Tag Archives: Redemption
Infinite Regard for God’s Justice
He manifested an infinite regard to the attribute of God’s justice, in that, when he had a mind to save sinners, He was willing to undergo such extreme sufferings, rather than that their salvation should be to the injury of the honor of that attribute.
Your Unchangeable Friend
You may greatly comfort yourself that you have an unchangeable friend in Christ Jesus. From the unchangeableness of your Savior, you may be assured of your continuance in a state of grace. As to yourself, you are so changeable, that, if left to yourself, you would soon fall utterly away. But Christ is the same, and therefore, when he has begun a good work in you he will finish it. As he has been the author, he will be the finisher of your faith.
When once you have entered on the happiness of heaven, it never shall be taken from you, because Christ, your Savior and friend, who bestows it on you, and in whom you have it, is unchangeable. He will be the same forever and ever, and therefore so will be your happiness in heaven.
Salvation Is All of Grace
Salvation is necessarily all of grace. Man’s fall is so complete, God’s justice so inexorable, heaven so holy, that nothing short of Omnipotent love can lift the sinner, magnify the law which he has mutilated, and make him pure enough to dwell in light. The thought of saving sinners is God’s, born in the secret places of His great, loving heart.
God’s Purpose for You
God’s purpose for the men and women He redeems is not simply to have them believe certain truths but to transform them in a lifelong process that stretches toward heaven.
D. A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1992), 190.
Twice Loved and Twice Owned
In God’s jurisdiction, esteem and identity are not bought but imbued. We are twice love and twice owned. God made us, and then bought us at a price. It is from those events, creation and redemption, that a sense of our enormous value and distinctiveness as Christians is derived. In Christ, our fallen nature is restored and our fragile identity is reestablished. We are declared ‘God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved’ (Col. 3.12).
David W. Henderson, Culture Shift (Grand Rapids: Baker Books, 1998), 65.
Sola Fide
Sinners are not called upon to do some great and heroic deed to make up for the evil they have done, but simply to trust Jesus.
Leon Morris, Reflections on the Gospel of John (Peabody, MA: Hendrickson Publishers, 1988), 592.
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