If men save themselves, then men must keep themselves. If salvation is by men's works, then the keeping is by men's works. too. And yet no man ever made peace with God. Rather, God has made peace with men through the blood of Jesus Christ. - John R. Rice
Our Catholic friends think that by "elevating the host," that is, by the offering of the bread and wine, that a new sacrifice is made to God that is pleasing and acceptable. But it is not so! The Scripture plainly said, "There remaineth no more sacrifice for sins" (Heb. 10:26). God will have no more sacrifice! No more is needed, no more is wanted, and He will receive no more. The only Sacrifice God ever did want to pay for sins has been offered, and now, thank God, the veil is torn down, and men may enter in boldly since Jesus died. He tore down all the barriers between God and man!
Hallelujah! Hallelujah! - John R. Rice
All things are judged by the cross, both man and God. Only a race of men degenerate, sin-possessed, with willful malice toward God and right, would shamefully crucify the Son of God. As Jewish leaders and the mob, with Herod and Pontus Pilate all joined in the crucifixion, so the whole race, Jews and Gentles, are guilty of the death of Christ. Cain, Korah, Judas and the Antichrist are alike proper representatives of the human race. Every unconverted man in the world is lost because he hates Christ, the Light, and deliberately chooses the wrong (John 3:19-21). - John R. Rice, from the book "And God Remembered..."
It is not strange that Jesus was born of a virgin. The Son of God could not have been born any other way. It is strange and unnatural to suppose the Son of God could be born any other way. I say, the virgin birth causes me no trouble. But I am lost in awe and wonder at the thought that He should be born at all! It is not amazing that Christ would be born as the Son of God must be born, with no human father, but it is the most amazing thing that human ear ever heard that one who is the Son of God would consent to be born at all of a human mother, that He should love men enough or have any purpose great enough that the Son of God should give up His glory as God and become a man! - John R. Rice
Here is the sweet meaning of John 3:16: "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life." And no wonder that Romans 4:7, 8 says: "Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord will not impute sin."
There it is in a nutshell. God cannot remember sin against the sinner who is forgiven, because his sins are not even charged up to him. They are charged against Jesus and paid. God is just who must require sin to be paid for, but God is so just that He cannot require that it be paid for twice. - John R. Rice
Thank God. I can know my name is written down in Heaven! For 1 John 5:13 says, "These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life." Salvation is not something that we get when we die. Sometimes people very foolishly pray, "Save us at last in Heaven." "At last in Heaven" is not where you get saved. You get saved down here. An...d one who puts his trust in the Lord Jesus has everlasting life now. The Scripture says, "...we have now received the atonement" (Rom. 5:11). And, "He that believeth on me hath everlasting life" (John 6:47). Has it now, thank God! One who doesn't trust Jesus is condemned already. So you can know you are saved. - John R. Rice
It is sinful to presume you can add to the saving blood of Christ. It is sinful, it is tragic, for anybody to put some other part into salvation.
Suppose somebody came and said, "All right, now Jesus died for me. That is pretty good payment, but I am going to pay the rest of it myself." Oh, wicked man, will you put any deed you could do, any thought you could think, any word you could utter, any sacrifice you could make, on a par with the death of Jesus on the cross, when He died for your sins? No, you can't add a thing. You disgrace the Gospel. You dishonor God. You cloud the issue when you put anything else in the plan of salvation. John R. Rice
It is sinful to presume you can add to the saving blood of Christ. It is sinful, it is tragic, for anybody to put some other part into salvation.
Suppose somebody came and said, "All right, now Jesus died for me. That is pretty good payment, but I am going to pay the rest of it myself." Oh, wicked man, will you put any deed you could do, any thought you could think, any word you could utter, any sacrifice you could make, on a par with the death of Jesus on the cross, when He died for your sins? No, you can't add a thing. You disgrace the Gospel. You dishonor God. You cloud the issue when you put anything else in the plan of salvation. John R. Rice
When I was twelve years old in Gainesville, Texas, in a prayer meeting, a woman asked the pastor, "I have a next-door neighbor who says she knows she is going to Heaven. Don't you think it is presumptuous for anybody to think they are good enough to be sure of Heaven?
The pastor very wisely answered, "If you were depending on your good works, it would be very foolish and presumptuous to pretend yo...u were good enough to go to Heaven. But if you trusted Jesus Christ and are relying on His clear promise in the Bible that your sins are forgiven, that you are born again, that you are a child of God and that nothing can separate you from God, you can know and you ought to know."
It is a sad thing, a shocking thing that many people do not know for sure they are saved. - John R. Rice
The pastor very wisely answered, "If you were depending on your good works, it would be very foolish and presumptuous to pretend yo...u were good enough to go to Heaven. But if you trusted Jesus Christ and are relying on His clear promise in the Bible that your sins are forgiven, that you are born again, that you are a child of God and that nothing can separate you from God, you can know and you ought to know."
It is a sad thing, a shocking thing that many people do not know for sure they are saved. - John R. Rice
There is no judgment between death and Heaven for a Christian. There is up in Heaven a judgment seat of Christ where Christians will be rewarded according to their works. It is true that rewards will be different for different Christians, depending on how each lived, but the salvation question and the getting-to-Heaven question is already settled forever. Paul cried in in Romans 8:34, "Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us." I thank God that one can know he is going to Heaven. - John R. Rice
Men who write books about their heroes make much of their good points, and gloss over or excuse their sins and failures. Men who write books about their enemies make much of their sins and failures, and gloss over their good qualities. But the Bible, written by an honest and holy God, simply tells the truth about mankind. We are a race of sinners, and the best men that ever lived still sinned. - John R. Rice
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