Zeke Shatzer’s Reviews > Knowing God > Status Update

“The peace of God…is a new relationship of forgiveness and acceptance.” -Pg 196

“…what God is hereby doing [in His wrathful judgement] is no more than to ratify and confirm judgements which those whom He ‘visits’ have already passed on themselves by the course they have chosen to follow.” -Pg 153

“…the gift of justification certainly shields believers from being condemned and banished from God’s presence as sinners…But…the gift of justification does not at all shield believers from being assessed as Christians, and from forfeiting good which others will enjoy if it turns out that as Christian’s they have been slack, mischievous, and destructive.” -Pg 146

“For Jesus constantly affirmed that in the day when all appear before God’s throne to receive the abiding and eternal consequences of the life they have lived, He Himself will be the Father’s agent in judgement.” -Pg 144

“The final proof that God is a perfect moral Being…is the fact that He committed Himself to judge the world [according to everyone’s works].” -Pg 143

“…if we examine the New Testament, even in the most cursory way, we find at once that the Old Testament emphasis on God’s action as Judge, far from being reduced, is intensified.” -Pg 140

“…through setting His love on human beings, God has voluntarily bound up His own final happiness with theirs.” -Pg 125

“…the statement ‘God is love’ means that His love finds expression in everything that He says and does.” -Pg 122

“Scripture does not allow us to suppose that because God is love we may look to Him to confer happiness on people who will not seek holiness, or to shield His loved ones from trouble when He knows that they need trouble to further their sanctification.” -Pg 122

"...our souls were made to 'run' on the [practices] of worship, law-keeping, truthfulness, honesty, discipline, self-control, and service to God and our fellows. If we abandon these practices, not only do we incur guilt before God; we also progressively destroy our own souls." -Pg 114