Quotes About Jesus

Conversion, then, involves repentance (turning from sin and unbelief) and faith (trusting in Christ alone for salvation).9 They are really two sides of the same coin. One side is tails—turn tail on the fruits of unbelief. The other side is heads—head straight for Jesus and trust His promises. You can't have the one without the other any more than you can face two ways at once or serve two masters.

Salvation is not mainly the forgiveness of sins, but mainly the fellowship of Jesus (1 Corinthians 1:9).

Jesus's solution to our love affair with sin is that we be mastered by joy in a new reality, namely, God.

A persistently fruitless hearer of the Word cannot be a disciple of Jesus.

What we have seen in the last two chapters is that the most foundational thing you can say about marriage is that it is the doing of God, and the ultimate thing you can say about marriage is that it is for the display of God. These two points are made by Moses in Genesis 2. But they are made even more clearly by Jesus and Paul in the New Testament.

En esta época del año nos enfocamos en el significado de la venida del Hijo de Dios al mundo. Y la intención de nuestra celebración debería ser la misma intención por la que Él vino, la cual está resumida en Lucas 19:10: "El Hijo del hombre vino a buscar y a salvar lo que se había perdido".

Jesus' primary concern—the very first petition of the prayer he teaches—is that more and more people, and more and more peoples, come to hallow God's name. This is the reason the universe exists. Missions exists because this hallowing does not.

When you become a Christian—a disciple of Jesus—you do not become his helper. He becomes your helper. You do not become his benefactor. He becomes your benefactor. You do not become his servant. He becomes your servant. Jesus does not need your help; he commands your obedience and offers his help. Christmas. He came to serve, not to be served. He came to help us do everything he calls us to do.

There is no portrait of Jesus in the New Testament as a merely human teacher of ethics. There is only the Lord of glory. The fulfiller of history. The judge of the universe.

I exist to magnify Jesus Christ. That is, I am on this planet for one ultimate reason: to do whatever I can to make Jesus Christ known and treasured—a knowing and a treasuring that accords with his infinite beauty and immeasurable worth.

The highest of missionary motives is neither obedience to the Great Commission (important as that is), nor love for sinners who are alienated and perishing (strong as that incentive is, especially when we contemplate the wrath of God . . .), but rather zeal—burning and passionate zeal—for the glory of Jesus Christ. . . . Only one imperialism is Christian . . . and that is concern for His Imperial Majesty Jesus Christ, and for the glory of his empire.2

The spirit of Jesus, when he set his face like flint to go to Jerusalem, runs through the generations of all his most inspiring followers.

La fe salvífica está basada en una visión espiritual de Jesús como lo que realmente es, el Hijo glorioso de Dios. Y esta visión espiritual nos es dada mediante la Verdad inspirada, las Escrituras. Así, los ojos de nuestros corazones son abiertos para reconocerlo y recibirlo, no por medio de la sabiduría humana, sino por medio de la obra reveladora de Su Padre celestial.

To the world the gospel doesn't look like power at all. It looks like weakness—asking people to be like children and telling them to depend on Jesus, instead of standing on their own two feet. But for those who believe, it is the power of God to give sinners everlasting glory.

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

For Jesus, the demand for joy is a way to live with suffering and to outlast suffering.

Let us then take heart that the mark of a true follower of Jesus is not yet perfection but rather unrelenting battle against sin.

The coming of Jesus was a search-and-save mission. "The Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.

Jesus was born of a virgin by the Holy Spirit (Matt. 1:18–20) and "increased in wisdom and in stature and in favor with God and man" (Luke 2:52) and was perfectly obedient and sinless in all his life and ministry, all the way to the point of death, even death on a cross (Phil. 2:5–8; Heb. 4:15)—in order to destroy the works of the Devil—to take away sin.

The practical effect of this path is that I do not ask you to pray for a special whisper from God to decide if Jesus is real. Rather I ask you to look at the Jesus of the Bible. Look at him. Don't close your eyes and hope for a word of confirmation. Keep your eyes open and fill them with the full portrait of Jesus provided in the Bible. If you come to trust Jesus Christ as the Lord and God, it will be because you see in him a divine glory and excellence that is simply is what it is -- true

A Christian is one who recognizes Jesus as the Christ, the Son of the living God, as God manifested in the flesh, loving us and dying for our redemption; and who is so affected by a sense of the love of this incarnate God as to be constrained to make the will of Christ the rule of his obedience, and the glory of Christ the great end for which he lives.

His (Paul's) entire personality within mutation. He was being turned inside out as he led Jesus light the recesses of his soul.

The Bible also affirms that in the end times God's people will be martyred by beheading. "And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of their testimony for Jesus and because of the word of God. They had not worshiped the beast or his image and had not received his mark on their foreheads or their hands." (Revelation 20:4)

Jesus warned that no man knows the day or the hour, except for God the Father. (Matthew 24:36). But Jesus does invite us to "watch" and be aware of a rebudded Fig Tree/Israel.