“My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep My commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you.” -Proverbs 3:1-2
“The Scriptures are the lifeline God throws us in order to ensure He and we stay connected while the rescue is in process.” -J.I. Packer
“But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into Him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:” -Ephesians 4:15
“Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though He was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied Himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. And being found in human form, He humbled Himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross.” -Philippians 2:5-8
“Grace means God moving heaven and earth to save sinners who could not lift a finger to save themselves.” -J. I. Packer
“I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued My faithfulness to you.” -Jeremiah 31:3
“There is tremendous relief in knowing that God’s love to me is utterly realistic, based at every point on prior knowledge of the worst about me, so that no discovery now can disillusion Him about me, in the way I am so often disillusioned about myself.” -J.I. Packer
“And I am sure of this, that He who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ.” -Philippians 1:6
“As grace led me to faith in the first place, so grace will keep me believing to the end.” -J.I. Packer in Knowing God via Shai Linne on Twitter
But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ—by grace you have been saved… -Ephesians 2:4-5
He need not have done anything about our sins except punish us as we deserved. But He loved us; so He redeemed us, forgave us. -J.I. Packer
“Fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” -Hebrews 12:2
The Puritans knew that the traveller through the Bible landscape misses his way as soon as he loses sight of the hill called Calvary. -J.I. Packer
“For the Lord is our judge; the Lord is our lawgiver; the Lord is our king; He will save us.” -Isaiah 33:22
“As Judge (Jesus), He is the law, but as Savior He is the gospel.” -J.I Packer
“For if, because of one man’s trespass, death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man Jesus Christ.” -Romans 5:17
“God displays his righteousness by judging sin as sin deserves, but the judgment is diverted from the guilty and put on to the shoulders of Jesus Christ, the sinless Son of God acting as wrath absorber. The atonement had to be costly because it was necessary in light of the nature of God, which must inflict retributive punishment on sin. A marvelous wisdom of God consists in his establishing the Lord Jesus as our representative and our substitute because only he could bear and absorb the judgment due to us. Being our representative makes him our substitute, and so he suffers and we go free . . ..”
– J. I. Packer, “The Necessity of the Atonement” in Atonement, ed. Gabriel N. E. Fluhrer (Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R Publishing, 2010), 15-16. [via Of First Importance]
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[HT: Josh Harris]
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