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Hard words, if they be true, are better than soft words, if they be false. 
Charles Spurgeon
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Quotes on Spiritual Warfare
When we fight the war for holiness. We recognize the demons are involved in that. But we are not called upon to name territorial spirits and rebuke the devil and satan. Please read Jude verse 9 and you'll stop doing that.
Rather our task is to come before the Lord and to submit ourselves before the Holy Spirit and to invite him to fill us afresh to empower us. So we rely on Him and not on our own flesh. Sermon: I Believe in Satan (and Demons)
Let us settle in our minds that the Christian fight is a good fight-really good, truly good, emphatically good. We see only part of it as yet. We see the struggle, but not the end; we see the campaign, but not the reward; we see the cross, but not the crown. We see a few humble, broken-spirited, penitent, praying people, enduring hardships and despised by the world; but we see not the hand of God over them, the face of God smiling on them, the kingdom of glory prepared for them. Holiness (Chapter 4)
Pirates do not use to set upon poor empty vessels; and beggars need not fear the thief. Those that have most of God, and are most rich in grace— shall be most assaulted by Satan, who is the greatest and craftiest pirate in the world.
our knowledge of the rulers, authorities, cosmic powers, and spiritual forces is limited to their existence and activity. We do not know precisely what they are nor what they do. It is therefore pointless to speculate in any detail about how these malevolent forces interact with us. There is no point trying to find "a demon under every rock." All we need to know is that they exist and they act. Believers must therefore be prepared for their opposition and aggression—however it may manifest.Pillar Commentary
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Quotes on Reformation
The biblical tradition rediscovered during the Reformation viewed theocracy and democracy as necessary compliments: human rule flowed from God's rule.The Mission of God, 121
The dominating principles [of the Reformation] was not, soteriologically, justification by faith, but in the widest sense cosmologically, the sovereignty of the Triune God over the whole cosmos, in all its spheres and kingdoms, visible and invisible.
to Thomas Aquinas the will was fallen after man had revolted against God, but the mind was not. This eventually resulted in people believing they could think out the answers to all the great questions, beginning only from themselves. The Reformation, in contrast to Aquinas had a more biblical concept of the Fall.How Should We Then Live, 85
The reason why the reformation succeeded so well in Germany was because the peoples catechizing went along with Luther's preaching. It was laid as a charge upon masters of families, that they should catechize their children
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Quotes on Sin
there is something far more dreadful than physical calamity and suffering, namely, moral delinquency and spiritual apostasy. Alas, that this is so rarely perceived today!The Life of Elijah. Chapel Library.
Do you mortify; do you make it your daily work; be always at it whilst you live; cease not a day from this work; be killing sin or it will be killing you.Of the Mortification of Sin in Believers Chapter 2
Do not lose lying in Abraham's bosom for now lying in Delilah's lap.
Indeed there is no little sin because there is no little God to sin against.A Commentary on the Old and New Testaments, 5:500
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Quotes on Antinomianism
This I urge against Antinomians, who say the moral law is abrogated to believers; which, as it contradicts Scripture, so it is a key to open the door to all licentiousness. They who will not have the law to rule them, shall never have the gospel to save them.The Ten Commandments, 44
for antinomianism and legalism are not so much antithetical to each other as they are both antithetical to grace.The Whole Christ (pp. 156). Crossway
Legalism is a problem in the church, but so is anti-nomianism. Granted, I don't hear anyone saying, 'Let's continue in sin that grace may abound'. That's the worse form of antinomianism. But strictly speaking, antinomianism simply means no-law, and some Christians have very little place for the law in their pursuit of holiness.
They who cast God's law behind their backs, God will cast their prayers behind his back. They who will not have the law to rule them, shall have the law to judge them.The Ten Commandments, 13
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Marcion's influence in contemporary theology is perhaps most particularly seen in ethics, where, under the often beneficial influence of Anabaptist traditions, the ethics of the Sermon on the Mount, interpreted in contrast to the ethics of the Old Testament, are the touchstone of Christian ethics.1 & 2 Kings
Live slowly enough to be able to think deeply about God.
The life of religion, and the welfare and glory of both the Church and the State, depend much on family government and duty. If we suffer the neglect of this, we shall undo all.
If the faith of one individual were in danger of being overturned (for we are speaking of the perdition of a single soul redeemed by the blood of Christ), the pastor should immediately gird himself for the combat; how much less tolerable is it to see whole houses overturned?
I know senior pastors who have been voted into churches before their wives entered the door. How could we possibly be serious about elders modeling biblical family life to the benefit of their flock if an evaluation of the elder's home and family is never approached?Family Shepherds, 32-33
God did not give the Ten Commandments as a new law. Instead, He codified His already revealed standard of righteousness, which He had written on the human heart of Adam and all of his offspring.
the law of God must be perpetual from its very nature.
The devil is not fighting religion. He's too smart for that. He is producing a counterfeit Christianity, so much like the real one that good Christians are afraid to speak out against it.
We must realize that Christianity is the easiest religion in the world, because it is the only religion in which God the Father and Christ and the Holy Spirit do everything. God is the Creator; we have nothing to do with our existence, or the existence of other things. We can shape other things, but we cannot change the fact of existence. We do nothing for our salvation because Christ did it all. We do not have to do anything. In every other religion we have to do something... but with Christianity we do not do anything; God has done it all: He has created us and He has sent His Son; His Son died and because the Son is infinite, therefore he bears our total guilt. We do not need to bear our guilt, nor do we even have to merit the merit of Christ. He does it all. So in one way it is the easiest religion in the world.
God in our nature, and doing all for us, and being all to us, free grace reigning through His imputed righteousness, God's free grant of Christ and His salvation, and of Himself in Christ, and the believing appropriation founded on that grant, and the comfort and holiness of heart and life flowing from that, have been my most delightful themes.Robert Mackenzie - John Brown of Haddington, 108
Be short in the pulpit and the family; in the closet you may be as long as you pleaseRobert Mackenzie - John Brown of Haddington, 107
The Christian literary sources, backed by secular word usage and Jewish religious immersions, give an overwhelming support for full immersion as the normal action.Baptism in the Early Church : History, Theology , and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries (Eerdmans, 2009), 857
The most plausible explanation for the origin of infant baptism is found in the emergency baptism of sick children expected to die soon so that they would be assured of entrance into the kingdom of heaven.Baptism in the Early Church : History, Theology , and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries (Eerdmans, 2009), 856
There is general agreement that there is no firm evidence for infant baptism before the latter part of the second century.Baptism in the Early Church : History, Theology , and Liturgy in the First Five Centuries (Eerdmans, 2009)
The 11th Commandment is 'Thou Shalt Be Nice,' and we don't believe the other Ten.
Regeneration was a momentary monergistic act of quickening the spiritually dead. As such, it was God's work alone. Sanctification, however, is in one sense synergistic -it is an ongoing, cooperative process in which regenerate persons, alive to God and freed from sin's dominion (Rom. 6:11, 14-18), are required to exert themselves in sustained obedience.Concise Theology
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