Shunned Like a Deadly Plague

Certain it is, my reader, that any preacher who rejects God's law, who denies repentance to be a condition of salvation, who assures the giddy and godless that they are loved by God, who declares that saving faith is nothing more than an act of the will which every person has the power to perform, is a false prophet, and should be shunned like a deadly plague.... AW Pink

WALKS WITH GOD IN EVERY MATTER

By Octavius Winslow

"But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered." Luke 12:7.

“You know so little of God, my reader, because you live at such a distance from God; you have so little transaction with Him- so little confession of sin, so little searching of your own conscience, so little probing of your own heart, so little dealing with Him in the blood and righteousness of Christ, so little transaction with Him in the little things of life. You deal with God in great matters; you take great trials to God, great perplexities, great needs; but in the minutiae of each day's history, in what are called the little things of life, you have no dealings with God whatever; and consequently you know so little of the love, so little of the wisdom, so little of the glory, of this glorious covenant God and reconciled Father.

I tell you, the man who lives with God in little matters, who walks with God in the minutiae of his life, is the man who becomes the best acquainted with God- with His character, His faithfulness, His love. To meet God in my daily trials, to take to Him the trials of my calling, the trials of my church, the trials of my family, the trials of my own heart- to take to Him that which brings the shade upon my brow, that rends the sigh from my heart- to remember it is not too trivial to take to God- above all, to take to Him the least taint upon the conscience, the slightest pressure of sin upon the heart, the softest conviction of departure from God- to take it to Him, and confess it at the foot of the cross, with the hand of faith upon the bleeding sacrifice- oh! these are the paths in which a man becomes intimately and closely acquainted with God!”

new life is imparted

The new life is not imparted because man perceives the truth, but he perceives the truth because the new life is imparted. A man is not regenerated because he has first believed in Christ, but he believes in Christ because he has been regenerated." - W. T. Shedd

Grace Causes Me to Triumph

The riches of His free grace cause me daily to triumph over all the temptations of the wicked one, who is very vigilant, and seeks all occasions to disturb me.

—George Whitefield

Reading the Bible on my Knees

"I went to my room and locked my door, and putting the Bible on a chair, I went down on my knees at the chair. There I remained for several hours in prayer and meditation over the Word of God; and I can tell you that I learned more in those three hours which I spent in this way, than I had learned for many months previously." George Muller

"Oh, how I love your law! I meditate on it all day long!" Psalm 119:97

Scriptures on my Knees

"My mind being now more open and enlarged, I began to read the Holy Scriptures upon my knees, laying aside all other books and praying over, if possible, every line and Word. This proved food indeed and drink indeed to my soul. I daily received fresh life, light and power from above. I got more true knowledge from reading the Book of God in one month--than I could ever have acquired from all the writings of men!"
George Whitefield

Natural Evangelists

We are all natural evangelists for the things and the people we love most. Kevin DeYoung

Eternal Happiness is your Destiny

Christian, eternal happiness is your destiny. Today’s whisper of joy will turn into a symphony. 

Higher Purposes in Our Sicknesses

David Platt at #SecretChurch18: “God may accomplish higher purposes in our sickness than in our health.”

Regeneration is the Fountain

"Regeneration is the fountain, sanctification is the river." - J. Sidlow Baxter; Both flow from our union with Christ. JH.

LONGING TO BE HAPPY

Your longing to be happy is from God. Don’t deny it. Don’t resist it. Direct it to God, and he will satisfy it — forever.

Slander Christ

"I do believe we slander Christ when we think we are to draw the people by some else but the preaching of Christ crucified." - Charles Spurgeon

FAITH LOOKS TO CHRIST

"We can put it this way: the man who has faith is the man who is no longer looking at himself and no longer looking to himself. He no longer looks at anything he once was. He does not look at what he is now. He does not even look at what he hopes to be as the result of his own efforts. He looks entirely to the Lord Jesus Christ and His finished work, and rests on that alone.

