May 26th, 2026
The Upward Look, by Jon Forrest
Better Than The Old One
During the late 1800’s an English evangelist named Henry Moorhouse made several trips to preach in America. On one such occasion, he was walking through a poor section of town. He noticed a small boyexiting a store with a pitcher of milk in his hands. Suddenly, he slipped and fell breaking the pitcher and spilling the milk all over the sidewalk.
Moorhouse rushed to the child’s side and found him unhurt but terrified. "My mama will whip me," he kept crying. So Moorhouse helped the boy up and led him back into the nearby store where the preacher purchased a new pitcher. Then he returned to the dairy, had the pitcher washed and filled with milk. With that done, he took the boy and the pitcher home.
Putting the youngster down on his front porch, Moorhouse handed him the pitcher and asked, "Will your mama whip you now?"
A broad smile spread across the boys tear stained face, "no sir, cause this is a lot better pitcher than we had before."
In grace God saves us. He doesn’t patch up our old lives that have been shattered by sin and Satan into a million pieces. That would not do. His reputation is at stake. We are His workmanship! He makes us new again.
Our text for the next message of our “BUT GOD” series shows us that God doesn’t ignore our sin, but rather completely and totally forgives us. There is nothing we have done that made us new. It was God’s powerful work, through the sacrifice of His perfect Son that not only made our forgiveness possible, but sure and complete. In fact, when he has completely removed our sins and their consequences, he can now give us works that can please him. They are his works in us. God has completely taken the old sinner’s spiritual DNA and reverse engendered it to make us capable of performing in ways that please God. The reason it works so well is that the works we now perform were planned by God long before we even knew him.
Sunday, when we resume this great series, I will share a message titled, The Product of Grace based on Ephesians 2:8-10. Come and see how God has made you His product, His Workmanship. Now, the new you is better than the old one.
His product,
Jon
Better Than The Old One
During the late 1800’s an English evangelist named Henry Moorhouse made several trips to preach in America. On one such occasion, he was walking through a poor section of town. He noticed a small boyexiting a store with a pitcher of milk in his hands. Suddenly, he slipped and fell breaking the pitcher and spilling the milk all over the sidewalk.
Moorhouse rushed to the child’s side and found him unhurt but terrified. "My mama will whip me," he kept crying. So Moorhouse helped the boy up and led him back into the nearby store where the preacher purchased a new pitcher. Then he returned to the dairy, had the pitcher washed and filled with milk. With that done, he took the boy and the pitcher home.
Putting the youngster down on his front porch, Moorhouse handed him the pitcher and asked, "Will your mama whip you now?"
A broad smile spread across the boys tear stained face, "no sir, cause this is a lot better pitcher than we had before."
In grace God saves us. He doesn’t patch up our old lives that have been shattered by sin and Satan into a million pieces. That would not do. His reputation is at stake. We are His workmanship! He makes us new again.
Our text for the next message of our “BUT GOD” series shows us that God doesn’t ignore our sin, but rather completely and totally forgives us. There is nothing we have done that made us new. It was God’s powerful work, through the sacrifice of His perfect Son that not only made our forgiveness possible, but sure and complete. In fact, when he has completely removed our sins and their consequences, he can now give us works that can please him. They are his works in us. God has completely taken the old sinner’s spiritual DNA and reverse engendered it to make us capable of performing in ways that please God. The reason it works so well is that the works we now perform were planned by God long before we even knew him.
Sunday, when we resume this great series, I will share a message titled, The Product of Grace based on Ephesians 2:8-10. Come and see how God has made you His product, His Workmanship. Now, the new you is better than the old one.
His product,
Jon
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