We do not determine right or wrong based on what everybody else is doing.

The idea of being the Substitute in offering an atonement to satisfy the demands of God’s law for others was something Christ understood as His mission from the moment He entered this world and took upon Himself a human nature. He came from heaven as the gift of the Father for the express purpose of working out redemption as our Substitute, doing for us what we could not possibly do for ourselves.

If you don’t delight in the fact that your Father is holy, holy, holy, then you are spiritually dead. You may be in a church. You may go to a Christian school. But if there is no delight in your soul for the holiness of God, you don’t know God. You don’t love God. You’re out of touch with God. You’re asleep to his character.

For a Christian to be a Christian, he must first be a sinner. Being a sinner is a prerequisite for being a church member. The Christian church is one of the few organizations in the world that requires a public acknowledgement of sin as a condition for membership.

God is not blind; neither is He capricious. For Him there are no accidents. With God there are no cases of chance events.

To live coram Deo is to live one’s entire life in the presence of God, under the authority of God, to the glory of God.

God did not die. The God who took on Himself a human nature died in His humanity, but the deity did not perish on the cross.