QUOTES OF THE WEEK

God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies the called. - unknown

By the way, that was not a legitimate offer [the one made by Goliath- if you defeat me we will be your servants...]. Because when David did kill Goliath the Philistines didn't surrender. Don't ever make a deal with the Devil. He's a liar. R.B. Ouellette

Most of the people who are "going to be saved sometime" are never saved. The road of Bye and Bye leads to the house of Never. Ah, if you are going to be saved, be like the prodigal boy who said, "I will arise and go to my father." He came to his senses; he made the decision; he turned his back on his sin' he got up and came home to confess it to his father; he threw away the Devil's apples. I hope you will do the same thing. - John R. Rice, All Satan's Apples Have Worms

There are some who say that they were once sinners; but now that they are saved, they are saved from sin and never sin any more. Some claim to be "sanctified" and to have "holiness." There is a true sanctification or holiness, being set apart for God; but it does not involve sinlessness. Some claim that the old sinful nature is altogether eradicated by a "second work of grace." But all such people are deceived. they may not want to sin, and they may think they do not sin, but they do sin. The Scriptures we have read say, "All," "All," "ALL." Not only all have sinned, but all do sin. All are now under sin. There is even yet no difference in the fact of sin. So the Bible says and so we must believe.  - John R. Rice, All Have Sinned

Some man says, "Well, Brother Rice, I know I am not perfect, but I really try to live up to the Ten Commandments. and I believe I will get by." In the first place, why did you say, "I try?" Because you know very well you do not succeed! You do not keep the commandments and neither did any other person that ever lived except Jesus Christ.
The rich young ruler claimed to have kept all the commandments from his youth up. But when Jesus told him to go and sell all his goods and give to the poor and come follow Him, he turned away sorrowfully. He had great riches and riches were his god. He had not even kept the first commandment: "Thou shalt have no other gods before me." He did not love God with all his heart, mind, and soul and strength, and he did not love his neighbor as himself. And neither do you! - John R. Rice, All Have Sinned

Yes, reader, the witnesses of the universe of God: war, crime, disease, death and conscience join with the Bible to prove all are sinners. And you are part of this world, one guilty sinner in a world of sinners. You say you are different but God says, "There is no difference; For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God." John R. Rice, All Have Sinned

And so today a man claims to be moral and good. he is kind to his family, he says, true to his word, a good citizen, an honest business man, perhaps an active lodge man. But when he comes face to face with Jesus Christ, instead of loving Him, trusting Him, receiving Him as Saviour and Lord and following Him every day, this so-called moral man turns his back upon Christ, does not love, does not trust, does not follow Him! Nothing in this world could so reveal the wickedness of his heart! - John R. Rice, All Have Sinned

The fact of sin, as so clearly taught in God's Word and witnessed on every hand by history and observation and the human conscience, explains why many men turn away from the Bible and away from Christ. Men hate the Bible because it brands them as guilty sinners! Men will not come to Christ and receive Him, because He will only receive them as confessed and Hell-deserving sinners! And this is the explanation of modernism. Foolish, wicked, self-righteous men wish to be known as Christians, but they do not accept the Bible as infallibly inspired, not Christ as very God, nor the death of Christ as the atonement for sin, because this would mean they would have to confess to be fallen, guilty and black-hearted sinners, fully under the condemnation of an angry God! Christ-rejecters love their sin but hide it and deny it. John R. Rice, All Have Sinned

No difference, all have sinned! So says Romans 3:22,23. And now, thank God, we read that there is no difference, all may be saved! All of us are sinners; we are all in the same boat. But, thank God, Jesus Christ will save the whole boatload if we will let Him! If sin is universal, then salvation is offered just as freely and universally. "But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound" (Rom. 5:20). John R. Rice, All Have Sinned