The Lord says, “I will rescue those who love me.
I will protect those who trust in my name.
When they call on me, I will answer;
I will be with them in trouble.
I will rescue and honor them.
I will reward them with a long life
and give them my salvation.”
Psalm 91:14-16 NLT
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The Bible is one long story of God meeting our rebellion with His rescue,
our sin with His salvation,
our guilt with His grace,
our badness with His goodness.
The overwhelming focus of the Bible is not the work of the redeemed
but the work of the Redeemer.
Which means that the Bible is not first a recipe for Christian living
but a revelation book of Jesus who is the answer to our un-Christian living.
Tullian Tchividjian