Why can't we be saved by works? Is that just the rule? Or is there more to the story. In this important section of Romans, the apostle Paul walks us through why Abraham was saved apart from works, and why grace through faith in Jesus is the only way. NOTE: Below is the Tim Keller quote in its entirety:

If you can't dance and you long to dance, in the resurrection you'll dance perfectly.If you're lonely, in the resurrection you will have perfect love.If you're empty, in the resurrection you will be fully satisfied.

There is nothing better than ordinary life, except that it's always going away and falling apart.

Ordinary life is food and work and chairs by the fire and hugs and dancing and mountains - this world.

God loves it so much that he gave his only Son so we - and the rest of this world - could be redeemed and made perfect.

And that's what is in store for us.

The resurrection means we can look forward with hope to the day our suffering will be gone.

But it even means that we can look forward with hope to the day our suffering will be glorious.

On the Day of the Lord - the day when God makes everything right, on that day everything sad will become untrue.

You will find that the worst things that haveever happened to you will in the end only enhance your eternal delight.

C. S. Lewis' in The Great Divorce:[Some mortals] say of suffering, "No future bliss can make up for it," not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into glory.