Vavasor Powell
The saints are to bear a threefold testimony to, and for Christ and His truths: Breath-testimony, Life-testimony, and Blood-testimony.
Vavasor Powell
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Vavasor Powell
The saints are to bear a threefold testimony to, and for Christ and His truths: Breath-testimony, Life-testimony, and Blood-testimony.
Vavasor Powell
Frederick Buechner
Speak in your own voice and speak about things that you have in some sense witnessed, not just things you read about or have been taught about in seminary. To talk about the resurrection, think about those moments where in some way you have been resurrected.
Frederick Buechner
Watchman Nee
Long-lasting victory can never be separated from a long-lasting stand on the foundation of the cross.
Watchman Nee
Charles Spurgeon
Let your tears fall because of sin; but, at the same time, let the eye of faith steadily behold the Son of man lifted up, as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, that those who are bitten by the old serpent may look unto Jesus and live. Our sinnership is that emptiness into which the Lord pours his mercy.
Charles Spurgeon
Randy Smith
I think of Peter after He denied the Lord. The Bible says, “He went out and wept bitterly” (Luke 22:62). Psalm 38:18, “For I confess my iniquity; I am full of anxiety because of my sin.” Jeremiah 31:18, “I have surely heard Ephraim grieving, ‘You have chastised me, and I was chastised, like an untrained calf; bring me back that I may be restored, for You are the LORD my God.’” In the Beatitudes our Lord said, “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted” (Matthew 5:4). In 2 Corinthians 7, Paul spoke of a “godly sorrow.” In the depths of your relationship with God have you ever experienced this? When we sin against God we should experience our most intense grief. In verse 3 of Psalm 6, David speaks of His soul being “greatly dismayed.”
Randy Smith
Randy Smith
Explain the Gospel as perfectly as possible and they sadly just do not see it. The problem is not necessarily the presenter. The problem is definitely not the Gospel! Paul says in 2 Corinthians 4:4 that the Gospel is “the glory of Christ, who is the image of God.” That’s impressive, as good as it gets! But because of the spiritual blindness of the individual (2 Cor. 4:3-4), unable to see the Gospel’s greatness, there is simply no desire without God’s enabling power. And add to the blindness, a spiritually dead heart (Eph. 2:1), and there is absolutely no way a person on his or her own will ever desire Jesus Christ. In other words, people are not blinded because they chose to renounce the Gospel. Rather people renounce the Gospel because they are blinded by the evil one.
Randy Smith
SAMUEL JACKSON PRATT (1749-1814)
THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL OF SCRIPTURE, 1777
I am thus particularly earnest to display in this work the literary excellence of the Holy Bible, because I have reason to apprehend it is too frequently laid by under a notion of its being a dull, dry and unentertaining system, whereas the fact is quite otherwise: it contains all that can be wished by the truest intellectual taste, it enters more sagaciously and more deeply into human nature, it develops character, delineates manner, charms the imagination and warms the heart more effectively than any other book extant; and if once a man would take it into his hand without that strange prejudicing idea of flatness, and be willing to be pleased, I am morally certain he would find all his favorite authors dwindle in the comparison, and conclude that he was reading not only the most religious book but the most entertaining book in the world.
SAMUEL JACKSON PRATT (1749–1814)
THE SUBLIME AND BEAUTIFUL OF SCRIPTURE, 1777
Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, 1991, p. 112-113.
I contend that many Christians want to speak to others about the Lord but do not for fear that the observable, daily sin in their lives is too contradictory for them to witness….If God does not use sinners as His witnesses, there will be no human witnesses, since there are no perfect people…This does not change the fact that the more Christlike our lives, the more convincing our words about Christ. We need to do what we can to eliminate any sin that makes our words look inconsistent. But while attempting to do that we must be convinced that we cannot delay our witnessing until we reach sinless perfection. Otherwise, we would never share the gospel! Part of the beauty of our message is that God saves sinners, sinners like us.
Donald S. Whitney, Spiritual Disciplines for the Christian Life, 1991, p. 112-113.
Charles H. Spurgeon
He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created Him.
Charles H. Spurgeon
William Law
As all types and figures in the Law were but empty shadows without the coming of Christ, so the New Testament is but a dead letter without the Holy Spirit in redeemed men as the living power of a full salvation.
William Law
Chuck Swindoll
In vain I have searched the Bible, looking for examples of early believers whose lives were marked by rigidity, predictability, inhibition, dullness, and caution. Fortunately, grim, frowning, joyless saints in Scriptures are conspicuous by their absence. Instead, the examples I find are of adventurous, risk-taking, enthusiastic, and authentic believers whose joy was contagious even in times of full trial. Their vision was broad even when death drew near. Rules were few and changes were welcome. The contrast between then and now is staggering.
