There’s something inexpressibly pleasing to a justified mind to know that God has all the honor in our salvation, and we have none.
Robert Murray McCheyne (1813-1843)
HT: @burkparsons
Tag Archives: Redemption
Look at the Christ Who Abides
All the universe and its forces are being administered for purposes of redemption. The Lamb rules and He rules as the Lamb. How calming to feel this, to look up from the turmoil of this visible, flaring, and tying world—from the shows and shams and the tinted scene of the theater; from all in life that startles and appalls, to Him who sits above it all. From Him all things proceed, and to Him they return in circular flow. The shadows are all passing; the reality is behind. Nothing lasts; our trials are all hasting away to oblivion; let the wind rave as it will, we look at the Christ who abides. How small all our conflicts and ambitions seem to be, how transient and easily borne our sorrows, when we look . . . to the serene King, against whose changeless purpose all the waves of time and circumstance break in vain.
Christ Our Righteousness
Christ will be your whole righteousness, your whole wisdom, your whole sanctification, or else he will never be your whole redemption.
George Whitefield (1714 – 1770)
HT: @whitefieldg
The Importance of the Doctrine of Adoption
Our understanding of Christianity cannot be better than our grasp of adoption.
HT: @CJMahaney
Christ’s Great Choice
Our Lord did make a good choice when He saved you and me; for in us He has found abundant room for His mercy and grace. There has been elbow room for His love to work within the awful emptiness of our necessities and sins; and therein He has done great things for us, whereof we are glad.
The Cross’ Infinite Value
Christ’s sacrifice on the cross was of infinite value, and people cannot do anything to earn or add to Christ’s work.
HT: @Gospel_Project
Christian, Are You Genuine?
Christ, Be of Sin the Double Cure
Embrace in one act the two truths — thine own sin, and God’s infinite mercy in Jesus Christ.
Alexander Maclaren (1826-1910)
HT: @ChristianRep
The Incarnation, the Foundation of Redemption
Having noticed the provision to be made for sin, we come next to the great fact of the Incarnation as the foundation of the whole work of atonement. The Lord’s advent in flesh is uniformly set forth as a means for the accomplishment of a great result: not as in itself an end. Thus, in the Lord’s own teaching, He announces that He came down from heaven for the sake of a people given to Him (John 6:39); that He came to save that which was lost (Matt. 18:11); that He came to give His life for others (Mark 10:45). We may represent the relation between God and man in this way. Between the INFINITE GOD, possessed of all holiness and justice, and MAN, a rebel and infected with sin, there is the widest conceivable remove in a moral point of view. What can bring them together? Who can terminate the estrangement? The INCARNATION of the Eternal Son supplies the answer: this fills up the chasm and paves the way to the rectification of man’s relation. But it is equally necessary to meet the wants and cravings of the human spirit, which ever and anon exclaims: What would become of me if my Maker were not my Redeemer? (Is. 54:5).
HT: The Old Guys
Salvation = Identity with Christ
Belief in Jesus Christ is total identity with Him. There is no such thing as partial belief or partial salvation.
HT: @ChristianRep
Life Is Worship 