Filed under: Mortification, Quotes | Tags: Bible, Christ, Christianity, God, Gospel, Judgment, Reformed, Religion, Sin, Wrath
“The believer, whom grace teaches to deny all ungodliness, fights against sin because it dishonors God, opposes Christ, greives the Spirit, and separates between his Lord and him. But the legalist fights against sin because it breaks his peace, troubles his conscience, and hurts him by bringing wrath and judgment on him…” - Ralph Erskine
Filed under: Mortification, Quotes | Tags: Bible, Christ, Christianity, God, John Flavel, Religion, Sin, Wrath of God
“Think what it cost the Lord Jesus to expiate* the guilt of sin by suffering the wrath of the great and terrible God for it in our room! The meditations of a crucified Christ are very crucifying meditations unto sin. He suffered unspeakable things for sin: It was a divine wrath that lay upon His soul for it…It was unmixed and unallayed wrath, poured out in the fullness of it, even to the last drop. And shall we be so easily drawn to the commission of those sins which put Christ under such sufferings?” - John Flavel
* To atone for; to make satisfaction for
Filed under: Mortification, Quotes | Tags: Christianity, God, Bible, Christ, Sin, Mortification, John Owen, adultery, covetousness, atheism, lust
“Sin will not only be striving, acting, rebelling, troubling, disquieting, but if let alone, if not continually mortified, it will bring forth great, cursed, scandalous, soul-destroying sins…Sin aims always at the utmost; every time it rises up to tempt or entice, might it have its own course it would go out to the utmost sin in that kind. Every unclean thought or glance would be adultery if it could; every covetous desire would be oppression, every thought of unbelief would be atheism, might it grow to its head…every rise of lust, might it have its course, would come to the height of villainy.” - John Owen
