When we affirm and celebrate sin, people don’t think they need a Savior.
SOMETIMES THE ANSWER YOU WANT FROM GOD WILL NOT BE THE ANSWER YOU GET FROM GOD. BUT THE ANSWER YOU GET WILL ALWAYS BE THE ANSWER YOU NEED.
THE TRIAL ISN'T TO EXPOSE YOUR WEAKNESS, BUT TO REVEAL YOUR STRENGTH!
IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU GO THROUGH. IT ONLY MATTERS WHO YOU GO THROUGH IT WITH!
GOD WAS WITH JOSEPH IN PRISON, DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN, AND SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO IN THE FIRE! AND HE'S WITH YOU IN YOUR TRIAL TOO.
IN ORDER TO PLEASE GOD, YOU WILL HAVE TO DISAPPOINT SOME PEOPLE. PLEASE GOD ANYWAY!
THE BEST ADVICE I EVER RECEIVED CAME TO ME IN PRAYER.
“Trust alone (not trustworthiness), faith alone (not faithfulness) is the instrumental cause of justification, in which we are irrevocably united to Christ and adopted permanently into the Father’s house.” — E. D. Burns
“The more light we have, the more we shall see our own imperfection. Sinners we were when we began, sinners we shall find ourselves as we go on: renewed, pardoned, justified – yet sinners to the very last.” –– J.C. Ryle
“Any gospel message that requires our own covenant faithfulness is bad news.” — E. D. Burns
“God gives His forgiveness, favor, and eternal life as a free gift to those who believe. At the same time, good works are a necessary part of the Christian life. God saves us through faith so that we may work for the good of others.” — Simonetta Carr, Church History, 83.
“Faith is a secure trust in objective truth, not mainly a subjective sense that comes and goes based upon our perceived performance.” E. D. Burns
“I have had some sweet seasons of communion with an unseen God, which I would not give for thousands of gold and silver.” — Robert Murray M'Cheyne "True theology should always be based upon a careful and accurate exegesis and exposition and understanding of the Scriptures." - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Commentary on Romans 13, p. 17
“Christians in this life are at the same time righteous and sinful. They are declared righteous by God because of Christ but still have a sinful nature.” — Simonetta Carr, Church History, 83.
“Gospel mortification is from gospel principles… But legal mortification is from legal principles such as, from the applause and praise of men.” — Ralph Erskine
“You must ask for God’s help. ... After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again.” - C.S. Lewis
“Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.” - C.S. Lewis
"The Bible is the window through which we may look and see our Lord." — Charles Spurgeon "Cling to that cross which took your sin away; Serve him who served you." — Charles Spurgeon "Do you say you are feeble? God is your strength." — Charles Spurgeon "Christ himself being the bridegroom of the Church, the true Christian is to seek to be such a husband as Christ was to his spouse." — Charles Spurgeon
"If you wish to know God you must know his Word." — Charles Spurgeon "Beloved, if it had been possible to destroy the church of God on earth, it would have been destroyed long ago." — Charles Spurgeon "He who has loved you and pardoned you, shall never cease to love and pardon." — Charles Spurgeon "A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception and a crime in execution." — Charles Spurgeon
"I have thumbed my Bible many a year; I have never yet thumbed a broken promise." — Charles Spurgeon "Sin-sick souls should remember the power of the Word." — Charles Spurgeon "Heresies always come from gentlemen at ease who take no actual part in our holy war." — Charles Spurgeon "Warm-hearted saints keep each other warm, but cold is also contagious." — Charles Spurgeon "Kill hope in a man, and you have killed the man's best self." — Charles Spurgeon "We cannot go to heaven as worldly men; for there would be nothing there to gratify us." — Charles Spurgeon
"Here is the history of the grass—sown, grown, blown, mown, gone; and the history of man is not much more." — Charles Spurgeon "The Lord loves to use tools which are not rusted with self-conceit." — Charles Spurgeon "Bold-hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards." — Charles Spurgeon
"Unbelief brings misery, but a childlike trust brings happiness." — Charles Spurgeon
"Only give truth time, and, God being with her, she must prevail." — Charles Spurgeon "I would not give a penny for your love to the truth if it is not accompanied with a hearty hatred of error." — Charles Spurgeon "Are you afraid of the earthquake? No, I rejoice to know that I have a God that can shake the world." — Charles Spurgeon
"The gospel is all about Christ from beginning to end." – Charles Spurgeon "There is a mutual delight in each other in the persons of the blessed Trinity, so that each divine person delights to glorify the rest." — Charles Spurgeon
“Don’t ask, ‘how did you find Jesus?’ Jesus was not lost. You were. Ask, ‘how did the Lord bring you to himself?’” — Dr. Elias Medeiros
Profound: “If once pardoned, thou wilt 𝘢𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 be pardoned. For the first pardon Christ paid his blood, for the continuance [of pardon] he doth but plead his blood, and we cannot be without a pardon till Christ be without a plea.” —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 5:450
Self-help doesn’t solve spiritual problems. Only God can do that. Self-help doesn’t help because often the biggest problem with self is self. If self is the problem, self can’t be the solution. We need Someone outside of self to save and change us. His name is JESUS!
