The doctrine of illumination does not mean we know everything (cf. Dt 29:29), that we do not need teachers (cf. Eph 4:11, 12), or that understanding does not require hard work (cf. 2Ti 2:15)." –– MacArthur Study Bible, 1 Cor. 2:14.
The New Covenant is better than the Old, not only because it promises lasting, perfect, heavenly forgiveness through obedience rendered outside of and apart from the one receiving it, but also because it promises to perform an inward work of renewal. - Samuel Renihan
The church is like a river. If it gets wider instead of deeper it will lose its power. —Puritan Thomas Manton
Idleness tempts the devil to tempt. —Thomas Watson, Golden Puritan Treasury, Pg. 154
There are some [biblical] truths above reason, but none contrary to it; for grace is not contrary to nature, but perfects it; therefore there is nothing in the gospel but what is agreeable to sound reason. —Thomas Manton, Works 6:310
“The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self — all your wishes and precautions — to Christ.” - C.S. Lewis
Jesus Christ is alive. Because He lives, hope lives. Because He lives, joy lives. Because He lives, peace lives. Because He lives, forgiveness lives. Because He lives, purpose lives. Because He lives, freedom lives. Because He lives, love lives. Because He lives, we can live.
Many of the students who “drive me crazy", are now passionately following Jesus!
Stay faithful.
Teach the Word.
Make disciples.
Be patient.
Watch God work in the long run.
WORSHIP JESUS AS A CHURCH...
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones made a keen observation about the tactics of Satan to lead a believer into spiritual depression: 1. Regret over the (forgiven) sins of the past. 2. Fear of the future. Both need to be addressed and overcome in Christ.
The object of all true preaching is the heart: we aim at divorcing the heart from sin, and wedding it to Christ. Charles Spurgeon
The appearance of an angel from heaven could add nothing to the certainty of the declarations He has already put into our hands. John Newton
If God did not mean to hear us, He would not bid us pray. Charles Spurgeon
True belief and true repentance are twins. Charles Spurgeon
Jesus is the Word made flesh, and that “knowing Jesus” demands embracing the Jesus of the Bible, not the Jesus of someone’s imagination. The whole Bible. Even the places that took my life captive. Rosaria Champagne Butterfield
The will of man without the grace of God is not free at all, but is the permanent prisoner and bondslave of evil since it cannot turn itself to good. Martin Luther
Like sheep obedient to the shepherd, rise up and follow him wherever he goes." — Charles Spurgeon
It is a great thing to be adjusted to the work God has for us, and not trying to get God to help us to do our work; adjusted to do the very will and plan of God for us in our whole life. This is the secret of rest, power and freedom in our life-work. AB Simpson
Few seem to have any opinions of their own, or to think for themselves. Like dead fish, they go with the stream and tide: what others think right, they think right; and what others call wrong, they call wrong. —JC Ryle, Thoughts for Young Men, Pg. 33
"My work is to preach Christ crucified, which gives men salvation." — Charles Spurgeon
There are many small and large ways God fills our lives with good things so that we can stay strong and healthy. As we take time daily to count our blessings, we can also take time to give the Lord our worries and fears. Ray Bentley
"O Christian, the world is not your friend. If it is, then you are not God's friend." — Charles Spurgeon
"Till men have faith in Christ, their best services are but glorious sins." -Thomas Brooks.
"Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before." Richard Baxter
The cross of popular evangelicalism is not the cross of the New Testament-The old cross slew men-the new cross entertains them -A.W. Tozer -
The love of our Lord Jesus Christ towards sinners is strikingly shown in His steady purpose of heart to die for them. -J.C. Ryle -
“The wrath of God is as pure as His love, and both are essential to His nature.” Jonathan Edwards
Steven Lawson
The doctrine of sovereign election does not hinder evangelism, but emboldens it because it guarantees the success of the gospel.
Burk Parsons
Jesus rebuked the Pharisees not because they were overly dogmatic about doctrine but because they invented their own doctrines.
We are not fighting for a dead man's cause. We have a living, reigning king!" — Charles Spurgeon
"Though you hoard up wealth, gold is nothing but dust to a dying man." — Charles Spurgeon
“…we reject the intercession of the saints as a superstition invented by men contrary to Scripture, for the reason that it proceeds from mistrust of the sufficiency of the intercession of Jesus Christ.” —Geneva Confession (1536), Article 12
The happiest people the world has ever known have always been those who have had the glorious view of salvation, and who have seen that they are 'in him' - that is the great NT phrase, 'in Christ' - and that they are lost in him. - Martyn Lloyd-Jones
"Nothing will satisfy man but God, in whose image he was made." — Charles Spurgeon
"On other people's graves it is written, 'Here lies so-and-so,' but on Christ's tomb it is recorded, 'He is not here.'" — Charles Spurgeon
It is only the fear of God that can deliver us from the fear of man. -George Whitefield -
Faith takes up the cross, love binds it to the soul, patience bears it to the end. -Horatius Bonar -
"It is the grace of God only that will secure us, & that grace is to be expected only in the use of the means of grace." -Matthew Henry.
"Forget yourself, if you would serve God." -John Calvin.
God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers - not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful. Martin Luther
Worship turns our focus from self and onto God, His glory, His will, His plan.
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