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'The Touch of the Master's Hand':
Copyright © Myra Brooks Welch, 1878-1959
▐ Proposition #1. God wants everybody to be saved.
“For this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Savior, who will have all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.”
[1Timothy2:3-4MKJV].
▐ Proposition #2. God invites even the atheists to come to Him today for Salvation.
“Come now, and let us reason together, says Jehovah; though your sins are as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they are red like crimson, they shall be like wool.”
[Isaiah1:18].
▐ Proposition #3. God has the right to show mercy to whom He wants to.
“And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will have mercy on whom I will have mercy. “
[Exodus33:19b].
▐ Proposition #4. God resists the proud but gives grace to the humble.
“But He gives more grace. Therefore He says, God resists the proud, but He gives grace to the humble.”
[James4:6].
▐ Proposition #5. The wages of sin is death.
“For the wages of sin is death …”
[Romans6:23a].
▐ Proposition #6. All men (‘people’) have sinned; there are no exceptions.
“…for all have sinned and come short of the glory of God.”
[Romans3:23].
▐ Proposition #7. The Gift of God is Everlasting Life through Jesus Christ our LORD.
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.”
[Romans6:23].
▐ Proposition #8. Jesus Christ has come into the world to save sinners.
“Faithful is the Word and worthy of all acceptance, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners … “
[1Timothy:15a].
▐ Proposition #9. God did not send Jesus Christ to condemn the world. “For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but so that the world might be saved through Him.”
[John3:17].
▐ Proposition #10. Jesus Christ is the only Name by which the world can be saved.
“And there is salvation in no other One; for there is no other name under Heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”
[Acts4:12].
▐ Proposition #11. If atheists were to confess the Name of Jesus Christ they would also be saved.
“Because if you confess the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you shall be saved.”
[Romans10:9].
▐ Proposition #12. There is joy in Heaven over one sinner (including the atheist) who repents.
“Likewise I say to you, there is joy before the angels of God over one sinner who repents.”
[Luke15:10].
The Touch of the Master’s Hand
(Myra Brooks Welch, 1878-1959)
‘Twas battered and scarred and the auctioneer thought it scarcely worth his while
To waste much time on the old violin, but he held it up with a smile.
“What am I bid, good folk?” he cried. “Who’ll start the bidding for me?
A dollar, a dollar … now two … only two … Two dollars, and who’ll make it three?
“Three dollars once, three dollars twice, Going for three” … but no!
From the room far back a gray-haired man came forward and picked up the bow.
Then wiping the dust from the old violin and tightening up the strings, he played a melody pure and sweet, As sweet as an angel sings.
The music ceased, and the auctioneer, with a voice that was quiet and low,
Said, “What am I bid for the old violin?” As he held it up with the bow.
“A thousand dollars … and who’ll make it two? Two…two thousand, and who’ll make it three?
Three thousand once and three thousand twice;
Three thousand and gone!” said he. The people cheered, but some of them cried
“We do not quite understand … What changed it’s worth?” Swift came the reply:
” ‘Twas the touch of the master’s hand.”
And many a man with soul out of tune and battered and scarred by sin Is auctioned cheap by the thoughtless crowd just like the old violin.
A mess of pottage, a glass of wine; a game, and he travels on.
He is 'going once', and 'going twice’, He's 'going' and almost 'gone’.
But the Master comes and the foolish crowd never can quite understand,
The worth of a soul and the change that's wrought ...
By the touch of the Master's Hand!
“It is done. I am the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who thirsts I will give of the fountain of the Water of Life freely.”
[Revelation 21:6bMKJV].
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