Rejoicing in Christ Quotes

“the center, the cornerstone, the jewel in the crown of Christianity is not an idea, a system or a thing; it is not even “the gospel” as such. It is Jesus Christ.”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“Sometimes we find ourselves tiring of Jesus, stupidly imagining that we have seen all there is to see and used up all the pleasure there is to be had in him. We get spiritually bored. But Jesus has satisfied the mind and heart of the infinite God for eternity. Our boredom is simple blindness. If the Father can be infinitely and eternally satisfied in him, then he must be overwhelmingly all-sufficient for us.”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“There was the Son of God being so himself that even a Gentile executioner sensed it. On the cross we see the Bridegroom, loving to death; the Lord of glory, giving out his life; the Lord of hosts, crushing Satan; the King, enthroned. ”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely. Such infinite majesty, and yet such meekness and grace, and all for sinners, even the chief. Live much in the smiles of God. Bask in His beams. Feel His all-seeing eye settled on you in love, and repose in His almighty arms. . . . Let your soul be filled with a heart-ravishing sense of the sweetness and excellency of Christ and all that is in Him.2 Yes!”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“as the Father looks with pleasure and delight on this perfect Son of his, so he looks with pleasure and delight on all who are in him.”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“It is not that he is all that will matter, as if the final conquest of evil and the resurrection of our bodies were trifling things; he is the center in that he is the fountainhead and source of all the blessings of the new creation.”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“Jesus Christ, God’s perfect Son, is the Beloved of the Father, the Song of the angels, the Logic of creation, the great Mystery of godliness, the bottomless Spring of life, comfort and joy. We were made to find our satisfaction, our heart’s rest, in him.”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“The Son’s very identity is found in this: that he is the beloved of the Father.”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“In Christ the Word, we exchange darkness for light as we think of God. For he perfectly shows us an unsurpassably desirable God, a kind God who is against all that is wrong, a God who thaws us. And only when we see that will we truly love him.”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“If God is like Jesus, then, though I am sinful like the dying thief, I can dare to cry, “Remember me” (see Lk 23:42). I know how he will respond. Though I am so spiritually lame and leprous, I can call out to him. For I know just what he is like toward the weak and sick. In”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“Reliance on ourselves is no option in light of the cross. However fantastically marvelous we may think we are, the cross is God’s verdict on us as sinners. It annihilates even the possibility of finally placing our trust in ourselves. Meaning we can know a far greater assurance, anchoring it in firm ground outside ourselves, in Christ. Christians are people who have given up all claims to both our badness and our goodness—and instead gotten him. ”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. He is altogether lovely. Such infinite majesty, and yet such meekness and grace, and all for sinners, even the chief. Live much in the smiles of God. Bask in His beams. Feel His all-seeing eye settled on you in love, and repose in His almighty arms. . . . Let your soul be filled with a heart-ravishing sense of the sweetness and excellency of Christ and all that is in Him.”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“Born of Mary, he had already come to share our flesh and blood; on the cross we then gave to him all our sin, our death, our shame.”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“The greatest benefit of union with Christ is Christ. This marriage is made so that we may know and enjoy him. Union with him is the foundation, the beginning: communion with him is the goal.”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“Sin in a believer is a sickness, a sickness he hates, but which draws out his compassion. In glory, Jesus’ first reaction when you sin is pity. Where you would run from him in guilt, he would run to you in grace. ”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“Here then is a God who could never be anything but communicative, expansive, outgoing. Since God cannot be without this Word, he simply could not ever be reclusive. For eternity this Word sounds out, telling us of an uncontainable God of exuberance and abundance, an overflowing God of surplus, a glorious God of grace.”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“In Jesus Christ we find the unshakably righteous Holy One who is worthy to live on God’s holy hill. He is the Last Adam who ascends back up to be where the first Adam was: with God. Exodus 23:19 commands: “Bring the best of the firstfruits of your soil to the house of the LORD your God.” He is the firstfruits and forerunner of the new humanity (the humanity that in Adam had first been taken from the soil or dust of the earth) now taken into the house of the LORD. It means that there is now a man, a real man with our flesh and blood, our experiences of the world, our humanity, in heaven. A man now sits next to God in perfect harmony.”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“Just so, our great bridegroom has taken all our sin, our death, our judgment, and he shares with us all his life and perfect righteousness. He has become poor that we might share his riches. It is the great marriage swap, or what Luther called the “joyful exchange.” Christ is one with his people, and so all theirs is his, and all his is theirs.9”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“Bursting through death, out of the grave, the Son overturned the old order—or disorder, we should say—of Adam. The reign of death and corruption was undone, and a human being now stood, body and soul, wholly beyond the reach of the curse.”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“Out of sheer and boundless love for his Bride, he took her sicknesses upon himself, with all the consequences of her sin. He took her ugliness that she might have his loveliness.”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ

“All that I am I give to you, and all that I have I share with you,” says the bride to her groom on their wedding day. This is a profound mystery, but I am talking about the cross. For on the cross we shared with Christ all that we have. Born of Mary, he had already come to share our flesh and blood; on the cross we then gave to him all our sin, our death, our shame. The loving Bridegroom took the sorrows and sickness of his Bride down to death to bury them forever.”
― Michael Reeves, Rejoicing in Christ