What Grace Affords

In John Wesley's sermon "Salvation by Faith," he declares the good news of God's grace through Jesus Christ, and then deals with why people object to grace being available to sinners. This new hymn shares those objections, and how the gospel affirms that it is by grace that we become good, not that we must be good in order to receive grace. Ephesians 2:8 "Afford" is an old-fashioned word which means "makes available or possible."