Jacob Moore’s Reviews > The Wonderful Works of God > Status Update

"The believer, therefore, never stands apart by himself; he is never alone. In the natural world every human being is born in the fellowship of his parents, and he is therefore without any effort on his own part a member of a family, of a people, and also of the whole mankind. So it is also in the spiritual sphere." P. 495

Bavinck on believers being born into the fellowship of the church.

"Scripture and experience both, on the contrary, teach that the believer is not an external combination of two beings, but that he remains one being, a single self, a single consciousness, heart, and will, and that no two independent beings but rather two groups of desires and dispositions are conflicting inside one and the same person." P. 477.

"Who, reflecting ... can believe in the complete forgiveness of all of his sins? But the church of Christ dares to believe it, and can and may believe it. In humility and excitement of heart it confesses: I believe the forgiveness of sins ... The Gospel informs us that God forgives sins, that He can forgive them and that He does forgive them, because His right has been fully vindicated by Christ." P. 444

"Whoever seeks the Christ outside the pale of his word through the Spirit alone loses the norm for testing the spirits and eventually comes to the point of identifying his own spirit with the Spirit of Christ; and whoever studies the word without the Spirit of Christ is studying the portrait while ignoring the person of whom it is a representation. That is why Christ gave both: His word and His Spirit." P. 413

"Believers are in Christ as all things ... of creation and providence are in God. They live in Him as the fish lives in water ... With Him they are crucified, dead, and buried, are raised again, seated at the right hand of God, and glorified. They have put Him on, assumed His form, and show in their body both the suffering and the life of Christ, and are perfected in Him. In short, Christ is all and in all." P. 379

"There really was no fellowship between us and Christ, but only separation and opposition ... He was just and holy and without any sin, and we were sinners, guilty before the face of God, and unclean from head to foot. Nevertheless, Christ put himself into fellowship with us ... by entering into the fellowship with our sin and death." P. 337.

This is just an excerpt that was lovely on Christ's sacrificial work.

"The same subject, the same person, the same I who humiliated Himself so deeply that He assumed the form of a servant and became obedient unto the death of the cross, already existed in a different form of existence long before His incarnation and humiliation. He existed then in the form of God and thought it no robbery to be equal with God (Phil. 2:6)." P. 298