Quotes About Redemption

Salvation is really and wholly from God, from start to finish (Hebrews 12:2). F

You must confess your sins, and return to God through Jesus Christ. Then, you can approach him in unwavering faith, and ask him to grant you his wisdom and to teach you his ways. This is the only hope for you, and the only hope for mankind.

Christianity teaches that man needs salvation, and that he is saved by faith in Jesus Christ.

Any act of kindness from God is solely due to his mercy offered through the covenant we have with him in Christ, and not as an obligatory payment for our service.

Sinclair Ferguson writes, "He who calls them creates in them the ability to respond so that in the very act of his calling he brings them into new life."[163]

Rather, whoever believes the gospel does so only because God chooses to save him, to change his inner nature, and to produce faith in him.

God has given the Bible a most prominent place in both the history of mankind in general, and in the history of redemption in particular.

The Bible teaches that we are justified by faith, and not that we are regenerated by faith.

For God did not appoint us to suffer wrath but to receive salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 5:9)[135]

But as many as received Him, to them He gave the right to become children of God, even to those who believe in His name, who were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God

by the power of God, who has saved us and called us to a holy life – not because of anything we have done but because of his own purpose and grace.

God is the one who regenerates us, who summons us to faith, who creates and causes faith in us, and who then declares us righteous. Salvation is wholly a work of God.

You are not excused from your sins, but God's truth and power, and his entire plan of redemption, do not hinge on your holiness.

God's truth and power, and his entire plan of redemption, do not hinge on your holiness.

when it comes to salvation, no one under the dominion of sin can simply "decide" to be free from it unless God causes him to be free, nor would the person wish to be free from sin before this occurs.

Salvation is wholly the work of God, so that no one may boast of his works or his good sense in choosing Christ and believing the gospel (John 15:16; Ephesians 2:8). Even after a person has become a Christian, he still has no free will: "It is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose" (Philippians 2:13).

Even the least of the Christians are better off than the non-Christians. Sinners are too foolish to realize this.

God exhibits a natural benevolence toward all his creatures, and it is called "love" in this restricted sense. The purpose is to preserve them for his use, including the display of his wrath when he punishes them for their sins. But to the chosen ones, God's love also means self-sacrifice (in redeeming them through Christ) and self-disclosure (in providing them theological knowledge).

Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God.

I pray for them. I am not praying for the world, but for those you have given me, for they are yours" (John 17:9).

Many Christians forget how bad their lives were before God saved them. They dwell on all the "pleasures of sin" (Hebrews 11:25) that had them in Satan's snare before God "rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves" (Colossians 1:13).

One who comes to God in repentance relies on God's mercy alone. He says, "I can do nothing. I cannot undo what I have done. I cannot pay the debt that I have incurred. All I can do is to place my life in God's hands, and be at his mercy, and let him do whatever he wants with me." This attitude is already an effect of God's mercy at work. He changes the will of the sinner and grants him the gift of repentance.

The Bible says that man is essentially wicked, and that he needs a savior who is qualified to pay for his many transgressions.

let us not be ashamed of the gospel, that God saves his chosen ones by his grace, according to his will and his pleasure, and for his glory.