Sinclair B. Ferguson Quotes About Christ

Quotes about: Christ

• How do we bring glory to God? The Bible’s short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.

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  Bible, God, Christian

• Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.

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  Jesus, Able, Sin

• The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith.

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  Strong, Doe, Christ

• When I know that Christ is the one real sacrifice for my sins, that His work on my behalf has been accepted by God, that He is my heavenly Intercessor - then His blood is the antidote to the poison in the voices that echo in my conscience, condemning me for my many failures. Indeed, Christ's shed blood chokes them into silence!

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  Real, Sacrifice, Blood

• The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.

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  Christian, Jesus, Past

• You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in Christ

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  Thinking, Identity, Christ

• True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!

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  Strong, Character, Quality

• Our thinking about who we are as Christians should not begin with what we can discover about ourselves by self-analysis. Rather, it begins with what God says about those who trust in Christ.

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  Christian, Thinking, Self

• When the New Testament speaks about the fullness of grace which we find in Christ, it does not mean only forgiveness, pardon and justification. Christ has done much more for us. He died for us, but he also lived for us. Now he has sent his own Spirit to us so that we might draw on his strength. He grew in grace, and when we draw on his power we shall likewise grow in grace.

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  Mean, Grace, Doe

• Christianity is Christ because there isn't anything else. There is no atonement that somehow can be detached from who the Lord Jesus is. There is no grace that can be attached to you transferred from Him. All there is, is Christ and your soul.

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  Jesus, Grace, Soul

• Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!

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  Strong, Christ, Weak

• Probably no theologian in English language has ever rivaled Owen stressing the absolute centrality of Christ's penal substitution and therefore his as Priest. . . . For that reason alone The Priesthood of Christ is worth all the time it takes to read it with humility, care, and reflection.

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  Stress, Humility, Reflection

• Remember that you are not saved by increased levels of holiness, however desirable it is that you should reach them. ...It is Christ who saves us-through faith. Your faith is a poor and crumbling thing, as is your spiritual service. Jesus Christ alone is qualified and able to save you because of what He has done.

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  Spiritual, Jesus, Crumbling

• There is nothing more important to learn about Christian growth than this: Growing in grace means becoming like Christ.

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  Christian, Mean, Grace

• Failure to deal with the presence of sin can often be traced back to spiritual amnesia – forgetting our new, true, real identity. As a believer, I am someone who has been delivered from the dominion of sin and who therefore is free and motivated to fight against the remnants of sin in my heart. You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity – you are in Christ

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  Spiritual, Real, Heart

• Christians have a new identity. We are no longer 'in Adam' but 'in Christ'; no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit.

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  Christian, Identity, Flesh

• If you are justified, you can no more be unjustified than Christ can be pulled down from heaven.

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  Heaven, Justified, Christ

• There are actually only ever two pastoral problems you will ever encounter. The first is this: persuading those who are under the dominion of sin that they are under the dominion of sin. That's the task of evangelism. And [second], persuading those who are no longer under the dominion of sin that they are no longer under the dominion of sin because they're Christ's.

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  Two, Encounters, Tasks

• The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us.

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  Father, Christ, Died

• This, then, is the foundation of sanctification in Reformed theology. It is rooted, not in humanity and their achievement of holiness or sanctification, but in what God has done in Christ, and for us in union with him. Rather than view Christians first and foremost in the microcosmic context of their own progress, the Reformed doctrine first of all sets them in the macrocosm of God's activity in redemptive history. It is seeing oneself in this context that enables the individual Christian to grow in true holiness.

  Sinclair B. Ferguson

  Christian, Views, Achievement

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