Pray for the field. If God calls, then prepare for the field. When it is time, go to the field. A life lost for Christ is a life well spent.
A Christian who does not pray is like prince in beggars clothes who stands but a few inches from His father’s throne and yet does not ask.
Over the epitaph of this generation it will say ENTERTAINED TO DEATH.
We find or invent the cleverest means of attributing our sins to anything or anyone outside of ourselves.
What’s the will of God for my life? You don’t need to know the will of God in your life, you need to know the God of your life!
So you walk up to this man sinner and you say, “God loves you and He has a wonderful plan for your life!” and he goes, “What? God loves me? That’s fantastic. I LOVE ME, TOO! And He loves me more than I love me? Well, that’s hard to imagine. I’ll take a God like that. You got two of them?”
The question is not, “Do you know you are a sinner?” the question is this, “As you have heard me preach the Gospel, has God so worked in your life that the sin you once loved you now hate?”
We call men to repent and believe. And if they repent and believe, truly in that moment they are saved in that moment. But the evidence is more than just the sincerity of a prayer. It is a continuation of the working of God in their life through sanctification.
Most people today in our churches are lost, and they demonstrate that they are lost because their entire Christianity is nothing more than, ‘They made a decision.’
The devil would gladly give a Bible to every man and promote obedience to its commands if in exchange we would surrender to him the Gospel.
If a Work of God does NOT Continue, it was NEVER a Work of God.
I now understand more of our calling. The weakest instruments are chosen to do the greatest works so that the glory might go to God.
Why would we want fame, when God promises us glory? Why would we be seeking the wealth of the world when the wealth of heaven is ours? Why would we run for a crown that will perish with time, when we’re called to win a crown that is imperishable?
The measure of biblical truth that we have grasped is not determined by the size of our heads, but the breadth of our hearts.
We honor the old prophets, we honor the Tozers and Spurgeons but we don’t want to pay the price they paid, and they paid the price by being men who walked alone who lived with God and who loved His word.
If a person professes faith in Christ and yet falls away or makes no progress in godliness, it does not mean that he has lost his salvation. It reveals that he was never truly converted.
It is absurd to think that a man can believe in Christ, with his heart, and it not have a radical effect on the rest of his life.
In that moment of salvation, of belief, they are opening their lives to the person of Jesus.
The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.
We are given so few years on this earth, and there are so many good things that get in the way of the best things. We must live for eternity.