William Tiptaft
If rich people only knew when they died--how their relations would scramble for their money, the worms for their bodies, and the devils for their souls--they would not be so anxious to save money!
William Tiptaft
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William Tiptaft
If rich people only knew when they died--how their relations would scramble for their money, the worms for their bodies, and the devils for their souls--they would not be so anxious to save money!
William Tiptaft
Après ce répit, les chrétiens furent à nouveau persécutés, cette fois par Marc-Aurèle, en l'an 61. L'un de ceux qui souffrirent cette fois fut Polycarpe, le vénérable évêque de Smyrne... Alors qu'il entrait dans le stade avec ses gardes, on entendit une voix venant du ciel qui disait : "Sois fort, Polycarpe, et joue l'homme." Personne à proximité n'a vu quelqu'un parler, mais beaucoup de gens ont entendu la voix. Amené devant le tribunal et la foule, Polycarpe a refusé de renier le Christ, bien que le proconsul l'ait supplié de "réfléchir à toi-même et d'avoir pitié de ton grand âge. Reproche le Christ et je te libérerai". Polycarpe répondit : "J'ai servi le Christ pendant 86 ans et il ne m'a jamais fait de mal. Comment pourrais-je blasphémer mon Roi, qui m'a sauvé ?" Menacé par les bêtes sauvages et le feu, Polycarpe a tenu bon.
John Foxe
After the respite, the Christians again came under persecution, this time from Marcus Aurelius, in A.D. 61. One of those who suffered this time was Polycarp, the venerable bishop pf Smyrna… As he entered the stadium with his guards, a voice from heaven was heard to say, “Be strong, Polycarp, and play the man.” No one nearby saw anyone speaking but many people heard the voice. Brought before the tribunal and the crowd, Polycarp refused to deny Christ, although the proconsul begged him to “consider yourself and have pity on your great age. Reproach Christ and I will release you.” Polycarp replied, “Eighty-six years I have served Him, and He never once wronged me. How can I blaspheme my King, who saved me?” Threatened with wild beasts and fire, Polycarp stood his ground.
John Foxe
David Mathis
The church that seeks to give to God and receive from others will suffocate faith and smother love. But if Jesus’ gospel takes root, we will gladly come to God to feast and drink. Then with our hands full and our thirst being quenched, we will most gladly do good to others, especially the church – those who are of the household of faith (2 Cor. 12:15; Gal. 6:10).
David Mathis
Priscilla Shirer
The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today. Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now.
Priscilla Shirer
Dieu a également préparé un autel d'or pour que vous puissiez y offrir vos prières et vos larmes. On l'appelle un autel "d'or" pour montrer quelle valeur il a dans le compte de Dieu : Car cet autel d'or, c'est Jésus-Christ ; cet autel sanctifie votre don, et rend votre sacrifice acceptable. Cet autel rend donc tes gémissements, des gémissements d'or ; tes larmes, des larmes d'or ; et tes prières, de l'or aux yeux de Dieu. (Apocalypse 8:3 ; Matthieu 23:19 ; Hébreux 10:10 ; 1 Pierre 2:5).
Dieu a semé tout au long du chemin, de la porte de l'enfer, où tu étais, à la porte du ciel, où tu vas, des fleurs de son propre jardin. Voyez comme les promesses, les invitations, les appels et les encouragements, tels des lys, s'étendent autour de vous ! Prends garde de ne pas les fouler aux pieds, pécheur. Avec des promesses, a dit Dieu ? Oui, Dieu a mêlé toutes ces promesses à son propre nom et à celui de son Fils, qui est aussi le nom de la miséricorde, de la bonté, de la compassion, de l'amour, de la pitié, de la grâce, du pardon, du pardon pour que le pécheur qui vient soit encouragé !... Eh bien, toutes ces choses sont la bonne main de ton Dieu sur toi, pour te contraindre, pour te provoquer, et pour te rendre désireux et capable de venir, afin que tu puisses finalement être sauvé.
John Bunyan/William Harding God has prepared a Mercy-seat, a Throne of grace to sit on; that you may come to Him, and that He may hear you and receive you. “I will commune with thee,” saith the Lord, “from above the mercy seat” (Exodus 25:22). “Sinner, when you come to Me, you will find Me upon the mercy-seat. There I bring My pardons; there I hear and receive your petitions, and accept them to My favour.”
God has also prepared a golden altar for you to offer your prayers and tears upon. It is called a “golden” altar to show what worth it is in God’s account: For this golden altar is Jesus Christ; this altar sanctifies your gift, and makes your sacrifice acceptable. This altar, then, makes your groans, golden groans; your tears, golden tears; and your prayers, golden in the eyes of God. (Revelation 8:3; Matthew 23:19; Hebrews 10:10; 1 Peter 2:5).
