Now, what is Grace? Grace is a word you cannot fully define. It’s something you have to experience; it is the most amazing, sweetest experience in the universe. We keep defining it as God’s spontaneous, free, unmerited favor in action toward guilty, undeserving sinners. Grace is different from all his other attributes; it is different from mercy. Mercy is shown as a response to a need or suffering. But grace is shown not because of any need or suffering to whom it is given, or because someone is deserving or undeserving, but it freely comes from the giver according to the generosity of his great heart, and it is always shown to the worst, utterly guilty, and undeserving. Like I said in the amazing judge story last week, he not only forgave the criminal, justified him, and adopted the one who killed his own son. We cannot understand it; it is amazing. That is why it is called amazing grace.
The best picture of grace in the Old Testament is like the great King David. He brings the beggar, the handicapped Mephibosheth, who is a fugitive and the grandson of the previous king, who needs to be hanged according to the kingdom’s rules. He comes and stands like a pathetic, dirty, infected dog with one leg, before a king like a lion. The king sees this pathetic fellow and says, “I want to show kindness.” So first, he removes the capital punishment. “You shall live.” Oh, Mephibosheth is excited, thinking, “Enough, King; thank you.” Next, he says, “I give you back all your grandfather Saul’s palace, land, and wealth.” “Why? What will I do with all that? I have never seen a full 100 rupees.” Before he comes out of that shock, he says, “Then, I give you 70 servants for you.” “Ah, why? One is enough.” It doesn’t stop. He says, “You will eat at my table every meal.” “Ah, why? You will be respected as the king’s son.” “I am adopting you.” The guy faints from this; it doesn’t stop; it keeps coming. He’s wondering, “Why, why?” This is grace. David says, “I am doing this not because he is deserving, or out of pity to meet his need. No, he is the worst. It is not about him at all. But I want to show how much grace is in my heart. I want people to see, admire, and praise the grace of my heart. That is why I am doing this.” Spontaneous, unmerited favor in action toward undeserving, guilty sinners.
The word “grace” gathers at one burning point all the rays of God’s infinite, loving heart with which he stoops down to the lowest sinful creatures, lifts them from all their misery, heals them, delivers them, forgives all their sins, justifies them, and lifts them to the highest honor as his sons, making them rich, inheritors of his own boundless wealth. The motive spring of his heart for these acts is grace.
Now, how will he manifest this attribute that is in his heart for all eternity? His other attributes, his power and his wisdom, were manifested to an extent in creation. He created the vast universe out of nothing, just in 6 days, without any materials or tools, by the power of his word. “Let it be.” Wow! Astronauts like Sunita Williams have seen the vastness of space. They talk about billions of light-years, innumerable galaxies, and we’re just beginning to discover how many there may be. All this out of nothing, just in 6 days. When God said, “Let it be,” what a display of power! Everything works perfectly in its place, with accurate balance, like the intricate machinery of the universe. Whether you take a macroscopic look with a telescope into big things or a microscopic look at the tiniest things, what a display of wisdom! The Psalms sing of his power and wisdom in creation. His other attributes are more displayed in providence—his patience with sinners, his justice and holiness sometimes in history, like at Noah’s time, the burning of Sodom and Gomorrah, his mercy when the Israelites were suffering, his power in the way he delivered Israel from Egyptian slavery.
God wanted to make a full display of his grace. Grace found no objects in a pure creation upon which to display its full glory. Grace in its true and deepest display needs undeserving, fully depraved, sinful creatures, and there were none such in the creation as it came from the divine perfect hand. God could not display grace in providence. So God decided to fully display his attribute of grace in redemption. Hence, we see his wisdom to allow the devil and sin to run their course in his world. Paul says, “Blessed be God, that He’s displayed His grace in redemption in a way that He’s not displayed it anywhere else.” This is a great revelation that the purpose and goal of redemption is the manifestation of His grace.
The Glory of Grace
Secondly, it is not just grace, but the Glory of Grace. Glory basically means the manifested excellence of an attribute. How excellent, how wonderful, how magnificent or splendid, how intrinsically beautiful is an attribute of God can only be seen when it is glorified, meaning manifested and revealed. You do not see or perceive the glory of the sun on a cloudy day. Now, there is glory in the sun, an intrinsic excellence and beauty. We see it when the clouds go away, and its excellence is manifested. Now, that’s what the word “glory” means here.
So, put the two thoughts together: the Glory of Grace. Grace itself is an undefinable, sweet divine trait. Amazing grace. God’s grace will be like him, infinite. Look, it says, “the glory of his grace.” He wanted to show his utmost grace, so creatures can see how beautiful, magnificent, wonderful, and splendid his grace is.
