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NASB | John 11:43 When He had said these things, He cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come forth." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 11:43 When He had said this, He shouted with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!" |
Subject: Grace, Graciously Offered |
Bible Note: "What the Arminian wants to do is to arouse man's activity; what we want to do is to kill it once for all, to show him that he is lost and ruined, and that his activities are not now at all equal to the work of conversion; that he must look upward. They seek to make the man stand up; we seek to bring him down, and make him feel that there he lies in the hand of God, and that his business is to submit himself to God, and cry aloud, 'Lord, save, or we perish.' We hold that man is never so near grace as when he begins to feel that he can do nothing at all. When he says, 'I can pray, I can believe, I can do this, and I can do the other,' marks of self-sufficiency and arrogance are on his brow. But when he comes to his knees and cries, 'Oh for this no strength have I, My strength is at Thy feet to lie,' then we think that God has blessed him, and that the work of grace is in his soul. "O sinner! think not that thy own unaided arm can get the victory. Cry unto God, and beg Him to take your soul in hand, for you cannot be saved unless he doeth it for you. Bless Him for the promise which says, 'Him that cometh unto me, I will in no wise cast out.' Oh ! cry to Him, 'Lord, draw me by Thy grace, that I may run after Thee; work all my works in me, and bring me to Thyself and save me!' Not to yourself do we bid you look, nor to your prayers, nor to your faith, but to Christ and to His cross, and to that God who is 'able to save unto the uttermost them that come unto God by Him.'" --Charles H. Spurgeon (1860) |