Quotes About Redemption

Whether you received brokenness or goodness from your own father, you are a new creation in Christ (2 Corinthians 5: 17).

If Jesus is the Messiah, how could he be put to death?

That standard is Jesus Christ. He is our banner.

Even when we were dead in our transgressions, [God] made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved), and raised us up with Him, and seated us with Him in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus" (Ephesians 2:5-6).

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it is God's Will that all be healed, cause Jesus already paid for it.

It's simple, Miss Philpot. This is one of God's early models, and He decided to give the subsequent ones smaller eyes." I raised my eyebrows. "Do you mean God rejected it?" "I mean God wanted a better version—the crocodile we know now—and replaced it.

I looked over Jordan, and what did I see? Coming for to carry me home A band of Angels coming after me Coming for to carry me home.

God never convicts believers of sin in order to condemn them. God convicts us of sin to change us. He wants us to have a closer walk with Him. He wants us to get rid of this useless sin in our lives.

the Kingdom, not the menace of hell, as the motive for repentance.

I went to prison for my hacking. Now people hire me to do the same things I went to prison for, but in a legal and beneficial way.

But the Grace of God is so powerful that it utterly disregards our past and sees only the potential we have to become in Him.

You may be all too conscious of your own blemishes and feel like that imperfect, rejected block (or an imperfect blockhead), but the Master Artist, who knows what you're made of better than you do, takes your worst flaws and incorporates them into the beauty of his creation-you!

Some traditionalists may insist there is no redeeming value in "secular" music. But recent history has shown that a steady diet of gospel music does not exempt anyone from making destructive choices. From Kirk Franklin's pornography addiction to the domestic violence involving evangelists Juanita Bynum and Thomas W. Weeks III, it's clear that tuning out secular music is not a guarantee of righteous behavior.

California, Royce noted, was a promise, but it was also a struggle for redemption in the face of failure.

Turn the cell into a classroom and the prison into a university

Repentance and yearning, and yearning and repentance: this is the total harvest of life.

The world forgives a drunkard.

If people could unfuck, they'd do it every day.

Sacrificing her own safety and comfort, a broken young woman lay down in the snow, side by side with a broken young horse.

By choosing not to forgive, I was telling God that I loved my stance of self-justification more than Him.

Indeed, our pain has a purpose. All of it. If we do not believe this, it only means we have not yet turned the corner into trusting in Him more than our pain. This is what Jesus can do with pain, any pain, given to Him. When we surrender our suffering to Him, He makes it into something beautiful, powerful, life changing. But there is something He cannot heal—the pain we refuse to give to Him. And this is pain that destroys.

The story of redemption is nothing less than the story of Jesus Christ and his kingdom, which is manifest in the covenant of works, the covenant of grace,[4] and finally the new creation. God's kingdom is the consummate manifestation of his covenant with his elect, originally made with Jesus Christ before the foundation of the world.

If I had a drop of Pastor Palmer's blood in me I would drained it all out and die slowly."