Quotes about Redemption

This is why it is often called sovereign grace: it raises the dead. The dead do not raise themselves. God does by his grace. And it is this "glorious grace" that will be praised for all eternity.

The new covenant is purchased by the blood of Christ, effected by the Spirit of Christ, and appropriated by faith in Christ.

God made us alive and secured us in Christ so that he could make us the beneficiaries of everlasting kindness from infinite riches of grace. This is not because we are worthy. Quite the contrary, it is to show the infinite measure of his worth.

Don't leave Christmas in the abstract. Your sin. Your conflict with the Devil. Your victory. He came for this.

If we desire that there be no boasting except in the cross, then we must live near the cross-indeed we must live on the cross.

When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains.

God owns and controls all things. And there is nothing that he could give you for Christmas this year that would suit your needs and your longings better than the consolation of Israel and the redemption of Jerusalem, restoration for past losses and liberation from future enemies, forgiveness and freedom, pardon and power, healing the past and sealing the future.

It would seem more appropriate to say that we are debtors to God's justice, not to his grace.

Seeing the glory of Jesus Christ in the gospel awakens joy.

The cross witnesses to the infinite worth of God and the infinite outrage of sin.

The bloodline of Jesus Christ is deeper than the bloodlines of race. The death and resurrection of the Son of God for sinners is the only sufficient power to bring the bloodlines of race into the single bloodline of the cross.

You get one pass at life. That's all. Only one. And the lasting measure of that life is Jesus Christ.