Question of the Week: What was the source of light on the first three days?

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John R. Rice Quotes of the Week

Here is the great general plan. God wants you to pray. Those who keep on asking receive. Those who keep on seeking find. To those who keep on knocking, it will be opened [Mt. 7:7-8]. - John R. Rice

Somebody said, "Brother Rice, suppose you ask something that is wrong. What about that?" Well it might be like Paul's thorn in the flesh. Paul besought the Lord three different times and had a time of passionate prayer. "Lord, this thorn in the flesh, take it out. It is a messenger from the Devil to hinder me."

The Lord said, "Paul, what do you want?"

He said, "I want to be a better preacher. I want the best."

The Lord said, "Now Paul, we will get along better if we have a great big God, not a big Paul. I will tell you what I will do. I will give you grace every day, but I will not take away the thorn in the flesh."

So Paul said, "All right Lord, hand that prayer back and I'll change it." Then he said, "Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong."

So Paul got his prayer answered, didn't he? He had to change it to the best way. - John R. Rice

Now we get the idea: "I'll sure be glad when I learn enough Bible to control my passions and my temper, so I can just go along without any temptation." You never get to that place, because the Devil is always after you. Nobody is good except those who are working to be good. - John R. Rice

A young man came to see me one time who was feeling backslidden. We had prayer and he came back to the Lord. I said, "Now you have to set out to read and study the Bible if you are going to stay clean and good." He said, "Why, Brother Rice, I do. I read a verse in the Bible almost every day." I said, "You just nearly kill yourself reading the Bible, don't you?" - John R. Rice 

Unless you work at it, you won't do right. Unless you work at it, you won't feel right. Unless you work at it, you won't love God nor people as you ought. - John R. Rice

Some young married couple says, "Well, our love has grown cold." Then warm it up again. That is not just a matter left to accident or circumstance. It is left to people to make an honest effort to do right. A man loves his wife because he promised to love her. Christians love the Lord and work to love Him more because they ought to love the Lord. - John R. Rice

In a revival service, I walked down the aisle and said to a beautiful old lady, "Hello there! This is brother Rice. Do you love the Lord?" She said, "Yes I do," and her eyes filled with tears as she said, "But not half as much as I ought!"
That is true about all of us, isn't it? - John R. Rice

THE LIFE OF FAITH

HEBREWS 11:23-27

Pastor Rick Jackson

I. FAITH SHOULD BE A FAMILY-LIFE THING [v. 23]

1. The Cooperation of a Family's Faith [Psalm 84:11]

For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good thing will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.

2. The Courage of a Family's Faith [Joshua 24:15]

And if it seem evil unto you to serve the LORD, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.

3. The Consequences of a Family's Faith [Jer. 35] Will Rice, Bill Rice, Bill Rice III, Wil Rice IV, etc.

II. FAITH SHOULD BE A LIFE-CHANGING THING [v. 24-26]

1. The Refusal of Faith [v. 24, Romans 8:7, James 4:4]

Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

Ye adulterers and adulteresses, know ye not that the friendship of the world is enmity with God? whosoever therefore will be a friend of the world is the enemy of God.

You cannot say "Yes" to God without saying "No" to the world, the flesh, and the Devil!

2. The Choosing of Faith [v. 25, 1 Kings 18:21]

And Elijah came unto all the people, and said, How long halt ye between two opinions? if the LORD be God, follow him: but if Baal, then follow him. And the people answered him not a word.

Faith choices are rarely easy choices, but they are always wise choices.

3. The Respect of Faith [v.26, Mark 8:36]

For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

Faith respects the true lasting value of people, places, and things.

III. FAITH SHOULD BE A LIFE-DEFINING THING [v. 27]

1. Faith defined His Past - he rejected it! [By faith he forsook Egypt]

2. Faith defined His Present - he faced it! [not fearing the wrath of the king:]

3. Faith defined His Future - he lived it! [for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible.]