Quotes About Christ

The philosophy which Paul spurns is that reasoning which follows the presuppositions (the elementary assumptions) of the world, and thereby is "not according to Christ.

All men have their presuppositions; none is neutral. Shall your presuppositions be the teachings of Christ or the vain deception against which Paul warns? Choose this day whom ye shall serve!

Neutrality is in actuality veiled agnosticism or unbelief—a failure to walk in Christ, an obscuring of Christian commitment and distinctives, a suppression of the truth (cf. Rom. 1:21, 25).

Christ is our great High Priest who sacrifices Himself to discharge the curse of law (Gal. 3:13; Heb. 2:17-3:1; 4:14-5:10). He functions as a prophet of the law, properly interpreting it and freeing it from the overlaid traditions of men (e.g., Matt. 15:1-20). And because the Son of God has heeded the law and hated all lawlessness, God has exalted Him as the Anointed King (Heb. 1:8 f.). The three-fold office of Christ is unified around the permanent expression of God's will, His holy law.

John Gerstner similarly observes, "Christ's affirmation of the moral law was complete. Rather than setting His disciples free from the law, He tied them more tightly to it. He abrogated not one commandment but instead intensified all.

Christ and His apostles endorsed the validity of every Old Covenant Scripture, command, word, letter, and stroke [2 Timothy 3:16-17; James 2:10; Matthew 4:4; 5:18-19]! The New Covenant itself writes the law known in the Old Covenant (in Jeremiah's day] on our hearts today [Jeremiah 31:33; Hebrews 8:10]. Christ, you see, directs us to obey Moses as well!

The implication is that the church is not an optional afterthought for those who name Christ as their Lord. The church is central to God's plan of salvation.

The Scriptures picture the church as an essential, chosen organism in whom Christ dwells; the reality is that people view the church as an optional institution, unnecessary for discipleship.

Anybody living in the strength of Christ's baptism lives in the strength of Christ's death. Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Christ's incarnation challenges us to be servants of God and others. In Philippians 2:7, Paul said Christ "emptied himself by taking on the form of a slave, by looking like other men, and by sharing in human nature." A slave or servant is consumed with the desires of those he serves. Likewise, instead of living for himself and his comfort, Christ sought to sacrificially serve God and others with his life.

As Christ waits at the right hand of God (cf. Heb 10:12), in this season of grace, we wait. We wait, not in the sense that we are not active in completing the great commission. We wait in the sense that we shouldn't be anxious or worried about the apparent lack of fruit or evil that surrounds us. Christ is coming and his enemies will become his footstool (Heb 10:13).

Christ came down from heaven because no power other than that of God Himself was able to accomplish the work that was to be done. Incarnation and atoning work are thus set in the closest possible relation to one another; both belong to one scheme.

The essence of the gospel of Christ stands or falls on the question of black humanity, and there is no way that a church or institution can be related to the gospel of Christ if it sponsors or tolerates racism in any form.

Oh Ireland my first and only love Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!

The language in which we are speaking is his before it is mine. How different are the words HOME, CHRIST, ALE, MASTER, on his lips and on mine! I cannot speak or write these words without unrest of spirit. His language, so familiar and so foreign, will always be for me an acquired speech. I have not made or accepted its words. My voice holds them at bay. My soul frets in the shadow of his language.

Father Bernard Vaughan's sermon first. Christ or Pilate? Christ, but don't keep us all night over it.

Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people."28

The world's theology The world's theology is easy to define. It is the view . . . that human beings are basically good, that no one is really lost, that belief in Jesus Christ is not necessary for salvation. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools. Romans 1:22

You are not called to poverty in Christ but to the greatest of spiritual wealth. You are not called to disappointment but to fulfillment. You are not called to sorrow but to joy. How could it be otherwise when the treasure is the only Son of God?

Justification because of Christ alone (solus Christus) means that Jesus has done the necessary work of salvation utterly and completely, so that no merit on the part of man, no merit of the saints, no works of ours performed either here or later in purgatory, can add to his completed work.

These two parables as well as other teachings of the Lord about prayer cut to pieces the false doctrine of the universal fatherhood of God that has been so popular in this century. They teach that God is not the Father of all men. He is the Creator of all. But He is uniquely the Father of the Lord Jesus Christ and becomes the Father only of those persons who believe on Christ.

Baptism is not only a sacrament of our union with Christ; it is also a sacrament of our communion as the body of Christ.

There the union of Church and State tends strongly to paralyze some of the members of the body of Christ. Here there is no such influence to destroy spiritual life and power.

One of the central motivations for holiness in the New Testament is to be who you are, to understand your identity and your union in Christ and to live that way.