(Page 43. My italics and bullets.)
- By wisdom God found a way to justify the unjust justly;
- in love he gave his Son to bear death's agony for us;
- in justice he made the Son, as our substitute, suffer the sentence that our disobedience deserved;
- with power he unites us to the risen Christ, renews our hearts, frees us from sin's bondage, and moves us to repent and believe;
- and in faithfulness he keeps us from falling, as he promised to do, till he brings us triumphantly to our final glory.
Saturday, February 21, 2009
The Attributes of God and the Glory of the Gospel
I can't resist reproducing one more quote from Packer's Praying the Lord's Prayer. It's vintage Packer--Pauline in both its length and theology:
