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PURE UNMISTAKABLE GRACE!
From Spurgeon's sermon, "The Sons of God"
No man has any 'right' to be a son of God--
it is an act of pure unmistakable grace.
If we are born into God's family it is a miracle of mercy.
It is one of the ever-blessed exhibitions of the infinite love of
God, that has set itself upon us.
If you are this day an heir of heaven, remember, man, you
were once the slave of hell. Once you wallowed in the mire.
If you should adopt a swine to be your child, you would not
then have performed an act of greater compassion than when
God adopted you.
And if an angel could exalt a gnat to equal dignity with
himself, yet this would not be as great a privilege as that
which God has conferred on you.
He has taken you from the dunghill,
and he has set you among princes!
You have lain among the pots, but he has made you as a
dove whose wings are covered with silver, and her feathers
with yellow gold.
Remember that this is pure grace--
Look back to the hole of the pit from where you were dug,
and the miry clay from where you were drawn.
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