Sin – Temptation

March 30, 2012

The closer a person is to God, the more terrible is the least sin seen to be.

– Rees Howells – 

March 14, 2012

Self-sourcing asks, “How can I use you?” Spirit-sourcing asks, “How can I minister to you?” Self-sourcing sees inconvenience. Spirit-sourcing sees opportunities. Self-sourcing protects and guards. Spirit-sourcing flows and gives. Self sourcing is demanding; Spirit-sourcing is giving. I become the answer to the needs of your life, because He is the answer to the needs of my life.

– Stephen Manley –
from Eating at the Cross (Acts 2.42)

March 5, 2012

Christ is a Savior for those realizing something of the exceeding sinfulness of sin, who feel the awful burden of it on their conscience, who loathe themselves for it, who long to be freed from its terrible dominion; and a Savior for no others.

– AW Pink –

February 29, 2012

Everything in the life or religion of man that has not the Spirit of God for its source, direction, and end is but earthly, sensual, or devilish.

– William Law –
from Power of the Spirit

February 25, 2012

The enemy will not see you vanish into God’s company without an effort to reclaim you.

– C.S. Lewis –

February 19, 2012

The heart of man is narrow, and cannot contain both loves.  The world draws down the heart from God; and so the more the love of the world prevails the more the love of God dwindles and decays… The Spirit of God in true Christians is opposed to the spirit of the world.

– Matthew Henry –

February 10, 2012

If Christ justifies you, He will sanctify you! He will not save you and leave you in your sins.

– Robert Murray M’Cheyne –

February 6, 2012

I was eight years old when I joined the Church, I preached my first sermon when I was fourteen, and yet I was a missionary for twenty years before I had a full vision of Christ as an ever-present Savior from sin. This vision of Christ is absolutely necessary for success.

– Griffith John –

February 4, 2012

The nature of Christ’s salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Savior from hell rather than a Savior from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are multitudes who wish to escape the Lake of fire who have no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness.

– AW Pink –