Charles H. Spurgeon
You will find all true theology summed up in these two short sentences: Salvation is all of the grace of God. Damnation is all of the will of man.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Jack Hayford.
“ My life needs God’s presence to work God’s purposes”
Jack Hayford.
René Pache, The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture, Moody, 1969, p. 319
The excessive preeminence given to the Holy Spirit in their devotions and their preoccupation with gifts, ecstasies, and “prophecies” has tended to neglect of the Scriptures. Why be tied to a Book out of the past when one can communicate every day with the living God? But this is exactly the danger point. Apart from the constant control of the written revelation, we soon find ourselves engulfed in subjectivity; and the believer, even if he has the best intentions, can sink rapidly into deviations, illuminism or exaltation. Let each remind himself of the prohibition of taking anything away from Scripture or adding anything to it (Deut. 4:2; Rev. 22:18–19). Almost every heresy and sect has originated in a supposed revelation or a new experience on the part of its founder, something outside the strictly biblical framework.
Rene Pache, The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture, Moody, 1969, p. 319
CHARLES BURGUNDER
Vance Havner a écrit : « Les premiers croyants n'attendaient pas que quelque chose se produise, ils attendaient la venue de Quelqu'un. Attendre que le train arrive est une chose, mais attendre que quelqu'un que nous aimons vienne dans ce train en est une autre... En ce qui concerne le retour de notre Seigneur, nous mettons l'accent sur la préparation sans l'attente. Bien sûr, trop souvent, on ne parle pas du tout de son retour. On prêche l'avènement du Royaume, mais pas le retour du Roi.... Je ne cherche pas de signes. Nous en avons eu beaucoup. Je suis à l'écoute d'un son. Chaque fois que vous voyez un moqueur qui dit qu'il n'y a pas de signes de Sa venue, vous venez de voir un autre signe. J'écoute un cri. »
Vance Havner wrote : ''The early believers were not looking for something to happen, they were looking for Someone to come. Looking for the train to arrive is one thing, but looking for someone we love to come on that train is another matter...With regard to our Lord's return, we emphasize preparation without expectation. Of course, all too generally nothing is said of His return at all. Bringing in the Kingdom is preached, but not bringing back the King....I'm not looking for signs. We've had plenty of them. I'm listening for a sound. Every time you see a scoffer who says there are no signs of His coming, you've just seen another sign. I'm listening for a shout.''
Dieu s’intéresse à chacun de nous car il nous aime. Il voudrait que nous fassions appel à lui par la prière pour chaque moment de notre vie. Notre existence est parsemée de soucis. À qui en parler ? Nous avons le privilège d’avoir un Père céleste qui nous écoute et qui est prêt à nous donner au-delà même de ce que nous demandons ou même pensons, selon sa sagesse. Il n’est pas limité, n’hésitons pas à l’honorer en lui ouvrant notre coeur. Acceptons aussi ses réponses qui ont toujours pour but notre bien. »
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Martin Luther
How shall a work please God, if it proceeds from a reluctant and resisting heart? To fulfill the law, however, is to do its works with pleasure and love, and to live a godly and good life of one’s own accord, without the compulsion of the law. This pleasure and love for the law is put into the heart by the Holy Ghost.
Martin Luther
William Farley
God is sovereign, but parents are responsible. God’s sovereignty is our hope. Parents are utterly dependent on God. He can save any child, no matter how dark the circumstances. On the other hand, God normally reaches children through their parents. It is fatal to presume on God’s sovereignty by neglecting parental faithfulness. Yet it is also a mistake to assume that it all depends on us. It doesn’t. In fact, none of your efforts will prevail unless God bestows the gift of faith on your children. We are utterly dependent and responsible at the same time.
William Farley
James Dunn
Paul’s vision of the body of Christ is of a unity which consists in diversity, that is, a unity which is not denied by diversity, but which would be denied by uniformity, a unity which depends on its diversity functioning as such – in a word, the unity of a body, the body of Christ.
James Dunn
John Newton
I am not what I might be, I am not what I ought to be, I am not what I wish to be, I am not what I hope to be. But I thank God I am not what I once was, and I can say with the great apostle, “By the grace of God I am what I am.”
John Newton
Randy Smith
Satan tempts (to make us weaker), but God’s goal is to test (to make us stronger) and oftentimes we are tested by God permitting Satan to tempt us. In the Bible (Luke 4) we see Jesus being tested by God as He is led by God into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil.
Randy Smith
Lailah Gifty Akita
May the resurrection power of Christ, awake in us a greater spiritual force and strength, so that we can passionately pursue our God-given dreams.
Lailah Gifty Akita
John Murray, The Pattern of Sanctification (Le modèle de la sanctification).
Nothing is more relevant to progressive sanctification than the reckoning of ourselves to be dead to sin and alive to God through Jesus Christ (cf. Romans 6:11).
John Murray, The Pattern of Sanctification.
J.D. Greear
Repentance is not subsequent to belief; it is part of belief. It is belief in action-choice that flow out of conviction. Repentance literally means "a change of mind" (in Greek, metanoia; meta-"new", noia="mind") about Jesus. Repentance is not merely changing your action; it is changing your actions because you have changed your attitude about Jesus' authority and glory.
J.D. Greear