Quote of the Day

God’s people are no longer slaves. At this point in redemptive history, the fullness of God’s revelation has come to us in the Son who was perfectly obedient and thereby perfectly disclosed God. We are no longer slaves (a redemptive-historical marker), but friends. And what has brought this change about is that in the fullness of time God sent his Son into the world, and the Son obeyed; that the Father in love for the Son determined that all should honor the Son even as they honor the Father; and Father and Son, in perfect harmony of plan and vision, at the time God ordained, played out their roles—the Father sending, commissioning, “showing,” and the Son coming, revealing, disclosing what had been “shown” him, and in obedience going to the cross. And we the heirs of the new covenant are unfathomably privileged to be let in on this stupendous plan. We are the friends of God. [Carson, D. A., The Difficult Doctrine of the Love of God (Crossway Books, 2000), pg. 42].