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The Promises of God: Discovering the One Who Keeps His Word QUOTES

The Promises of God: Discovering the One Who Keeps His Word QUOTES

1 " We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us. "

― R.C. Sproul , The Promises of God: Discovering the One Who Keeps His Word

2 " Throughout history, God has demonstrated that He is supremely trustworthy. That’s why, in one sense, nothing could be more foolish than not to trust in the promises of God. "

― R.C. Sproul , The Promises of God: Discovering the One Who Keeps His Word

3 " Any law that God instilled in the covenant of creation extends as far as the creation extends. So, since God sanctified marriage in creation, the sanctity of marriage applies to all generations. "

― R.C. Sproul , The Promises of God: Discovering the One Who Keeps His Word

4 " When human beings failed in obedience to the law of God, God did not just annihilate them. He gave them a promise of future redemption, and He covered their nakedness, which foreshadowed the ultimate covering of our spiritual nakedness that is accomplished by the garments of the righteousness of Christ. "

― R.C. Sproul , The Promises of God: Discovering the One Who Keeps His Word

5 " Here is what the Westminster Confession says in its chapter titled “Of God’s Covenant with Man”: “Man, by his fall, having made himself incapable of life by that covenant [the covenant of works], the Lord was pleased to make a second, commonly called the covenant of grace; wherein He freely offers unto sinners life and salvation by Jesus Christ; requiring of them faith in Him, that they may be saved, and promising to give unto all those that are ordained unto eternal life His Holy Spirit, to make them willing, and able to believe "

― R.C. Sproul , The Promises of God: Discovering the One Who Keeps His Word

6 " when we turn to the New Testament and look at the ministry of Christ as the second Adam, we see that Christ wins what Adam failed to win. He wins the tree of life, and He gives that gift to His people, so that we now inherit the benefits that Adam and Eve would have had, had they passed their probation, had they met the terms of the covenant of works. In that case, they would have had eternal life, but they failed and lost it by their sin. "

― R.C. Sproul , The Promises of God: Discovering the One Who Keeps His Word