The Eternal, Marital Promise of the Gospel
Forever and Forever
One of the ways the gospel is good news is that it is eternally good news. If there was ever any moment, way out in the future, however remote, when all this grace and mercy shut down—the gospel would not be good news. It would still be bad news.
But the eternal promise of the gospel is that forever and forever, far beyond this life, in a resurrected world, as resurrected human beings, we will be with the Lord enjoying the eternal romance forever, and forever, and forever.
Marriage and the Mystery of the Gospel
Ray Ortlund
By laying out a cosmic vision of marriage as the Bible teaches from Genesis to Revelation, this volume honors and exalts marriage as a grand display of the gospel, offering hope for our marriages today.
And all of time—all of history—is the merest parenthesis within the vast field of eternity. The gospel is calling us to be faithful to the Lord now, during this mere blink of time, so that we then enter into the eternity of his embraces and his love.
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