Gospel-Driven Quote of the Week (8-3-09)
Aug 2, 2009
"A poor man will not come for an alms to any person that he thinks hath nothing to give him; the believing comer is persuaded there is fulness enough in Christ; fulness of virtue, in His blood; fulness of merit, in His death; fulness of power, in His arm. And hereupon chiefly this coming imports a resolute outgoing of soul after Christ, as offered in the gospel; an actual closing with him, by a practical assent of the understanding, a pleasant consent of the will, and a vigorous egress of the affection towards the Son of God. Seeing an absolute need, he ventures on an offered Christ for wisdom, righteousness, sanctification, and redemption, 1 Cor. i. 30."
Ralph Erskine, "The Everlasting Gospel," in The Works of Ralph Erskine, vol. 2, p. 634
Comments
Scott Hunter on Aug 10, 2009 10:19am
The poor man will think that the Christian has nothing "to give him" if the Christian is not proclaiming in word and deed that there is fulness enough in Christ. The poor man may not fully know the depths of his poverty if the Church is not rightly proclaiming the riches found in Christ! May each of us be reminded again today that there is fulness enough in Christ!