Listened to Tim Keller’s Sermon again and thought this line was worth noting down:
“Forgiveness is you may go. Free justification is you may come.”
And then I got to listen to another sermon by Michael Baughen, and another line he shared struck me too:
“Religion is about achieving, the gospel is about believing.”
Yet it’s so tough because we are told we have to give an account of ourselves – so ‘despite’ this so-called free grace, our deeds are fruits of the faith and the surest manifestation of our lacking in our faith. In Jerry Bridges’ ‘Respectable Sins’, he quotes from older writers who calls for believers to:
“Work as if it all depends on you, and yet trust as if you did not work at all.”
That was all helpful, now on to living a life justified by faith.