R T Kendall on God Hiding His Face

"If God is hiding His face from you and you don't know what to do, go and spend a whole day in prayer and fasting".

R T Kendall - "By Love Transformed - A Collection of 365 Life-Changing Daily Readings" - Charisma Publishing, Florida (2006) - (p15).

R T Kendall on the Proper Use of the Law

"What is the proper use of the Law?

1. It shows the righteousness that God requires.

2. It shows the righteousness that Christ fulfilled as our substitute.

3. It serves as a backdrop by which we can tell if we are walking in the Spirit".

R T Kendall - "Grace" - Charisma House Publications, Florida (2006) - (p65).

R T Kendall on the Gospel and Law

"The gospel was virtually complete in itself in Abraham before the Law came in. The plan of salvation is given as though there had never been the Law in the first place. We are saved by faith alone ... we are not saved because we are now going to keep the Law. We are now going to keep the Law. We are not saved because we are now going to stop doing this and that ... if that continues to be our way of trying to get saved then we will never be saved".

R T Kendall - "Grace" - Charisma House Publications, Florida (2006) - (p63).

R T Kendall on the Law in the Plan of Salvation

"The Law came in as an extra, it was "added" (Romans 5:20, Galatians 3:19). Once we trust what Jesus did for us on the Cross - when the law was fulfilled - we are in effect put back into Abraham's position who believed the Gospel and was saved before there was such a thing as God's Law. We are therefore not "under" the Law ... this does not mean we are given liberty to live in an ungodly manner - quite the contrary. We are led by the Spirit who leads to holy living".

R T Kendall - "Grace" - Charisma House Publications, Florida (2006) - (p58).

R T Kendall on a Perfect Righteousness

"How then is it possible for a person to have a righteousness that is superior to that of a Pharisee or teacher of the Law? Anyone in the Kingdom has a righteousness that is not their own. Paul the Apostle called it an "imputed" righteousness. (Romans 4:1-25) This means righteousness put to one's credit by virtue of faith ... once a person transfers the trust he or she once had in their own works and now trusts Christ's blood, the very righteousness of Jesus is simultaneously transferred to them. And no Scribe or Pharisee could even begin to come upto that standard! The very righteousness of Jesus who fulfilled the Law is put to our credit".

R T Kendall - "Grace" - Charisma House Publications, Florida (2006) - (p48).

R T Kendall on Sensitivity to the Holy Spirit

"Developing a hypersensitivity to the Holy Spirit pays great dividends".

R T Kendall - "Grace" - Charisma House Publications, Florida (2006) - (p42).

R T Kendall on Jesus Christ fulfilling the Law

"I can only conclude that Jesus was moving in a direction in which the Law would be transcended; not disregarded but out-classed".

R T Kendall - "Grace" - Charisma House Publications, Florida (2006) - (p41).

R T Kendall on Christ our Substitute

"Christ was our substitute; He kept the whole of the Law perfectly. He is our satisfaction before God (Isaiah 53:6, 2 Cor 5:21) and our substitutionary sacrifice (1 Cor 1:30). This means that Jesus who was perfectly sinless and holy was our substitute before God. He is on our behalf; our very sanctification. It is perfect and unimprovable".

R T Kendall - "Grace" - Charisma House Publications, Florida (2006) - (p26).

R T Kendall on the Sermon on the Mount

"The Sermon on the Mount is best understood as part of Jesus' doctrine of the Holy Spirit".

R T Kendall - "Grace" - Charisma House Publications, Florida (2006) - (p29).

R T Kendall on Jesus and the Law

"Who is required to achieve all this? Jesus achieved this. We are not required to accomplish what He has already achieved on our behalf. He was under the Law but we are not ... for being led by the Spirit leads to a righteousness that is even higher than that of the Law".

R T Kendall - "Grace" - Charisma House Publications, Florida (2006) - (p28).

R T Kendall on the Fulfillment of the Law

"Moses gave the Law but couldn't fulfill it. Joshua perpetuated the Law (Joshua 1:8) but couldn't satisfy it's demands. King David loved the Law (Psalm 119:163) but broke it. The prophets upheld the Law but couldn't keep it as required. The Levites carried out the Law but still came short of it. The Pharisees and Sadducees and teachers of the Law argued about it but did not have a clue as to it's deeper meaning".

R T Kendall - "Grace" - Charisma House Publications, Florida (2006) - (p27).

R T Kendall on the Law and God's Plan

"The Law was but a paranthesis in God's plan of salvation ... (The Law) was temporary in God's mind and plan from the beginning".

R T Kendall - "Grace" - Charisma House Publications, Florida (2006) - (p26).

R T Kendall on the Law and Sermon on the Mount

"At the moment Jesus said this in the Sermon on the Mount, these things remain unfulfilled - the specifications and all the sacrificial offerings. Jesus did not nullify these things at that moment; He still had to keep them Himself. After all He was "born under law" (Galatians 4:4)".

R T Kendall - "Grace" - Charisma House Publications, Florida (2006) - (p26).

R T Kendall on Balance in Doctrine and Experience

"If it is true that if our doctrine of salvation is not accused or being antinomian, it is likely we have not really preached justification, then I think it is also true that if our doctrine of the immediate witness of the Spirit is not accused of being charismatic, we probably have not really held to a robust doctrine of the Spirit".

Dr R T Kendall - "John Cotton - First English Calvinist?" - in "Puritan Experiment in the New World" - Westminster Conference Papers - (1976).

R T Kendall on Worship

"Real worship takes place when we are unafraid to express what we feel".

Dr R T Kendall - "Worshipping God" - Hodders, St Ives (2004) - (p169).

R T Kendall on Grace and Legalism

"Just as there are those who are afraid to believe in justification by faith because of the fear of lawlessness, so also there are those who want things to be in rigid order because of the danger of fanaticism. Those people are in danger of quenching the Spirit".

Dr R T Kendall - "Worshipping God" - Hodders, St Ives (2004) - (p168).

R T Kendall on Fasting

"If enough people in a church took fasting seriously, it's impact on the worship could be quite dramatic".

Dr R T Kendall - "Worshipping God" - Hodders, St Ives (2004) - (p144).

R T Kendall on Worship Leaders

"Leadership in worship must be a leadership that keeps out of the way as much as possible and enables the people to see and follow Jesus in the power of the Holy Spirit".

Dr R T Kendall - "Worshipping God" - Hodders, St Ives (2004) - (p117).

R T Kendall on Worship Leaders and the Holy Spirit

"In worship the leader should see and follow the Holy Spirit".

Dr R T Kendall - "Worshipping God" - Hodders, St Ives (2004) - (p116).

R T Kendall on Worship Leaders

"What I mean by "lead worship" is to lead the congregation to worship and adore God".

Dr R T Kendall - "Worshipping God" - Hodders, St Ives (2004) - (p114).