How to Be Sure
How does the finished work of Christ become a power in our lives?
The miracle of the Gospel is that God comes to the ungodly, with a mercy which is righteous altogether, and enables them through faith, in spite of what they are, to enter into a new relationship with Himself, in which goodness becomes possible for them. There can be no spiritual life at all for a sinful man unless he can get an initial assurance of an unchanging love of God deeper than sin, and he gets this at the cross.
—-James Denney, St. Paul’s Epistle to the Romans, The Expositor’s Greek Testament, Volume II, W. Robertson Nicoll, editor (Grand Rapids, W. B. Eerdmans), 616.
(Denney’s commentary on Second Corinthians is incorrectly referenced for the above quotation in the video.)