Christ is a Savior for those realizing something of the exceeding sinfulness of sin …
– AW Pink –
The First and Great Work of a Christian – Richard Baxter
The first and great work of a Christian is about his heart. There it is that God dwells by his Spirit, in his saints; and there it is that sin and Satan reign, in the ungodly. The great duties and the great sins are those of the heart. There is the root of good and evil: the tongue and life are but the fruits and expressions of that which dwells within.
– Richard Baxter –
1615 – 1691
Only the Blood Can Cleanse – AW Tozer
Only the blood of Jesus can cleanse us, yet if we withhold ourselves from that blood, we will be unclean forever.
– AW Tozer –
How Heinous Sin Must Be – William Throsby Bridges
If the guilt of sin is so great that nothing can satisfy it but the blood of Jesus; and the filth of sin is so great that nothing can fetch out the stain thereof but the blood of Jesus, how great, how heinous, how sinful must the evil of sin be.
– William Throsby Bridges –
What Can Wash Away My Sin? – Robert Lowry
What can wash away my sin? Nothing but the blood of Jesus;
What can make me whole again? Nothing but the blood of Jesus.
– Robert Lowry –
hymn writer
The Poisonous Weed of Sin – AW Tozer
Sin is a poisonous weed that throws the whole nature out of order. The inner life disintegrates; the flesh lusts after forbidden pleasures; the moral judgment is distorted so that often good appears evil and evil good; time is chosen over eternity, earth over heaven and death over life.
– AW Tozer –
Worldly Christians? – Vance Havner
I’m convinced that a large percentage of people that we call worldly Christians are perhaps not Christian to begin with and that may be the trouble.
– Vance Havner –
Are You Focused on Personal Purity or Personal Happiness? – NT Wright
When we shift from personal purity to personal happiness, we lose biblical hope because we are not focusing on God’s agenda, we are focusing on our own.
– NT Wright –
We Need to be Purified From Sin – John MacArthur
A person who is not being purified from sin has no claim on being saved from it.
– John MacArthur –