Quotes about Redemption

Don't follow a defeated foe. Follow Christ. It is costly. You will be an exile in this age. But you will be free.

God without Christ is no God.

Do you love the cross because it makes much of you? Or do you love it because it enables you to enjoy and eternity of making much of God?

What defines us as Christians is not most profoundly that we have come to know him but that he took note of us and made us his own.

The evil and suffering in this world are greater than any of us can comprehend. But evil and suffering are not ultimate. God is. Satan, the great lover of evil and suffering, is not sovereign. God is.

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

A Christian is not a person who believes in his head the teachings of the Bible. Satan believes in his head the teachings of the Bible! A Christian is a person who has died with Christ, whose stiff neck has been broken, whose brazen forehead has been shattered, whose stony heart has been crushed, whose pride has been slain, and whose life is now mastered by Jesus Christ.

Forgiveness is essentially God's way of removing the great obstacle to our fellowship with him. By canceling our sin and paying for it with the death of his own Son, God opens the way for us to see him and know him and enjoy him forever. Seeing and savoring him is the goal of forgiveness. Soul-satisfying fellowship with our Father is the aim of the cross. If we love being forgiven for other reasons alone, we are not forgiven, and we will waste our lives.

He came to destroy sin because it is fatal.

God is willing and able to turn his judgements into joys . . . Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

Christmas is an indictment before it becomes a delight. It will not have its intended effect until we feel desperately the need for a Savior.