Last night I gave the second message of our summer series called Refresh: Justified By Grace. Thought you might like to have the qoutes.

“Sin is the missing of the target, a wandering from the path, a straying from the fold. Sin is a hard heart and a stiff neck. Sin is blindness and deafness. It is both the overstepping of a line and the failure to reach it—both transgression and shortcoming. Sin is a beast crouching at the door. In sin, people attack or evade or neglect their divine calling. These and other images suggest deviance: even when it is familiar, sin is never normal. Sin is disruption of created harmony and then resistance to divine restoration of that harmony. Above all, sin disrupts and resists the vital human relation to God, and it does all this disrupting and resisting in a number of intertwined ways.” - Cornelius Plantinga

“Unless we realize that God’s wrath rests upon the sins we have committed and still do commit, we shall never feel the need to be justified.” - Anthony Hoekema

“The Bible would say to us that, in light of eternity, the most important question we all face is: How can a sinful man or woman come into a right relationship with an infinitely holy and just God?” - Jerry Bridges

“Justification is like two sides of a coin. On the one side we are declared “not guilty” before God, and on the other we are positively declared to be righteous through Christ. That is, we are counted in God’s sight as having perfectly obeyed the law of God.” - Jerry Bridges

“There are two “courts” we must deal with: the court of God in Heaven and the court of conscience in our souls. When we trust in Christ for salvation, God’s court is forever satisfied. Never again will a charge of guilt be brought against us in Heaven. Our consciences, however, are continually pronouncing us guilty. That is the function of conscience. Therefore, we must by faith bring the verdict of conscience into line with the verdict of Heaven. We do this by reminding it that our guilt has already been borne by Christ.” Jerry Bridges

Want to know more about how to preach the gospel to yourself? Stay tuned…

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