Paul Penno
All of human life both in the past, present, and future exists because it is justified by the cross. Calvary justifies the existence of all life.
Paul Penno
What does our Lord Jesus Christ call for in Rev 3:14-21? His call to “repent” is addressed to the leadership, and it is denominational. We cannot understand the true import of the Laodicean message when we suppress the facts of our own denominational history.
Paul Penno
The Bible never speaks of salvation as God’s offer. But it does constantly speak of God’s gift in Christ Jesus. And that gift has been given to every man, woman, and child on the earth.
Paul Penno
The pagan view of the atonement is an angry God who seeks vengeance and must be appeased by an offering of blood. In other words, God needs the atonement to assuage His wrath against sinners.
Paul Penno
Justification by faith is the experience of the atonement with God. Sanctification is but the continued deepening appreciation for the cross.
Paul Penno
It is unknown sin in the heart of the Christian that holds the potential for apostasy. “A long preparatory process, unknown to the world, goes on in the heart before the Christian commits open sin.”
Paul Penno
The point is this: the time of trouble will simply give God’s people a first-hand acquaintance with the way Jesus lived on earth. It will establish for them a close sympathy with Him, a tie of intimacy that will hold for all eternity.