“From one point of view, the Bible is the story of a romance, a heavenly Father seeking an earthly bride for his Son. Like every good romance, they ‘get married and live happily ever after’. But this climax is only reached in the Book of Revelation, without which we would never know whether the engagement (or ‘betrothal’; 2 Corinthians 11:2) ever came to anything or was broken off!”
“You can tell a man's character from his choices”
“The one thing our nation needs desperately is law-abiding citizens, not just those who abide by human laws but those who abide by divine laws. Our”
“God’s definition of love is a love that keeps the commandments, not that breaks them.”
“Two qualifications are needed for heaven: forgiveness and holiness. The one cancels our sinful past; the other prepares us for our sinless future.”
“If any human beings find themselves in hell, they will have no one but themselves to blame. If any find themselves in heaven, they will have no one but the Lord to praise.”
“The Bible teaches about the hand of the heavenly Father not only that it provides but also that it punishes. And his hand is upon his children. If I Iay my hands on somebody else’s child I’ll either have them at my front door or the policeman with them. I must not lay my hand in punishment on someone else’s child, but on my own child I could. That is why whom the Lord loves he chastises or chastens. Indeed, says the New Testament, if you never feel the hand of God upon you in punishment you are a bastard, you are not a son of God; you are not his true son.”
“Imagine a New Testament that closed with the little Letter of Jude addressed to a second-generation church that was being corrupted in its creed, conduct, character and conversation. So is that how it will all end? What a depressing anticlimax!”
“If you have not been born again, a day will come when you wish you had never been born at all.”
“Here we have this extraordinary situation, not unknown today, where people talk about the next world and state their beliefs but in practice they live entirely for this one.”
“Above all, they cover two periods of time, one leading up to the first coming of the Messiah and one leading to the second. It’s as if Daniel looked through a prophetic telescope and saw two ‘peaks’ of history, a lower in front of a higher, without realizing the length of the valley between them.”
“His life, or at least the latter part of it, was of epic significance. Yet he was far from perfect. He could tell lies to save his own skin as well as anyone. What marked him out was his faith, that trust in and obedience to God, which is counted to be the most fundamental characteristic of a good man in God’s sight, the foundation of all other virtues and achievements.”
“As we go through the Bible, when we come across a promise of God that is a ‘pearl’ of his wisdom you will find at the heart of it a piece of grit, a pain, an irritation, a suffering.”
“holiness is not based upon fear, it is based upon perfect love which casts out fear.”
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