“For from His fullness we have all received, grace upon grace.” -John 1:16
“Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God’s grace, nor are your best days ever so good that you are beyond the need of it.” -Jerry Bridges via Of First Importance
“Yet it was the will of the LORD to crush Him; He has put Him to grief; when His soul makes an offering for guilt, He shall see His offspring; He shall prolong His days; the will of the LORD shall prosper in His hand.” -Isaiah 53:10
“The depth of the Son’s suffering was the measure of his love for the Father’s glory. It was the Father’s righteous allegiance to his own name that made recompense for sin necessary.
So when the Son willingly took the suffering of that recompense on himself, every footfall on the way to Calvary echoed through the universe with this message: The glory of God is of infinite value! The glory of God is of infinite value!”
-John Piper in The Pleasures of God via Of First Importance
“Now if we have died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with Him.” -Romans 6:8
“Jesus gave Himself for us in His death that He might give Himself to us in His life.”
– Mike Bullmore, message on Romans 6 from Sovereign Grace Ministries Northwest Leaders’ Conference, July 10, 2010.
(via Of First Importance)
“Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us—for it is written, ‘Cursed is everyone who is hanged on a tree'” -Galatians 3:13
“Why can we have the tree of life? Because Jesus Christ climbed the cross, the tree of death. And because Jesus climbed the tree of death you can have the tree of life.” -Tim Keller
[via Of First Importance]
“For our sake He made Him to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” -2 Corinthians 5:21
“Persuaded, as we are, that the foot of the cross is the nearest spot to Heaven, that Heaven’s choicest blessings are found only there; that, beneath its warm sunshine the holy fruit of the Spirit ripens, and that under its sacred shade the sweetest repose is found; that, never is the believing soul so near to God, in such intimate fellowship with Christ, more really under the direct teaching of the Holy Spirit, as when there, we would sincerely employ every scriptural argument and put forth every persuasive motive to allure the reader to this hallowed spot, assured that, once he finds himself in believing, loving adoration at the foot of Christ’s cross, he has found himself at the focus of all divine glory, and at the confluence of all spiritual blessing.”
– Octavius Winslow, The Foot of the Cross
[via Of First Importance]
“For our sake He made Him to be sin Who knew no sin, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.” -2 Corinthians 5:21
“The perfection we do not have, Jesus provided. The judgment we do not want, Jesus bore.”
– John Piper, Finally Alive (Scotland, Great Britain: Christian Focus Publications, 2009), 74.
[via Of First Importance]
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