Remembering Sin To Rejoice In The Wonder Of Grace

I Timothy 1:13

"Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor,

and a injurious; but I obtained mercy, because

I did it ignorantly in unbelief."

 
        The thing which stands out in this passage is Paul's insistence upon remembering his own sin. He sets up a very climax of words to show what he did to Christ and the Church. He was an insulter of the Church; he had flung hot and angry words at the Christians, accusing them of crimes against God. He was a persecutor; he had taken every means open to him under the Jewish law to annihilate the Christian Church.
         Paul uses a vivid picture. He says that what happened to him was a kind of outline sketch of what was going to happen to those who would accept Christ in the days to come. Like Paul our sin should be something which we refused to forget, for every time we remember the greatness of our sin, we remember the still greater greatness of Jesus Christ. We remember it to rejoice in the wonder of the grace of Jesus Christ. "God's peace be upon all His Church this day."
        Amen!!

Reading: (1 Tim. 1:12-20)

May God Bless You

And your Families

Minister Robert A. Lail Sr.

The Cross life Ministry