“Why is Jesus’ saying, “I am!” so important? Because, you’re not!”

“Problema voastră cu Dumnezeu şi creştinismul nu ţine de intelect. Vă pot asigura de asta. Şi ateismul vostru nu e de antură intelectuală. Vă garantez asta. E de natură morală. Nu mă cert cu nimeni pe marginea existenţei lui Dumnezeu, sau a realităţii lui Isus Hristos, pentru că ştiţi nu numai că există un Dumnezeu, dar ştiţi suficient de multe despre Singurul Dumnezeu Adevărat ca să ştiţi că nu vreţi să ştiţi mai multe despre El, pentru că, a-L cunoaşte înseamnă să vi se ceară să va supuneti domniei Sale, şi asta e, de fapt, problema voastra.”

“Maybe that is why there are not a whole lot of problems between the church and worldly culture today, because we are not confronting the culture around us.”

“The psalms of David confront us with man’s greatest dilemma: “Who may ascend into the hill of the LORD? Or who may stand in His holy place? He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who has not lifted up his soul to an idol, nor sworn deceitfully.”17 Any man who entertains even the remotest possibility that there is a personal and moral God must tremble at David’s question. Unless he is an imbecile or his conscience has been seared beyond use, he must recognize that he does not possess the necessary qualifications to stand approved before the Judge of all the earth.”

“We must recognize that we have not been honest until we have explained to seekers that receiving Christ is the most sensible yet dangerous thing they could ever do. After all, like C. S. Lewis’s Aslan in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, He is not a tame lion, and He certainly is not safe. He has the right to ask anything of those who confess His lordship. The same Jesus who beckons the weary to Himself may also ask everything of them, even sending them forth to lose their lives for His sake in this dark and fallen world.”

“that I preached them: to be free from their burden. Like Jeremiah, if I do not speak forth this message, “then…in my heart [it becomes] like a burning fire shut up in my bones; and I was weary of holding it back, and I could not.”6 As the apostle Paul exclaimed, “Woe is me if I do not preach the gospel!”7”

“The New Testament leaves no room for the popular evangelical opinion that a person may be truly born again who is apathetic toward righteousness and lives a life of open sin and rebellion.”

“Although all believers are subject to many failings and can fall before the smallest temptation, their determination to continue in the faith and their gradual and progressive sanctification are great evidences of salvation and provide a solid ground for assurance. 1”

“The Church in contemporary America does not need more strategies, steps, or keys to the Christian life. The Church needs truth, and more specifically, the great foundational truths of historical Christianity.”

“Regeneration VS Decisionism”

“All sin is twisted and ugly and vile. We should be shocked at how wicked men are and how callous we have become to that wickedness. We are used to it! The first baby ever born grew up to murder his own brother.[22] And human history ever since has been one long stream of constant warfare, lust, hate, torture, rape, perversion, abuse, and brutality. It is a blessed thing that we do not know in detail the sins that were committed just last night in our own town or city. Such knowledge would be too defiling to bear.”

“Look at what it says: “I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.” The evidence that God has made an everlasting covenant with you, sir, is that He has put the fear of God in you, so that you will not turn away from Him. And if you turn away from Him and He does not discipline you, and you continue turning away from Him, it is evidence that He has not put His fear in you. This is evidence that you have not been regenerated—you have no covenant with God at all! This, dear friends, is biblical truth.”

“The person who professes faith in Christ and yet finds beauty and joy in the things that oppose the will of God should be concerned about the validity of his profession.”

“He let them both run wild. But in Esau there was no work of discipline, no work of godly correction, nothing—this was the wrath of God upon him! But God severely disciplined Jacob almost every day of his life—this was the love of God upon him! It was the loving discipline, the correction of God, to bring him to holiness. And it is the same for all true believers today.”

“First, whose company do you most enjoy? Do you seek fellowship with other believers and delight in conversations about Christ? Or do you prefer the company of the world and rarely speak about the things of God?”

“The question then is not whether a person wants to pray and ask Jesus into his heart but if God has so worked in his heart through the preaching of the gospel that he is now repenting of sin and believing in Jesus Christ for the salvation of his soul.”

“Our society considers a man careless if he does not have a backup plan or an alternative escape route, if he has not diversified his investments, if he has put all his eggs in the same basket, or if he has burned bridges behind him. Yet this is the very thing that the man who receives Jesus Christ must do.”

“the Scriptures are adamant, even relentless, in their striving to convince us that the evidence of having passed through the gate is that we have become pilgrims on the narrow way.”

“We live in a world that is hostile to the gospel of Jesus Christ and holds it in contempt. Furthermore, this world is under the power of the evil one, who opposes the gospel above all other doctrines and would eradicate it from the universe if he could.33 In fact, the devil would gladly lay a Bible in the hands of every man and promote obedience to every command if in exchange we would give him the gospel.”

“There is not a godly remnant in the true church; that true church is the godly remnant.”