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NASB | Zechariah 4:7 'What are you, O great mountain? Before Zerubbabel you will become a plain; and he will bring forth the top stone with shouts of "Grace, grace to it!""' |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Zechariah 4:7 'What are you, O great mountain [of obstacles]? Before Zerubbabel [who will rebuild the temple] you will become a plain (insignificant)! And he will bring out the capstone [of the new temple] with loud shouts of "Grace, grace to it!"'" [Ezra 4:1-5, 24; Is 40:4] |
Subject: Grace that Amazes is Cross Centered |
Bible Note: "Although we all sing the hymn 'Amazing Grace,' it amazes few. Why? Because grace cannot amaze until we feel the judgment we deserveā¦ This grace amazed John Newton [1725-1807]. This is why he wrote the hymn 'Amazing Grace.' Newton became a Christian in his late twenties. Prior to his conversion, he had been a slave trader in West Africa and was a godless, ruthless man. "For example, he kept a black slave as a mistress. When he caught her in a sexual relationship with a black man, he beat the man to death with his shovel only to find out later that he was her husband. "On the long voyages across the Atlantic, he and his mates raped the women being transported to their North American masters. Though many arrived pregnant with his seed, he was hard and indifferent to the fate of these women and their children. "This is why, after his conversion, Newton looked at the cross with amazement. There he saw grace -- Christ suffering the agony of God's wrath in his place, so that God could reward him with eternal life. The grace of God stunned him, and he never got over it. "Our sins may be different from those of John Newton, but God's grace works the same way for us. When a Christian choral group changed the words in Newton's hymn from 'saved a wretch like me' to 'saved a person like me' I knew that grace had sprouted wings and flown away. Grace appears most perfectly in the knowledge of our sin revealed at the cross. Only cross-centered Christians find grace amazing." --William P. Farley (2004) |
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