In the New Testament grace means God's love in action towards men who merited the opposite of love. Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves.
The modern way with God is to set him at a distance, if not to deny him altogether; and the irony is that modern Christians, preoccupied with maintaining religious practices in an irreligous world, have themselves allowed God to become remote...for churchmen who look at God through the wrong end of the telescope, so reducing him to pigmy proportions, cannot hope to end up as more than pigmy Christians.
The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.
Christ had no interest in gathering vast crowds of professed adherents who would melt away as soon as they found out what following Him actually demanded of them. In our own presentation of Christ's gospel, therefore, we need to lay a similar stress on the cost of following Christ and make sinners face it soberly before we urge them to respond to the message of free forgiveness. In common honesty, we must not conceal the fact that free forgiveness in one sense will cost everything.
The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains.
There is a tremendous relief in knowing that {God's} love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself, and quench His determination to bless me.
Your faith will not fail while God sustains it; you are not strong enough to fall away while God is resolved to hold you.
Adoption is the highest privilege that the gospel offers: higher even than justification.. . To be right with God the Judge is a great thing, but to be loved and cared for by God the Father is greater.
Not until we have become humble and teachable, standing in awe of God's holiness and sovereignty...a cknowledging our own littleness, distrusting our own thoughts, and willing to have our minds turned upside down, can divine wisdom become ours.
Repentance is more than just sorrow for the past; repentance is a change of mind and heart, a new life of denying self and serving the Savior as king in self's place.
We dishonor God if we proclaim a Savior who satisfies and then go around discontent
The stars may fall, but God's promises will stand and be fulfilled.
A half-truth masquerading as the whole truth becomes a complete untruth.
The Son of God came to seek us where we are in order that he might bring us to be with him where he is.
The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living
There are ministers who never speak of repentance or self-denial. Naturally they are popular, but they are false prophets.
If I were the devil, one of my first aims would be to stop folk from digging into the Bible.
You can know a lot about God and godliness and still not know God.
What is a Christian? The richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God as Father.
I need not torment myself with the fear that my faith may fail; as grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end. Faith, both in its origin and continuance, is a gift of grace (Phil 1:29).
There are no small sins against a great God
Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change.
The idea that all are children of God is not found in the Bible anywhere.
Only when you know how to die can you know how to live.
A God whom we could understand exhaustively, and whose revelation of Himself confronted us with no mysteries whatsoever, would be a God in man's image, and therefore an imaginary God, not the God of the Bible at all.
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