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You are required to believe, to preach, and to teach what the Bible says is true, not what you want the Bible to say is true. Chosen by God, p. 12
God is never, never, never obligated to be merciful to sinners. That is the point we must stress if we are to grasp the full measure of God's grace.Chosen by God (26)
we live in what may be the most anti-intellectual period in the history of Western civilization. "Burning Hearts Are Not Nourished by Empty Heads", Christianity Today (Sep 3 1982)
Faith is not believing in God; it's believing God.
When I think I am unfairly hated, I try to remember that I am unfairly loved.
To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.
For a work to be considered good it must not only conform outwardly to the law of God, but it must be motivated inwardly by a sincere love for GodChosen by God, 107
Here, then, is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy. Knowing Scripture (Page 20)
The universe is no democracy. It is a monarchy. God himself has appointed his beloved Son as the preeminent King. Jesus does not rule by referendum, but by divine right. In the future every knee will bow before him, either willingly or unwillingly. Those who refuse to do so will have their knees broken with a rod of iron.
If there is no sanctification, it means that there never was any justification.
People in awe never complain that church is boring.
If a person who is still in the flesh, who is not yet reborn by the power of the Holy Spirit, can incline or dispose himself to Christ, what good is rebirth? This is the fatal flaw of non-Reformed views.Chosen by God (55)
Imagine having an unmediated, direct apprehension of the very being of God. That is what the New Testament promises will occur at the end of the Christian's earthly life.The Great Rescue, 57-58
The word beatific comes from the same root from which we get the word beatitude. Thus, the beatific vision is a vision of supreme blessedness, the blessedness we will experience when see God face to face.The Great Rescue, 57
I don't think I have ever in my life heard a sermon on the beatific vision, and I cannot fathom why. It is the ultimate prize, the ultimate goal for the Christian.The Great Rescue, 56
the grand paradox or supreme irony of the Christian faith is that we are saved both by God and from God.The Great Rescue, 21
We flatter ourselves on our performance because we judge ourselves on a curve. We compare ourselves with others, and as long as there are people who seem more sinful than we are, we congratulate ourselves on our virtue.The Great Rescue, 18
Original sin is not the sin that Adam and Eve committed. It is the result of that first sin. Original Sin has reference to our sinful condition, our sinful bent, our sinful inclination from which actual sin flows.The Great Rescue, 17-18
Are you saved? That question is the most important issue any person will ever face.The Great Rescue, 11
the one prison from which no one ever escapes is hell. There's no escape route. You can't dig under it. You can't climb over it. No guard can be bribed. The sentence cannot be ameliorated.The Great Rescue, 9
I think the greatest point of unbelief in our culture and in our church today is an unbelief in the wrath of God and in His certain promise of judgement for the human race.The Great Rescue, 7
God has entrusted to us the ministry of the Word, not its results.
Death reminds us that we are creatures. Yet as fearsome as death is, it is nothing compared with meeting a holy God. When we encounter him, the totality of our creatureliness breaks upon us and shatters the myth that we have believed about ourselves, the myth that we are demigods, junior-grade deities who will try to live forever.
The problem we face is that the word holy is foreign to all languages. No dictionary is adequate to the task.
If we despise the justice of God, we are not Christians.
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