Salvation

February 26, 2015

The Christian is the man who no longer seeks his salvation, his deliverance, his justification in himself, but in Jesus Christ alone. He knows that God’s Word in Jesus Christ pronounces him guilty, even when he does not feel his guilt, and God’s Word in Jesus Christ pronounces him not guilty and righteous, even when he does not feel that he is righteous at all. The Christian no longer lives of himself, by his own claims and his own justification, but by God’s claims and God’s justification.

– Dietrich Bonhoeffer –
from Life Together, 1939

February 24, 2015

That death was not on His own account. His humanity had no need to die. He might have lived on and have seen no death, if He had so willed. He had committed no offense, no sin, and, therefore, no punishment could fall upon Him. Every pang upon the cross was substitutionary; for you, the sons of men, the Prince of Glory bled, “the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God” (1 Peter 3:18).

– Charles Spurgeon –
from God Loves You

February 21, 2015

When we pray relying on the Holy Spirit, He will always bring us back to this one point: we are not heard because we are in earnest, or because we need to be heard, or because we will perish if not heard; we are heard only on the ground of the Atonement of the Lord. (Hebrews 10:19)

– Oswald Chambers –
from If You Will Ask

February 5, 2015

If all prayed, the wicked would flee from our midst or to the refuge.

– Evan Roberts –

February 1, 2015

God did not save us to make us happy, He saved us to make us holy.

– Dr. Jerry Benjamin –

January 30, 2015

God does not prosper a man’s business so he can move from a Ford to a Cadillac. God prospers a business so that 17,000 unreached peoples can be reached with the gospel. He prospers a business so that twelve percent of the world’s population can move a step back from the precipice of starvation.

– John Piper –

January 17, 2015

For a small reward, a man will hurry away on a long journey; while for eternal life, many will hardly take a single step.

– Thomas a’ Kempis –

January 16, 2015

The world will never believe in a religion in which there is no power.

– Samuel Chadwick –

January 11, 2014

You know, people say that today. “Oh, I am just a saved sinner.” That is like saying you are a married bachelor. That is like saying you are an honest thief, or a pure harlot. You can’t be a saved sinner. You are either saved or you are a sinner. He came. “Thou shalt call his name Jesus. He shall save his people from their sins.”

– Leonard Ravenhill –