The only way to get into God’s good grace is to admit the truth that there is no good thing in our flesh, no way to earn our salvation. Our righteousness is in Christ alone. 

God is no respecter of persons, and he is not charmed by our attempts at goodness. We are accepted in God's eyes only by faith in Christ and his work. 

For those who want to understand Jesus’s wonderful work at the cross, justification by faith is how we enter into Christ’s rest.

In the courtroom of heaven, our sins will be justly spread out, but Christ will come forward and proclaim each and every sin covered by his sacrifice on the cross. 

Godly peace will not come from trying hard, making promises to God, striving to be better. Rather, it is all about going after a revelation of what Jesus did for you at the cross.

Many Christians are tossed about by winds and waves of doctrines, restless and guilt-ridden with no security in Christ. We need to enter God’s rest in steadfast faith.

The only spirit of violence we are going to have is a violent faith. It will be a strong holiness that comes against the gates of hell and the strongholds of the enemy. 

If we are God’s children and put our total trust in his Word and his faithfulness to provide for us, God has promised to bless us; and he cannot lie. 

Nobody had ever seen as many supernatural works as Israel. God provided miracle after miracle for them, and yet each work left the people as faithless and unbelieving as before. You would think that the ten plagues on Egypt would have produced faith in the Israelites. When Egypt was afflicted with flies, none were found in Israel's camp. When Egypt fell under total darkness, there was no darkness in Israel. However, none of these plagues produced faith of any kind.

"Then all the congregation of the children of Israel set out on their journey from the Wilderness of Sin, according to the commandment of the Lord, and camped in Rephidim; but there was no water for the people to drink…. And the people murmured against Moses, and said, ‘Why is it you have brought us up out of Egypt, to kill us and our children and our livestock with thirst?’” (Exodus 17:1-3, NKJV).