Quotes About Redemption

God's grace often does its best and brightest work when things are the darkest and most difficult.

You can be courageous in admitting your sin precisely because God is richly abundant in his mercy.

It didn't begin just before you were born. It began before the world was born. He placed his grace on you and wrote your story in such a way that at a certain point in time you would hear the truths of the gospel of Jesus Christ and believe. His love for you is never a result of your character; it is a clear demonstration of his. He granted you and me what we never could have deserved; our new life is his choice, his gift.

No solo hemos sido liberados de la necesidad de cumplir la ley para ser salvos, sino también de la esclavitud al pecado en la vida diaria. Hemos sido liberados del peso de la ley para vivir una vida piadosa. No podemos gloriarnos en nuestra liberación sin a la vez aceptar nuestro llamado (ver Ro 6:1-14; Tit 2:11-14).

The world you live in is a lot like that broken-down house. Every single room has been dirtied and damaged by sin. Not one part of it shines with anything like the pure glory that was so evident when it was first made. Sin has left this world in a sorry condition. You see it everywhere you look.

You don't have to worry, because you have a Savior who has invaded your life with his grace and has made you the place where he dwells.

He is not only your indwelling Savior, he is your reigning King. He does in you what you could not do for yourself and he does outside of you what you have no power or authority to do.

This means he fights for us even when we have given up the fight. Our desire to follow him may weaken, but he will never give up or turn his back on us. He knows us because he made us, which is why he sent his Son to be for us what we could not be for ourselves and to do for us what we could not do on our own.

It takes God's rescuing hand for me to forsake the purpose of my kingdom and take up the purpose of his.

Suffering confronts us with the fact that life is not about us but about God. It is not about our glory but his.

We are God's forever and ever. He will never turn his back on us. He will never angrily throw our sin in our faces. He will never withdraw his presence and his promises, no matter how messed up we continue to be, because our standing with him is not based on our performance, but on the perfect record of his Son. But

The same grace that forgives your past empowers you to live in a new way in the future.

God will not rest from his redemptive work until he has once and for all presided over the funeral of sin and death.

You could say that the advice here is to connect everything you require of your children in behavior and belief to the story of redemption.

Christ has gained God's favor on your behalf. So your obedience is never a fearful payment, but a hymn of gratitude to a God who met you where you were and did for you what you could not have done for yourself.

The God of love sent the Son of His love to rescue us from the bondage of self-love so that we could be free to love others

Grace forces you to feel the pain of your regrets, but never asks you to pay for them, because the price has already been paid by Jesus.

Listen to the present tense gospel in the words of Galatians 2:20: "I have been crucified with Christ [a statement of historical redemptive fact]. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me [a statement of present redemptive reality]. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me [living in light of the gospel right here, right now].

Your biggest need (and mine) is a fully restored relationship with God.

It's never hopeless and you're never helpless if Immanuel has invaded your life with his glory and grace.

Nuestras bendiciones nunca son el pago por el bien que hemos hecho, y nuestras pruebas nunca son un castigo por los males que hemos cometido.

Only as we see our story enfolded in the larger story of redemption will we begin to live God-honoring lives.

God justifies the ungodly. This means there really is hope for people like us.

What you and I bring to our relationship with God is desperate spiritual and moral need.