Honed By God
I recently received a very encouraging and faith-building note from a friend who is part of the Navigators ministry in Arizona. I asked him if I could share it with you. He said yes, so here it is:
Bow Down; Be Lifted Up
Below is a post from Josh Harris's website. Good food for the soul."The glory of the gospel is that God has declared Christians to be rightly related to him in spite of their sin. But our greatest temptation and mistake is to try to smuggle character into his work of grace. How easily we fall into the trap of assuming that we remain justified only so long as there are grounds in our character for our justification. But Paul's teaching is that nothing we do ever contributes to our justification. So powerful was his emphasis on this that men accused him of teaching that it did not matter how they lived if God justified them. If God justifies us as we are, what is the point of holiness? There is still a sense in which this is a test of whether we off the world the grace of God in the gospel. Does it make men say: 'You are offering grace that is so free it doesn't make any difference how you live'? This was precisely the objection the Pharisees had to Jesus' teaching!" - Sinclair B. Ferguson, The Christian Life: A Doctrinal Introduction
The Dynamics of the Spiritual Life
Isaiah 55.8-13; Romans 8.1-11; Matthew 13.1-23
A sermon at Calvary St George, Gramercy Park, New York, on the Third Sunday after Trinity, 10 July 2011, within the celebrations of the Four Hundredth Anniversary of the King James Bible, By the Right Reverend Professor N T Wright, University of St Andrews.
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