When the root is bitterness, imagine what the fruit might be.
– Woodrow Kroll –
Flesh – Carnal Nature – Selfishness
If You Continue In Sin – Ichabod Spencer
No man can continue in any sin without losing more and more of the powers of self-control.
– Ichabod Spencer –
How Sin Works in Our Lives – Thomas Manton
First we practice sin, then defend it, then boast of it. Sin is first our burden, then our custom, then our delight, then our excellency.
– Thomas Manton –
1620-1677
Bitterness in Weeping for Sin – Thomas Watson
We are to find as much bitterness in weeping for sin as ever we found sweetness in committing it. Surely David found more bitterness in repenting then he ever found comfort in Bathsheba.
– Thomas Watson –
from The Doctrine of Repentance, 1668
Delivered From Sin and the Power of Sin – J. Edwin Orr
God Who delivers us from the guilt of sin through faith in Jesus Christ, is able to deliver the believer from the power of sin as well.
– J. Edwin Orr –
The Need of Deliverance from the Power of Sin – Andrew Murray
Believers must be brought into conviction of the shame and evil of the carnal state. God brings believers into, what may be called, a second conviction—conviction of a need of deliverance from the power of sin.
– Andrew Murray –
No Such Thing as a Carnal Christian – Leonard Ravenhill
Get rid of this bunkum about the “carnal Christian.” Forget it! If you’re carnal, you’re not saved.
– Leonard Ravenhill –
The Most Commercial Materialistic Christians Ever – Gene Edwards
More corrupt than the dark days before Luther; more impotently intellectual than during the heyday of Calvinism; more financially perverted than the days that caused John the Baptist to explode; more intoxicated with the drive for spiritual power than any age, yet exercising that outward power with less internal transformation than anyone since King Saul; enamored with the gifts, yet hardly knowing the Giver, our age has produced the most commercial, materialistic, fad-oriented people ever to claim His name.
– Gene Edwards –
Love is a Commitment – Ravi Zacharias
Love is a commitment that will be tested in the most vulnerable areas of spirituality, a commitment that will force you to make some very difficult choices. It is a commitment that demands that you deal with your lust, your greed, your pride, your power, your desire to control, your temper, your patience, and every area of temptation that the Bible clearly talks about. It demands the quality of commitment that Jesus demonstrates in His relationship to us.
– Ravi Zacharias –