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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

The conviction that Jesus inaugurated the messianic age enables the New Testament writers to preach Christ from the Old Testament, for this presupposition means that God's redemptive history reaches its climax in Jesus. In Him all the Old Testament promises come to fulfillment.
Sidney Greidanus

Courage...is the indispensable requisite of any true ministry... Courage is good everywhere, but it is necessary here. If you are afraid of men and a slave to their opinion, go and do something else. Go and make shoes to fit them... But do not keep on all your life preaching sermons which shall say not what God sent you to declare, but what they hire you to say.
Phillips Brooks