Quotes about Redemption

The cross teaches that you are not stuck, not cursed to pay forever for your past.

God is not working to deliver to you your personal definition of happiness. If you're on that agenda page, you are going to be disappointed with God and you are going to wonder if he loves you. God is after something better—your holiness, that is, the final completion of his redemptive work in you.

If you mourn the fallenness of your world rather than curse its difficulties, you know that grace has visited you.

Grace is only ever attractive to sinners.

But the message of the gospel is devastatingly humbling. It tells me that I am in a hopeless, impossible, and irreversible state apart from divine intervention.

First, the gospel is the world's best love story. It is a story of a God of love who places his love on people who do not deserve his love. This God sends the Son of his love to make a sacrifice of love so that his children can be welcomed into his arms of love and become a community of love that takes his love to those in desperate need of that love.

Seeing yourself as hopeless and helpless if left to yourself initiates and ignites your pursuit of God's grace.

If you find more joy in serving God than yourself, you know that grace has entered your door, because only grace has the power to rescue you from you.

let him return to the LORD, that he may have compassion on him, and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

The answer to the big question we have proposed is really quite easy and straightforward. What is God up to right here, right now? Redemption! He is actively working on sin's final defeat and our complete deliverance. He is working out the spoils of the victory that Christ accomplished on the cross of Calvary.

Your life is not good because it is easy or predictable, but because the I Am has invaded your existence by his grace.

No need to deny, rationalize, or otherwise excuse away evidence of your sin. God wouldn't have sent his Son if your sin were not real.