The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.
In the psalms, we have a collection of 150 prayers that were inspired originally by the Holy Ghost. If you want to know how God is pleased and honored in prayer, why not immerse yourself in the prayers that he himself has inspired?
Prayer does change things, all kinds of things. But the most important thing it changes is us. As we engage in this communion with God more deeply and come to know the One with whom we are speaking more intimately, that growing knowledge of God reveals to us all the more brilliantly who we are and our need to change in conformity to Him. Prayer changes us profoundly.
The most violent expression of God's wrath and justice is seen in the Cross. If ever a person had room to complain for injustice, it was Jesus. He was the only innocent man ever to be punished by God. If we stagger at the wrath of God, let us stagger at the Cross. Here is where our astonishment should be focused.
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.
Though sin often brings immediate pleasure, it gives no lasting joy.
The Word of God can be in the mind without being in the heart; but it cannot be in the heart without first being in the mind.
Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.
Loving a holy God is beyond our moral power. The only kind of God we can love by our sinful nature is an unholy god, an idol made by our own hands. Unless we are born of the Spirit of God, unless God sheds His holy love in our hearts, unless He stoops in His grace to change our hearts, we will not love Him... To love a holy God requires grace, grace strong enough to pierce our hardened hearts and awaken our moribund souls.
Right now counts forever.
There is not one piece of cosmic dust that is outside the scope of God's sovereign providence.
When God writes our names in the 'Lamb's Book of Life' He doesn't do it with an eraser handy. He does it for eternity.
God is not going to negotiate His holiness... in order to accommodate us.
We have to determine our theology from the Word of God, not from what we feel.
Advice to aspiring ministers: Get in the Word. Stay in the Word. Master the Word. And for heaven's sake, preach the Word!
We break our promises to one another. We break our promises to God. But God never breaks His promises to us.
The glory of the gospel is this: The one from whom we need to be saved is the one who has saved us.
As the fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, so the denial of God is the height of foolishness.
We do not segment our lives, giving some time to God, some to our business or schooling, while keeping parts to ourselves. The idea is to live all of our lives in the presence of God, under the authority of God, and for the honor and glory of God. That is what the Christian life is all about.
Isn't is amazing that almost everyone has an opinion to offer about the Bible, and yet so few have studied it?
If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.
Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.
Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He is the Seeker; we are the ones who are running.
Mindless Christianity is no Christianity at all. You can't love what you don't know.
God does not rule by the consent of His subjects but by His sovereign authority. His reign extends over me whether I vote for Him or not.
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