Quotes About Redemption

Como dice Juan 4:16-17: "Porque tanto amó Dios al mundo, que dio a Su Hijo unigénito [esto es la Navidad y el Viernes Santo en conjunto], para que todo el que cree en Él no se pierda, sino que tenga vida eterna. Dios no envió a Su Hijo al mundo para condenar al mundo [la Navidad no es para condenación], sino para salvarlo por medio de Él [la Navidad es para salvación]".

La idea es que, incluso con la oferta de Dios, de darnos paz a todos, solo Su pueblo escogido, el pueblo que recibe a Cristo y confía en Él como Salvador, Mesías y Señor experimentará la paz que Él trae.

Nuestra naturaleza pecaminosa odia la luz de la supremacía de Dios y corre hacia la oscuridad, donde nosotros nos sentimos supremos.

God does not intend to replace us when we are united to Christ; he intends to renew us and empower us and guide us.

H]ealing displays the works of God in John 9, and sustaining grace displays the works of God in 2 Corinthians 12. What is common in the two cases is the supreme value of the glory of God. The blindness is for the glory of God. The thorn in the flesh is for the glory of God. The healing is for his glory, and the non-healing is for his glory. Suffering can only have ultimate meaning in relation to God.

A non-treasured Christ is a nonsaving Christ.

I also saw, moreover, that it was not my good frame of heart that made my righteousness better, nor yet my bad frame that made my righteousness worse, for my righteousness was Jesus Christ himself

Miqueas 7:18-19:

The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of the devil. 1 JOHN 3:8

Don't dwell on your corruption to the degree that it keeps you from joy, freedom, and love.

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

Every aspect of the way God views and saves sinners is designed to undermine racism and lead to a reconciled and redeemed humanity from every people group in the world.

por el bien de las almas perecederas pero inmortales, por el bien de Sion y la gloria de Dios?

Redemption, salvation, and restoration are not God's ultimate goal. These He performs for the sake of something greater: namely, the enjoyment He has in glorifying Himself.

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".

We live under the new covenant. But the mark of that new covenant is not the absence of commands, but the blood-bought power to obey them.

The Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many. MARK 10:45

The Bible itself shows that our ultimate goal in reading the Bible is that God's infinite worth and beauty would be exalted in the everlasting, white-hot worship of the blood-bought bride of Christ from every people, language, tribe, and nation.

I spoke the hardest words and almost broke: 'There is another kinsman still More close to you than I. He will Be given legal right to take You if he will. Tomorrow make Your prayer, and I will settle this With elder in the gate.' No kiss That night. But when she left, still dark, She took my hand and drew and arc And said, 'The God of Exodus And flood at dawn will fight for us.' That was our only touch.

God did not create the world to keep his glory invisible, and he did not re-create Christians to keep our passion for his glory invisible

The bloodline of Christ is deeper than the bloodlines of race.

I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD" (Ezekiel 18:32).

The only sin that we can defeat is a forgiven sin.

Romans 8:32 may be the most important verse in the Bible, because it establishes the unshakable connection between the greatest event in the universe and the greatest future imaginable: "He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?