Act the Miracle: Future Grace, the Word of the Cross, and the Purifying Power of God’s Promises

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Desiring God

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🗓️ 30 September 2012

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Christians tap into the sin-killing power of God when we believe a blood-bought promise and embrace it as a more precious treasure than any temptation in front of us.

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0:00.0	The following resource is from Desiring God.org.
0:04.0	If God predestines his people to be conformed to the image of his son according to Romans 829.
0:17.1	And if he elects us before the foundation of the world that we may be holy, according to Ephesians 1.
0:28.0	Then it is clear that God intends someday to fill the earth with the beauty of holiness.
0:40.0	A world filled with people who reflect the infinite worth of the transcendent
0:50.8	fullness of God. A world of people created and recreated in his
1:02.3	image. created in his image, a world that is full of the glory of the Lord like the waters cover
1:09.6	the sea, a world radiant with the beauty of holiness. That's what he intends to do. And I know
1:20.8	that for some of us, the concept of holiness or the beauty of holiness is so new or indistinct or cluttered with old associations that it may be very hard for you to feel the wonder of what I mean
1:47.1	when I speak of the beauty of holiness filling the earth like the waters cover the sea. So I thought I would read to you that quote from Jonathan Edwards because
1:59.0	though Edwards lived in a world so amazingly different from most people because what he saw in God,
2:08.0	I find this quote to be ravishing.
2:12.0	We drink in a strange notion of holiness from our childhood as if
2:18.8	it were a melancholy, morrow, sour, and unpleasant thing.
2:24.8	But there is nothing in it but what is sweet and ravishingly lovely.
2:30.2	Tis the highest beauty and amiableness, vastly above all other beauties.
2:36.7	Tis a divine beauty, makes the soul heavenly and far purer than anything here on earth.
2:45.0	Tis of a sweet, pleasant, charming, lovely, amiable, delightful, serene, calm, still nature.
2:56.8	Tis almost too high a beauty for any creatures to be adorned with.
3:07.6	It makes the soul a little sweet and delightful image of the blessed Jehovah. Oh how many angels stand with pleased, delighted, charmed eyes and look and look with smiles of pleasure
3:21.6	upon their lips, upon the soul that is holy.
3:26.7	How many, how may they hover over such a soul to delight to behold such loveliness. What a sweet calmness, what a calm
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