The Gospel of God: The Refuge of Mercy

Hope Presbyterian Church in Winston-Salem Sermons

Series: The Gospel of GodScripture: Romans 2:17-3:8 “Redemption is meaningless unless there is cause for it in the actual life we live, and for the last few centuries there has been operating in our culture the secular belief that there is no such cause . . . The novelist with Christian concerns will find in modern life distortions which are repugnant to him, and his problem will be to make these appear as distortions to an audience which is used to seeing them as natural; and he may be forced to take ever more violent means to get his vision across to this hostile audience . . . Writers who see by the light of their Christian faith will have, in these times, the sharpest eye for the grotesque, for the perverse, and for the unacceptable…. To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.” Flannery O’Connor “The way to God is wide open. There is nothing standing between the sinner and his God. He has immediate and unimpeded access to the Savior. There is nothing to hinder. No sin can hold him back because God offers justification to the ungodly. Nothing can keep him from Christ but his delusion that he has good works of his own that can satisfy God. All he needs is need. All he needs is nothing. But, alas, sinners cannot part with their ‘virtues.’” John Gerstner “Thy mercy my God is the theme of my song; The joy of my heart and the boast of my tongue. Thy free grace alone from the first to the last; Hath won my affections and bound my soul fast.” John StockerThe post The Gospel of God: The Refuge of Mercy first appeared on Hope Church PCA.