In religion, you obey because God is useful. In Christianity, you obey because God is beautiful.
TIMOTHY KELLERHow does Satan accuse us? By causing us to look at our sin rather than our Savior.
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When we grasp that we are unworthy sinners saved by an infinitely costly grace, it destroys both our self-righteousn ess and our need to ridicule others.
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God’s grace does not come to people who morally outperform others, but to those who admit their failure to perform and who acknowledge their need for a Savior.
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Jesus Christ was treated as we deserved so that when we believe in Jesus, God treats us as Jesus deserves.
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The cross is the place where the Judge takes the Judgment.
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We instinctively tend to limit for whom we exert ourselves. We do it for people like us, and for people whom we like. Jesus will have none of that.
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God looks at the anxious and says, I tore my Son to shreds for you, and you’re afraid I will not give you what you need?
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Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.
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Religion is ‘if you obey, then you will be accepted’. But the Gospel is, ‘if you are absolutely accepted, and sure you’re accepted, only then will you ever begin to obey’. Those are two utterly different things. Every page of the Bible shows the difference.
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When Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.”
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We are regularly in danger of having too light a view of our sin and also too light a grasp of what Jesus has done to free us from our sin.
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We have to be careful not to elevate our preferences to moral standards and judge others by them. We only do so to feel superior.
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The prerequisite for receiving the grace of God is to know you need it.
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There is a joy available that the deepest grief cannot put out. No circumstance or person can take away the joy God gives.
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To be loved but not known is comforting but superficial. To be known and not loved is our greatest fear. But to be fully known and truly loved is, well, a lot like being loved by God.
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The world values power, comfort, success, and recognition. Jesus frees us to value grief, sacrifice, weakness, and exclusion.
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