Jennifer Bales

https://gospelgalblog.blogspot.com/2017/11/our-faithfulness-john-fonville.html

http://www.paramountchurch.com/sermons#series_15

http://www.paramountchurch.com/blog/post/how-do-i-know-im-a-christian

http://gospelgalblog.blogspot.com/2017/08/gods-law-its-uses.html

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This picture was made by my friend Marissa

“The gospel of submission, commitment, decision, and victorious living is not good news about what God has achieved but a demand to save ourselves with God’s help.  Besides the fact that Scripture never refers to the gospel as having a personal relationship with Jesus nor defines faith as a decision to ask Jesus to come into our heart,  this concept of salvation fails to realize that everyone has a personal relationship with God already:  either as a condemned criminal standing before a righteous judge  or as a justified coheir with Christ and adopted child of the Father.”  ―  Michael S. Horton

Monergism Books- Don't make a savior of your morality. It cannot deliver you. Repent of trusting in your own righteousness and instead believe on Christ alone. Remember, grace is not earned by meeting a condition, or it would no longer be grace. It is not a reward for either faith or obedience but the cause of them.(Eph 2:8-10). Obedience, rather, springs from a renewed heart which loves God (1John 3:9, 5:2-4).

The BAD news: You are a guilty sinner, deserving of God's wrath, and so am I. We have lied, spoken blasphemy, stolen, and murdered, if not in body, in spirit. These are only four of the Ten Commandments. The Bible says that if we offend in ONE point, we are guilty of ALL. Based on a standard of human morality, or commandment keeping, we are all EPIC FAILURES and stand guilty before the God Who made us. The GOOD news: about 2000 years ago God sent His own Son, Jesus, as a huma n. Remaining fully God, He also became fully man. He lived a perfect life, kept every law, fully pleasing God in every way we have failed. Even though He was tempted exactly like we are, He remained pure from every sin. But because of OUR sin, He gave His body to be crucified on a cross, receiving the WRATH of God that we deserved, dying, then rising from the dead. He became sin, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him, declared innocent by Him, that we might live for Him in this life and for eter...