Apart from What God's Grace Bestows

While works do not save, it is a person's works that ultimately bears witness

 of whether or not we are attached to the Vine!

As the fruits of the Spirit begin to grow there should be a stark/marked difference

between the old life and the new...

Matt. 5:16

Let your light so shine before men, 

that they may see your good works

 and glorify your Father in heaven.

    

Apart from what God’s grace bestows, no boast have I to claim

Praise God; where judgement’s verdict rose in condemnation’s blame/shame

Grace did abound, through Jesus Christ, the hour I believed

By the Lamb that God sacrificed, full pardon I received

Shall I then sin where grace runs through and through me; God forbid

The new man in no way should do the things the old man did

For then I mock the sacredness where Jesus Christ’s shed blood

Clothes me in robes of righteousness, but by the grace of God

How can I, who have died to sin, live therein anymore

The miracle grace wrought within ends who I was before

Through salvation, the gift God gives, the sinner is set free

Henceforth it is not I who lives, but Christ who lives in me

Apart from what God’s grace bestows, dwells in me no good thing

Praise God from whom all blessing flows, for death has lost its sting

Because the old man, crucified, wears newness in its place

Where Jesus Christ is glorified through sinners saved by grace

© Janet Martin

Romans 6: 1-4

 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound?

 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 

3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus

 were baptized into His death? 

 Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, 

that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, 

even so we also should walk in newness of life.