The only reason it is safe for us to draw near to God is because of something that has happened entirely outside of ourselves in history (Gal 3:13). There’s no point in looking within ourselves for something to qualify us for God’s favor as everything pertaining to us, that is everything outside of Christ, is [...]
Key Scriptures
Deut 33:27 The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall expel and drive out the
enemy from your presence and shall say, Destroy them.
John 6:37 All that the Father gives me shall come to me; and he that comes to me I will never cast out.
It [...]
No matter how many religious things we do or feel, whether praying, generous giving or abstaining from our ideas of worldliness, we cannot find, in any of them, a qualification by which we can approach God. Religious activity provides no resting place on which to discover the smile of God. If sin were a simple [...]