Between the years 1889 and 1913, there was an emperor in the land of Ethiopia

by the name of Menlik II.

He's the forebears of Emperor Halis Lassie that was deposed back in the 60s.

One day, Emperor Menlick II heard that in the West they have an instrument by which they punish criminals.

And that instrument was called the electric chair.

He liked the idea so much, he asked his people to order one and buy it from the West.

So they shipped one from Europe. And when the

electric chair had arrived, nobody has ever bothered to tell the emperor that the electric chair

would not have worked in Ethiopia in those days, because simply they did not have electricity. So after the chair

had arrived, Minlach was determined that he's not going to let his purchase go to waste. And he is

going to make use of it. So he turned the electric chair into a throne for the emperor,

on which he ruled his nation, and thus converting

the instrument of torture and death into a throne fit for the king. Today I want to tell you

about another throne that was converted from a throne of judgment to becoming a throne of grace.

I want to tell you about this converted throne from being an instrument of pain and condemnation

to being the instrument of salvation eternally. But this conversion was no

accident. This conversion was not by mistake. This conversion was planned before the world began.

I'm going to level with you, and I know that you're going to level with me, except we're not going to have a dialogue.

The dialogue is going to be between you and God.

As you're sitting there listening to me, I want to tell you in all seriousness, this is probably the most serious message on the subject of grace that I've been preaching in this series of messages.

Probably it's the one thing that's going to make your life,

either a joyful life or a miserable Christian life.

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