39 - “We were put here to develop this world, to conquer it, to master it.” #dominion
56 - “in order for me to get disunited from Christ, Christ himself would have to be de-resurrected. He’d have to get kicked out of heaven for me to get kicked out of him. We’re that safe.”
56 - Scottish theologian James Stewart: “Christ is the redeemed man's new environment. He has been lifted out of the cramping restrictions of his earthly lot into a totally different sphere, the sphere of Christ. He has been transplanted into a new soil and a new climate, and both soil and climate are Christ. His spirit is breathing a nobler element. He is moving on a loftier plane.”
59 - “When you sin, you behave out of accord with who you now are. You're acting like a former orphan who's been adopted yet keeps running out of his new house to the curb to beg for bread when the kitchen is fully stocked and freely his. You are destined for glory.”
60 - Union with Christ: “Do you want to be responsible for Jesus committing fornication? For you to commit sexual immorality is— by virtue of your union with Christ-to cause Christ, in some sense, to do so likewise.”
66 - “Nothing can touch you that does not touch [Christ].”
72 - knowing honey vs. tasting it - Edwards, “A Divine and Supernatural Light.”
74 - Eph. 3:19 - “filled with the fullness of God.” How is this possible? “How can the clay be filled with the fullness of the potter?” The closest answer is “through time.” We would need to be infinite to even begin to be filled. We are infinite in time. #time
81 - When we mistreat God’s love, he loves us all the more. #parenting We can’t stop him loving us any more than a single pebble can stop the flow of Victoria Falls.