"What gives so much force to the impulse of anger in such cases is the overwhelming sense that the offender does not deserve forgiveness. That is, the grievance is so deep and so justifiable that not only does self-righteousness strengthen our indignation but so does a legitimate sense of moral outrage. It's the deep sense of legitimancy that gives our bitterness its unbending compulsion. We feel that a great crime would be committed if the magnitude of the evil we've experienced were just dropped and we let bygones by bygones. We are torn; our moral sense says this evil cannot be ignored and the Word of God says we must forgive".
John Piper - "Future Grace" - IVP, Leicester (1995) - (p265).
Wednesday, 22 October 2008
John Piper on Unforgiveness
John Piper on God's Justice in Forgiveness
"The promise that frees us from an unforgiving, bitter, vengeful spirit is the promise that God will settle our accounts. He will do it more justly and more thoroughly than we ever could. Therefore we can back off and "leave room for God" to work".
John Piper - "Future Grace" - IVP, Leicester (1995) - (p264).
John Piper on God's Future Vengance
"This future grace of God's judgement is promised to us as a means of helping us overcome a spirit of revenge and bitterness ... Paul's argument is that we should not take vengeance because vengeance belongs to the Lord. And to motivate us to lay down our vengeful desires, He gives us a promise - which we now know is a promise of future grace - "I will repay" says the Lord".
John Piper - "Future Grace" - IVP, Leicester (1995) - (p264).
John Piper on Forgiveness as Future Grace
"Living by faith in future grace involves overcoming vengeance and bitterness by trusting God to settle all our accounts justly".
John Piper - "Future Grace" - IVP, Leicester (1995) - (p261).
John Piper on Forgiveness
"What I find in the New Testament is that one powerful way of overcoming bitterness and revenge is to have faith in the promise that God will settle accounts with our offenders so that we don't have to".
John Piper - "Future Grace" - IVP, Leicester (1995) - (p261).
Thursday, 16 October 2008
Rob Rufus on True Christianity
"We need to be supernaturally natural and naturally supernatural".
Rob Rufus - "The Joy of God" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 14th July 2004.
Rob Rufus on Encountering God
"The depth of the touch will determine the depth of the response".
Rob Rufus - "Sunday Morning Session" - "Miracle Weekend in Hong Kong" - Sunday 22nd June 2008.
Rob Rufus on the Law
"What is the Law? It is an awareness of good and evil".
Rob Rufus - "Session 1" - "Grace and Glory Conference - Hong Kong" - 23rd October 2007.
Ryan Rufus on "Falling from Grace"
"To fall from grace is not a positional thing but a conditional thing - going back under law".
Ryan Rufus - "Keys To Understanding Romans 5,6, 7 & 8" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 24th August 2008.
Friday, 10 October 2008
Rob Rufus on Carrying the Presence of God
"I have carried His manifest tangible Presence every day for 30 years. There has not been one single day where I haven't felt the Presence of God. I am so concerned when some people are impressed by that. I am SO worried about that! Because it is a normal Book of Acts inheritance - to walk in His Presence!"
Rob Rufus - "The Blood - Substance or Shadow?" - City Church International, Hong Kong -
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