PRESENTING GRACE AND EXPRESSING GRACE

PRESENTING GRACE AND EXPRESSING GRACE

I liked your meditation on Enoch. It is everything to please the Lord. Giving Him credit for His nature pleases Him. He is the rewarder of them that diligently seek Him out. In the gospel you are presenting grace. In the church you are expressing grace; which do you think is the most to the Lord’s heart? You must be walking in the Spirit to express grace. Many a one can offer grace who does not express it much. You could not be expressing grace without at the time being able to offer it. It is a great thing to offer Christ as a Saviour to sinful man, but it is still greater to express Christ in a world where He is rejected.

Do you agree with my paper on the difference between the grace peculiar to the gospel, and that which is peculiar to the church. I was very glad that it came out clearly to some, though not to all — the weight that is on every child of Adam. If the nature and measure of the weight is not seen you cannot say that it has been removed. Some understood the judgment of God on the sinner to mean the eternal judgment; that is future. I did not mean that; I meant the weight that is at this moment on every unbeliever — not his sins only — not the mortgage on the building only, but that the building itself must come down; it is to be dissolved, and no one is free of the weight now, who does not by faith pass through the death of Christ to the other side (like Israel going through the Red Sea), the side which His resurrection sets you on.