Hank Hanegraaff
We can rest assured that our temporary earthly passions are but a pale shadow of the pleasure we will experience in heaven when symbol is supplanted by substance.
Hank Hanegraaff
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Hank Hanegraaff
We can rest assured that our temporary earthly passions are but a pale shadow of the pleasure we will experience in heaven when symbol is supplanted by substance.
Hank Hanegraaff
J.C. Ryle, Commentary, Matthew 4.
True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation – in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace – in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ.
J.C. Ryle, Commentary, Matthew 4.
J.C. Ryle
The name Emmanuel takes in the whole mystery. Jesus is "God with us." He had a nature like our own in all things, sin only excepted. But though Jesus was "with us" in human flesh and blood, He was at the same time very God.
J.C. Ryle
Gresham Machen, The Christian Faith in the Modern World, 1936.
Time has no meaning for Him, save in connection with the creatures that He has made. He created time when He created finite creatures. He Himself is beyond time… To God Himself all things are equally present. There is no such thing as “before” or “after” to Him.
Gresham Machen, The Christian Faith in the Modern World, 1936.
John MacArthur
Anything added to grace destroys it just as surely as does anything taken from it. When law – even God’s own law – is added to grace, His grace ceases to be grace.
John MacArthur
Frère André
We must never make our dreams for success or accomplishment as God’s purpose for us. God’s end, His purpose for us, is the process. Oswald Chambers put it so well when he said, “God’s training is for now, not presently. His purpose is for this minute, not for something in the future. What men call training and preparation, God calls the end…. If we realized that obedience is the end, then each moment is precious.”
Brother Andrew
Martin Luther
Now I should like to know whether your soul, tired of its own righteousness, is learning to be revived by and to trust in the righteousness of Christ… My dear brother, learn Christ and Him crucified. Learn to pray to Him and, despairing of yourself, say, “You, Lord Jesus, are my righteousness, but I am your sin. You have taken upon Yourself what is mine and have given to me what is Yours. You have taken upon Yourself what you were not and have given to me what I was not.” Beware of aspiring to such purity that you will not wish to be looked upon as a sinner, or to be one. For Christ dwells only in sinners. On this account He descended from heaven, where He dwelt among the righteous, to dwell among sinners. Meditate on this love of His and you will see His sweet consolation.
Martin Luther
George Muller, The Autobiography of George Muller, 1984, p. 148.
The Lord in His faithfulness helped us. Help was never more truly needed, nor did the help of the Lord ever come more obviously from Himself – His timing could not have been better. Praise the Lord for His goodness! Praise Him that He helped us trust in Him in this trying hour.
George Muller, The Autobiography of George Muller, 1984, p. 148.
- l’humilité, par l’expression de nos besoins profonds,
- la foi, qui saisit alors toutes les promesses de Dieu,
- l’espérance, qui se réjouit déjà de leur réalisation,
- la conscience de l’amour de Jésus, qui s’est livré pour chacun de nous, et en retour l’amour pour lui et l’amour pour tous ceux dont nous lui parlons,
- la patience, parce qu’on renonce à intervenir et à s’agiter, pour laisser Dieu agir.
Il ne s’agit pas de dicter à Dieu ce qu’il doit faire : si nous ne renonçons pas à notre volonté, nous ne comprendrons pas la réponse divine. Si nous avons des sentiments d’animosité et de rancune contre quelqu’un, ne les tolérons pas plus longtemps. C’est d’abord à nous que de tels sentiments font du mal. Prions pour cette personne et nous serons rendus capables de l’aimer. “Père, pardonne-leur…” disait Jésus pour ses bourreaux.
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J.D. Greear
Lord, as You have been to me, so I will be to others. As I pray, I'll measure Your compassion by the cross and Your power by the resurrection.
J.D. Greear
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression - Its Causes and its Cures, 1965, p. 172.
As Christian people we must learn to appropriate by faith the fact that God is our Father. Christ taught us to pray “Our Father.” This eternal everlasting God has become our Father and the moment we realize that, everything tends to change. He is our Father and He is always caring for us, He loves us with an everlasting love, He so loved us that He sent His only begotten Son into the world and to the Cross to die for our sins. That is our relationship to God and the moment we realize it, it transforms everything.
Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Spiritual Depression – Its Causes and its Cures, 1965, p. 172.
Roy Hession, The Calvary Road, Christian Literature Crusade, 1950, p. 107.
This is ever the nature of true confession of sin, true brokenness. It is the confession that my sin is not just a mistake, a slip, a something which is really foreign to my heart (“Not really like me to have such thoughts or do such things!”), but that it is something which reveals the real ‘I’; that shows me to be the proud, rotten, unclean thing God says I am; that it really is like me to have such thoughts and do such things. It was in these terms that David confessed his sin, when he prayed, “Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned and done this evil in Thy sight, that Thou mightest be justified when Thou speakest and be clear when Thou judgest” (Psalm 51:4).
Roy Hession, The Calvary Road, Christian Literature Crusade, 1950, p. 107. P.O. Box 1449, Fort Washington, PA 19034-8449.
John MacArthur, The Master's Plan for the Church, Moody, 1991, p. 193.
