Quotes About Redemption

Because I had been given another gift: the knowledge of a ready, willing, and capable Savior. I had been blessed with the awareness of his offer of forgiveness to all who confess their sin and by faith seek his forgiveness.

The answer to the big question we have proposed is really quite easy and straightforward. What is God up to right here, right now? Redemption! He is actively working on sin's final defeat and our complete deliverance. He is working out the spoils of the victory that Christ accomplished on the cross of Calvary.

No need to deny, rationalize, or otherwise excuse away evidence of your sin. God wouldn't have sent his Son if your sin were not real.

Forgiveness is a vertical commitment that is followed by a horizontal transaction.

Jonah being delivered from the whale.

God prevented Adam & Even from ETERNAL SINFULNESS by giving them the gift of death, the ability to exit this life & arrive safely in the wondrous life to come. Death, though it would appear to be man's greatest enemy, would in the end, prove to be his greatest friend. Only through can we go to God.

if a Christian no longer places Jesus Christ at the heart of what God is up to in all of history, she's no longer really a Christian.

Salvation, therefore, is not a transaction that takes place outside us, but rather an empowering awareness that explodes within and then pervades our entire being.

To believe in Jesus as the Christ means at its deepest to confess…that Jesus has an abiding and constitutive significance for the approach of the Kingdom of God and thus for the comprehensive healing of human beings…. For Christians, Jesus therefore is the decisive and definitive revelation of God."26

All I want to shout is 'Moaty, it's Gazza!', and I guarantee me and him could sit and chat. I would say, 'Why don't you just put the gun away, throw it in the river? The police are not going to kill you.

All Wrongs Reversed.

Some men live free in this life, only to face an eternal prison in hell. You're in prison in this life, but from today your names have been written in heaven and you are free!

The path of following the Lord Jesus Christ is not an easy one. Along the way lies suffering and hardship, but nothing we experience will ever compare to the suffering Jesus endured for us on the cross.

Though your sins are like scarlet they shall be white as snow, though they be as red like crimson, they shall be like wool.

Sometimes I think Pa hates it because the things I remember are nt for me to be forgiven, but for him. And he can't forget or forgive himeself. That's why he never sleeps, and why he drinks so much. He told me once that there are no memories at the bottom of a glass.

Israel goes through cycles of sin, suffering, and salvation.

God delivers His people, the Israelites, from slavery in Egypt.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it to the full" (Jn 10:10).

Two ghosts, briefly rescued from oblivion; a small act of reclamation, a chance to make amends. -Paul Murray, SKIPPY DIES

From this moment on, it is entirely His. You are completely free of it. It is gone, done, finished, over. It is as if it never happened. Through the Love of God, you and the other person are both now and forever free.

Vader was not a man.

I am a murderer. I simply have not yet murdered. But I will, given time. The good in me is draining away into the dark hole in my center. My soul is broken. I am broken. I am my father's son.

Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets.

they shall not teach, each one his fellow citizen and kinsman, saying, 'Know the Lord,' for all shall know me, from least to greatest. 12For I will forgive their evildoing and remember their sins no more.