"God is not one who wants to trip him up or disdain him for the least slip up, but really is his partner." (Speaking of how George Mueller viewed his "partnership" with God).
"Where did the idea ever come from that it was we who were in the business of reforming ourselves and not God? Where it was we who were in the business of changing or rehabilitating ourselves and not God?" (Speaking of the 'Joy' of repentance...watching God change us.)
"Grace means the energy that God will give you, if you go to the sacraments and obey Him and do good." (Speaking of the false notion that we are able to sanctify ourselves through obedience to man-created laws rather than relying fully on God's unmerited favor. This contrasts the truth of the Gospel...that Grace is God's unmerited favor. Religious ritual, when approached in this manner, can actually "cancel out the gospel in my life, or at least severely hamper it.")
"I need to live in the faith and understand the gospel. Right now I need an application of the sprinkled blood of Christ...Right now we need a present application of the blood of Christ." (Speaking of the current reality of my need for repentance and forgiveness.)
"If your conscience is alive, faith and repentance become things that are most difficult to perform." (Speaking of the how the "pangs of conscience" are not satisfied with anything (law keeping, empty promises or religious rites) but repentance...Jesus' blood plus nothing).
"He (Luther) says that after 20 years he still feels the old clinging dirt. For any of us to presume that we have risen above this and have somehow gotten the life of faith and repentance down pat is nonsense." (Speaking of Luther's admission that even after 20 years of walking with God his bargaining flesh still wants to, "...deal with God that I may contribute something that He will have to give me his grace in exchange for my holiness).
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