If we would fight for joy and endure to the end in our struggle with sin, we must know and embrace the full meaning of the cross.

The indomitable joy that carries the day in time of temptation and trial is rooted in the cross of Christ. More specifically, it is the achievement of God through the death of Christ that is at the center of “these gigantic truths” leading to the personal and political reformation of morals. The whole superstructure of Christian morals is grounded on their deep and ample basis.” 3 There is a “perfect harmony between the leading doctrines and the practical precepts of Christianity.” 4 And thus it is a “fatal habit”-so common in his day and ours-“to consider Christian morals as distinct from Christian doctrines.”5 These gigantic truths retained in view, would put to shame the littleness of their dwarfish morality. 1 “Let him then who would abound and grow in this Christian principle, be much conversant with the great doctrines of the Gospel.” 2 “From the neglect of these peculiar doctrines arise the main practical errors of the bulk of professed Christians. The main burden of Wilberforce’s book A Practical View of Christianity is to show that true Christianity, which consists in these new, indomitable spiritual affections for Christ, is rooted in the great doctrines of the Bible about sin and Christ and faith. SPiritual Foundations William Wilberforce: The Gigantic Truths of the Gospel By John PiperĪuthor of Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce More from CBN.com's Amazing Grace special section Order your copy of Amazing Grace in the Life of William Wilberforce by John Piper The Official Amazing Grace Movie Web Site

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