Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.

Natural man’s sin is precisely this: He wants the benefits of God without God Himself.

The gospel is only good news when we understand the bad news.

Holiness provokes hatred. The greater the holiness, the greater the human hostility toward it. It seems insane. No man was ever more loving than Jesus Christ. Yet even His love made people angry. His love was a perfect love, a transcendent and holy love, but HIs very love brought trauma to people. This kind of love is so majestic we can't stand it.

We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.

If you truly have it, you never lose it; and if you lose it, you never truly had it.

The irony of New Testament lordship is that only in slavery to Christ can a man discover authentic freedom.