“I submit to you that this country is not Gospel hardened; it is Gospel ignorant, because most of its preachers are. Let me repeat this. The malady in this country is not liberal politicians, the root of socialism, Hollywood, or anything else. It is the so-called evangelical pastor, preacher, or evangelist of our day; that is where the malady is to be found. We do not know the Gospel.[20] We have taken the glorious Gospel of our blessed God and reduced it down to four spiritual laws, and five things God wants you to know, with a little superstitious prayer at the end. And if someone repeats it after us with enough sincerity, we popishly declare them to be born again! We have traded regeneration[21] for decisionism.[22]”

“Si tu ropa es un marco para tu rostro del cual emana la gloria de Cristo, complace a Dios. Pero si tu ropa es un marco para tu cuerpo, es sensual, Dios lo aborrece. La naturaleza de Dios guía nuestras decisiones en cada detalle de nuestra conducta.”

“Se cuenta que uno de los violinistas más grandes de Europa, ya anciano, dio un concierto final. Cuando terminó, se le acercó un joven violinista y le dijo: “Señor, yo daría mi vida por tocar como usted”. A esto, el anciano respondió: “Hijo, yo he dado mi vida por tocar como yo”.”

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service. And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.”—Romans 12:1-2”

“converted.”

“(Mat 12:33). Now, if you think that you have given Christ your heart, then He will have your body too. And I will tell you why. The heart, my friend, is not some blood-pumping muscle or some figment of a poet’s imagination. In the Bible, heart refers to the very essence or core of your being. Don’t tell me Jesus has the very essence and core of your being and it doesn’t affect your whole body and life. It just does not happen that way!”

“Our missionary activity, our church activity, and everything we do ought to flow from the theologian and the exegete—the man who opens up his Bible and has only one question: What is Thy will, Oh God? We are not to send out questionnaires to carnal people to discover what kind of church they would attend! A church ought to be seeker friendly, but the church ought to recognize there is only one Seeker. His name is God!—and if you want to be friendly to someone, if you want to accommodate someone, accommodate Him and His glory, even if it is rejected by everyone else. We are not called to build empires. We are not called to be excessive. We are called to glorify God. And if you want the Church to be something other than a peculiar people[14](Ti 2:14; 1Pe 2:9), then you want something God does not want.”

“Y les daré un corazón, y un camino, para que me teman perpetuamente, para que tengan bien ellos, y sus hijos después de ellos. Y haré con ellos pacto eterno, que no me volveré atrás de hacerles bien”. Ahora bien, muchos perdidos van a la iglesia los domingos y escuchan este versículo. Y se dicen: “Sí, Dios ha hecho un pacto eterno conmigo. Nunca me dejará, nunca, nunca. Estoy seguro de que así será por la gracia de Dios”. Pero no leen la segunda parte. Tomen nota de lo que dice: “Y haré con ellos pacto eterno, que no me volveré atrás de hacerles bien, y pondré mi temor en el corazón de ellos, para que no se aparten de mí”. La evidencia de que Dios ha hecho un pacto eterno con ustedes es que ha puesto el temor de Dios en ustedes, para que no se aparten de él. Pero si se apartan de él y él no los disciplina y siguen apartándose de él, es evidencia de que no ha puesto su temor en ustedes. Esto es evidencia de que no han sido regenerados, ¡que no tienen ningún pacto con Dios! Esto, queridos amigos, es la verdad bíblica.”

“if you ever come up with this idea as a man of God, “I am sacrificing my family for the sake of the ministry,” I will tell you: you are a bold faced liar. You are sacrificing your family for the sake of the little kingdom you are trying to build. I can say that because the will of God is perfect; that means I do not have to violate the will of God with regard to my family, in order to fulfill the will of God with regard to my ministry. God doesn’t need you! He does require, however, that you be obedient.”

“want you to know, my friends, salvation is by faith alone! It is a work of God. It is a grace upon grace upon grace. But the evidence of conversion is not just your examination of your sincerity at the moment of your conversion. It is the on-going fruit in your life.”

“The rampant rebellion in much of Western evangelicalism is not because the new covenant is no better than the old is or because it shares some of the same weaknesses. On the contrary, apathy, materialism, and rebellion have occurred because many who profess Christ are not really of Christ, and much of what is called the church is not the true, living church at all.”

“They are a new people who desire God and delight in His law, not because they come from better stock than the nation of Israel but because the Holy Spirit has recreated them.”

“First, the vast number of carnal people who identify themselves with the church is the result of the unbiblical gospel preached from most evangelical pulpits.”

“We rarely mention the radical depravity of man and the heinous nature of his sin or expound it to wound the conscience. We have replaced the call to repentance and faith with the repetition of a prayer.”

“Preachers rarely proclaim the apostolic message that demanded that people “should repent, turn to God, and do works befitting repentance” (Acts 26:20).”

“one of the great lessons learned by any true pilgrim of the narrow way is that God will go to the greatest lengths and spare no expense to make His children holy.”

“In Whitefield’s day, carnal people found assurance in their baptism and confirmation. In our day, the same kind of carnal people find their assurance in the apparent sincerity of a decision they once made and a prayer they once prayed.”

“Many preachers today now present the gospel as a series of concise, convenient statements that, while inherently true, are often left unexplained and hollowed of their true evangelical meaning and power.”

“The erroneous, but prevailing theory of the day is that church must look as much like the world as possible in order to be relevant and reach people for Christ. Thus, we change our look, our services, and our focus. We become interested in things that interest carnal people so that they will become interested in us. This is a grave error.”

“They shall be My people, and I will be their God; then I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear Me forever, for the good of them and their children after them. —Jeremiah 32:38–39”