Conditions

"Beloved, men who have only a conditional offer of the gospel will have only a conditional gospel. The man who has only a conditional gospel knows only conditional grace. And the man who knowsonly conditional grace knows only a conditional god. And the man who has only a conditional god will have a conditional ministry to his fellow man. And at the end of the day he will only be able to give his heart, and his life and his time and his devotion, to his people on condition! And he will love and master the truth of the great doctrines of grace, but until Grace and God Himself masters him, the grace that has mastered him will never flow from him to his people. And he will become a Jonah in the 20th century sitting under his tree with a heart that is shut up, against sinners in need of grace because he thinks of God in conditional terms."

--Sinclair Ferguson

"From the depth of nature's blindness, From the hardening power of sin, From all malice and unkindness, From the pride that lurks within: By Thy mercy, O deliver us, good Lord."

--James Cummins