“Christ’s resurrection is not only the meritorious and efficient cause, but it is also the exemplary cause or pattern of our resurrection. ‘He being the first and best, is therefore the pattern and measure of all the rest.’ So you read, Phil. 3: 21. ‘Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body.'” -John Flavel, The Fountain of Life Opened
“Christ rose as a public or common person. “As the first fruits of them that slept,” 1 Cor. 15: 20. I desire this may be well understood; for upon this account it is that our resurrection is secured to us by the resurrection of Christ; and not a resurrection only, but a blessed and happy one, for the first-fruits both assured and sanctified the whole crop or harvest.” -John Flavel, The Fountain of Life Opened
“I often think of a case I had involving a fourteen-year-old who had run away from her foster home with a group of young men from her neighborhood. Instead of being her allies and protectors, they’d taken her to an empty apartment and gang-raped her. I could tell that she had learned at a young age that she couldn’t trust adults; she wore an attitude of skepticism and hostility like a suit of armor…
In the end, we got a conviction, but I’m not sure the verdict meant much to the girl. She vanished after the trials. I asked some investigators to help me try to find her, but, though we had gotten a sketchy report that she was being trafficked on the streets of San Francisco, we could never confirm it. I never saw her again.” -Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold
“I often think of a case I had involving a fourteen-year-old who had run away from her foster home with a group of young men from her neighborhood. Instead of being her allies and protectors, they’d taken her to an empty apartment and gang-raped her. I could tell that she had learned at a young age that she couldn’t trust adults; she wore an attitude of skepticism and hostility like a suit of armor….” -Kamala Harris, The Truths We Hold
True guilt comes from God’s Law. False guilt comes from legalistic standards.
“Guilt is to the soul what a fever is to the body. It is the symptom that something is wrong.” -Michael Horton, White Horse Inn, “Guilt”
-Paul Johnson, “Psychology of Religion Revised and Enlarged”
