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The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Christians have a new identity. We are no longer 'in Adam' but 'in Christ'; no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit ...
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
The real test that I believe that God is love is that tragedies don't separate me from the conviction that God is love.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Then all my servile works were done A righteousness to raise; Now, freely chosen in the Son, I freely choose his ways.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Without the spirit of the Lord Jesus, we will look upon 'the least of these' simply as the least.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
If you are justified, you can no more be unjustified than Christ can be pulled down from heaven.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Every day we need our gaze redirected from ourselves to God.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Be obedient even when you do not know where obedience may lead you.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Love is not maximum emotion. Love is maximum commitment.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
No one can will the will to will what it will not will!
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
My security as a Christian does not reside in the strength of my faith but in the indestructibili ty of my Savior.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
This is the key to the enjoyment of assurance precisely because assurance is our assurance that he is a great Savior and that he is ours.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
These considerations give us some clues as to why legalism and antinomianism are, in fact, nonidentical twins that emerge from the same womb. Eve
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
The Father did not require the death of Christ to persuade Him to love us. Christ died because the Father loves us.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Contentment is an undervalued grace.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
We can never reflect too much on God's grace.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
There is nothing more important to learn about Christian growth than this: Growing in grace means becoming like Christ.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Evil deeds are the fruit of an evil heart. They are not an aberration from our true self but a revelation of it.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
God possesses personal being in a unified, uncreated, eternal, tri-personal manner.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
God can be trusted even when he cannot be seen or understood.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Karl Barth once wittily remarked, One can not speak of God simply by speaking of man in a loud voice.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Repentance is a characteristic of the whole life, not the action of a single moment.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
The true church is too different for the world to tolerate it.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
When man became the measure of all things what was lost was man.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Until we acknowledge our sin and guilt, we will never come to discover that it can be forgiven.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
What the prophets of God did spiritually, the Prophet of God did quite literally and physically.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Thinking that I deserve heaven is a sure sign I have no understanding of the gospel.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Man's insulting God is not reversed by our insulting man.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Jesus has a special, compassionate concern for those who are broken and needy.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
God does something to us as well as for us through the cross. He persuades us that He loves us. - Sinclair Ferguson
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We are far too good at analyzing what is wrong with the culture and far too myopic at analyzing what is wrong in the church.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
God's promises are not fortune cookies. We do not use them in order to get a spiritual "fix" for the day.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
The foundation of our love for the Lord lies in the recognition of His holiness, our sinfulness, and His grace.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
The goal of theology is the worship of God. The posture of theology is on one's knees. The mode of theology is repentance.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
God has chosen us. Our status is not a matter of our worthiness, but of His love.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
As the early church fathers delighted in saying, Christ took what was ours so that we might receive what was His.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
How do we bring glory to God? The Bible's short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
There had been occasions when David could have seized position and power by means that would have compromised his commitment to the Lord.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
The determining factor of my existence is no longer my past.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional ... it is theological.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
The fear of the Lord tends to take away all other fears ... This is the secret of Christian courage and boldness.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
The conviction that Christian doctrine matters for Christian living is one of the most important growth points of the Christian life.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Knowing God is your single greatest privilege as a Christian.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
When we see salvation whole, its every single part is found in Christ, And so we must beware lest we derive the smallest drop from somewhere else.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Those who are most conscious of forgiveness are invariably those who have been most acutely convicted of their sin.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
salvation becomes ours in Christ and not merely through Christ.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Inerrancy matters because it honors the Spirit, who wants to honor the Son, who wants to honor the Father.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
So long as Jesus Christ is there, in heaven before God for us, our salvation will last.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Our first priority in ministry must be love. Love for His Word, love for His people, and love for His appearing.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
You must first have Christ himself, before you can partake of those benefits by him.19
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Secular humanism debases the human.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
Most Christians have more Bibles than they know what to do with, but have little understanding of what is in them.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson
It's the centrality of the Word and not the person who preaches it that's important.
— Sinclair B. Ferguson