I give thanks to God that, taking compassion on me whom he had created and placed in this world, he delivered me by his power […]

If God desires every knee to bow to Jesus and every tongue to confess Him, so should we. We should be ‘jealous’ for the honor […]

There has not only been an objective, public act of divine self-disclosure in the crucifixion of God’s own Son, but there must be a private work […]

A believer is one who identifies with all that God affirms and condemns in Christ’s crucifixion. God affirms in Christ’s crucifixion the whole truth about […]

The Bible’s purpose is not so much to show you how to live a good life. The Bible’s purpose is to show you how God’s […]

We do not have to make ourselves suffer in order to merit forgiveness. We simply receive the forgiveness earned by Christ. 1 John 1:8 says […]

If Christ had been murdered by thieves or slain in an insurrection by a raging mob, in such a death there would have been no […]

Our deliverance from the law is a rescue from its curse and its bondage, and so relates to the two particular functions of justification and […]

When God poured out his justice on Christ, he was not only destroying his Son, but destroying the barrier between himself and us. How amazing! […]

The prophets searched. Angels longed to see. And the disciples didn’t understand. But Moses, the prophets, and all the Old Testament Scriptures had spoken about […]

Our sins have been punished; the wheel of retribution has turned; judgment has been inflicted for our ungodliness – but on Jesus, the lamb of […]

God’s wrath is his righteousness reacting against unrighteousness; it shows itself in retributive justice. But Jesus Christ has shielded us from the nightmare of retributive […]

Redeeming love and retributive justice joined hands, so to speak, at Calvary, for there God showed Himself to be ‘just, and the justifer of him […]

It is God who justifies. (Romans 8:33) Behold the eternal security of the weakest believer in Jesus. The act of justification, once passed under the great […]

Suppose a man should come to his dinner table, and there should be a knife laid down, and it should be told him, ‘This is […]

The Gospel is the news that Jesus Christ, the Righteous One, died for our sins and rose again, eternally triumphant over all his enemies, so […]

True religion is a union of the soul with God, a real participation of the Divine nature, the very image of God drawn upon the […]

Thus it is, that the freeer the gospel, the more sanctifying the gospel; and the more it is received as a doctrine of grace, the […]

The atoning death of Christ, and that alone, has presented sinners as righteous in God’s sight; the Lord Jesus has paid the full penalty of […]

The hill of comfort is the hill of Calvary; the house of consolation is built with the wood of the cross; the temple of heavenly […]

CHRISTIAN: Hello, Death, my old enemy. My old slave-master. Have you come to talk to me again? To frighten me? I am not the person […]

Christ saw us ruined by the fall, a world of poor, lost, ship-wrecked sinners. He saw and He pitied us; and in compliance with the […]

Jesus is our master in prayer; he is also our companion in prayer. He says to us, ‘I’ll pray for you …’ — and does […]

Only by seeing our sin do we come to see the need for and wonder of grace. But exposing sin is not the same thing […]

Faith is looking away from ourselves to another. Faith is total dependence on another. When faith stands in front of a mirror, the mirror becomes […]

We are adopted into God’s family through the resurrection of Christ from the dead in which he paid all our obligations to sin, the law, […]

Let no one say that the doctrine of election by the sovereign will and mercy of God, mysterious as it is, makes either evangelism or […]

Faith is the root of all holiness in a sinner. Without a firm realizing belief of the great truths of the gospel, it is impossible […]

You could never have known free grace and dying love if Jesus had not come to redeem you. Unfallen intelligent spirits will say in eternity, […]

Truly God is love. Love is not something that God may choose to be or choose not to be. He is love, and that necessarily, inherently, and […]

All revealed truth ought to be greatly valued, and received by faith; and, if properly used, may be subservient to the main subject and design […]