Au matin de la résurrection, nous dirons tous: 'C'est bon pour moi que j'ai été affligé.' Nous remercierons Dieu pour chaque tempête.
J.C. Ryle
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Au matin de la résurrection, nous dirons tous: 'C'est bon pour moi que j'ai été affligé.' Nous remercierons Dieu pour chaque tempête.
J.C. Ryle
R.C. Sproul, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith, Tyndale, 1992, xi.
There is a vast difference, however, between childlike faith and childish faith, though the two are often confused. [Childlike faith calls the believer] to remain forever in a state of awe and trust of their heavenly Father, while a childish faith balks at learning the things of God in depth. It refuses the meat of the gospel while clinging to a diet of milk…The call of the New Testament is to maturity.
R.C. Sproul, Essential Truths of the Christian Faith, Tyndale, 1992, xi.
Hugh Martin
Jesus loved the enthusiast, the man who knew what side he was on and threw himself whole-heartedly into the struggle. He liked energetic action, as in the men who climbed the roof and broke a way through for their paralyzed friend, or in Zacchaeus who forgot his dignity and swarmed up a tree. He loved the generous giver. All four Gospels quote His saying, “He who loves life loses it; he who spends keeps.” It sums up His attitude to life. He praised the man who banged on the door till he got an answer; He wanted men to show that kind of determination in the affairs of religion. He praised the widow who badgered the unjust judge into doing justice. He did not like playing for safety or burying one’s talent. It is the peace-makers rather than the peace-keepers whom He blesses. Goodness is a positive active loyalty.
Hugh Martin
Étudiez la sainteté universelle de la vie. Toute votre utilité dépend de cela, car vos sermons ne durent qu'une heure ou deux : votre vie prêche toute la semaine. Si Satan peut seulement faire d'un ministre cupide un amateur de louanges, de plaisirs, de bonne chère, il a ruiné votre ministère. Donnez-vous à la prière, et tirez vos textes, vos pensées, vos paroles, de Dieu.
Robert Murray McCheyne
Study universal holiness of life. Your whole usefulness depends on this, for your sermons last but an hour or two: your life preaches all week. If Satan can only make a covetous minister a lover of praise, of pleasure, of good eating, he has ruined your ministry. Give yourself to prayer, and get your texts, your thoughts, your words, from God.
Robert Murray McCheyne
Randy Smith
The Gospel makes us realize that we are far worse than we ever believed, but God’s love is far greater than we ever imagined. In the Gospel we realize the depths of our sin so we might better understand the greatness of God’s forgiveness. We see God’s holy hatred toward sin, but His incredible mercy in Christ toward the sinner. If God is God, he must inherently oppose that which opposes Him. Unless evil is dealt with, there can be no good news. The bad news is inherently part of the good news!
Randy Smith
Jonathan Edwards
Lord, grant that from hence I may learn to withdraw thoughts, affections, desires, and expectations entirely from the world, and may fix them upon the heavenly state, where there is fullness of joy; where reigns heavenly, sweet, calm, and delightful love without alloy; where there are continually the dearest expressions of this love; where there is the enjoyment of this love without ever parting; and where those persons, who appear so lovely in this world, will be inexpressibly more lovely, and full of love to us. How sweetly will those, who thus mutually love, join together in singing the praises of God and the Lamb. How full will it fill us with joy, to think that this enjoyment, these sweet exercises, will never cease or come to an end, but will last to all eternity.
Jonathan Edwards
John MacArthur, The Battle for the Beginning, 2001, p. 208.
Sin in the mind goes to work in the emotions. That incites the will, which yields the act.
John MacArthur, The Battle for the Beginning, 2001, p. 208.
Pardonner est la plus haute et la plus belle forme d'amour. En retour, vous recevrez une paix et un bonheur indicibles.
Robert Muller
To forgive is the highest, most beautiful form of love. In return, you will receive untold peace and happiness.
Robert Muller
Carl F.H. Henry
The early Christians did not say “look what the world is coming to!” but “look what has come into the world!”
Carl F.H. Henry
Nous entendons souvent souligner les caractéristiques "salvatrices" de Dieu - son amour, sa miséricorde, sa bonté et ainsi de suite - mais la question de sa seigneurie est absente. Cette distorsion est particulièrement évidente dans l'évangélisation. Dans la pratique moderne, l'appel à la repentance est généralement appelé une "invitation", que l'on peut évidemment accepter ou refuser. Il est offert poliment. On entend rarement présenter la demande souveraine de Dieu de se repentir ou sa demande de soumission totale à l'autorité de son roi désigné, Jésus-Christ.
James Montgomery Boice, "Foundations of the Christian Faith-Book I", page 120. 1986 InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of the USA.
