Monday, October 4, 2010

More Gospel Tweets


More Gospel Tweets from Tullian Tchividjian
  • The gospel tells us that what God has done for us in Christ is infinitely more important than anything we do for him.
  • The world says the more independent you become, the freer you’ll be; the gospel says the more dependent you become, the freer you’ll be
  • The Gospel frees us from trying to impress people, prove ourselves to people, and make people think we’re something that we’re not.
  • Isn’t it ironic that while God’s treatment of us depends on Christ’s performance, our treatment of others depends on their performance?
  • We need God’s gospel rescue every day and in every way because we are, in the words of John Calvin, “partly unbelievers until we die.”
  • Believing fully the truth that “salvation belongs to the Lord” means that you place ultimate trust in Christ’s efforts, not your own.
  • Daily sin requires a daily distribution of God’s grace
  • The hard work of sanctification is the hard work of constantly reorienting ourselves back to our justification.
  • Grace can be defined as unconditional acceptance granted to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver.
  • The law tells us what God demands from us; the gospel tells us what God in Christ has done for us because we could not meet his demands.
  • Being justified by God and made acceptable on the basis of Christ’s righteousness not only pardons us for the past but empowers us for the present
  • Paul never uses the law as a way to motivate obedience; He always uses the gospel.
  • The gospel teaches us that being a slave to Christ is the essence of freedom, while being free to myself is the essence of slavery.
  • When you understand God’s grace, pain leads to freedom because deep suffering leads to deep surrender!
  • When we depend on things smaller than Jesus to provide us with the security and meaning we long for, God will love us enough to take them away.
  • The gospel is the good news that God rescues sinners. And since both non-Christians & Christians are sinners, we both need the gospel.
  • The gospel grants Christians one strength over non-Christians: the strength to admit they’re weak.
  • The gospel frees us to realize that while we matter, we’re not the point.
  • The Gospel alone can turn us into people who give everything we have because we understand that in Christ we already have everything we need
  • The gospel isn’t just the power of God to save us, it’s the power of God to grow us once we’re saved.
  • When we transfer trust from ourselves to Christ, we experience the abundant freedoms that come from not having to measure up.
  • The gospel makes wise those who know they’re foolish and makes fools out of those who think they’re wise.
  • It never ceases to amaze me that God’s love to those who are in Christ isn’t conditioned on how we behave but on how Christ behaved for us.
  • Sin turns you inward; the gospel turns you outward. Sin enslaves you by making you big. The gospel frees you by making you small.
  • In the gospel, God comes after us because we need him not because he needs us. Only the gospel can free us to revel in our insignificance.
  • Mt. Sinai says, “You must do.” Mt. Calvary says, “Because you couldn’t, Jesus did.” Don’t run to the wrong mountain for your hiding place.

1 comment:

  1. Sanctification, like Justification is a work of God's grace, just as we can not present to God a self that is righteous for Salvation, we can not pull ourselves up by our proverbial bootstraps and be sanctified.

    Bottom line, be honest with yourself and others...cause you ain't fooling God.

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