“If we have put on the whole armor of God, our feet are shod with the gospel of peace (Eph. 6:14). What do feet shod with peace do? They crush accusations, that’s what they do. They crush devils; they walk on snakes.”
The Cup Was Not the Important Part
“But Paul says to put away all strife and envy, and he includes them in that toxic mix. To give up sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll but keep the envy is surely a bad deal. That is like surrendering the golden Babylon orgy goblet in order to drink the poison out of a modest little Dixie cup you found in the church kitchen.”
Nothing Stranger Than Gospel
“It was the strangest trial I ever heard of. A guilty man was dragged into court, as furtive and as guilty and as ashamed as a man could possibly be, and it all ended with the prosecutor being dragged out of the courtroom and summarily hanged. And after that the judge came back from the dead.”
What Faith Alone Sees
“Believing on Jesus to everlasting life means looking at Jesus, with the eyes of faith, as though He were an impaled serpent.”
Reap a Lot
“Sow a little envy, and reap a life of ungrateful misery. Sow a little, and reap a lot.”
The Devil is a Guilt Farmer
“The devil . . . is a guilt farmer, and the seed is sin. Relativism is just a teaching calculated to get fools to throw their seed everywhere.”
Testifying, Not Explaining
“I can illustrate the Creator-creature divide on the blackboard, but I cannot do the physics involved and show my work. If I could do that, I wouldn’t be on this side of that divide.”
Christ or Pagan Chaos
“It really is Dionysus or the Crucified. And Dionysus is not just the god of the endless party—sex, drugs, and rock and roll—he is also the god of random dismemberment. In the sixties, we were urged many times (in a Dionysian vein) to ‘make love, not war.’ It turns out that the slogan actually means ‘make love, then war.’”
Run On
“Those who feast on accusations will eventually be eaten by them. This won’t necessarily happen tomorrow. You can run on for a long time.”
Broken on a Tree
“Accusation is holy law poured through the filter of a tiny and defiled soul. Justice is holy law unfiltered. Love is holy law poured out on the only sinless man, broken on a tree. And why was He willing to be broken there? He did it so a world full of accusers could become a world full of former accusers.”