Some of you have a Bible but do not have the God of the Bible. You have the Book but do not have the Author! I do not wonder that you do not read it very much. The Book is a sealed Book. The things of God are not revealed to you by the Holy Spirit. For we are told, "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned" (I Cor. 2:14). - John R. Rice [Immanuel--God With Us, page 47-48]
If you do not have Christ, the blessed Book of God may be to you dull and dry. It is a closed Book. There was a time when there were not many Bible and when men chained the Bible to the pulpit so it could not be stolen. Oh, the Bible is a sealed and chained and locked Book to all whose empty hearts have not received the Author of the Book. - John R. Rice [Immanuel--God With Us, page 48]
The prayer of Jesus ["Father forgive them"} can only be answered for those who are willing to be forgiven.
Let every sinner, then, know that it is "his move." God has done all a loving and infinitely merciful God can rightly do. The Son has been offered "the Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world." Yet, only as you repent of your sins and trust Him for forgiveness can your sins be carried away. Only as you take what God offers can you be saved. If this moment you are not saved, ir you are still unforgiven, then it is because of your wicked rejection of the mercy of God! - John R. Rice [Immanuel--God With Us, page 59]
To make people good and make them happy and blessed through eternity, to keep people out of the fires and torment of Hell forever- that is the most important business in the world. - John R. Rice [The Golden Path of Successful Personal Soul Winning, pg. 9]
We must teach people to turn their hearts from their sins in repentance and turn to Jesus Christ and trust Him for forgiveness and salvation. God must work the miracle and change the heart. But God gives us Christians the responsibility of carrying the message, the Gospel, and explaining it and pleading and helping people to the honest heart decisions. - John R. Rice [The Golden Path of Successful Personal Soul Winning, pg. 11]
One example is worth a thousand arguments, we are told; and if you do not know of your salvation well enough to give your own testimony, you are not ready to win souls. - John R. Rice [The Golden Path of Successful Personal Soul Winning, pg. 15]
The winning of individuals by individuals in personal conversation is the main way to win souls. - John R. Rice [The Golden Path of Successful Personal Soul Winning, pg. 25]
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