I'm so thankful for the active obedience of Christ. No hope without it.
Interpretation
The quote emphasizes the importance of Christ's obedience for belief and salvation.
John Gresham Machen expresses gratitude for Christ's active obedience, suggesting that it is fundamental to the Christian faith. He implies that without this obedience, there would be no hope for humanity, indicating that Christ's actions are central to the belief in salvation and redemption.
In practice
During a church sermon about faith and dedication.
Faith is indeed intellectual; it involves an apprehension of certain things as facts; and vain is the modern effort to divorce faith from knowledge. But although faith is intellectual, it is not only intellectual. You cannot have faith without having knowledge; but you will not have faith if you have only knowledge.
What I need first of all is not exhortation, but a gospel, not directions for saving myself but knowledge of how God has saved me. Have you any good news? That is the question that I ask of you. I know your exhortations will not help me. But if anything has been done to save me, will you not tell me the facts?
The more we know of God, the more unreservedly we will trust him; the greater our progress in theology, the simpler and more child-like will be our faith
Vastly more important than all questions with regard to methods of preaching is the root question as to what it is that shall be preached.
I see with greater and greater clearness that consistent Christianity is the easiest Christianity to defend
Christ died"--that is history; "Christ died for our sins"--that is doctrine. Without these two elements, joined in an absolutely indissoluble union, there is no Christianity.
Freedom granted only when it is known beforehand that its effects will be beneficial is not freedom.
I believe the moral losses of expediency always far outweigh the temporary gains.
Take away the danger and remove the restraint, and wayward nature runs free.
Like most misery, it started with apparent happiness.
If he had smiled why would he have smiled? To reflect that each one who enters imagines himself to be the first to enter whereas he is always the last term of a preceding series even if the first term of a succeeding one, each imagining himself to be first, last, only and alone whereas he is neither first nor last nor only nor alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity.
I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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