John Wenham
At the heart of the story stands the cross of Christ where evil did its worst and met its match.
John Wenham
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John Wenham
At the heart of the story stands the cross of Christ where evil did its worst and met its match.
John Wenham
Richard et Sharon Phillips
The devil’s attack against God begins with the greatest of God’s creatures, the one who has dominion over all else, the one who bears God’s image and holds the dearest place in God’s heart. It says quite a lot that what the devil hated most in God’s perfect world was the man and the woman in their relationship with God.
Richard and Sharon Phillips
Tom Ascol
The Christian life is a war, and the fiercest battles are those that rage within the heart of every believer. The new birth radically and permanently changes a person’s sinful nature, but it does not immediately liberate that nature for all of the remnants of sin. Birth is followed by growth, and that growth involves warfare.
Tom Ascol
Le zèle [de Jésus-Christ] n'a jamais dégénéré en passion, ni sa constance en obstination, ni sa bienveillance en faiblesse, ni sa tendresse en sentimentalité. Son manque d'humanité était libéré de l'indifférence et du manque de sociabilité, sa dignité de l'orgueil et de la présomption, son affectivité de la familiarité excessive, son abnégation de la morosité, sa tempérance de l'austérité. Il combinait l'innocence enfantine avec la force virile, la dévotion absorbante à Dieu avec un intérêt infatigable pour le bien-être de l'homme, l'amour tendre au pécheur avec une sévérité sans compromis contre le péché, la dignité imposante avec une humilité gagnante, le courage intrépide avec une sage prudence, la fermeté inébranlable avec une douce douceur !
Philip Schaff
[Jesus Christ’s] zeal never degenerated into passion, nor His constancy into obstinacy, nor His benevolence into weakness, nor His tenderness into sentimentality. His unworldliness was free from indifference and unsociability, His dignity from pride and presumption, His affectability from undue familiarity, His self-denial from moroseness, His temperance from austerity. He combined child-like innocency with manly strength, absorbing devotion to God with untiring interest in the welfare of man, tender love to the sinner with uncompromising severity against sin, commanding dignity with winning humility, fearless courage with wise caution, unyielding firmness with sweet gentleness!
Philip Schaff
Le projet de Dieu n'est pas d'abandonner ce monde, ce monde qu'il a dit être "très bon". Au contraire, il a l'intention de le refaire. Et lorsqu'il le fera, il élèvera tout son peuple à une nouvelle vie corporelle pour y vivre. Telle est la promesse de l'Évangile chrétien.
N. T. Wright
God’s plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was ‘very good.’ Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does, he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.
N. T. Wright
Sam Storms
Holiness and a progressively changed life are not optional. “By this we know that we have come to know him,” says John, “if we keep his commandments” (1 John 2:3). Mere profession of faith, unattended by good works, does not guarantee the reality of faith. We would do well to remember the rebuke of Jesus to those who professed their loyalty and cited their miraculous deeds: “I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness” (Matthew 7:23).
Sam Storms
Greg Morse
We are justified by faith alone, as the Reformers taught, but not by a faith that is alone. To truly receive the words of God is to intentionally, through a joyous faith in our crucified and resurrected Lord and active reliance upon His Spirit, obey them. Consider that if exposure to God’s word in the spoken gospel and the written Scriptures doesn’t soon change your behavior (even if slower than you might hope), if the transformation of your inner person does not extend to your outer life, you may well be wandering in the dream of those who never knew Him.
Greg Morse
Thomas Manton, Commentary on James.
Works are an evidence of true faith. Graces are not dead, useless habits; they will have some effects and operations when they are weakest and in their infancy… This is the evidence by which we must judge, and this is the evidence by which Christ will judge… Works are not a ground of confidence, but an evidence; not the foundations of faith, but the encouragements of assurance. Comfort may be increased by the sight of good works, but it is not built upon them; they are seeds of hope, not props of confidence; sweet evidences of election, not causes; happy presages and beginnings of glory; in short, they can manifest an interest, but not merit it.
Thomas Manton, Commentary on James.
Iain Murray, The Invitation System, 1967, p. 24.
We believe that the Scriptures distinguish between a general work of conviction by the Spirit – such as may make an Esau weep and a Felix tremble – and the special, life-conferring call, given by the grace of a sovereign God to those whom He has chosen. Only those who are predestinated receive this call and it is clearly stated not to follow justifying faith but to precede it (Romans 8:30; Acts 13:48, etc.) and to secure the consent of those to whom it is given (John 6:36, 37; Eph. 2:1-8). It is those who are born again who “see the kingdom of God” and thus believe the gospel.
Iain Murray, The Invitation System, 1967, p. 24.
Wayne Grudem
There is a definite beginning to sanctification at the point of conversion, that sanctification should increase throughout the Christian life, and that sanctification is made perfect at death.
Wayne Grudem
Dieu ne m'a rien donné que je voulais. Il m'a donné tout ce dont j'avais besoin.
Auteur inconnu
God give me nothing I wanted. He gave me everything I needed.
Unknown author
Jonathan Edwards
There would be no manifestation of God’s grace or true goodness, if there was no sin to be pardoned, no misery to be saved from.
Jonathan Edwards
Sans le chemin, il n'y a pas de route ; sans la vérité, il n'y a pas de savoir ; sans la vie, il n'y a pas de vie (voir Jean 14:6).
Thomas a Kempis
Without the way, there is no going; without the truth, there is no knowing; without the life, there is no living (see John 14:6).
Thomas a Kempis
Jonathan Edwards
Self-love can produce a merely natural gratitude to God. This can happen through wrong ideas about God, as if He were all love and mercy, and no avenging justice, or as if God were bound to love a person because of the person’s worthiness. On these grounds men may love a God of their own imaginations, when they have no love at all for the true God.
Jonathan Edwards
Francis Frangipane
Heaven did not authorize the heartache of [a terrorist act in 2012] but Heaven is redeeming it. This act of extreme evil, the last act of a joyless, embittered soul, now in the hands of Christ, the Redeemer, is being used to restore love to families and friends in sober reflection. Christ has reset the focus of millions. Perhaps for you, too, it is time to bring your heartache, failures and brokenness to the Lord of Life. Let Him restore and refocus your heart upon the values that truly matter. Accept His gift of salvation.
Francis Frangipane