"GRACE COMES TO ALL"- BY NICHOL and WHITESIDE

                                                        GRACE COMES TO ALL

                         "If people are saved by grace without conditions on their part. 

                            Why are not all saved?

                         Grace comes to all.

                        "For the grace of God hath appeared, Bringing salvation to all

                           Men, instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness,

                           and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously

                           and godly in this present world" (Tit. 2:11,12).

                       The grace of God comes to all teaching us.

                       Some refuse the teaching; hence grace has no opportunity to

                           confer upon them the salvation it brings to ALL.

                       God's grace provided the means of our salvation, brings salvation

                           to us and teaches us how to appropriate it. 

                       The next move is OURS.

                       This is illustrated by the events of Pentecost (Acts 2).

                           God had provided salvation, and through Peter made it known

                           to the people, and graciously taught them how to obtain the

                           remission of sins.

                      The issue then rested with the people.

                      The next move was theirs.

                      But so much was at stake Peter earnestly exhorted them to make that

                          move, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation"

                          (Acts 2:40).

                     They could save themselves only by performing the conditions upon

                          which salvation was so graciously offered.

                     They were too anxious about their salvation and too intelligent to

                          hesitate and argue that obedience on their part would eliminate

                          grace.

                    They felt the guilt of sin so heavily that they knew that any means

                         of escape offered them was a matter of great favor, great grace

                        to them.

                    Hence they made no delay in being baptized."

C. R. Nichol

R. L. Whiteside