There is a difference between a well-instructed congregation and a well-nourished one.
Our first priority in ministry must be love. Love for His Word, love for His people, and love for His appearing.
There is nothing more important to learn about Christian growth than this: Growing in grace means becoming like Christ.
Most Christians have more Bibles than they know what to do with, but have little understanding of what is in them.
True faith takes its character and quality from its object. Its strength therefore depends on the character of Christ. Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!
The weakest faith gets the same strong Christ as does the strongest faith.
We discover the will of God by a sensitive application of Scripture to our own lives.
Jesus Christ is able to set us free because He has dealt with the sin that enslaves us.
Remember that you are not saved by increased levels of holiness, however desirable it is that you should reach them. ...It is Christ who saves us-through faith. Your faith is a poor and crumbling thing, as is your spiritual service. Jesus Christ alone is qualified and able to save you because of what He has done.
The foundation of worship in the heart is not emotional ("I feel full of worship" or "The atmosphere is so worshipful"). Actually, it is theological. Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.
For worship is, essentially, the reverse of sin. Sin began (and begins) when we succumb to the temptation, "You shall be as gods." We make ourselves the center of the universe and dethrone God. By contrast, worship is giving God his true worth; it is acknowledging Him to be the Lord of all things, and the Lord of everything in our lives. He is, indeed, the Most High God!
Christians have a new identity. We are no longer 'in Adam' but 'in Christ'; no longer in the flesh but in the Spirit.
The Son of God came to dwell in human flesh for us in order that He might come to dwell in us by His Spirit.
The problem is not in the clarity of the revelation. The problem is in the darkness of the human mind.
Jesus has a special, compassionate concern for those who are broken and needy.
Worship is not something we "work up," it is something that "comes down" to us, from the character of God.
Where God is at the center of things, worship inevitably follows. Where there is no spirit of worship, there God has been dethroned and displaced.
When you look at the Cross, what do you see? You see God’s awesome faithfulness. Nothing – not even the instinct to spare His own Son – will turn him back from keeping His word.
Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do.
The only thing of my very own which I contribute to my redemption is the sin from which I need to be redeemed.
You must know, rest in, think through, and act upon your new identity - you are in Christ
Even those of us who have weak faith have the same strong Christ as others!
There are actually only ever two pastoral problems you will ever encounter. The first is this: persuading those who are under the dominion of sin that they are under the dominion of sin. That's the task of evangelism. And [second], persuading those who are no longer under the dominion of sin that they are no longer under the dominion of sin because they're Christ's.
We best defend the Lord's glory by speaking first TO Him about unbelieving men rather than speaking first ABOUT Him to unbelieving men.
Those who are most conscious of forgiveness are invariably those who have been most acutely convicted of their sin.
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