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“What the “sad alumni” need to hear (perhaps for the first time) is that Christian failures are
going to walk into heaven, be welcomed into heaven, leap into heaven like a calf leaping out of its stall, laughing and laughing, as if it’s all too good to be true.
It isn’t just that we failures will get in. It’s that we will probably get in like that!
We failures-in-living-the-Christian-life-as-described-in-the-Bible will probably say
something like, “You mean it was that simple?!” “Just Christ’s cross & blood?! Just His
righteousness imputed to my account as if mine? You gotta be kidding!” “And all of
heaven is ours just because of what was done by Jesus outside of me, on the cross — not
because of what Christ did in me” – in my heart, in my Christian living, in my
behavior?!” “Well, I’ll be damned!” But, of course, that’s the point isn’t it? As a
believer in Jesus as your Substitute, you won’t be damned! No believer in Jesus will be.
Not a single one!”
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going to walk into heaven, be welcomed into heaven, leap into heaven like a calf leaping out of its stall, laughing and laughing, as if it’s all too good to be true.
It isn’t just that we failures will get in. It’s that we will probably get in like that!
We failures-in-living-the-Christian-life-as-described-in-the-Bible will probably say
something like, “You mean it was that simple?!” “Just Christ’s cross & blood?! Just His
righteousness imputed to my account as if mine? You gotta be kidding!” “And all of
heaven is ours just because of what was done by Jesus outside of me, on the cross — not
because of what Christ did in me” – in my heart, in my Christian living, in my
behavior?!” “Well, I’ll be damned!” But, of course, that’s the point isn’t it? As a
believer in Jesus as your Substitute, you won’t be damned! No believer in Jesus will be.
Not a single one!”
―
“What the “sad alumni” need to hear (perhaps for the first time) is that Christian failures are
going to walk into heaven, be welcomed into heaven, leap into heaven like a calf leaping out of its stall, laughing and laughing, as if it’s all too good to be true.
It isn’t just that we failures will get in. It’s that we will probably get in like that! We failures-in-living-the-Christian-life-as-described-in-the-Bible will probably say something like, “You mean it was that simple?!” “Just Christ’s cross & blood?! Just His righteousness imputed to my account as if mine? You gotta be kidding!” “And all of heaven is ours just because of what was done by Jesus outside of me, on the cross — not because of what Christ did in me” – in my heart, in my Christian living, in my behavior?!” “Well, I’ll be damned!” But, of course, that’s the point isn’t it? As a believer in Jesus as your Substitute, you won’t be damned! No believer in Jesus will be. Not a single one!”
―
going to walk into heaven, be welcomed into heaven, leap into heaven like a calf leaping out of its stall, laughing and laughing, as if it’s all too good to be true.
It isn’t just that we failures will get in. It’s that we will probably get in like that! We failures-in-living-the-Christian-life-as-described-in-the-Bible will probably say something like, “You mean it was that simple?!” “Just Christ’s cross & blood?! Just His righteousness imputed to my account as if mine? You gotta be kidding!” “And all of heaven is ours just because of what was done by Jesus outside of me, on the cross — not because of what Christ did in me” – in my heart, in my Christian living, in my behavior?!” “Well, I’ll be damned!” But, of course, that’s the point isn’t it? As a believer in Jesus as your Substitute, you won’t be damned! No believer in Jesus will be. Not a single one!”
―
“In the Reformation schema, to “preach Christ crucified” is to preach him and his saving death, rather than to preach our faith in him as what saves. The Reformation insisted that we are justified propter Christum (on account of Christ) and per fidem (through faith). It is not the opposite; that is, we are not justified on account of our faith and through Christ. This may sound like hairsplitting, but it is not. It is the difference between a Savior who saves and human faith that does not save. It is the difference between an objective Gospel that saves and another “gospel,” a subjective one, that is no gospel at all and that does not save. The ground of our justification is Christ and his innocent sufferings and death. Period.”
― Christ Alone
― Christ Alone
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