Jesus did not die just to give us peace and a purpose in life; he died to save us from the wrath of God.

This is the secret of being content: To learn and accept that we live daily by God's unmerited favor given through Christ, and that we can respond to any and every situation by His divine enablement through the Holy Spirit.

Our sins are forgiven and we are accepted as righteous by God because of both the sinless life and sin-bearing death of our Lord Jesus Christ. There is no greater motivation for dealing with sin in our lives than the realization of these two glorious truths of the gospel.

Sanctification is the work of the Holy Spirit in us whereby our inner being is progressively changed, freeing us more and more from sinful traits and developing within us over time the virtues of Christlike character.

Obedience is the pathway to holiness.

We might say God's wrath is His justice in action, rendering to everyone his just due, which, because of our sin is always judgment.

Faith in Christ and a reliance on ourselves, even to the smallest degree, are mutually exclusive.