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John Stott

  • guecrishas quoted2 years ago
    We shall not be able to acquiesce in low standards which fall far short of the New Testament ideals for God’s new society,
  • guecrishas quoted8 months ago
    e gospel is Christ crucified, His finished work on the cross
  • guecrishas quoted8 months ago
    This verb prographein means to ‘show forth or portray publicly, proclaim or placard in public’ (
  • guecrishas quoted8 months ago
    justification’ means to be in favour with God;
  • guecrishas quoted8 months ago
    very criminal sentenced to death under the Mosaic legislation and executed, usually by stoning, was then fixed to a stake or ‘hanged on a tree’ as a symbol of his divine rejection
  • guecrishas quoted3 months ago
    The ‘poor man’ in the Old Testament is one who is both afflicted and unable to save himself, and who therefore looks to God for salvation, while recognizing that he has no claim upon him.
  • guecrishas quoted3 months ago
    to be ‘poor in spirit’ is to acknowledge our spiritual poverty, indeed our spiritual bankruptcy, before God.
  • guecrishas quoted3 months ago
    ‘He only who is reduced to nothing in himself, and relies on the mercy of God, is poor in spirit.’35
  • guecrishas quoted3 months ago
    Thus, right at the beginning of his Sermon on the Mount, Jesus contradicted all human judgments and all nationalistic expectations of the kingdom of God. The kingdom is given to the poor
  • guecrishas quoted3 months ago
    s C. H. Spurgeon expressed it, ‘The way to rise in the kingdom is to sink in ourselves.’3
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