What does the “utmost glory of grace” even mean? God’s power at its utmost, who can grasp? All the power in creation and providence. Job says the drops that fell from his hand in a way hide how powerful he is. His word itself can create the universe. What can his hand do? When he comes and sits in judgment in Revelation 20, before his presence, all worlds do not turn to dust but dissolve, and the universe is annihilated. We don’t know where it went; it just disappears. In the same way, what must grace at its utmost be? The next verse talks about the riches of his grace, the height of his grace. What does it mean? Who by searching can find out God? It is not possible for the human mind to conceive grace at its utmost! What human intellect is gigantic enough to grasp the utmost glory of grace—the glory of his grace! If an infinite God shows grace, that itself is unbearable for us. Now he wants to show the utmost glory of his grace. So Paul says he chose and predestined us to show the utmost glory of his grace as vessels of his grace. Fainting! Wow!
Can I blubberingly say a few things about the glory of this grace?
Firstly, the glory of grace is sovereign grace. It is granted sovereignly by the absolute will of the Almighty God. No one can earn it; no one can claim it as a right. There is no reason in the creature, no reason known to us, but the good pleasure of His will. “I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy.” Absolute sovereignty is one of the glories of divine grace. We didn’t earn it; we didn’t desire it; we didn’t pray for it or ask for it; we don’t deserve it. It is sovereignly given to us, so come out of your cursed self-obsession and accept it as a sovereign gift. Only then will you rejoice.
Secondly, it is free grace. Man is not expected to do anything to earn or obtain the grace of God. If you do anything to get it, it is not free grace. God didn’t choose because of any good character—whether someone was rich, educated, or famous. He looks down on vast humanity and passes by kings and princes and riches to let His love settle on the poor. He looks on men and passes over so many who are good in common grace; his grace often selects the grossest transgressor and the chief of sinners, like you and me, so these should become eternal monuments of His grace. Think, if the utmost height of his grace should be glorified, he has to choose the lowest, most depraved creatures. That is how you and I were qualified to be elected and predestined!
Thirdly, it is the fullness of grace. Where God bestows His grace, it is no little grace. It is grace to cover all of a man’s sins, whatever they may be, however many they may be. He doesn’t just pardon and forget all our sins; he justifies, and not just justifies, but adopts, sanctifies, perseveres, and glorifies.
Fourthly, it is unfailing, continual grace. Where once the grace of God has fallen, it is never taken away. It is an eternal gift. He never revokes a pardon, justification, or adoption. “The gifts and calling of God are without repentance.” Grace is an inexhaustible river; it continues flowing for all eternity. It not only saves us but it is this grace that keeps us saved. Today you continue to be a believer because of this fullness of grace.
Fifthly, it is sufficient grace. It is sufficient for all situations in this life and eternity. We see problems and scream like Paul, “Lord, help,” and he says, “My grace is sufficient.” It is sufficient grace for all life situations.
Sixthly, it is God-satisfying grace. What I mean is that this grace is shown in such a way that it never interferes with any other attribute of God. God shows grace in a way consistent with all his other attributes. This is what shows how glorious this grace is. How can God’s justice be satisfied when he passes by and forgives so many sins of these people? He does that not by hiding their sins below some mountain where no one can see them. No, he does that by laying all their sins on the sacrifice, upon their Surety, and he exacted from Christ the justice due for their transgressions. In their Substitute, His justice has received the full payment of His demands. In the same way, it satisfies his holiness, his law, the demands of the law, and his wrath. There is no attribute of God that grace ever slights. This is the glory of grace: though grace works and reveals itself as if justice, wrath, and holiness are dead, yet it never violates any one of those bright attributes of God. God is holy, just, and also gracious now in salvation.
Finally, verse 7 uses an amazing word: “according to the riches of His grace.” Why am I blessed so much? My election and predestination are beyond my mind, beyond my temporary needs, and even beyond my mental grasp. See, it is not according to your need, understanding, or grasp, or even your capacity to enjoy. An amazing word: “It is according to the riches of his grace.” Whether you need it or not, the whole wealth of God is available for every Christian soul. God gives “according to the riches of His grace.” You do not expect a millionaire to give you 5 rupees as a gift, right? He gives according to his riches. In the same way, God gives royally, divinely. The measure of his grace is according to his abundance of His treasures, and he hands over infinite blessings with an open hand.
