Don't believe everything you think. You cannot be trusted to tell yourself the truth. Stay in The Word.

Justified" is even better than "just as if I'd never sinned." It is also "just as if I'd always obeyed.

If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.

Three means by which God assures us that we do have eternal life: 1. The promises of His Word, 2. The witness of the Spirit in our hearts, 3. The transforming work of the Spirit in our lives.

...God has made provision for our holiness. Through Christ He has delivered us from sin's reign so that we now can resist sin. But the responsibility for resisting is ours. God does not do that for us. To confuse the potential for resisting (which God provided) with the responsibility for resisting (which is ours) is to court disaster in our pursuit of holiness.

Our very worst days are never beyond the reach of God's grace.

The gospel is not only the most important message in all of history; it is the only essential message in all of history.