Any church that is not seriously involved in helping fulfill the Great Commission has forfeited its biblical right to exist.
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Hearing of Christ’s coming – Oswald J. Smith
We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first.
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The Mission of the Church – Oswald J. Smith
The mission of the church is missions.
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Time for everything but prayer – Oswald Smith
Oh, how few find time for prayer! There is time for everything else—time to sleep and time to eat, time to read the newspaper and the novel, time to visit friends, time for everything else under the sun—but no time for prayer, the most important of all things, the one great essential!
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Jesus’ First and Second Coming – Oswald J. Smith
We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first.
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Eternity Meant Everything – Oswald J. Smith
In the Irish Revival of 1859, people became so weak that they could not get back to their homes. Men and women would fall by the wayside and would be found hours later pleading with God to save their souls. They felt that they were slipping into hell and that nothing else in life mattered but to get right with God… To them eternity meant everything. Nothing else was of any consequence. They felt that if God did not have mercy on them and save them, they were doomed for all time to come.
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Spend Hours Alone with God – Oswald J. Smith
I am perfectly confident that the man who does not spend hours alone with God will never know the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
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Talking About the First Coming of Christ – Oswald J. Smith
We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first.
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Sinners Calling Upon Christ – Oswald J. Smith
In the modern campaign the evangelist calls upon people to accept Christ, and rightly so. But oh, that we could hear sinners calling upon Christ to accept them! People take salvation today in such a cold, formal, matter-of-fact, business-like sort of way, that it appears as though they are doing God an honor in condescending to receive His offer of Redemption. Their eyes are dry, their sense of sin absent; nor is there any sign of penitence and contrition. They look upon it as a manly thing to do. But oh, if there were conviction! if they came with hearts bowed down, yea! broken and contrite, came with the cry of the guilt-laden soul: “God be merciful to me a sinner!”—came trembling with the burning life and death question of the Philippian jailor: “What must I do to be saved ?”—what converts they would be!”
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