Lewis Sperry Chafer Quotes

• The Satanic message for this age will be reformation and self-development, while the message of God is regeneration by the power of the spirit.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  Self, Age, Satanic

  Lewis Sperry Chafer (2016). “Satan: The Devil World”, p.39, 谷月社

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• Salvation is a work of God for man, rather than a work of man for God.

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  Work, Men, Christianity

  Lewis Sperry Chafer, Robert J. Choun, Jr. (2004). “Salvation: God's Marvelous Work of Grace”, p.45, Kregel Publications

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• Anyone can devise a plan by which good people may go to Heaven. Only God can devise a plan whereby sinners, who are His enemies, can go to Heaven.

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  People, Heaven, Enemy

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• Nothing could be more misdirected than a self-directed life.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  Self

  Lewis Sperry Chafer (1983). “He That Is Spiritual: A Classic Study of the Biblical Doctrine of Spirituality”, p.87, Zondervan

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• True salvation is wholly a work of God. It is said to be both a finished work and a gift, and, therefore, it lays no obligation upon the saved one to complete it himself, or to make after payments of service for it.

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  Salvation, Said, Payment

  Lewis Sperry Chafer (2016). “Satan: The Devil World”, p.59, 谷月社

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• When led of the Spirit, the child of God must be as ready to wait as to go, as prepared to be silent as to speak.

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  Children, Silence, Waiting

  Lewis Sperry Chafer (1944). “True Evangelism: Or Winning Souls By Prayer”, p.76, Moody Publishers

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• Heaven is a prepared place for a prepared people.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  People, Heaven, Preparation

  Lewis Sperry Chafer (1947). “Systematic Theology”

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• In the present age, man proves his separation from his Creator by his spirit of self-sufficienc y and positive rejection of God. The present issue between God and man is one of whether man will accept God's estimate of him, abandon his hopeless self-struggle, and cast himself only on God who alone is sufficient to accomplish his needed transformation.

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  Struggle, Men, Self

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• It may be a secret sin on earth, but it is open scandal in heaven.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  Heaven, Secret, Earth

  Lewis Sperry Chafer (1926). “Major Bible Themes: Present Forty-Nine Vital Doctrines of the Scriptures, Abbreviated and Simplified for Popular Use, Including Suggestive Questions on Each Chapter; with Topical and Textual Indeces.”, p.59, Moody Publishers

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• The Bible is not such a book a man would write if he could, or could write if he would.

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  Book, Writing, Men

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• The lost are never saved by confessing and the saved are never restored by believing.

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  Believe, Lost, Saved

  Lewis Sperry Chafer (1995). “Grace: An Exposition of God's Marvelous Gift”, p.29, Kregel Publications

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• The church is ever in peril-and never more so than now-of the disaster which must follow when she allows men of distinction in the sphere of human attainments, who are unregenerate or unspiritual, to dictate as to what her beliefs shall be.

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  Men, Church, Spheres

  Lewis Sperry Chafer (1947). “Systematic Theology”

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• Infant baptism when practiced can be no more than an expression of the faith and hope of the parents that their child will ultimately be saved.

  Lewis Sperry Chafer

  Children, Expression, Parent

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