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A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.

The doctrine of adoption establishes the reality that believers, once saved, are always saved.

But the correction of fools is folly.

Knowledge is essential, but it's not sufficient.

And a gentle tongue breaks a bone.

The fact is that far too many professing Christians live their lives, day in and day out, on the basis of something other than the Bible.

4Behold, as for the aproud one, His soul is not right within him; But the brighteous will live by his 1faith.

Simply because God loved us, He provided a way for us to return to Him.

preach Christ as Savior but not as Lord is to present a gospel message that is incomplete.

Apostle Paul, however, said to focus only on what is right and honorable,

If a dying Savior could bring us to God's grace, surely a living Savior can keep us in His grace.

Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man The things which God has prepared for those who love Him.a

The symbolism in Jesus' parables is never thickly layered, and rarely even multidimensional.

If our adoption were not permanent, we would have great reason to fear. Our sin might yet condemn us.

upon Dibon even more, a lion for those of Moab

Whenever God brings us through a severe trial, it will reveal to us either the strength or weakness of our faith and the faithfulness of God.

When Christ said to "pray, then, in this way," He didn't mean to pray with His exact words.

I am a free man, the slave of Christ;

Obedience is the basic definition of worship. Like obedience, worship is to be a way of life rather than just an exercise on Sunday.

When you choose to love someone who is no longer attractive to you, he or she will become attractive.

Expect progress, not perfection.

The only right response to Christ's lordship is wholehearted submission, loving obedience, and passionate worship.

Moral freedom now reigns. Materialism and the breakdown of the family are epidemic. Abortions, sexual evils, drugs, and crime are rampant.

The Jewish Talmud is right in saying that the prayer in which there is no mention of the kingdom of God is not a prayer at all (Berakoth 21a).

While nothing in the Bible is contradictory, many of the Bible's most provocative and profound truths appear to us paradoxical.

If I could simplify the Christian life to one thing, it would be obedience.

I would never want to be president because the power to bring righteousness to this country does not now and will never reside in public office.

Men have no excuse for not knowing about God because He has revealed Himself in man's conscience and in the physical world (Rom. 1:19, 20; 2:15).

the ultimate purpose of our salvation is to glorify God and to bring us into intimate, rich fellowship with Him,

Being assured of our salvation is no arrogant stoutness. It is faith. It is not presumption. Rather it is confidence in God's promise.

Like Lazarus lying motionless in the tomb, the unredeemed soul remains lifeless until the voice of God commands it, "Come forth!

The freedom of the Christian is not freedom to do what he or she wants but freedom to obey God - willingly, joyfully, naturally.

All my csprings of joy are in you.

He that lacks assurance of God's love, converses too much with Satan

But a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Whoever desires, let him take the water of life freely.

To be Spirit-filled is to be Christ-centered.

Prayer that focuses on self is always hypocritical because every true prayer focuses on God.

We should not be entertained by the sins for which Christ died.

Paul was far more concerned with obeying his divine calling than with gaining man's approval. Only one thing mattered - pleasing the Master.

It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.

Do you know what the Spirit-filled life is? It is living every moment as though you are standing in the presence of Jesus Christ!

And did not believe in His wondrous works. 33Therefore their days He consumed in futility,

18The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth.

Adam was refined dirt; Eve was a glorious refinement of humanity itself. -John MacArthur, Twelve Extraordinary Women

Often it is those who preach "tolerance," "nonjudgmentalism," and "intellectualism" who are most intolerant.

God's greatest desire, and our greatest need, is to be in constant fellowship with Him now, and

13But as for you, brethren, do not grow weary in doing good.

If saving faith is present, it can't help but produce fruit. Good works don't save a person, but they do show that his or her faith is genuine.

Clung tightly to the Lord, faithfully following Him and obeying His commands (v. 6).

He call us to obey, not because He needs us but because He knows we need Him.

Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful.

The cross is proof of both the immense love of God and the profound wickedness of sin.

Why the kingdom? Because the Kingdom is God's total answer to man's total need.

Proverbs 23:9 9Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.

The American family shattered for the simple reason that it was American, not global.

Accept suffering as a part of God's tenderizing process.

Since God has a will for us, He must want us to know it. If so, then we could expect Him to communicate it to us in the most obvious way.

Human intellect plays no role in redemption.

The primary responsibility of the mother is the nurture of those children.

Human ideas and concepts are temporal and completely incapable of producing spiritual truth or guidance.

For the faithful, Spirit-filled Christian, every place becomes a place of prayer.

12When ahe was in distress, he entreated the LORD his God and bhumbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.

Such slavery is the only freedom.

This is a day in which one of our great perils is that of doing a thousand little things to the neglect of the one thing, which is preaching.6

Liberty does not mean doing as you like, it means liking as you ought, and doing that.
(From Slave)

In thought and practice we are far from holy, but in the new nature we are perfectly holy: "In Him [we] have been made complete" (Col. 2:10).

We did nothing to earn our adoption into God's family, and we can do nothing to lose it either.

If Jesus expresses loving concern for the smallest of our troubles, certainly in His role as the perfect sufferer He cares for our greatest traumas.

Guilt is a spiritual pain in the soul that tells us something is evil and needs to be confronted and cleansed. To

Our greatest limitation isn't the leader of the lives; it is the spirit within us.

Murray Harris has observed: One of the classic Christian paradoxes is that freedom leads to slavery and slavery leads to freedom.

On the flip side, those who profess salvation but later fall away, demonstrate that their profession was never genuine (1 John 2:19).

The more you study the Word of God, the more it saturates your mind and life.

14For the earth will be afilled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea.

43There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory.

Without a proper view of God there cannot exist a proper view of man.

The gospel message is not simply a plan of salvation; it is also a call to embrace the Person of salvation.

People act what they truly believe.

The worst extremes usually start with slight deviations.

Sin is the monarch that rules the heart of every man. It is the first lord of the soul, and its virus has contaminated every living being.

God's Word is our only reliable source of truth about Satan and demons.

11The discretion of a man makes him slow to anger, And his glory is to overlook a transgression.

What you cant forget... God cant remember!

Rather than walking in the flesh, they now "walk by the Spirit" (v. 25), being characterized by a growing desire to obey the Word of God.

The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.

The truth is, it doesn't matter what a verse means to me, to you, or to anyone else. All that matters is what the verse means!

If I'm not showing grace ... have I forgotten the grace I've been shown?

For joy in the LORD, O you righteous ones; Praise is bbecoming to the upright.

We are not heard for our many words, but for the cry of our hearts.

You can't confuse childlike faith with childish thinking.

16You open Your hand And satisfy the desire of every living thing.

The benefits of a pure conscience comprise some of the greatest blessings of the Christian life.

To be a Christian is to be a slave of Christ.

5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the LORD his God, 6Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that is in them;

Jesus Christ is not just 'my personal Savior'. He is Lord.