[Pastors] are initiated by the Holy Spirit, confirmed by prayer, and qualified through the consistent testimony of a pure life in the eyes of all.
John MacArthur, The Master’s Plan for the Church, Moody, 1991, p. 193.
D’abord, il y a le tombeau vide. Pour que ses disciples ne dérobent pas son corps, on avait mis une garde renforcée autour de son tombeau, mais ceux qui sont venus s’y recueillir n’ont pas trouvé son corps. Si les Romains l’avaient eux-mêmes dissimulé, ils auraient pu l’exposer publiquement pour étouffer la rumeur de sa résurrection. Mais non, Jésus n’était plus là !
Par la suite, plus de 500 témoins l’ont vu ressuscité ! (1 Corinthiens 15. 6) Le chiffre est impressionnant. 500 voix ne peuvent pas être ignorées.
Quelqu’un qui est plus puissant que la mort mérite notre attention, écoutons-le ! Quelqu’un qui est entré dans la mort et l’a vaincue est le seul capable de nous en délivrer. “J’ai été mort, et voici je suis vivant aux siècles des siècles” (Apocalypse 1. 18). Il offre à tous la vie éternelle, et il est crédible, car il est vivant.
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"Mais Dieu a rendu témoignage de son amour envers nous, en ce que, lorsque nous étions encore pécheurs, Christ est mort pour nous."
ROMANS 5:8
Portant sa croix, sur son épaule, comme le plus commun et le plus méchant des criminels, notre Sauveur béni, Jésus-Christ, entouré de la foule persécutrice, sortit de Jérusalem pour se rendre à un lieu appelé en langue hébraïque Golgotha ; c'est-à-dire, le lieu d'un crâne. Arrivés sur une colline appelée Mont Calvaire, ils lui plantèrent des clous cruels dans les mains et les pieds et le clouèrent sur la croix, entre deux autres croix sur chacune desquelles un vulgaire voleur était cloué à l'agonie. Au-dessus de sa tête, ils ont fixé l'inscription "Jésus de Nazareth, le roi des Juifs", en trois langues : hébreu, grec et latin.
Vers la sixième heure, une obscurité profonde et terrible s'abattit sur toute la terre et dura jusqu'à la neuvième heure, lorsque Jésus s'écria d'une voix forte : "Mon Dieu, mon Dieu, pourquoi m'as-tu abandonné ?" Les soldats, l'ayant entendu, trempèrent dans du vinaigre une éponge qui se trouvait là, et, l'attachant à un long roseau, ils la portèrent à sa bouche. Quand il l'eut reçue, il dit : "Tout est accompli", et s'écria : "Père, je remets entre tes mains mon âme. Entre tes mains, je remets mon Esprit", il mourut.
HE LOVED US TO DEATH
by Charles Dickens
“But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.”
ROMANS 5:8
Bearing his Cross, upon his shoulder, like the commonest and most wicked criminal, our blessed Savior, Jesus Christ, surrounded by the persecuting crowd, went out of Jerusalem to a place called in the Hebrew language, Golgotha; that is, the place of a skull. And being come to a hill called Mount Calvary, they hammered cruel nails through His hands and feet and nailed Him to the Cross, between two other crosses on each of which, a common thief was nailed in agony. Over His head, they fastened this writing “Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews”—in three languages; in Hebrew, in Greek, and in Latin.
At about the sixth hour, a deep and terrible darkness came over all the land and lasted until the ninth hour, when Jesus cried out, with a loud voice, “My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken me?” The soldiers, hearing him, dipped a sponge in some vinegar, that was standing there, and fastening it to a long reed, put it up to His Mouth. When He had received it, He said “It is finished!”—And crying “Father! Into thy hands I commend my Spirit!”—died.
Harriet Beecher-Stowe
We are compassed about by a cloud of witnesses, whose hearts throb in sympathy and who thrill with joy at every success. How should this thought check and rebuke every worldly feeling and unworthy purpose and enshrine us, in the midst of a forgetful and unspiritual world, with an atmosphere of heavenly peace! They have overcome—have risen—are crowned, glorified; but still they remain to us, our assistants, our comforters, and in every hour of darkness their voice speaks to us: “So we grieved, so we struggled, so we fainted, so we doubted; but we have overcome, we have obtained, we have seen, we have found—and in our victory behold the certainty of thy own.”
Harriet Beecher-Stowe
Charles Hummel, Tyranny of the Urgent.
Prayerful waiting on God is indispensable to effective service. Like the time-out in a football game, it enables us to catch our breath and fix new strategy. As we wait for directions, the Lord frees us from the tyranny of the urgent. He shows us the truth about Himself, ourselves, and our tasks. He impresses on our minds the assignments He want us to undertake. The need itself is not the call; the call must come from the God who knows our limitation. “The Lord pities those who fear Him. For He knows our frame; He remembers that we are dust” (Psalm 103:13-14). It is not God who loads us until we bend or crack with an ulcer, nervous breakdown, heart attack, or stroke. These come from our inner compulsions coupled with the pressure of circumstances.
Charles Hummel, Tyranny of the Urgent.
Ezekiel Hopkins
There is a conscience in man; therefore there is a God in heaven.
Ezekiel Hopkins