Chuck Swindoll
1. Confessez et abandonnez le péché connu. Examinez vos sentiments de culpabilité à la lumière de la Bible. Traitez le péché que la Parole de Dieu révèle (Proverbes 28:13 ; 1 Jean. 1:9 ; Jacques 5:16 ; Psaumes 32:5).
2. Demandez pardon et réconciliez-vous avec toute personne que vous avez offensée (Matthieu 5:23-24 ; 6:14-15).
3. Rendez la pareille à ceux à qui vous avez fait du tort (Nombres 5:6-7 ; Luc 19:8 ; Philippiens 19).
4. Ne remettez pas à plus tard le nettoyage de votre conscience blessée. Certaines personnes remettent à plus tard le traitement de leur culpabilité, pensant que leur conscience s'apaisera d'elle-même avec le temps. Ce n'est pas le cas. La procrastination permet aux sentiments de culpabilité de s'envenimer. Cela engendre à son tour la dépression, l'anxiété et d'autres problèmes émotionnels (Ac. 24:16).
5. Éduquez votre conscience. Une conscience faible et facilement affligée résulte d'un manque de connaissance spirituelle (1 Corinthiens 8:7).
John MacArthur
As a Christian, you have the capacity to walk before God with a clear conscience:
1. Confess and forsake known sin. Examine your guilt feelings in light of Scripture. Deal with the sin God’s Word reveals (Pr. 28:13; 1 Jn. 1:9; Jas. 5:16; Psm. 32:5).
2. Ask forgiveness and be reconciled to anyone you have wronged (Mt. 5:23-24; 6:14-15).
3. Make restitution to those you’ve wronged (Num. 5:6-7; Lk. 19:8; Phile. 19).
4. Don’t procrastinate in clearing your wounded conscience. Some people put off dealing with their guilt, thinking their conscience will clear itself in time. It won’t. Procrastination allows the guilt feelings to fester. That in turn generates depression, anxiety, and other emotional problems (Ac. 24:16).
5. Educate your conscience. A weak, easily grieved conscience results from a lack of spiritual knowledge (1 Cor. 8:7).
John MacArthur
D.A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation, Baker, 1992, p. 19.
We don’t drift into spiritual life; we do not drift into disciplined prayer. We do not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray. That means we must set aside time to do nothing but pray. What we actually do reflects our highest priorities. That means that we can proclaim our commitment to prayer until the cows come home, but unless we actually pray, our actions disown our words
D.A. Carson, A Call to Spiritual Reformation, Baker, 1992, p. 19.
Kent Hughes, 2 Corinthiens 2006, p. 134.
It is possible to endure in this life but to do it in a self-righteous, resentful survivor-spirit that is self-pitying and angry at those who do not shoulder the burden with you while being inwardly proud of your grit. Instead of the fruit of the Spirit, there is bitterness and joylessness. In truth, God may not consider this kind of life to be one of endurance, and certainly not one of “great endurance” (2 Cor. 6:4). Paul endured with the inner graces of the Spirit. Sweet endurance is what the Scripture here enjoins… Sweet in-Spirited endurance testifies to the reality of Christ and that He is worth our trust and service.
Kent Hughes, 2 Corinthians, 2006, p. 134.
Les disciples, dont les oreilles ont entendus la promesse et dont les yeux ont vu la résurrection, ont compris que se réalisait surnaturellement la promesse d'une résurrection physique d'entre les morts.
Gérard Chrispin, La résurrection, un trésor méconnu, page 62
Thomas Boston, Of the Decrees of God, Commentary on the Shorter Catechism.
See here the evil of murmuring and complaining at our lot in the world. How apt are ye to quarrel with God, as if He were in the wrong when His dealings with you are not according to your own desires and wishes? You demand a reason, and call God to an account, Why am I thus? Why so much afflicted and distressed? Why so long afflicted? And why such an affliction rather than another? Why am I so poor and another so rich? Thus your hearts rise up against God. But you should remember that this is to defame the counsels of infinite wisdom, as if God had not ordered your affairs wisely enough in His eternal counsel.
Thomas Boston, Of the Decrees of God, Commentary on the Shorter Catechism.
Jeremy Taylor
He that is proud of riches is a fool. For if he is exalted above his neighbors because he has more gold, how much inferior is he to a gold mine.
Jeremy Taylor
James H. Aughey
Our religion is not Christianity so much as Christ. Our gospel is the knowledge, not of a system, but the saving knowledge of a personal Savior.
James H. Aughey
Dick Lucas
When the church takes its mind and heart away from Christ and His words, human authority and tradition fills the vacuum.
Dick Lucas