There are two things to do about the Gospel––believe it and behave it. ~Susanna Wesley~
life goes poorly for those who do not rely on God. First, bad things happen. Then those without God become angry and blame God for the bad things. When they continue to look away from God life brings them to a point of "utter darkness." That doesn't sound like the direction I want my life to take. There is another journey we can take instead. Let's dive into the Bible and discover that path!
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“Praise is God's sunlight in the heart. It destroys sin germs. It ripens the fruits of the Spirit. It is the oil of gladness that lubricates life's activities. There can be no holy life without it. It keeps the heart pure and the eye clear. Praise is essential to the knowledge of God and His will.” —
Smith Wigglesworth
The Bible is God’s declaratory revelation to man containing the great truths about God, man, about history, about salvation, and about prophecy that God wanted us to know… ~John F. Walvoord~
“People wrap themselves up in the flimsy garments of their own righteousness and then complain of the cold.”
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“Heaven is not heaven without Christ. . . . I say the joys of heaven are not the joys of heaven without Christ; he is the very heaven of heaven.”
Richard Sibbes
“He doth not only promise us great and glorious things to be created by him, but he himself will be our heaven.”
Thomas Goodwin
If you are not generous with a meager income, you will never be generous with abundance. ~Harold Nye~
C.S. Lewis, in The Screwtape Letters, described how hard our enemy, Satan, works. Written from the point of view of demons who regard God as the Enemy, he writes: [Senior devil Screwtape to junior devil Wormwood]: “There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human’s mind against the Enemy. He [God] wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them worrying about what will happen to them.”
Many modern pastors are motivational speakers who occasionally mention God rather than faithful preachers of the uncompromising gospel.
Ray Comfort
Solemn prayers, rapturous devotionals, are but repeated hypocrisies unless the heart and mind be conformable to them. ~William Law~
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