We often hear the “Savior” characteristics of God stressed – His love, mercy, goodness and so on – but the matter of His lordship is absent. The distortion is particularly clear in evangelism. In modern practice the call to repentance is usually called an “invitation,” which one can obviously accept or refuse. It is offered politely. Seldom do we hear presented God’s sovereign demand to repent or His demand for total submission to the authority of His appointed king, Christ Jesus.
James Montgomery Boice, “Foundations of the Christian Faith-Book I”, page 120. 1986 InterVarsity Christian Fellowship of the USA.
John MacArthur, Spiritual Warfare : Who's After Whom ? de Our Sufficiency in Christ, 1991, p. 235.
This is not a complex battle plan: Submit to God and resist the devil [James 4:7]. How? By being firm in the faith, committed to truth, and keeping a clear conscience. What will Satan’s response be? “He will flee from you.” That is the only statement in all the New Testament that tells us how to get rid of Satan. There are no biblical guidelines for exorcism. There is no more elaborate strategy for spiritual warfare. There is nothing in Scripture that tells a believer to speak to demons, cast them out, bind them, tie them up, or do anything like that.
John MacArthur, Spiritual Warfare: Who’s After Whom? from Our Sufficiency in Christ, 1991, p. 235.
Justin Martyr
No one makes us afraid or leads us into captivity as we have set our faith on Jesus. For though we are beheaded, and crucified, and exposed to beasts and chains and fire and all other forms of torture, it is plain that we do not forsake the confession of our faith, but the more things of this kind which happen to us the more are there others who become believers…through the name of Jesus.
Justin Martyr
Thomas Brooks
Christ choosing solitude for private prayer, doth not only hint to us the danger of distraction and deviation of thoughts in prayer, but how necessary it is for us to choose the most convenient places we can for private prayer. Our own fickleness and Satan’s restlessness call upon us to get into such places where we may freely pour out our soul into the bosom of God (Mark 1.35).
Thomas Brooks
Voddie Baucham
Suffering is common for all. However, persecution (which is a form of suffering) can be avoided. All you have to do is compromise.
Voddie Baucham
Kent Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Man, Crossway Books, 1991, p. 15.
But underlying much of the conscious rejection of spiritual discipline is the fear of legalism… But nothing could be farther from the truth if you understand what discipline and legalism are. The difference is one of motivation: legalism is self-centered; discipline is God-centered. The legalistic heart says, “I will do this thing to gain merit with God.” The disciplined heart says, “I will do this thing because I love God and want to please Him.” There is an infinite difference between the motivation of legalism and discipline! (Paul) knew this implicitly and fought the legalists bare-knuckled all the way across Asia Minor, never giving an inch. And now he shouts to us, “Train (discipline) yourself to be godly”! If we confuse legalism and discipline, we do so to our soul’s peril.
Kent Hughes, Disciplines of a Godly Man, Crossway Books, 1991, p. 15.
J.C. Ryle
Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions.
J.C. Ryle
C. Matthew McMahon
The pulpit is the place where the voice of God is heard. The clay pot of the minister is used by the Holy Spirit in such a way as to communicate the rational Biblical message which has been burning in the bosom of that preacher’s heart night and day all week long. It is the place where God speaks to His people in a unique manner. The Word of God is audibly expressed and expounded by careful and responsible exegesis to God’s chosen people.
C. Matthew McMahon
John MacArthur, Éphésiens, Moody, 1986, p. 136-137.
Nor is it that a believer’s single gift will be restricted to only one category of giftedness. An individual gift may include a number of specific areas of giftedness, in a limitless variety of combinations. Someone with a major gift of administration may also have something of the gifts of helps and of teaching. Believers’ gifts are like snowflakes and fingerprints – each one is completely distinct from all others. Some teachers may emphasize knowledge, some instruction, some mercy, and others exhortation. From the palette of gift colors the Holy Spirit uses the brush of His sovereign design to paint the mixture of each believer so that no two are like.
John MacArthur, Ephesians, Moody, 1986, p. 136-137.
John Piper, Desiring God, 1996, p. 152.
Could it be that many of our problems with prayer and much of our weakness in prayer come from the fact that we are not all on active duty, and yet we still try to use the transmitter? We have taken a wartime walkie-talkie and tried to turn it into a civilian intercom to call the servants for another cushion in the den… We see repeatedly in Scripture (Matthew 9:38; Luke 21:34-36; Romans 15:30-31; Ephesians 6:12, 17-19; Colossians 4:3; 2 Thessalonicians 3:1) that prayer is a walkie-talkie for warfare, not a domestic intercom for increasing our conveniences.
John Piper, Desiring God, 1996, p. 152.