[In reading the Old Testament] you have learned that there is balm in Gilead, that there is a great Physician there; He has checked your fearful, mortal malady, and you shall live. You have looked to the brazen serpent, you are healed. You have sprinkled your door post with the blood of God’s atoning Lamb, and the angel of destruction will pass you by. You have fled to the city of refuge, and the destroyer cannot come near you. You have laid your sins by faith on your substitute and He has borne them away into the wilderness. You have bathed in the fountain that was opened in the house of King David for sin and for uncleanness, and the defilement of guilt has been washed away. You have brought to Jesus the writing that bound you as a servant of sin, and He has annulled it by nailing it to His cross.
— John Broadus (1827–1895), Baptistischer Theologe
Topics: Grace & Redemption, The Bible & the Word of God, Guilt & Forgiveness
Occasions: Comfort
John Broadus
John Albert Broadus (1827–1895) war ein US-amerikanischer baptistischer Theologe, Pastor und Mitgründer des Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Greenville und Louisville. Er prägte mit seinem Standardwerk über die Predigtlehre und seinen Bibelkommentaren die evangelikale Homiletik maßgeblich, während seine Haltung als Sklavenhalter und Konföderierten-Feldprediger heute kritisch aufgearbeitet wird. Für Bibelleser vermitteln seine Schriften bis heute methodische Klarheit und theologische Sorgfalt in der Schriftauslegung.
All quotes by John Broadus (6)
It wasn't the nails that held Jesus to the cross. It was love.
Max Lucado
Grace, like water, flows to the lowest part.
Philip Yancey
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
Henri Nouwen
God does not love us because we are lovable, but because his nature is love.
Oswald Chambers
Oswald Chambers
God counts on your failure far more than you do yourself.
Hans Peter Royer
Ultimately mourning means facing what wounds us in the presence of One who can heal.
Henri Nouwen
The church is a hospital for sinners, not a museum for saints.
Tim Keller