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Tim keller forgiveness12/31/2023 So what do you do? You do the acts of love, despite your lack of feeling.”ġ9. And when that happens you must remember that the essence of marriage is that it is a covenant, a commitment, a promise of future love. “In any relationship, there will be frightening spells in which your feelings of love dry up. You don’t need a Savior who pardons you by free grace, for you are your own Savior.” Tim Keller Quotes About Marriageġ8. If you do that, then you have “rights.” God owes you answered prayers, and a good life, and a ticket to heaven when you die. “You can avoid Jesus as Savior by keeping all the moral laws. A changed life comes in response to the salvation, offered as a free gift.”ġ7. “God’s salvation does not come in response to a changed life. The purpose of Jesus’s coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.”ġ6. That is an important means of God’s salvation, but not the final end or purpose of it. “When we look at the whole scope of this story line, we see clearly that Christianity is not only about getting one’s individual sins forgiven so we can go to heaven. The God of Jesus and the prophets, however, saves completely by grace.”ġ5. “Those who believe they have pleased God by the quality of their devotion and moral goodness naturally feel that they and their group deserve deference and power over others. Strong faith in a weak branch is fatally inferior to weak faith in a strong branch.”ġ4. “It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you. When the thing that most assures you is the thing that most convicts you, you’ll be okay because when you’re convicted of sin in a gospel way it drives you toward God.”ġ3. “If you know what He has done at infinite cost to himself-He’s put you into a relationship so that you’ll never be rejected by Him-then your motivation when you sin is to go get Him. “As many have learned and later taught, you don’t realize Jesus is all you need until Jesus is all you have.”ġ2. If the wrongdoer has to do something to merit it, then it isn’t mercy, but forgiveness always comes at a cost to the one granting the forgiveness.”ġ1. “Mercy and forgiveness must be free and unmerited to the wrongdoer. We come to God saying, “Look at all I’ve done,” or maybe “Look at all I’ve suffered.” God, however, wants us to look to him – to just wash.”ġ0. But that kind of spiritual humility is hard to muster. “If you want God’s grace, all you need is need, all you need is nothing. But when you forgive, that means you absorb the loss and the debt. No one who is seriously wronged can “just forgive” the perpetrator…. From the earliest parts of the Bible, it was understood that God could not forgive without sacrifice. “…God’s grace and forgiveness, while free to the recipient, are always costly for the giver…. I do not think more of myself nor less of myself. I cannot feel superior to anyone, and yet I have nothing to prove to anyone. It undermines both swaggering and sniveling. This leads to deep humility and deep confidence at the same time. “The Christian Gospel is that I am so flawed that Jesus had to die for me, yet I am so loved and valued that Jesus was glad to die for me. Joy-based repentance makes us hate the sin.”ħ. “Fear-based repentance makes us hate ourselves. He said, “Father, forgive them, they don’t know what they are doing.” He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely.”Ħ. “…We must say to ourselves something like this: ‘Well, when Jesus looked down from the cross, he didn’t think “I am giving myself to you because you are so attractive to me.” No, he was in agony, and he looked down at us – denying him, abandoning him, and betraying him – and in the greatest act of love in history, he STAYED. So we can say that we are more wicked than we ever dared believe, but more loved and accepted in Christ than we ever dared hope - at the very same time.”ĥ. The gospel of justifying faith means that while Christians are, in themselves still sinful and sinning, yet in Christ, in God’s sight, they are accepted and righteous. Jesus was the most morally upright person who ever lived, yet He had a life filled with the experience of poverty, rejection, injustice, and even torture.”Ĥ. “The basic premise of religion– that if you live a good life, things will go well for you– is wrong. “It is not the strength of your faith but the object of your faith that actually saves you.”ģ. “The gospel is this: We are more sinful and flawed in ourselves than we ever dared believe, yet at the very same time we are more loved and accepted in Jesus Christ than we ever dared hope.”Ģ.
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