“Happy were it, if puzzled & perplexed Christians would turn their eyes from the defects that are in their obedience, to the fullness and completeness of Christ’s obedience; and see themselves complete in Him, when most lame and defective in themselves.” —John Flavel, Works 1.59

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"So Jesus Christ has gone to heaven that He might be as a harbinger [forerunner] to take up heaven for you, to take up room for you in heaven." — Christopher Love

“The classic, tried-and-true definition of faith is knowledge, assent, and trust.” @PatAbendroth

“Hebrews 11 is not the hall of faithfulness; it’s the hall of faith.” @nocoradio @thepactum

“What is the very thing for which a sinner is justified? It is the obedience of Christ, the Redeemer and Mediator, passive and active.” — William Perkins

“I’m so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.” — J. Gresham Machen

“The ascended Jesus is not an indifferent figure— He is the living, reigning, interceding King who has secured your place in heaven forever.” — Patrick Abendroth (@PatAbendroth), Ascension, 10.

"... beware that your convictions turn not into discouragements to faith... they are Christ's knocks for entrance; and were never intended to be bars or stumbling blocks, but steps in your way to Christ." — John Flavel

“People regularly want to turn the church into a social action agency.” @RScottClark @heidelcast podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…

“To say that we have communion with God by covenant, therefore, is simply to affirm that sinners have fellowship with the Lord because of Christ.” @PastorPerks

"The death of Christ obtains complete righteousness for guilty sinners; and if any thing will draw the heart of a sinner to Christ, this will." — John Flavel

“If the fallen sinner-man is to be restored to and confirmed in blessedness, his only hope is in what God does for him.” — Walter Chantry

"The Bible reminds us that God does not have qualities, he is them. Goodness is not something God has, it's what he is." — Steve Meister on Psalm 119:68.

"I'm accepted by God, not on the basis of my personal performance, but on the basis of the infinitely perfect righteousness of Jesus Christ." — John Owen

You love to see Trueman out here stumping for the improvements that 2LCF (“1689”) made to Westminster on 2.3, “On God and the Holy Trinity.” “The problem is that the modern notion of ‘person’ is not what *hypostasis* was trying to get at…. The problem with ‘person’ today is we tend to think of a person as a center of self-consciousness. So in other words, a person is a mind or each person has their own mind. Whereas that's not what *hypostasis* was saying at all. …. you know, ‘subsistence,’ even though it's an ugly word and it's an obscure word, ‘subsistence’ at least allows us to avoid the psychological claims that person is implicitly making today.” “In this divine and infinite Being there are three subsistences, the Father, the Word or Son, and Holy Spirit” (2LCF 2.3). clearlyreformed.org/podcast/…

“Adam’s sin provides an actual, lived-out record of human disobedience, which was counted to be ours through our union with him. And it became the legal basis upon which God justly constituted all men guilty (Rom 5:12ff). Christ’s life of obedience provides the actual, lived-out record of human righteousness, which is counted to be ours through our union with Him. And it becomes the legal basis upon which God justly constitutes believers righteous (2 Cor 5:21b; cf. Rom 5:18–19).” — Mike Riccardi

“In all my years of pastoring, I have learned this lesson: a person's spiritual maturity is not truly visible until they don't get their way.” — Erik Reed

“Without the Bible, it is impossible to answer the question of where human beings are from, and thus no answer can be given to the questions of what they are or where they are headed: one can only surmise, suspect, presuppose, and philosophize.” - Herman Bavinck