There is only one thing that ever sets a heart right with God, and that is, standing before God in perfect righteousness―God’s righteousness.
The righteousness of the Law was not the righteousness of God.
God makes men righteous, not by making bad men good, but by making His holy Son sin.
There are two classes of persons which make God a liar. 1St. Those who deny that they have sinned (1 John 1:10), and, secondly, those who believe not the record that God gave of His Son (1 John 5:10.)
Faith says, “I can take God at His word, I can trust Him, to fulfill His own promise,” and thus the believer sets to his seal that God is true.
Gentiles are characterized in the epistles by three things―foolishness, high-mindedness, and vanity of mind. To Israel God says, “All day long I have stretched forth my hands unto a disobedient and gainsaying people.”
Christ is both the DOCTRINE and the TEACHER.
“Ye have not so learned Christ, if so be that ye have heard Him, and been taught by Him, as the truth is in Jesus.” (Ephesians 4:20, 21.)
In the first epistle of John, we get “God is light” before we get “God is love.” We must enter into God’s love by the gate of His holiness, that is, the Cross of Christ.
Self-interest is the world’s grand maxim, self-denial the rule of Christ.
God is not now converting the world, or giving a religion to the world, but is calling out of the Gentiles a people for His name. (Acts 15:14.)
We are not true worshippers when we attach worship in connection with a place on earth. Jesus says, “Where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them.” (Matthew 18:20.)