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[JimfromOhio]

There is a war going on. All talk of a Christian's right to live luxuriously "as a child of the King" in this atmosphere sounds hollow -- especially since the King himself is stripped for battle. John Piper

 

[edie19]

Adoption gives us the privilege of sons, regeneration the nature of sons.

Stephen Charnock

 

[McWilliams]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]"... the testimony of the Spirit is more excellent than all reason. For God alone is a fit witness to himself in His Word, so also the Word will not find acceptance in men's hearts before it is sealed by the inward testimony of the Spirit. The same Spirit, therefore, who has spoken through the mouths of the prophets must penetrate into our hearts to persuade us that they faithfully proclaim what has been divinely commanded… By this power we are drawn and inflamed, knowingly and willingly, to obey him, yet also more vitally and more effectively than by mere human willing or knowing.[/FONT]

[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]JOHN CALVIN [/FONT]​

 

[Hackett]

How far that little candle shows his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]-William Shakespeare[/FONT] [FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF][/FONT]

 

[McWilliams]

Your beauty, strength, and fine attire

(Ebenezer Erskine, "The groans of believers under their burdens")

Their great concern of the worldling is about this clay tabernacle--
how to gratify it, how to beautify and adorn it. Their language is,
"Who will show us any good? What shall we eat? What shall we
drink? How shall we be clothed?" But they have no thought or
concern about the immortal soul which inhabits the body, which
must be happy or miserable forever. O, sirs! Remember, that
whatever care you take about this clay tabernacle, it will drop
down to dust before long, and the abhorrent grave will be its
habitation, where worms and corruption will prey upon the
fairest face and purest complexion. Where will be your beauty,
strength, and fine attire, when the curtains of the grave are
drawn about you?

 

[edie19]

just found this looking up something else

Dr. Luther, if I believed like you, I would do anything I please.
Luther: Exactly. And as a child of Christ . . . what pleases you?
Dr. Luther, what about works of penance?
Luther: What is it about your own miserable works and doings that you think you could please God more than the sacrifice of His own Son? -Martin Luther

 

[Hackett]

Each day comes bearing its own gifts. Untie the ribbons.

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]-Ruth Ann Schabacker[/FONT] [FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF][/FONT]

 

[McWilliams]

"We are not our own: let not our reason nor our will, therefore, sway our plans and deeds. We are not our own: let us therefore not set it as our goal to seek what is expedient for us according to the flesh. We are not our own: in so far as we can, let us therefore forget ourselves and all that is ours. Conversely, we are God's: let us therefore live for him and die for him. We are God's: let his wisdom and will therefore rule all our actions. We are God's: let all the parts of our life accordingly strive toward him as our only lawful goal [Rom. 14:8; cf. 1 Cor. 6:19].... Let this therefore be the first step, that a man depart from himself in order that he may apply the whole force of his ability in the service of the Lord. I call 'service' not only what lies in obedience to God's Word but what turns the mind of man, empty of its own carnal sense, wholly to the bidding of God's Spirit." - John Calvin, 'Institutes', III.vii.1

 

[McWilliams]

Every person, not intimately acquainted with the Holy Scriptures, stands in need of some guidance and direction, as to what he ought to look for in them, that he may not wander up and down, but pursue a certain path, and so attain the end to which the Holy Spirit invites him. Hence it is the duty of those who have received from God more light than others to assist the simple in this matter, and, as it were, lend them their hand to guide and assist them in finding the sum of what God has been pleased to teach us in his word...Seeing, then, how necessary it was in this manner to aid those who desire to be instructed in the doctrine of salvation, I (Calvin) have endeavoured, according to the ability which God has given me, to employ myself in so doing, and with this view have composed the present book.
John Calvin: Institutes of the Christian Religion Classic!

 

[Hackett]

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor.

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]-Vince Lombardi[/FONT] [FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF][/FONT]

 

[McWilliams]

Only Christ could build a bridge to God with only two pieces of wood~anon

 

[Hackett]

[FONT=COMIC SANS MS, ROCKWELL]Don't go around saying the world owes you a living; the world owes you nothing; it was here first.[/FONT][FONT=ARIAL, HELVETICA]Mark Twain [/FONT]

 

[McWilliams]

Years ago Harry A. Ironside, that great Bible teacher, told a story about an older Christian who was asked to give his testimony. He told how God had sought him out and found him, how God had loved him, called him, saved him, delivered him, cleansed him, and healed him-a great witness to the grace, power, and glory of God. But after the meeting a rather legalistic brother took him aside and criticized his testimony, as certain of us like to do. He said, "I appreciated all you said about what God did for you. But you didn't mention anything about your part in it. Salvation is really part us and part God. You should have mentioned something about your part." "Oh, yes," the older Christian said. "I apologize for that. I'm sorry. I really should have said something about my part. My part was running away, and his part was running after me until he caught me. "7
We have all run away. But God has set his love on us, predestined us to become like Jesus Christ, called us to faith and repentance, justified us, yes, and has even glorified us, so certain of completion is his plan. May he alone be praised!

