Quotes About Redemption

By being baptized by John the Baptist Jesus fulfilled all righteousness, shouldering all these sins and carrying them to the Cross.

fire of hell, but now that our sins were passed-onto Jesus through our faith in His baptism, Jesus had to die for our sins in our place.

by having faith that Jesus was the sacrificial Lamb God had sent to save them from all their sins.

that were so, then Jesus died without having taken-on all your sins through His baptism. Do

order to deliver us from all our sin and punishment, God sent John the Baptist, and He planned this so that Jesus could take-on all our sins through John the Baptist. If

Those of you who from now on know the gospel of the water and the Spirit, understand it and believe in it with the heart are all righteous.

If you believe that all your sins have been passed-onto Jesus, you will be called 'the righteous', because you are without sin by faith, and only the righteous who believe this will go to Heaven according to the law of the grace of God.

Representing all of mankind - John the Baptist passed-on all the sins onto Jesus. This is how Jesus received His baptism from John the Baptist.

In the Old Testament when a sinner passed-on his sins onto a goat through the laying on of hands, those sins were passed over onto the goat, and the goat had to suffer death in order to atone for those sins instead of the sinner.

Yes, this is true. Jesus has saved us by taking-on your sins as well as mine through His baptism He had received from John the Baptist, dying on the Cross and paying the full price for them, and then being resurrected from the dead.

He passed-on all the sins of the world onto Jesus by His baptism. This was the way of making us prepare the way to Heaven by having us receive the remission of sins

We must not offer people a system of redemption, a set of insights and principles. We offer people a Redeemer.

Embedded in the larger story of redemption is a principle we must not miss: God uses ordinary people to do extraordinary things in the lives of others.

Sin makes us moral quadriplegics.

It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.

The Bible says that our core problem, the fundamental reason we do what we do, is sin.

He never mocks your weaknesses or throws your sin in your face. He never gets tired of you or gives up on his relationship with you. He doesn't ask you to earn what you can never deserve, and he never makes you feel guilty for needing his good gifts. His love isn't conditional and his grace is never temporary.

An instrument s a tool that is actively used to change something, and God has called all of his people to be instruments of change in his redemptive hands

Every time you ask for forgiveness, you declare that your life does not belong to you, but has been created for the purpose of Another.

I no longer need to carry the burden of the past on my shoulders, so I am free to fully give myself to what God has called me to in the here and now.

True restoration takes patience, subtlety, skill, and grace.

God decided to leave you in this fallen world to live, love, and work, because he intended to use the difficulties you face to do something in you that couldn't be done any other way.

Jesus demands everything, not just so we would submit to his control, but to free us from the control of things that were never designed to control us.

The Christmas story is not intended to teach you a bunch of moral lessons that require no history to be helpful. It's a story that is rooted in real history, real acts of God that are intended to provide for you and me the one thing we desperately need: moral rescue. The Christmas story is about a God of glorious grace on the march, invading human history with the grace of redemption.