Sin – Temptation

December 6, 2012

“Yet lackest thou one thing; Go sell all that thou hast, and give to the poor; he was grieved at that saying, and went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions!” Poor youth! He had a good mind to be a Christian, and to inherit eternal life, but thought it too dear, if it could be purchased at no less an expense than of his estate! And thus many, both young and old, now-a-days, come running to worship our blessed Lord in public, and kneel before him in private, and inquire at his gospel, what they must do to inherit eternal life: but when they find they must renounce the self-enjoyment of riches, and forsake all in affection to follow him, they cry, “The Lord pardon us in this thing! We pray thee, have us excused” … He will not!”

– George Whitefield –

November 11, 2012

We might as well pray for God to invade and conquer us, for until he does, we remain in peril from a thousand foes.  We bear within us the seeds of our own disintegration.  Our moral imprudence puts us always in danger of accidental or reckless self-destruction. The strength of our flesh is an ever present danger to our souls.  Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life.  Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees.  God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.  Then He invades our natures with that ancient and eternal life which is from the beginning.  So he conquers us and by that benign conquest saves us for himself.

 – AW Tozer –

October 29, 2012

An honest man with an open Bible and a pad and pencil is sure to find out what is wrong with him very quickly.

― AW Tozer –

October 26, 2012

Many people see salvation only as deliverance from judgment; they have not seen that salvation is also deliverance from self.

– Watchman Nee –

October 25, 2012

As long as we leave sin unconfessed, we are actually saying that we don’t believe the Lord is going to come now.

– AW Tozer –

October 24, 2012

In the Scriptures, sin is man’s greatest malady, yet sin is treated as a “light thing” in our culture and in the Christianity it has produced.

– Paul Washer –

October 23, 2012

It is not the banquet of the wicked that dulls our appetite for heaven, but endless nibbling at the table of the world.

– John Piper –

October 19, 2012

David Brainerd was pursued by unearthly adversaries who were resolved to rob him of his reward. He knew he must never take off his armor, but lie down to rest with his corselet laced. The stains that marred the perfection of his lustrous dress and the spots of rust on his gleaming shield are imperceptible to us, but they were to him the source of much sorrow and ardency of yearning.

– from The Life of David Brainerd –

October 14, 2012

We are more concerned about looking stupid (a fear of people) than we are about acting sinfully (fear of the Lord).

– Ed Welch –