Happy 4th of July, everyone! As we Americans celebrate our freedom and independence, remember…
“But now that you have been set free from sin and have become slaves of God, the benefit you reap leads to holiness, and the result is eternal life.”
-Paul the Apostle (Romans 6:22 NIV)
“Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us, we have to see it as something done by us.”
-John Stott
“Our peace and confidence are to be found not in our empirical holiness, not in our progress toward perfection, but in the alien righteousness of Jesus Christ that covers our sinfulness and alone makes us acceptable before a holy God.”
-Donald Bloesch
“The cross is a one time, visual representation of God’s grief over sin.”
-Dean H. Harvey
“God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.”
-C.S. Lewis
“There is no mystery in heaven or earth so great as this – a suffering Deity, an almighty Saviour nailed to a Cross.”
-Sameul M. Zwemer
“I am ready to meet God face to face tonight and look into those eyes of infinite holiness, for all my sins are covered by the atoning blood.”
-R.A. Torrey
“Jesus Christ has bought us with His blood, but, alas, He has not had His money’s worth! He paid for ALL, and He has had but a fragment of our energy, time and earnings. By an act of consecration, let us ask Him to forgive the robbery of the past, and let us profess our desire to be henceforth utterly and only for Him – His slaves, owning no master other than Himself.”
-F.B. Meyer
“Our sins are debts that none can pay but Christ. It is not our tears, but His blood; it is not our sighs, but His sufferings, that can testify for our sins. Christ must pay all, or we are prisoners forever.”
-Thomas Brooks
“By accepting His death as our death we enter into this union with the Lord.”
-Watchman Nee
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