In this call to holiness, the Lord holds forth Himself as the reason for, and standard of, living holy lives. "You shall be holy, for I the LORD your God am holy." God is holy, so He requires holiness to be a distinctive trait of His people.
The war against sin must be fought daily and it must be approached with a take-no-prisoners attitude.
Nouthetic Counselor
"On the cross, God treated Jesus as if He lived your life so that He could treat you as if you lived His life." -John MacArthur.
"You will never know the fullness of Christ until you know the emptiness of everything else." — Charles Spurgeon
Reading the whole Bible is how you become a whole Christian. -
JC Ryle
The gospel is not a philosophy. The gospel is not a social program. The gospel is not a new law. The gospel is Jesus Christ crucified, resurrected, and ascended.
It is better to go bruised to Heaven than sound to Hell.
Richard Sibbes
Jesus Christ is the author, architect, and foundation of our faith. He has incalculable value to us, and His foundation will never let us down.
Grief turns the world upside down, inside out, shakes it around, and unsettles every sense of normalcy possible. It requires the community of faith to come alongside us to hold onto us and believe for us when we can’t muster faith on our own.
Every one of us will utter our last words someday. It doesn’t matter whether you are an opera singer or a business executive, a world leader or a gang member, or someone famous or unknown. We all will take our final breath.
Today you are living one of two ways. You are living either the right way or the wrong way, taking either the narrow road that leads to life or the broad way that leads to destruction. You are living the happy Christian life, the joyful life, the life with purpose and meaning, or you are living the miserable, empty life separated from God.
Milk is hearing about the life of Jesus. Meat is LIVING the life of Jesus. Our spiritual "muscle" can only be developed by exercising God's Word in our lives.
What good will it do a man when he is in hell, that others think he is gone to heaven? —
Thomas Watson, on Hypocrisy in professing Christ
"Do not be solicitous or inquisitive to know what people say of you. Approve yourself to God & your own conscience, and then do not heed what men say of you."
-Matthew Henry.
"The loving eyes of God are always upon you, the poorest and most obscure of his people, from the beginning of the year even to the end of the year." -
Charles Spurgeon
It is not our hold of Christ that saves us; it is Christ. Charles Spurgeon
"Short prayers are long enough." — Charles Spurgeon
The Christian life is impossible apart from the animating, helping, and beautifying work of the Holy Spirit.
Be killing sin, or sin will be killing you. —John Owen
"Only those who follow the steps of Jesus are walking with God." —
Charles Spurgeon
"The eyes that observe us are God’s own eyes, the guardian under whose protection we are placed is God himself." - Charles Spurgeon
Grace is, as it were, the holy nature of the Spirit imparted to the soul.
Jonathen Edwards
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