He has ceased to say, "Ah yes, I used to commit terrible sins but I have done this and that." He stops saying that. If he goes on saying that, he has not got faith. Faith speaks in an entirely different manner and makes a man say, "Yes I have sinned grievously, I have lived a life of sin, yet I know that I am a child of God because I am not resting on any righteousness of my own; my righteousness is in Jesus Christ and God has put that to my account." -. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

J. Gresham Machen

BY J. GRESHAM MACHEN

"There are congregations, even in the present age of conflict, that are really gathered around the table of the crucified Lord; there are pastors that are pastors indeed. But such congregations, in many cities, are difficult to find. Weary with the conflicts of the world, one goes into the Church to seek refreshment for the soul. And what does one find? Alas, too often, one finds only the turmoil of the world. The preacher comes forward, not out of a secret place of meditation and power, not with the authority of God's Word permeating his message, not with human wisdom pushed far into the background by the glory of the Cross, but with human opinions about the social problems of the hour or easy solutions of the vast problem of sin. Such is the sermon...

 

Thus the warfare of the world has entered even into the house of God, And sad indeed is the heart of the man who has come seeking peace. Is there no refuge from strife? Is there no place of refreshing where a man can prepare for the battle of life? Is there no place where two or three can gather in Jesus' name, to forget for the moment all those things that divide nation from nation and race from race, to forget human pride, to forget the passions of war, to forget the puzzling problems of industrial strife, and to unite in overflowing gratitude at the foot of the Cross? If there be such a place, then that is the house of God and that the gate of heaven. And from under the threshold of that house will go forth a river that will revive the weary world."

 

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Excerpt Christianity and Liberalism by J. Gresham Machen (Free ebook)

NO GREATER INSULT

"We cannot offer to God a greater insult than not to believe the Gospel; for he cannot be deprived of his truth without taking away all his glory and majesty"- John Calvin

MORE READY TO FORGIVE ME

"I believe that as often as I transgress, God is more ready to forgive me than I am ready to offend." (Charles Haddon Spurgeon)

Sam Cooke

The Soul Stirrers:  Sam Cooke

Well, my Lord done just what he said
Yes, Jesus done just what he said
Said he'd heal the sick
Said he'd raise the dead
Jesus done just what he said

You know he done just what he said
Jesus done just what he said
Said he'd heal the sick
Said he'd raise up the dead
And he done what he said

Well you know he done just what he said
Jesus done just what he said
Said he'd heal the sick
Said he would a-raise the dead
And he done what he said

Well, he said he'd be a doctor
He'd heal the rich and poor
Said he'd be a healer
He'd heal the meek and low
Said he'd be a mother
He'd give the poor and needy bread
And he done what he said

Tell you

He done just what he said
Jesus done just what he said
said he'd heal the sick
Said he'd raise the dead
Jesus done what he said

Well, he said he'd be a teacher
He'd teach his children right
Said he'd be a warrior
He'd help his children fight
Sure been a burden barer
He'd raise the bowed down head
And he done, Lord, what he said

Well, you know he done just what he said
Whoa, Jesus done just what he said
Said he'd heal the sick
Said he'd raise the dead
Jesus done just what he said
Joy, Joy to My Soul:  Sam Cooke

I can tell the world about this
I can tell the nation that I'm blessed
Tell them what my Jesus has done
Tell them that the comforter has come
And he brought joy, great joy unto my soul

Well my Lord done just what he said
(Yes he did, yes he did)
He healed the sick and he raised the dead
(Yes he did, yes he did)

Now I can tell the world about this
I can tell the nation that I'm blessed
Tell them what my Jesus has done
Tell them that the comforter has come
And he brought joy, great joy unto my soul

GREEN PASTURE

Jesus makes us to lie down in green pastures, and then we find out that Jesus is the green pasture. He is the living bread who laid down His life and by the breaking of His body He gives us eternal life.

VANITY OF TIME INTO RICHES OF ETERNITY

Saving grace draws us out of the vanity of time--into the riches of eternity! --- William Law

The most brazen lie of all

“The most brazen lie of all is the lie people tell themselves: "I have nothing to worry about from the wrath of God. My God is a God of love.” If that is your thought, your god is an idol.” 
- R. C. Sproul