Sunday Quotes 02.07.10

“There has not only been an objective, public act of divine self-disclosure in the crucifixion of God’s own Son, but there must be a private work of God by his Spirit, in the mind and heart of the individual. If we should express unqualified gratitude to God for the gift of his Son, we should express no less gratitude for the gift of the Spirit who enables us to grasp the gospel of His Son…Unless the Spirit enlightens us, God’s thoughts will remain deeply alien to us.” — D. A. Carson

“Never did creature turn his affections towards God, if the heart of God were not first set upon Him.” — John Owen

“We do not have to make ourselves suffer in order to merit forgiveness. We simply receive the forgiveness earned by Christ. 1 John 1:8 says that God forgives us because He is ‘just.’ That is a remarkable statement. It would be unjust of God to ever deny us forgiveness, because Jesus earned our acceptance! In religion we earn our forgiveness with our repentance, but in the gospel we just receive it.” — Timothy Keller

“What he (Jesus) desired was a new will, a new purpose, a new dominating impulse, arising out of one’s loyalty to God, which should activate a new type of man, so revolutionary in character that this change was likened to a new birth.” –Harland E. Hogue

“Our deliverance from the law is a rescue from its curse and its bondage, and so relates to the two particular functions of justification and sanctification. In both areas we are under grace, not law. For justification we look to the cross, not the law, and for sanctification to the Spirit, not the law. It is only by the Spirit that the law can be fulfilled in us.” -— John Stott

“If the mark of his blood is upon any word, thou needest never doubt it. If he has died, how canst thou perish? If he has bidden thee come, how can he cast thee out? If thou dost rest upon his finished work, how canst thou be condemned? Believe, I pray thee, and rest thee on the blood-sprinkled words of this wondrous Book.” — Charles Spurgeon

“We’re in God’s hands.” –Martin Schulz
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