Quotes about Redemption

power He possesses must be restricted, lest He invade the citadel of man's "free will" and reduce him to a "machine." They lower the all-efficacious atonement, which has actually redeemed everyone for whom it was made, to a mere "remedy," which sin-sick souls may use if they feel disposed to; and they enervate the invincible work of the Holy Spirit to an "offer" of the Gospel which sinners may accept or reject as they please.

Our salvation is not "according to our works;" that is to say, it is not due to anything in us, nor the rewarding of anything from us; instead, it is the result of God's own "purpose and grace;" and this grace was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began.

Grace begins, grace continues, and grace consummates our salvation.

the faith which justifies has to do directly with the person and work of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Until we really behold the horror of the pit in which by nature we lie, we can never properly appreciate Christ's so-great salvation.

No sinner ever comes to Christ until the Holy Spirit first comes to him! And no sinner will savingly believe on Christ until the Spirit has communicated faith to him (Ephesians 2:5; Colossians 2:12); and even then, faith is an eye to discern Christ before it is a foot to approach Him.

Christ died not in order to make God love us, but because He did love His people, Calvary is the supreme demonstration of Divine love.

Well did the Puritan Sibbes say, "God, to show His love to us, showed Himself God in this: that He could be God and go so low as to die" (Vol. 5, p. 327).

Until we really behold the horror of the pit in which by nature we lie, we can never properly appreciate Christ's so-great salvation. In man's fallen condition we have the awful disease for which divine redemption is the only cure, and our estimation and valuation of the provisions of divine grace will necessarily be modified in proportion as we modify the need it was meant to meet.

Just because grace is unmerited favour, it must be exercised in a sovereign manner.

It is through Christ the Mediator alone that the grace of God flows to His elect.

Christ was pure; absolutely pure. He was the Holy One. He had an infinite abhorrence of sin. He loathed it. His holy soul shrank from it. But on the Cross our iniquities were all laid upon Him, and sin—that vile thing—enrapt itself around Him like a horrible serpent's coils. And yet, He willingly suffered for us! Why? Because He loved us: "Having loved his own which were in the world, he loved them unto the end" (Joh 13:1).