If you don't know you're in a state of grace, then you're vulnerable to the paralysis of the accusations of the enemy.
R. C. SproulI get irritated when I hear preachers say, "Come to Jesus and all your problems will be over." That's just simply a lie.
R. C. SproulThe 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.
R. C. Sproul