“Man’s Ultimate Problem For a proper understanding of both justification and regeneration, we must begin where the Bible does, and that is with sin. All sin flows from man’s perverse desire to put himself in the place of God—to be the center and measure of all things and to “know” for himself what is good and what is evil.[1] According to Titus 3:3-7, men in their natural state are “foolish, disobedient, deceived, and enslaved to various lusts.” Their lives are characterized by “malice, envy, and hate.” Far from recognizing this state of affairs, lost men imagine themselves to be “basically good,” unless God in mercy reveals to them the true condition of their blackened hearts. Sin is the ultimate and only problem of humanity. It is my ultimate and only problem and your ultimate and only problem.”

“Heaven above is softer blue, Earth around is sweeter green; Something lives in every hue Christless eyes have never seen. G. Wade Robinson”

“It is highly significant that when Paul thinks about salvation, our being “saved by grace through faith,” he thinks in terms of a creative work of God. Christians are specifically said to be God’s “created workmanship”! If our concept of salvation is just that a man “makes a decision”—steps out of the line of those on the way to hell and into the line of those on the way to heaven—we’ve got a very defective view of salvation. Christians have been “created in Christ Jesus”!”

“God’s wrath is not a temporary loss of self-control or a selfish fit of emotion. It is His holy, white-hot hatred of sin, the reaction and revulsion of His holy nature against all that is evil.”

“The new convert must then take a stand on the miracle that has transpired in his life [regeneration] and explain, 'I no longer love the things I once loved; I no longer do the things I once did. I am no longer Simon; I am Peter. I have become a new man!”

“Not all the blood of beasts, On Jewish altars slain, Could give the guilty conscience peace, Or wash away the stain. But Christ, the heavenly Lamb, Takes all our sins away, A sacrifice of nobler name And richer blood than they. My faith would lay her hand On that dear head of Thine, While like a penitent I stand, And there confess my sin. Isaac Watts”

“To say this, is just to say that the true Christian remains in a justified state at all times. Why? Because he has a whole new standing with God. The Christian is no longer a criminal under the wrath of God; he is a son under the care of a loving Father.[28] As it is with any loving father, God sometimes has to chasten His children, but chastening is altogether different than judicial punishment. Strictly speaking, punishment is suffering inflicted for the satisfaction of justice. Chastening, on the other hand, is suffering inflicted for the good of the offender. There is a vast difference between the two!”

“authority. What we face now is the “sinner’s prayer.” And I am here to tell you, if there is anything I have declared war on, it is the sinner’s prayer. Yes, in the same way that dependence upon infant baptism for salvation,[29] in my opinion, was the golden calf [30] of the Reformation, the sinner’s prayer is the golden calf of today for the Baptists, the Evangelicals, and everyone else who has followed them. The sinner’s prayer has sent more people to hell than anything on the face of the earth! You say, “How can you say such a thing?” I answer: Go with me to Scripture and show me, please! I would love for you to show me where anyone evangelized that way. The Scripture does not tell us that Jesus Christ came to the nation of Israel and said, “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand, now who would like to ask me into their hearts? I see that hand.” That is not what it says. He said, “Repent and believe the gospel” (Mar 1:15)! Men today are trusting in the fact that at least one time in their life they prayed a prayer, and someone told them they were saved because they were sincere enough. And so if you ask them, “Are you saved?” they do not say, “Yes I am, because I am looking unto Jesus and there is mighty evidence giving me assurance of being born again.” No!—they say instead, “One time in my life I prayed a prayer.” Now they live like devils, but they prayed a prayer!”

“Is the Holy Spirit so at work in your heart through the preaching of the Gospel, that a change has been wrought, so that the sin you once loved you now hate, and the sin you once desired to embrace, you are wanting to run from it as though you were running from a dragon?”

“You made a confession of faith in Christ. You professed Him even in baptism, but now it seems as though you have turned away from Him. Examine yourself. Test yourself. There is little evidence of any true conversion in you!”

“My dear friend, everybody wants to go to heaven—they just don’t want God to be there when they get there! The question is not, “do you want to go to heaven?” The question is this: “Do you want God? Have you stopped being a hater of God? Has Christ become precious to you? Do you desire Him?”

“You have the authority to tell men the Gospel. You have authority to tell men how to be saved, and you have authority to teach men biblical principles of assurance. But you have no authority to tell men they are saved. That is the work of the Holy Spirit of God!”

“God has only one religious institution: It is the Church. And our ultimate goal and the ultimate result of revival in this world will be the planting of biblical churches.”

“Jesus gave His life for the Church, a beautiful, virgin, pristine Church. If you want to give your life for something in the ministry, give it to the Church: to a church, a body of believers, a local congregation.”

“when you look back and you see Israel, you see a bunch of godless people, idolaters. And in the midst of them there was a tiny remnant of true believers.” That is true, but don’t apply that to the New Testament Church, because God says, “I am going to do something different, Not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them, declares the LORD. But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD, I will put my law within them” (vs. 33).”

“Jóvenes, disciplínense en la oración. Disciplínense para leer sistemática y repetidamente las Escrituras desde Génesis hasta el Apocalipsis.  Disciplínense en su hablar. Disciplínense y cuídense con quién andan. Disciplínense cuando se acuestan y cuando se levantan. Esta es una guerra. ¡Disciplínense!”

“No somos llamados a construir imperios. No somos llamados a ser grandiosos. Somos llamados a glorificar a Dios.”

“So many pastors are trying to keep together a bunch of wicked people, while a little flock in the midst of them is starving to death and made to go in directions they don’t want to go. They are made to go along with the carnal majority!”

“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.”

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