The Gospel for Real Life Quotes

“We need to call sin what the Bible calls it and not soften it with modern expressions borrowed from our culture.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life: Turn to the Liberating Power of the Cross...Every Day

“Have you ever thought about the wonderful truth that Christ lived His perfect life in your place and on your behalf? Has it yet gripped you that when God looks at you today He sees you clothed in the perfect, sinless obedience of His Son? And that when He says, "This is my Son, whom I love; with Him I am well pleased," He includes you in that warm embrace? The extent to which we truly understand this is the extent to which we will begin to enjoy those unsearchable riches that are found in Christ.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life: Return to the Liberating Power of the Cross

“The cross, then, is an expression of God's wrath toward sin as well as His love to us. It expresses His holiness in His determination to punish sin, even at the cost of His Son. And it expresses His love in sending His Son to bear the punishment we so justly deserved.
So in answer to the question, "Why the cross?" we must say God's holiness demanded it as punishment for our sins, and God's love provided it to save us from our sins.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life: Return to the Liberating Power of the Cross

“Many people erroneously think that God can just forgive our sins because He is a loving God. Nothing could be further from the truth. The cross speaks to us not only about our sin but about God's holiness.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life: Return to the Liberating Power of the Cross

“God does not exalt His mercy at the expense of His justice. And in order to maintain His justice, all sin without exception must be punished. Contrary to popular opinion, with God there is no such thing as mere forgiveness. There is only justice.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life: Turn to the Liberating Power of the Cross...Every Day

“Death has been swallowed up in victory’” (1 Corinthians 15:51-54).”
― Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life: Turn to the Liberating Power of the Cross...Every Day

“For you did not receive a spirit that makes you a slave again to fear, but you received the Spirit of sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.” The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life: Turn to the Liberating Power of the Cross...Every Day

“I believe that human morality, rather than flagrant sin, is the greatest obstacle to the gospel today.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life: Turn to the Liberating Power of the Cross...Every Day

“call, believe, hear, and preach.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life: Turn to the Liberating Power of the Cross...Every Day

“Contrary to popular opinion, with God there is no such thing as mere forgiveness. There is only justice.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life: Turn to the Liberating Power of the Cross...Every Day

“If we think about it, we realize that obedience that is not delighted in is not perfect obedience.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life: Turn to the Liberating Power of the Cross...Every Day

“The consequences of Adam and Eve’s sin went far beyond their own banishment from the garden and the presence of God. God had appointed Adam as the federal head or legal representative of the entire human race. Consequently his fall brought guilt and depravity on all his descendants.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life: Turn to the Liberating Power of the Cross...Every Day

“Our situation was so desperate that only the death of His own Son on a cruel and shameful cross was sufficient to resolve the problem.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life: Return to the Liberating Power of the Cross

“Furthermore, even a deep, penetrating sense of our sinfulness does not do justice to the reality of our predicament. Our need is not to be measured by our own sense of need, but by what God had to do to meet that need.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life: Return to the Liberating Power of the Cross

“Christ died for our sins. Jesus Christ, the eternal Son of God, took upon Himself a human nature and died a horrible death on our behalf. That is the reason for the cross. He suffered what we should have suffered. He died in our place to pay the penalty for our sins.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life: Return to the Liberating Power of the Cross

“Abstention from the forbidden fruit involved no hardship, no inconvenience, just simple obedience.”
― Jerry Bridges, The Gospel for Real Life: Turn to the Liberating Power of the Cross...Every Day