“The Bible itself shows that our ultimate goal in reading the Bible is that God’s infinite worth and beauty would be exalted in the everlasting, white-hot worship of the blood bought bride of Christ from every people, language, tribe and nation.”
John Piper
“So Jesus has done everything that we needed to be saved from sin. He has done everything we needed in order for us to be saved from the judgment of death. And he has done everything necessary to set us free from the bondage of the Devil. In a word, he has done everything we need done for us but could never do for ourselves. “
Alistair Begg/Sinclair Ferguson
Jesus is the real man, or, in Martin Luther’s expression “The Proper Man.” He is “man as he was created to be” and “the man who fulfills man’s destiny.”
Alistair Begg/Sinclair Ferguson
“If you find the Christian life to be untroubled, without struggle, and without warfare against your own sin, you may not be living the Christian life.”
John Piper
“Nothing exists that is greater or better or more beautiful or more satisfying than God himself.”
John Piper
“It is cheap grace, not genuine grace, that thinks life in Christ is without remorse for past sin and for remaining corruption.”
John Piper
But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:7 (ESV) Continue reading
“The man who knows that Jesus shed his blood for him, and has had that blood applied to his conscience, becomes a sin-hating man, consecrated to Him who cleansed him. . . . Those who are debtors for salvation to their dying Lord should be the most holy of men.”
Charles Spurgeon