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This book is such a gift

“This is what God is now doing in the world: Spirit-backed gospel preaching leading to the salvation of souls. It's his program, his agenda, his priority, his focus, his project, or whatever business-related metaphor you'd like to use. And by it, he is gathering a new Christ-centred people as his very own; a quiet, steadily growing profusion of leaves on the great vine of his kingdom.”

“In focusing on … justification, we find that it affects a person's status before God, rather than a person's moral condition. It is distinct from sanctification. The righteousness imputed does not describe a person's moral condition, any more than sin describes Christ's moral condition when it was imputed to him in his humiliation. It describes a person's status, or standing, before God.”

The chapter on Union with Christ was especially helpful. Thomas a Kempis: “Jesus today has many who love his heavenly kingdom, but few who carry his cross; many who yearn for comfort, few who long for distress.”

“that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death,”
‭‭Philippians‬ ‭3‬:‭10‬ ‭ESV‬‬

No pain is wasted

Overlooking some of the big flaws of the puritans, there is much to aspire to in their outlook on the Scriptures and the Gospel

The more antiquated language takes a little more concentration, but that yields rewards in better understanding. It’s such a gracious classic work.