Noel S. Due > Quotes

“Since your access to God isn’t based on what you do but wholly based on what Christ has done, it can’t be lost.”
― Noel S. Due, Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God

“God blesses us according to the riches of his glory. He doesn’t give us just something out of the storehouse of his riches; he gives according to his riches.

We think he gives like we do. We think if we are good, he might give us something we want. We think he might show us a bit of affection, or have some mercy on us when we are in need.

But what God is able to do, and is doing, is far more abundant “than all that we ask or think” (Eph 3:20). God holds nothing back.”
― Noel S. Due, Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God

“The Father is more willing to give than we can imagine.”
― Noel S. Due, Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God

“We struggle with the thought that his love is so strong and his desire to bless is so intense. Our deeply ingrained work ethic causes us to view everything God does in utilitarian terms. If God does something, it must be because he wants us to do something in return. To think he might just want us to enjoy it is a bit of a stretch for us [...]

In reality, God might not want us to do anything with a blessing except to enjoy it, to love it, to be stunned by the beauty of it, to be overwhelmed by the grace of it, to share the blessing with others. It brings joy to a parent to see their child enjoying something they’d given him or her.”
― Noel S. Due, Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God

“Christian community, then, is not something to be attained—an idealistic project—but is already a divine reality experienced as we relate to each other in Christ. It’s not primarily a unity of head (mental or cognitive; signing up to the same policies and platforms), although this is not to be ignored.

Rather, it’s a unity of heart, a unity in the Spirit characterized by the fruit of the Spirit: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control (Gal 5:22–23).

In Christ, then, we are united in a worshipful community even to those who may not share our exact individual theological convictions and to those who for a time may regard me as their enemy. We are brothers and sisters to many whose language, culture, and church traditions are very different from ours, and they are one with each of us, even if we’ve never met.”
― Noel S. Due, Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God

“The Father loves to do for us “far more abundantly than all that we ask or think” (Eph 3:20a) because he’s love and because he’s our Father, and because he’s already provided it all in Christ Jesus.”
― Noel S. Due, Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God

“The power that Satan has over you and me, the power he has over the church, is to tell us there is still sin that has not been dealt with, that there are still things that have to be atoned for, that there is still something yet to be worked out. He fills us with fear because fear involves punishment. We fear to come to the Father because we are not fully and completely convinced that he has entirely dealt with everything.

But he has dealt with our past, present, and future trespasses “through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Heb 10:10).

And if that certificate of debt which is full of decrees against and hostile to us, which never says a good thing about us, if that is gone, what power does Satan have? The answer is, none.”
― Noel S. Due, Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God

“We often encounter a view of God—indeed, plaguing our own hearts—in which God is essentially against us; that he’s only a hair’s breadth away from crushing us, with the least provocation. To put it differently, we function as though we deeply believe that God’s disposition is first and foremost anti-us and that we must do something to bend his heart towards us, to make him pro-us.

This mode of thought, and the actions that flow from it, are completely contrary to the Christian faith. In fact, this is where Christianity separates itself from every other religion. The God of Christianity is for you and me; he is “pro-me.” His “pro-me-ity” is the way he is; it’s not something which he can or has to be cajoled into being. [...]

This “promeity” isn’t based on what we each have done, are doing, or will do. God was, in fact, pro-me even when we were anti-him, when we hated him”
― Noel S. Due, Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God

“Our sonship means the Father is available to us, that we’re acceptable to him no matter how we feel. Jesus declared just this type of access when he said, “No longer do I call you servants, for the servant does not know what his master is doing; but I have called you friends, for all that I have heard from my Father I have made known to you” (John 15:15).”
― Noel S. Due, Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God

“The grace of God can’t be owned, bought, or earned. It’s free and it’s never going to end, because we never get to the end of God.”
― Noel S. Due, Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God

“very fiber of Christ’s being is towards us and for us. His every thought, intention, and affection is to bless us, to love us, to fill us, to inhabit us, to pour himself into us. There is absolutely nothing outside of his sovereign control, and he’s been set as head over all things for the express purpose of blessing the Church.”
― Noel S. Due, Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God

“Whatever lays the first stress on behaviour or achievement; on orthodoxy, theological, moral, or social; on conformity to a system, a church, a moral type, or a code of conduct; on mere sinlessness, blamelessness, propriety, piety, or sanctity of an unearthly type—that is a departure from the Gospel idea of perfection; which is completeness of trust, and the definite self-assignment of faith amid much imperfection.”
― Noel S. Due, Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God

“don’t feel guilty for how much your redemption “cost God.” The Father saves us out of his abounding sufficiency, not from any need or lack. His love is wholly free.

And don’t feel sorry for the Son because of his suffering. Rather, look to him, who “for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God” (Heb 12:2).”
― Noel S. Due, Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God

“Every fiber of Christ’s being is towards us and for us. His every thought, intention, and affection is to bless us, to love us, to fill us, to inhabit us, to pour himself into us. There is absolutely nothing outside of his sovereign control, and he’s been set as head over all things for the express purpose of blessing the Church.”
― Noel S. Due, Embracing God as Father: Christian Identity in the Family of God