Quotes About Redemption

God remembers our sins no more because the work of the cross already has. No further sacrifice remains for sin because the work has already been accomplished. Therefore, God need never act again on their behalf.

The Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins. Luke 5:24

Christ has liberated us into freedom. Therefore stand firm and don't submit again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1

He has rescued us from the domain of darkness and transferred us into the kingdom of the Son He loves. Colossians 1:13

Make Your way to the everlasting ruins, to all that the enemy has destroyed in the sanctuary. Psalm 74:3

This is how we have come to know love: He laid down His life for us. 1 John 3:16

If our stubborn minds would absorb that we are accepted by God because of Jesus Christ, our choices and subsequent behaviors would be profoundly affected.

This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. . . . If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. (1 John 4:10–15)

Promised Land theology becomes an earthbound reality only to those who cash in their fear and complacency for the one ticket out of their long-inhabited wilderness.

I have observed the misery of My people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. Exodus 3:7

Now He has reconciled you by His physical body through His death, to present you holy, faultless, and blameless before Him. Colossians 1:22

Those He foreknew He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son. Romans 8:29

Of course, maybe that's what I love best of all about God. We've never gone so far that we can't be fetched.

Christ has liberated us into freedom. Therefore stand firm and don't submit again to a yoke of slavery. Galatians 5:1

Have you ever wondered why God goes to the trouble of sanctifying us? He could instantly zap us into His image the moment we decide to follow Jesus, or He could transport us into heaven the moment of our conversion. Why would He opt for taking us through the long, drawn-out process of planting, watering, pruning, and harvesting? But sure enough, He rolls up His sleeves, puts palms to the dirt, and begins putting the pieces of our lives together in a way that matters.

I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. I am the bread of life" (John 6:47–48). Did you notice how Jesus combined the bread of life with everlasting life? Christ is the bread of God's presence to us. His scars are placed before God as a perpetual memorial that the wages of our sins have been paid. Christ said, "This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world" (John 6:51b).

We need more than a leader on our road to freedom. We need a Savior—One who keeps on saving. Although we need to be saved from eternal separation from God only once, Christ continues His saving work in us for the rest of our lives. If you're like me, you can think of more than a few potential disasters from which Christ has saved you since your initial experience of salvation.

So on those days when it seems like God is silent and you have nothing to show for your life besides dung and death, know that even those are not wasted. God is using even the messiest parts and the most painful and seemingly hopeless parts to get your soil ready. You, loved and chosen by God, have much good fruit yet to bear.

He demonstrated this power in the Messiah by raising Him from the dead and seating Him at His right hand in the heavens. Ephesians 1:20

The most monumental leap we take toward freedom is the leap to our knees—the lordship of Jesus Christ.

For God loved the world in this way: He gave His One and Only Son. John 3:16

There is certainly no righteous man on the earth who does good and never sins. Ecclesiastes 7:20

Nothing is unforgivable, thank God. But some things cannot be excused. They must be repented of and dramatically corrected and permanently changed.

We have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. 1 John 4:16