“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit…” -1 Peter 3:18
Jesus paid it all. Period. You’re covered, forgiven, loved—you’re in forever regardless of how badly you mess up. It is finished. -Tullian Tchividjian via Twitter
“But God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” -Romans 5:8
The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue, our sin with His salvation, our guilt with His grace. #OneWayLove -Tullian Tchividjian via Twitter
“But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, He sat down at the right hand of God…” -Hebrews 10:12
God is not at the top of a ladder shouting, “Climb.” He is at the bottom on a cross whispering, “It is finished.” -Tullian Tchividjian via Twitter
“For one will scarcely die for a righteous person—though perhaps for a good person one would dare even to die—but God shows His love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” -Romans 5:7-8
“For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that He might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit.” -1 Peter 3:18
Jesus doesn’t stand at the top and shout down, “You can make it.” He stands at the bottom and shouts up, “It is finished.” -via Tullian Tchividjian’s Twitter
For you know the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though He was rich, yet for your sake He became poor, so that you by His poverty might become rich. -2 Corinthians 8:9
The Bible is not a record of the best people making it up to God; it’s a record of God making it down to the worst people. -Tullian Tchividjian via Twitter
“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
God is in the business of replacing our ladders with his cross. -Tullian Tchividjian via Twitter
“For while we were still weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly.” -Romans 5:6
Sinners are loved by a God who infallibly bends toward us, even while we are perpetually bending away from Him. -Tullian Tchividjian via Twitter
“We love because He first loved us.” -1 John 4:19
Because Jesus has done everything for me I can do everything for you without needing you to do anything for me. That’s freedom. -Tullian Tchividjian via Twitter
“As far as the east is from the west, so far does He remove our transgressions from us.” -Psalm 103:12
Well may the accuser roar, of sins that I have done; I know them all and thousands more, Jehovah knoweth none! -Tullian Tchividjian via Twitter (Quoting a hymn: “What Though the Accuser Roar“)
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