Though God after pardon acts not towards his people in the nature of a [condemning] judge, yet he never lays aside his authority and affection of a father. —Stephen Charnock, Works 5:437
"I would not give a penny for your love to the truth if it is not accompanied with a hearty hatred of error." — Charles Spurgeon
If grace hath forgiven thee, the law cannot sentence thee. —Puritan Stephen Charnock, Works 5:450
God is a consuming fire, and we (apart from Christ) are combustible matter. —Stephen Charnock, Works 3:519
On prosperity: “Outward gains are ordinarily attended with inward losses.” —John Flavel, Saint Indeed, Pg. 76
The soldier is summoned to a life of active duty and so is the Christian. -William Gurnall - These days, people say that as long as a man claims to be a Christian at all, we should regard him as a brother... -Martyn Lloyd-Jones -
One of the greatest problems in our society (and in the church) is that we have raised an entire generation of guys, not men. Burk Parsons
Are you a believer? You will have troubles; but, oh! You will have Christ with them all. Robert Murray M'Cheyne
We are ignorant of things necessary, because we learn things superfluous and unnecessary Richard Baxter
"True theology should always be based upon a careful and accurate exegesis and exposition and understanding of the Scriptures." - D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Commentary on Romans 13, p. 17
"Learn which battles are worth fighting. All things are not equally important." -Garrett Kell, to young pastors.
Truth carries with it confrontation. Truth demands confrontation-loving confrontation, but confrontation nevertheless. -Francis Schaeffer - The only people who want to change the Gospel are those who are unchanged by it. -Leonard Ravenhill -
Jesus is my Savior. Jesus is my God. Jesus is my Lord. Jesus is my King. Jesus is my Redeemer. Jesus is my Hope. Jesus is my Truth. Jesus is my Peace. Jesus is my Teacher. Jesus is my Healer. Jesus is my Reason. Jesus is my Joy. Jesus is my Good News. JESUS IS MY EVERYTHING!
“No matter what our circumstances, we can find a reason to be thankful.” ―Dr. David Jeremiah
The heir of a great estate, while a child, thinks more of a few shillings in his pocket, than of his inheritance. So a Christian is often more elated by some frame of heart, than by his title to glory. - John Newton
"It is no use to try to run away from your cross, and it is also cowardly. Do as Christ bids you, “Take up the cross, and follow me.”" - Charles Spurgeon
Be lowly, and never expect to find in people those things that are God’s only. Fenelon
Sin is powerful … but God. Wickedness is prevalent … but God. Evil is raging … but God. Satan is active … but God. Hatred is rampant … but God. Hell is real … but God. Our hope and joy depend on that glorious phrase, “But God!”
Pride is about my glory; Humility is about God’s glory.
Methodism the world over is now & has always been a unit in its evangelical Arminian creed. Differ as they may in the matter of Church polity, the various branches of Methodism have but one faith as to doctrine. -Wilbur Tillett (1906), "Stmt of the Faith of World-wide Methodism"
"People often claim to hunger for truth, but seldom like the taste when it is served up." - George R.R. Martin
To be anointed with Christ, to be filled with His graces, to be made partaker of the Divine nature, this is beauty…this is beauty that will commend us to God. It is not he that hath the beautiful face, but he that hath the beautiful soul, that is accepted of God. R. Robinson
"May the Lord, of his infinite mercy, teach us to bear all his holy will, and bear it cheerfully, and so to take up our cross for Jesus’ sake!" - Charles Spurgeon
"It's not the strength of your faith that saves you, but the strength of Him upon whom you rely." — Charles Spurgeon
“The best use of one's life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. Life's value is not its duration but its donation - not how long we live but how fully and how well.” — J. Oswald Sanders
"Fear can hold you prisoner; faith can set you free." — Anonymous
The Scriptures offer great confidence that our salvation is eternally secure. Jesus spoke of such security for His sheep. "My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me. And I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; neither shall anyone snatch them out of My hand" (John 10:27-28). Paul was inspired of the Holy Spirit to write of this grand theme. "For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (Romans 8:38-39). What great security is available in Christ!
As we walk by faith, God's grace is imparted into our lives, bringing us many blessings in our Lord. We have seen that among these heavenly delights are assurance of salvation and security of salvation. "These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life…who are kept by the power of God through faith for salvation ready to be revealed in the last time" (1 John 5:13 and 1 Peter 1:5). Related to these delights is protection from the devil through faith.
Godly Christian living involves spiritual gravity and spiritual attentiveness. "Be sober, be vigilant." These necessary traits that the Lord wants to develop in us do not nullify the reality of joy and peace in the Lord. However, such earnestness is mandatory due to the enemy that we have. "Because your adversary the devil walks about."
There is never a guarantee of repentance, but the wonderful thing about Jesus is that He pursued us while we were yet sinners. He turns His enemies into His friends.
When we’re stumbled by the behavior or words of another Christian, we honor them by going directly and in private, just as we would want them to do to us.
We may feel we need to go to someone and “set them straight,” but we need to make sure we’re straight ourselves… about our attitudes and the goal, which is always to restore our brother or sister in love and gentleness.
Choose to close all doors you have opened that allowed havoc into your life and into the lives of those you love.
Whatever you struggle with, whatever woos you back, whatever it is… stop giving it CPR. The labels people put on you don’t have to define you anymore.
There is only one way to get to Heaven, and that is through God’s Son, Jesus Christ, who died on the cross for us.
we wouldn’t know anything about Heaven if we didn’t read about it in the Bible.
When we die, our bodies will go into the ground, but our souls will enter the afterlife. Those who have put their faith in Jesus Christ will immediately go into the presence of God.
If we want a good spiritual harvest in our lives, it takes time. We must be patient. And if we’re waiting for the return of Christ, we must be patient as well. Yet that is difficult to do in our on-demand culture of today.
people like to point out that the word rapture isn’t in the Bible. That all depends. If you have a Latin translation, then it is. The term “caught up” in 1 Thessalonians 4:17 is the Latin word rapturus, from which the English word rapture originates.
The apostle Paul described it for us: “We who are still living when the Lord returns will not meet him ahead of those who have died. For the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a commanding shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trumpet call of God. First, the believers who have died will rise from their graves” (1 Thessalonians 4:15-16 NLT).
We need to be ready to meet the Lord, because we don’t know what will happen next. But one way or another, we will stand before God one day.
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