Jesus on Trial Quotes

“One thing I learned on my sporadic spiritual journey was that mainstream culture’s disdain and disrespect for the intellectual integrity of Christianity is unwarranted, and its conceited assumption that Christian beliefs are a product of blind faith, bereft of reason and intellect, is completely false.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“Paul’s exhortation is in stark contrast to the “power of positive thinking” movement popularized by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which, in my view, was not altogether biblical because it seemed to suggest that people could change the future just by willing positive outcomes. Like the “prosperity gospel,” which tells us we can all be rich if we just have enough faith, it tends to detract from our proper emphasis on Christ-centeredness. There is nothing wrong with pursuing success and material blessings, but as Christians we must try to remember that our true contentment is embodied in Jesus Christ, and we should organize our lives around this truth.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“Bible consists of sixty-six books written by some forty different authors over a period of about 1,500 years. The authors came from every imaginable background—“kings, peasants, philosophers, fishermen, poets, statesmen and scholars. It was written on at least three different continents in three different languages—Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek—yet, there is a thread of continuity from Genesis to Revelation.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“For what can be known about God is plain to them, because God has shown it to them. For his invisible attributes, namely, his eternal power and divine nature, have been clearly perceived, ever since the creation of the world, in the things that have been made. So they are without excuse.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“The God of the Old Testament is the God of the New Testament.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“A man who was merely a man and said the sort of thing Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit at Him and kill Him as a demon; or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“The message of the Bible is timeless and supernatural. If you’re a believer, how many times have you listened to a sermon in church only to wonder how the pastor knew exactly what you were experiencing, as if he were talking to you and no one else in the congregation? Yet talk to your fellow congregants and you’ll often find they had the exact same feeling. What he was saying to them, however, may be slightly or greatly different than what you heard as applying to yourself.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“an early Christian, like Paul, must have been wholly occupied with the religious propaganda, so that he could see nothing, hear nothing, feel nothing, and observe nothing except the chance of converting some heathen individual or group of persons.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“Based on my own personal experiences with other people, I think that many nonbelievers haven’t spent a great deal of time studying the Bible or exploring Christian theology. That is why I was determined to include in this book not just the arguments advanced by classical Christian apologists, but also a discussion of what Christians believe.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“it. To be out from under the controlling influence of sin is to be free. True liberation is found apart from sin; it is liberation from sin—when sin no longer controls our lives. When we are living licentiously or obsessed with the pursuit of money or any other idolatrous object, we are in bondage. Christianity is not our slave master; sin is.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“As corny as this might sound, I believe the circumstances leading to my writing this book may have been providential.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“Know What and Why You Believe. It was a combination of two of Little’s books, Know What You Believe and Know Why You Believe.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“Yes, we must believe that Christ is the Son of God, that He took on human form, lived a sinless life, and died a sacrificial death for our sins (2 Cor. 5:21). We must acknowledge our own sinful state and repent (Luke 13:3), turn to Christ, and trust Him for the forgiveness of our sins and for our eternal salvation, based solely on His grace and nothing we have merited.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“We also see in these messages and throughout the Bible that while God exhorts us to have faith in Him, we aren’t always going to reap immediate rewards. Life often seems unfair, and even a strong faith is not guaranteed to produce bliss and prosperity in the short term.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“The father has unconditional love for his son, embracing him even before he knows the son will repent. (The son had already planned on repenting, but as far as the father knew, he was just returning home to beg for more money.) “What do you see here?” asks Pastor Timothy Keller. “You see a God of grace. Here is a Father who doesn’t wait for repentance. Oh no. He doesn’t say, ‘You repent and then comes my Father’s arms.’ He gives you the Father’s arms and enables the repentance. Don’t you see? The repentance doesn’t bring the Father’s arms; the Father’s arms bring the repentance.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“The story illustrates that although we are often unaware of God’s presence or of the intricacies of His plan, He nevertheless is present and has a plan, and our ignorance of it doesn’t make it any less real.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“This idea that Jesus is meek, mild, indifferent, and non-judgmental is the stuff of pure myth. Pastor Mark Driscoll says he used to believe Jesus was dull, boring, passionless—in short, unappealing—until he read the Bible. He didn’t recognize in its pages the Jesus about Whom he’d always been told. Driscoll challenges us to read the Gospel of Mark, which will “spin your head around.” Jesus, says Driscoll, tells people to “repent.” He tells people to quit their jobs and follow him. He tells a demon to shut up. After He heals a leper He swears him to silence, too. Then He picks a fight with Sunday school teachers, He tells His mom He’s busy, He rebukes the wind, He kills two thousand pigs, and “he offends people, but doesn’t go to sensitivity training.” He calls people hypocrites and calls Peter “Satan,” He curses and kills a tree, He tells people they’re going to hell, and He rebukes the disciples for falling asleep on Him in the garden.21 Driscoll’s point is not that Jesus was mean or bad in any way; merely that the lukewarm, pacifist image this culture has created of Him is as ridiculous as it is inaccurate.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“It was reckless of me to make a potentially life-determining decision on nothing more than my naked ruminations. So I resolved to examine the evidence.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“In Life of Christ, Archbishop Fulton Sheen puts it this way: “No man can love anything unless he can get his arms around it, and the cosmos is too big and too bulky. But once God became a Babe and was wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid in a manger, men could say, ‘This is Emmanuel, this is God with us.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“when He sees us in Christ Jesus He”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“The Daily Bible by F. LaGard Smith, which presents the books of the Bible in their chronological—as opposed to canonical—order,”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“I bought his Evidence That Demands a Verdict,”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“Satan brought death into the world, and Christ came to vanquish it.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

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― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“The Bible is not merely a simple message from God saying, “I am here.” It is a book of salvation history, a book of pure and absolute Truth, a book of Life, a book that explains for us our entire reason for existence. It is a book that lets us touch God and savor His words on a daily basis, a book that tells us Who He is and gives us instruction for acquiring wisdom, right living, and forming a relationship with Him. In his six-volume work God, Revelation and Authority, Dr. Carl F. H. Henry describes the Bible as “The Awesome Disclosure of God.” He writes,           Divine revelation palpitates with human surprise. Like a fiery bolt of”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“The Daily Bible by F. LaGard Smith, which presents the books of the Bible in their chronological—as opposed to canonical—order, and breaks it down into 365 daily readings, with a helpful introductory comment for each day’s reading.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“. Where love is possible, there pain is also possible. Where the resurrection is promised, there is also the promise of tears wiped away. Heaven is the confirmation of our choice, to love Him and to be with Him. That is the hope of everyone who is a follower of Jesus Christ, whom to know is life eternal.14”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel

“Therefore he understands the grief which troubles your fainting heart, and enters into all your distresses while you are bewailing yourself and lamenting that you cry in the day time and the Lord hears not, and that in the night season you plead in vain.”
― David Limbaugh, Jesus on Trial: A Lawyer Affirms the Truth of the Gospel