The measure of His grace is according to his riches. Now the question is that the measure of my reception is my faith. “According to thy faith be it unto thee.” There are all every spiritual blessings given; there is infinite, unrealized wealth. We are all living like beggars, while the potentiality of wealth is beyond our wildest, most greedy imagination. Alas, that when we might have so much, we do have so little. So, I hope you grasp the weight of the word “glory of his grace.”
Praise of the Glory of Grace
Not just the glory of grace, but verse 6 says, “to the praise of the glory of His grace.” The word “praise” is not just praise, but commendation with delight. Let me illustrate. An India-Pakistan match. We all watch. Just one ball, 5 runs needed. A tough bowler, 5 balls, no runs. On the last ball, the ball comes, our batsman hits a shot, it goes for a boundary, and India wins a nail-biting match. Oh, how the Indians praise the batsman! All on the ground are giving a favorable commendation with delight.
On the other side, the Pakistan captain comes to the team, wants to console them. “You guys played really well; we should have won the match, but that guy did some magic at the last minute.” He’s making an acknowledgment of that good hit, but he’s not praising him with delight. It’s a grudging acknowledgment of the accomplishment, but it’s not praise. Now you see the difference.
For example, God displayed his power so much with the 10 plagues of Egypt and the parting of the sea. What happened? All of Israel sang a song with women dancing: “Who among the gods is like you, Lord? Who is like you—majestic in power and holiness, awesome in glory, working wonders?” They are joyfully praising God’s display of power.
So the word “praise” here, of the glory of grace, means that every creature that sees the glory of grace shown to us. God is not satisfied that they just acknowledge God has shown grace to us. The display of that grace should be so grand, so marvelous, the riches and height of his grace that it will fill every creature with so much wonder and delight that they will eternally praise God for His grace because of us.
Ephesians 2:7 says that by what God has done for us, “that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.” In the coming ages, all intelligent creatures, all angels, and people who always praised God for his holiness, power, justice, and wisdom, and who never saw the glory of his grace, when they see what God has done to us by electing and predestining us, they will see the glory of the grace of God—the manifested excellence of grace. All for all eternity will praise the riches of God’s extravagant grace to us.
Here Paul says the purpose for which God chose you before the world began and predestined you to sonship, the ultimate goal of that is “to the praise of the glory of His grace”—the full manifestation of His grace, to display how much grace is in the heart of God!
So, if you and I have to digest these blessings and experience them, it will not be when we are self-focused, but when we are caught up like Paul in God’s glory. Then your eyes are opened to see this glory. Do you seem to digest it a little? The reason an eternal God can set his love on worms of creatures, the reason a holy God can elect unholy sinners to make them holy and blameless to make them stand before him, the reason the highest Most High God can predestine depraved sons to be adopted into his family… is all to display the grace of his heart. Not just the glory of his grace, not just to acknowledge his grace, but in a way that the whole universe is so thrilled and amazed that it praises his glory, excellence, and the height of his grace.
Oh, only eternity will show the full praise of the glory of God’s grace. We really don’t know what it will look like. When all the chosen ones shall be gathered together in heaven, made holy and perfect, God lifts them to the highest glory with his Son. When the universe sees that, then the whole universe will cry, “To the praise of the glory of his grace.”
Application
What shall we say to these things? It overwhelms our soul.
First: We have a call to bless God. Oh, brothers and sisters, we cannot grasp and digest this in one hour of service. Go home, sit all this week, sit down and contemplate this. Let your mind survey the whole plan of your salvation until your hearts burn with fire when you perceive the magnitude of the glory of grace, to be lost in praise.
God chose us, predestined us as sons by free grace, given into the hands of Christ to be His treasure—redeemed with the heart’s blood of the Son of God. Christ came and accomplished salvation. When you were running into sin, slaves of Satan, mad on your idols, He called you with that voice that wakes the dead, and endowed you with spiritual life, justified you, adopted you into the divine family, and made you a partaker of the divine nature, all by grace. These are wonders of grace. But remember… this is all just a foretaste. No human mind can grasp the full revelation of his grace at the second coming. 1 Peter 1:13 says, “Set your hope on the grace to be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed at his coming.”
He is not just going to reveal the glory of his grace. God is not content simply to show it and say, “See, this is my grace; acknowledge it.” No, he will reveal it in such a way that the universe will overflow in praise. God has selected you to be a vessel of his grace, so all the universe and all of eternity will praise his grace to you. Can you not praise God and be mute? What? Be amazed, heavens and sun and stars!
Moses says to the old Israelites in Deuteronomy 4:32, “For ask now concerning the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and ask from one end of heaven to the other, whether any great thing like this has happened, or anything like it has been heard. Or did God ever try to go and take for Himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, by wonders, by war, by a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?”
How much more for us! Can I say for us, search all of history, search all religions, all cultures from Babylon, Greek, Roman, Assyrian, Indian, Islamic world, from east to west, north to south, all philosophies, search all of Google, all big data: was there any God who loved his people from all eternity, set his love, predestined them as sons, and made the greatest sacrifice to make them his own, to show his grace?
Let the truth of it be so understood and so absorbed into your spirit and mind and heart until you’re caught up in praise, and you with Paul say, “Blessed be God for such grace.” Oh, be lost in praise.
Is your self-obsessed mind not excited? Let me answer a selfish question and see if that excites you: Someone asked, “Why does God over and over again say he loves for his glory? He says stunning things about me, elected me, predestined me, made me his heir, loves me, cares for me, but all this is for his glory. Does he love me or does he love his glory more? Is he loving me so he can just get more glory? Then he’s not loving me, right?” What do we answer?
Oh, you stupid, selfish mind. How do I answer? If God has to love you with the greatest love, he has to love you for his glory. Because if he loves you for your own self, he can just give you an 80-year lifespan, good food, a house, and health, and finish your story. That is enough for you. That is all loving you means. It is only because God loves you for his glory that he has attached you to his highest eternal glory of his grace. He loved you so much he staked his eternal glory on you! He made the realization of his glory through you. By loving us this way, he makes useless, mortal worms so valuable, makes much of us as his greatest treasure for himself. He elects and sets his love on you and predestined you. It is this kind of love that bestows eternity’s worth, infinite value on you, because the goal of your salvation is his glory.
God loving us for himself is infinitely greater love than him loving us for ourselves. That is why he designed us to be happy by glorifying him. “You are so precious to God that he will not let your preciousness become your God.” He will not let your glory, which he himself creates and loves, replace his glory as your supreme treasure. Glory in this truth. Glory in, revel in, and bask in the fact that God loves you enough to say that he loves you for his glory. That way of loving you is the greatest way of loving you!
Oh, come out of your self-obsession; focus on God’s glory. That is how you enjoy these blessings! Will you worship God at the throne of grace for this message? This verse calls you to praise the glory of God’s grace you have so largely been made a recipient of.
Second, not only praise God for the glory of his grace, but will you let the people around you see the result of grace in you? Strive by God’s help to live a life others see what grace has done, so they praise the glory of God’s grace. That is the goal of saving. Our enemies slander us, saying the doctrines of grace make people careless and sinful, that you cannot see any good works in them. That is wrong. Our forefathers have shown how wrong it is. The most holy people have been those who believed in grace.
Now it is our turn, as receivers of such grace. We should strive to live by God’s help so we don’t bring dishonor but praise to the glory of God’s grace. We should do this by regular watchfulness, never neglecting the means of grace—prayer, the word of God, and church attendance. You are degrading the grace of God when you are not walking worthy of your calling. Holy living is “to the praise of the glory of his grace.”
And then, with such a credible life, become missionaries of the gospel of grace. See, the harvest is plenty; we have a great burden. Our land is filled with a cursed Arminian, man-centered theology. All preaching is about man’s part in salvation, man’s free will, man’s work, and man’s contribution, grandiose claims and schemes of men. No grace at all. Oh, how many souls are in bondage, groaning in a burden. Oh, how they need to hear this good news of God’s free grace! Salvation is all of grace, by faith in Christ alone. Only then does all glory go to God. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast.” If we mix any of our merit, worth, or works with His grace, we pollute the gospel and rob God’s glory. It is a cursed devil’s gospel. This is the gospel people need to hear. You and I are called to be missionaries for that!
For those of you who are not believers here: This should give you great hope. Salvation is all of the free grace of God to all men. It is hope for all good and bad men. Suppose you are here as a bad man; however bad you are, however many sins you have committed, you can come to God. Your sins don’t stop him from showing grace. Grace is more glorified in sinners. “Him that comes to Christ he will in no wise cast out.”
If you are a good person outside, who has lived a decent life and didn’t commit any big crimes, good at a human level, but you also have to come because the only way to be saved from hell and go to heaven is by grace. Salvation never comes by works, good works. Salvation is not based on how good or bad we are. Therefore, you too should believe in Christ. If all is by grace, then everyone, both great and small sinners, needs to come. “Come unto me, all ye that labor.” “Whosoever believeth in him is not condemned.” “Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved.” As an unbeliever, all you are doing is fighting with your creator. Enough of fighting with your creator. Put down your weapons, surrender, come to your Father’s house, and enjoy his grace.
Grace Reformed Baptist Church, Bangalore 