Picture Quotes – Page 6 In Christ, God’s ultimate purpose to display His glory becomes one purpose with our eternal happiness because the excellence of God’s perfections are most clearly displayed in the person and saving work of Christ that purchased that happiness for us. Mercy and justice meet in Christ paying the penalty for sin that God might remain just in justifying the ungodly. The beauty of God’s attributes is their holiness. So in purchasing sinners and making them holy, Christ makes beautiful His bride. God’s glory consists of the beauty and excellence of His attributes that are most clearly displayed in Christ by His suffering infinite wrath on His soul to pay the penalty for sin and purchase eternal life for the underserving. Christ displayed His glory by redeeming the unholy and unlovable to make them holy and loveable as covered in His righteousness. Christ purchased the unholy and unlovable to make them holy and loveable by covering them in His righteousness. The infinite excellence of God appears most clearly in Christ suffering infinite wrath to purchase the beauty of holiness for His unworthy bride to make her worthy. In His perfect obedience to the point of death on the cross, Christ succeeded where Adam failed and paid the penalty for Adam’s and our sin. In His perfect life and death, Christ satisfied the two-fold righteousness required for justification, the perfect obedience unmet by Adam and the penalty of death as the wages of sin. As every sin requires a just penalty, no act of fallen mankind can contribute to our justification. Faith unites to Christ who, alone, met the requirements of God’s justice for eternal life. The best works of fallen humanity, including the good works of believers, are tainted with sin and cannot contribute to salvation. Christ, alone, met the righteousness required for eternal life. Christ purchased the unlovely and undeserving from a heart of infinite love and grace, that He might love them for the beauty of their holiness as they are covered in and reflect the righteousness of Christ. Many theological difficulties stem from our failure to acknowledge human limitations in the face of an infinite and incomprehensible God. The existence and pursuit of scientific discovery give clear testimony to God’s power and presence and never diminish true faith. As our sin displays a practical atheism that exalts our will over God’s will, so we exhibit a practical Deism by viewing the universe as begun by God but operating according to independent physical laws. In this we unwittingly echo the lie that God does not order and uphold all things. We need to take care to not describe life and the universe as existing and operating apart from God. Actors take their cue from the director who knows best the relationships, purpose, and meaning of all aspects of the play. We trust the God knows all things, including how our circumstances fit into His perfect purpose and plan. Apart from God’s explanation of Himself and His world, we would interpret all things to suit our own desires. The universe is a big place. Some of us have never been out of our country, let alone to the end of the universe and beyond. God transcends His creation, we could not describe or know Him accurately without His revelation. Created, dependent, and finite people cannot make true and authoritative claims about the ultimate nature of God and the universe apart from God’s revelation. We may discover truth when we do science, but God remains its source. God is the source and standard of all knowledge and truth; He determines our ultimate purpose, meaning, and moral standards by which we should live. These prerogatives rightfully belong to God as the creator and owner of all things. Many made eye contact with precious people dehumanized by a belief in Aryans as the apex of evolutionary progress. Most could not distinguish Jewish children from their own. Many saw the disproportionate accomplishments of Jews in society, contrary to Nazi assertions. Yet they participated in the murder.. Worldviews have consequences. Picture Quotes: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10