God has strewn all along the way, from the gate of hell, where you were, to the gate of heaven, where you are going, flowers out of His own garden. Behold how the promises, invitations, calls, and encouragements, like lilies, lie around you! Be careful that you do not tread them under foot, sinner. With promises, did God say? Yes, God has mixed all those promises with His own name and His Son’s name; which is also the name of mercy, goodness, compassion, love, pity, grace, forgiveness, pardon for the coming sinner to be encouraged!…Well, all these things are the good hand of your God upon you, to constrain, to provoke, and to make you willing and able to come, that you might in the end be saved.
John Bunyan/William Harding
Sam Storms
What is repentance? 1. Recognition – [Repentance is] an awareness of having defied God by embracing what He despises and despising what He adores. 2. Remorse – Repentance is never a pleasure. It always entails pain. It demands brokenness of heart (Psalms 51:17; Isaiah 57:15). [It is not] out of fear of reprisal, rather than from a hatred of sin. 3. Request – We must ask God for forgiveness and for strength. 4. Repudiation – We must repudiate all sins in question and take active, practical steps to avoid anything that might provoke stumbling. 5. Reformation – There must be an overt determination to pursue purity, to do what pleases God (1 Thessalonicians 1:9).
Sam Storms
Le seul pardon qui a de la valeur est celui qui nous permet de nous pardonner à nous-mêmes. C'est une chose de dire "Dieu pardonne". C'en est une autre de nous pardonner à nous-mêmes. Il y a beaucoup de gens qui se promènent et qui prétendent que Dieu leur pardonne tous leurs péchés, mais ils ne vivent pas dans le présent. Ils vivent dans le passé. Ils ne peuvent pas se pardonner à eux-mêmes.
Que vous dit Dieu ? Pardonnez-vous vous-même. Il essaie de vous montrer en ce moment même comment vous pouvez le faire. Notre Dieu gracieux vient de l'arrière pour façonner votre passé de sorte que, si vous voulez bien le croire et lui donner du temps, vous finirez par voir que sa main était avec vous même à votre pire moment. Le "pardon total" montre le plan souverain de Dieu en toute chose. Si vous pardonnez vraiment à quelqu'un, montrez que vous le pensez vraiment en faisant intervenir la souveraineté totale de Dieu. Cela le convaincra. Dieu " peut façonner votre passé, prendre votre pire moment et, avec le temps, racheter votre passé au point que vous pourrez regarder en arrière et ne plus vouloir rien changer. C'est le Dieu de la Bible.
R. T. Kendall
The only forgiveness that is worth anything is that which makes it possible for us to forgive ourselves. It is one thing to say, “God forgives.” It is another to forgive ourselves. There are many people walking around who claim to have God forgiving them of all their sins, yet they are not living in the present. They are living in the past. They cannot forgive themselves.
What is God saying to you? Forgive yourself. He’s trying to show you right now how you can do it. Our gracious God comes from behind to shape your past so that, if you will believe Him and give Him time, you will come to see that His hand was with you even at your worst moment. Total forgiveness « shows God’s sovereign plan in everything. If you really do forgive someone, show that you mean it by bringing in God’s total sovereignty. This will convince them. God « can shape your past and take your worst moment and, in time, so redeem your past that you can look back and not wish to change anything. This is the God of the Bible.
R. T. Kendall
John MacArthur
God arrived at Calvary – not in light, but in darkness. He showed up to unleash judgment, not in the eschatological sense in the future against the ungodly, but in the soteriological sense against the godly One. What is really going on at Calvary, folks – and this is where you go deeper with the understanding of it – it’s beyond the physical suffering, it’s beyond the sacrifice of Christ. What’s happening here is divine wrath is being poured out in its final form. Eternal wrath is about to be released and the darkness is everywhere. You could say it another way. God brought hell to Jerusalem that day.
John MacArthur
Catherine Marshall
I believe the old cliché, 'God helps those who help themselves,' is not only misleading but often dead wrong. My most spectacular answers to prayers have come when I was so helpless, so out of control as to be able to do nothing at all for myself.
Catherine Marshall
Randy Smith
What is repentance? Repentance is understanding where we fall short of God’s expectations as they are revealed in the Bible and by God’s grace changing our mind, our heart and our actions to be more in line with God’s will. Repentance is making a complete break with sin (a “180”), and it it’s place, now the pursuit of righteousness. There is an ongoing repentance that all Christians do. That’s what it means to grow in Christlikeness. And there is a general repentance we do when we initially come to Christ as we turn from self and devote ourselves entirely to the lordship of Jesus Christ.
