The Kayelton Group

“The more intimate acquaintance we have with Christ’s love for us, the more our love will be drawn out to him, and to those who are his for his sake.”  (Matthew Henry; 1662-1714)

“The difference between an unconverted and a converted man is not that one has sins and the other has none; but that the one takes part with his cherished sins against a dreaded God, and the other takes part with a reconciled God against his hated sins.”  (William Arnot; 1808-1875)

“My days were determined before one of them was.”  (David M’Laren; 1883)

“A fretful, complaining Christian is a contradiction in terms.”  (William Garden Blaikie)

“Christ (amazing love!) ‘was made a curse for us,’ and thereby redeemed us from the curse of the law.  He subjected himself to the law in active as well as passive obedience, and his obedience even to death was for our justification.”  (Mason)

“When God acquits a sinner, He does so on the ground of a righteousness that He gives to the sinner.”  (Clark)

Faith is in no point of view equivalent to the obedience the law requires.  It is Christ’s obedience that is taken as an equivalent to an obedience to the law; and for the best of all reasons, because it is an equivalent.” (Robert Haldane; 1772-1854)

“I am anxious to be pleasing to God and to be filled with His Spirit; but I am not at all justified or accounted righteous by these things.  God, in justifying me, acted wholly and only on Christ’s blood-shedding on my behalf.”   (William R. Newell)

“The word ‘ungodly’ is a strong one and shows the magnitude and extent of God’s grace; his justifying judgment is exercised not simply upon the unrighteous but upon the ungodly.”  (John Murray on Romans)

“Works are not taken into consideration when the question respects justification.  But true faith will no more fail to produce them than the sun can cease to give light.”  (Martin Luther; 1483-1546)