 

[McWilliams]

Wilhelmus à Brakel (1635-1711)...Meekness is the believer's even-tempered disposition of heart which issues forth from union with God in Christ, consisting in self-denial and love for his neighbor. This results in having fellowship with his neighbor in an agreeable, congenial, and loving manner; in relinquishing his rights; in enduring the violation of his rights without becoming angry, being forgiving, and in rewarding it with good

http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/meekness.html

 

[Hackett]

Grace is but glory begun, and glory is but grace perfected.
Jonathan Edwards

 

[McWilliams]

Our worst enemies!

(Charles Spurgeon)

Beware of no man more than yourself!

We carry our worst enemies within us!

"The human heart is most deceitful and
desperately wicked." Jeremiah 17:9

"Deliver me, O Lord, from that evil man
--myself!" Augustine

Click to see a biblical portrait of yourheart!

 

[Hackett]

'Yesterday is a cancelled check.
Tomorrow is a promisary note.
Today is all we have So seize the day.'

Dr. Ted Engstrom

 

[McWilliams]

Is Faith the Gift of God? What Does Jesus Say?

This question has always been a controversial one, yet this is puzzling considering how plainly the answer to this question is granted to us in the Holy Scriptures. Some modern Evangelicals seem to think that faith is something that arises out of the fallen natures of some persons but not others ... and that this difference in response is not due to grace (for all had grace), but rather, some inherent difference in the persons themselves. But Jesus puts this kind of speculation to rest:
Jesus declares "no one can come to Me unless it is granted him by the Father." (John 6:65) In the same passage Jesus declares: " all that the Father gives to Me will come to Me." (John 6:37) In both verses the phrase "come to Me" simply means "believe in Me" and so taken together Jesus is stating that no one can believe in Him unless God grants it, and all to whom God grants it will believe". According to this passage, then, God grants faith, a faith that will infallibly arise in the heart of those He has given His Son...

Faith is not the product of an unregenerated human nature. If a person becomes humble enough to submit to God it is because the Holy Spirit has given that person a new, humble nature ... not because some men are more humble than others. It was not by chance that one person believed the gospel and not the other, nor was it because one had some innate virtue that the other lacked. It is grace and grace ALONE that makes men to differ, not the exertion of men's wills. While God requires faith of all men He promises to give unto all those that are ordained unto eternal life his Holy Spirit (John 6:63-65), which quickens and disarms hostility so they are willing, and able to believe.
(Also see 2 Chronicles 30:11-12; Phil 1:29, 2 Tim 2:25, Acts 13:48, Rom 9:15-18; John 1:13; 1 John 5:1)

 

[Hackett]

Is Faith the Gift of God? What Does Jesus Say?

This question has always been a controversial one, yet this is puzzling considering how plainly the answer to this question is granted to us in the Holy Scriptures. Some modern Evangelicals seem to think that faith is something that arises out of the fallen natures of some persons but not others ... and that this difference in response is not due to grace (for all had grace), but rather, some inherent difference in the persons themselves. But Jesus puts this kind of speculation to rest:
Jesus declares "no one can come to Me unless it is granted him by the Father." (John 6:65) In the same passage Jesus declares: " all that the Father gives to Me will come to Me." (John 6:37) In both verses the phrase "come to Me" simply means "believe in Me" and so taken together Jesus is stating that no one can believe in Him unless God grants it, and all to whom God grants it will believe". According to this passage, then, God grants faith, a faith that will infallibly arise in the heart of those He has given His Son...

Faith is not the product of an unregenerated human nature. If a person becomes humble enough to submit to God it is because the Holy Spirit has given that person a new, humble nature ... not because some men are more humble than others. It was not by chance that one person believed the gospel and not the other, nor was it because one had some innate virtue that the other lacked. It is grace and grace ALONE that makes men to differ, not the exertion of men's wills. While God requires faith of all men He promises to give unto all those that are ordained unto eternal life his Holy Spirit (John 6:63-65), which quickens and disarms hostility so they are willing, and able to believe.
(Also see 2 Chronicles 30:11-12; Phil 1:29, 2 Tim 2:25, Acts 13:48, Rom 9:15-18; John 1:13; 1 John 5:1)

McWilliams...your quotes are always so rich and mine are so short....

oh well, here is mine for the moment:

People may fail many times, but they become failures only when they begin to blame someone else.

[FONT=VERDANA, ARIAL, SANS-SERIF]-Unknown[/FONT]
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[cygnusx1]

Spurgeon said:
"Those who labour to smoother `Calvinism' will find that it dies hard, and, it may be, they will come, after many defeats, to perceive the certain fact that it will outlive it opponents. Its funeral oration has been pronounced many times before now, but the performance has been premature. It will live when the present phase of religious misbelief has gone done to eternal execration amid the groans of those it has undone. Today it may be sneered at; nevertheless, it is but yesterday that it numbered among its adherents the ablest men of the age; and tomorrow, it may be, when once again there shall be giants in theology, it will come to the front, and ask in vain for its adversaries."