Quotations from the Sunday sermon

You are born of him. You are growing in Him. You will be like Him.

It is impossible for you to embrace truth, be obedient, love other people until you have this new spiritual DNA implanted in you by the Holy Spirit, until you have been adapted into the family of God, until sin begins to die in your life.

Remember, God sacrifices His natural Son for His adapted children.

I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important. Indeed, how we think of Him is of no importance except insofar as it is related to how He thinks of us. In the end that Face which is the delight or the terror of the universe must be turned upon each of us either with one expression or with the other, either conferring glory inexpressible or inflicting shame that can never be cured or disguised.

It is written that we shall 'stand before' Him, shall appear, shall be inspected. The promise of glory is the promise, almost incredible and only possible by the work of Christ, that some of us, that any of us who really chooses, shall actually survive that examination, shall find approval, shall please God.

C.S. Lewis

In vain the fancy strives to paint
The moment after death;
The glories which surround the saint
When yielding up his breath.
This much—and this is all we know,
They are supremely blest;
Have done with sin, and care, and woe,
And with their Saviour rest.

Spurgeon


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