The man who comes to a right belief about God is relieved of ten thousand temporal problems, for he sees at once that these have to do with matters which at the most cannot concern him for very long; but even if the multiple burdens of time may be lifted from him, the one mighty single burden of eternity begins to press down upon him with a weight more crushing than all the woes of the world piled one upon another. That mighty burden is his obligation to God. It includes an instant and lifelong duty to love God with every power of mind and soul, to obey Him perfectly, and to worship Him acceptably. And when the man’s laboring conscience tells him that he has done none of these things, but has from childhood been guilty of foul revolt against the Majesty in the heavens, the inner pressure of self-accusation may become too heavy to bear. The gospel can lift this destroying burden from the mind, give beauty for ashes, and the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness. But unless the weight of the burden is felt the gospel can mean nothing to the man; and until he sees a vision of God high and lifted up, there will be no woe and no burden. Low views of God destroy the gospel for all who hold them.
A.W. Tozer-’Knowledge of the Holy One’
1897-1963
Wonderful quote, Lyn. The power of the Gospel is in deliverance. But when the image or character of God (whether Father, Son, or Holy Spirit) has been re-defined in such a way as to diminish, even to a small degree, Who He is, then the Gospel itself has been changed, rendering it a different “gospel”, and it’s preachers accursed (Gal.1). Such a “gospel” then, though it may contain orthodox soteriology, if attached to a “different jesus”, has no power to deliver.