DEFECTIVE BEGINNING By Miles Stanford

DEFECTIVE BEGINNING *
By Miles Stanford
"Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in
Christ Jesus" (Rom. 3:24).

Are we aware of the importance of a personal assurance of salvation?
Healthy spiritual growth is founded upon it. Many Christians seem unable
to enter Romans Six and Eight simply because they are not truly
established in Romans Three, Four and Five. Full assurance as to our
eternal security in the Lord Jesus is the basis for the ever-deepening
experience of our identification with Him.

"The defect in souls in general is the incompleteness of their
conversion. It is pardon that is apprehended and not acceptance.
Acceptance embraces God's side ----how He feels, and this should be
chief, for we as sinners have offended Him. The offender has been
removed from His eye by a Man --- the Lord Jesus Christ, and He can
receive us on the ground of the Man who glorified Him in bearing our
judgment.

"We cannot enjoy acceptance but in the way in which it was acquired or
effected for us, and if we are in the acceptance we know that no
improvement of the flesh could commend us to God, and that we cannot be
before Him but in Christ. But if we are in any degree dark as to the
crucifixion of the old man, we are not in acceptance experientially, we
are not in the daily benefit of it, and our liberty by the Spirit can
never go beyond our conscious acceptance." -- J.B.S.

"For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free
from the law of sin and death" (Rom. 8:2).

Our Purpose and Mission

The ministry of "Grace and The Truth" has the purpose of encouraging
Christians to believe what God says.

We read in in Ephesians. 1:18 "The eyes of your understanding being
enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of His calling, and what
the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints," and in
Colossians 2:2 " That their hearts might be comforted, being knit
together in love, and unto all riches of the full assurance of
understanding, to the acknowledgment (epignosis) true knowledge of the
mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ".

We are dedicated to helping Christians to a fuller knowledge of Him, and
the Grace of God. Until we all come into the Unity, Ephesians 4:13 "Till
we all come in the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son
of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the
fullness of Christ:"

We are wiling o help you on this journey just give us a call, 1 623 546
8866, Paris