Apart from What God's Grace Bestows

While works do not save, it is a person's works that ultimately bears witness of whether or not we are As the fruits of the Spirit begin to grow there should be a stark/marked differencebetween the old life and the new... Matt. 5:16Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. Apart from what God’s grace bestows, no boast have I to claimPraise God; where judgement’s verdict rose in condemnation’s blame/shameGrace did abound, through Jesus Christ, the hour I believedBy the Lamb that God sacrificed, full pardon I received Shall I then sin where grace runs through and through me; God forbidThe new man in no way should do the things the old man didFor then I mock the sacredness where Jesus Christ’s shed bloodClothes me in robes of righteousness, but by the grace of God How can I, who have died to sin, live therein anymoreThe miracle grace wrought within ends who I was beforeThrough salvation, the gift God gives, the sinner is set freeHenceforth it is not I who lives, but Christ who lives in me Apart from what God’s grace bestows, dwells in me no good thingPraise God from whom all blessing flows, for death has lost its stingBecause the old man, crucified, wears newness in its placeWhere Jesus Christ is glorified through sinners saved by grace © Janet Martin Romans 6: 1-4 What shall we say then? Shall we continue in sin that grace may abound? 2 Certainly not! How shall we who died to sin live any longer in it? 3 Or do you not know that as many of us as were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into His death?  Therefore we were buried with Him through baptism into death, that just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.