Tag Archives: Redemption
The Great Mystery No One Can Solve
This is the great mystery that no one can solve–-how God could love sinners, without there being anything in them worthy of his love.
HT: @OldGuyQuotes
The Paradox of Redemption
The grand paradox or supreme irony of the Christian faith is that we are saved both by God and from God.
HT: @Ligonier
“Just Give Your Heart to Jesus.”
Is this Scriptural?
Often an appeal is made to us “to take Christ” or we are urged to “decide for Christ” or “follow Christ” or “give ourselves to Christ” or “give our hearts to Christ.” But, again, I think we must examine this. Is this scriptural? Does the Scripture put it in that way? Surely the Scripture does not ask, “Will you take Christ?” but “Will Christ take you?” Is it possible for him to take me in view of my sinfulness, my vileness, my guilt, my hopelessness? This idea that I can take Christ or not or that I should be pleaded with or cajoled, that pressure should be brought to bear upon me to “take Christ” or “follow him” is wrong – it is “I” all along. But I am a miserable worm, a wretch!
D. Martin Lloyd-Jones (1899-1981)
HT: Reformed Quotes
Christ, the Word of God
Only the Christ of the Scriptures could have brought us the salvation of the Scriptures.
James Stalker, The Trial and Death of Jesus Christ (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1966), 174.
Whosoever Will May Come
When He died in the Wounded World He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less.
HT: @CSLewisDaily
The Sum of the Gospel
To accept Christ’s righteousness alone, His blood alone for salvation, is the sum of the Gospel.
HT: @Challies
The Essence of Salvation
The essence of sin is man substituting himself for God, while the essence of salvation is God substituting Himself for man.
John R. W. Stott, The Cross of Christ (Downer’s Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2006), 159.
A Boundless Ocean Compared with a Drop of Water
Christ has paid far more than we owed — as much more as a boundless ocean compared with a drop of water. Doubt not therefore, O man, when you see such a wealth of benefits; nor inquire how that spark of death and sin can be extinguished, when such a sea of blessings is let in upon it.
John Chrysostom, quoted by George Smeaton in The Apostles’ Doctrine of the Atonement
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