Randy Smith
Matthieu Henry
Those who teach by their doctrine must teach by their life, or else they pull down with one hand what they build up with the other.
Matthew Henry
George Muller, Les secrets spirituels de George Muller.
Now what is food for the inner man? Not prayer, but the Word of God; and here again, not the simple reading of the Word of God, so that it only passes through our minds, just as water passes through a pipe, but considering what we read, pondering it over and applying it to our hearts.
George Muller, Spiritual Secrets of George Muller.
Jonathan Edwards, édition révisée par Philip E. Howard Jr, The Life and Diary of David Brainerd, Moody Press, 1949, p. 81.
David Brainerd prayed with fasting for the Lord’s leadership regarding his entry into ministry. He said of his experience during that day, “I felt the power of intercession for precious, immortal souls; for the advancement of the kingdom of my dear Lord and Saviour in the world; and withal, a most sweet resignation and even consolation and joy in the thoughts of suffering hardships, distresses, and even death itself, in the promotion of it…. My soul was drawn out very much for the world, for multitudes of souls. I think I had more enlargement for sinners than for the children of God, though I felt as if I could spend my life in cries for both. I enjoyed great sweetness in communion with my dear Saviour. I think I never in my life felt such an entire weanedness from this world and so much resigned to God in everything."
Jonathan Edwards, Revised edition ed. by Philip E. Howard Jr., The Life and Diary of David Brainerd, Moody Press, 1949, p. 81.
- Protection lors de la tentation (Matthieu 6.13)
- Protection du diable (Matthieu 6.13)
- Protection de l’unité (Jean 17.11)
- Protection des attaques (Jean 17.15)
Attention : « Le diable rode autour de nous comme un lion rugissant ». Il cherche non seulement à nous faire peur, mais aussi à nous dévorer ! C’est pourquoi, il nous faut être vigilants, sobres, et armés jusqu’aux dents et opposer une foi inébranlable (1 Pierre 5.8).
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Randy Smith
We must understand that sin is a desire. We don’t fall into sin. We may be tempted, but sin is a personal choice we make and one to which we are responsible. Simply put, we sin because we want to sin. We believe sin will bring us greater pleasure, greater joy than obedience.
Randy Smith
A.W. Tozer
We would think of God, then, as maintaining the unity of His uncreated Being throughout all His works and His years, as ever saying not only, "I did," and "I will do," but also "I do" and "I am doing." A robust faith requires that we grasp this truth firmly, yet we know how seldom such a thought enters our minds.
A.W. Tozer
Pâques est l'interprétation du Vendredi saint. La signification de la Croix est révélée dans la Résurrection. La Résurrection n'est pas tant une simple suite de la Croix, ou un renversement de la Croix, ou une récompense ultérieure en raison de l'endurance de la Croix. Elle est plutôt une révélation de ce que la Croix était déjà.
R. C. MOBERLY (1845-1903) THÉOLOGIEN ANGLAIS ET PRETRE À OXFORD
" LE CHRIST NOTRE VIE "
Easter is the interpretation of Good Friday. The significance of the Cross is revealed in the Resurrection. The Resurrection is not so much a mere sequel to the Cross; or a reversal of the Cross;or a subsequent reward because of the endurance of the Cross. Rather, it is a revealing of what the Cross already was.
R. C. MOBERLY (1845–1903) ENGLISH THEOLOGIAN AND OXFORD DIVINE
“CHRIST OUR LIFE”
Bob Kauflin
The cross stands for all that was accomplished through the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus, the Son of God. It focuses on His substitutionary death at Calvary but includes everything that gave meaning to that act. His preexistent state in glory. His incarnation. His life of perfect obedience. His suffering. His resurrection. His ascension. His present intercession and reign in glory. His triumphant return.
Bob Kauflin
Francis Frangipane
Beloved, I say, let your fears go, lest they make you fainthearted. Stop inspiring fear in those around you and now take your stand in faith. God has been good and He will continue to manifest His goodness. Let us approach these days expecting to see the goodness of the Lord manifest. Let us be strong and of good courage, for the Lord will fight for us if we stand in faith.
Francis Frangipane
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The Bible is accurate archeologically, geographically, historically, systematically, scientifically, prophetically, and it is miraculous in that it is life changing. It was written over a span of 1,500 years, by more than 40 authors, spanning 3 continents, and yet is perfect in accuracy. Try to apply this test to other religious books!
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