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Hey guys,
Salvation is through grace. So is obedience.
My late friend, Jack Miller, used to say that all of Biblical theology can be summed up in two sentences: 1) Cheer up; you’re a lot worse than you think you are. 2) Cheer up; God’s grace is a lot bigger than you think it is. In that comment, Jack pointed to what the Christian faith is all about. It is about God doing and continuing to do what we simply can’t do for ourselves.
Martin Luther was asked once what he thought about “works of repentance” (i.e. the work that flows from our faith). He allowed that it was good when it happened “but what is it about our arrogance that makes us think that anything we could ever do would be more adequate than the blood of God’s own Son?”
One more quote, this one from George Whitefield: “Before you can know you are right with God, you must not only be troubled for the sins of your life, but also for the sins of your best duties and performances…before you can be at peace with God, you must be brought out of your self-righteousness [that really ticks off Jesus]; it is the last idol taken out of your heart.”
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