When I know that Christ is the one real sacrifice for my sins, that His work on my behalf has been accepted by God, that He is my heavenly Intercessor - then His blood is the antidote to the poison in the voices that echo in my conscience, condemning me for my many failures. Indeed, Christ's shed blood chokes them into silence!
Sinclair B. FergusonOur thinking about who we are as Christians should not begin with what we can discover about ourselves by self-analysis. Rather, it begins with what God says about those who trust in Christ.
Sinclair B. FergusonThe Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us.
Sinclair B. FergusonChristian contentment, therefore, is the direct fruit of having no higher ambition than to belong to the Lord and to be totally at His disposal in the place He appoints, at the time He chooses, with the provision He is pleased to make.
Sinclair B. FergusonGod's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day.
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