Honest Bible preaching on sin creates an acute consciousness of God, leads to conviction for sin and to repentance. Every great revival must have honest dealing with the sin question. There is no use of preaching grace to people who do not know they have ever sinned. - John R. Rice [The Home, pg. 325]
The loving mating of a husband and wife is as normal, as proper and as guiltless as eating, drinking, sleeping, or any other normal bodily function. One can sin by eating, but eating is not a sin. One could eat stolen food, and that would be wicked. And is is likewise wicked for a man to take another man's wife or another man's future wife. In the Ten Commandments God puts coveting your neighbors wife along with the sin of coveting you neighbor's ox (Exo. 20:17). It is not wrong to have your own wife, not is it wrong to have your own ox. It is sinful to have or covet either that does not belong rightfully to you. - John R. Rice [The Home, pg. 327-328]
If a couple really expects to be happy and to be prosperous in their marriage, they should make sure that on important matters they are in agreement. On matters of conscience, on the matters where happiness is necessarily entailed, then those who marry should be of one mind. That truth is involved in the nature of marriage itself and in the Bible requirement that the husband and wife become one. - John R. Rice [The Home, pg. 54]
Remember that the Bible tells how to have a happy home. Then those who want a happy home should set out to follow the Bible. The home where the Bible is read daily, where there is family worship, and where God's Word is taught to the children, where thanks are given at meals and little children are taught to pray kneeling at mother's knee or by their beds, is likely to be a happy home. - John R. Rice [The Home, pg. 54-55]
Remember that the Bible tells how to have a happy home. Then those who want a happy home should set out to follow the Bible. The home where the Bible is read daily, where there is family worship, and where God's Word is taught to the children, where thanks are given at meals and little children are taught to pray kneeling at mother's knee or by their beds, is likely to be a happy home. - John R. Rice [The Home, pg. 54-55]
If God sends true love, which is clearly according to His will, and gives a mate who is proper for a Christian, and puts His approval on the marriage both by peace in the heart and by favorable outward circumstances, then Christians may marry and be happy. If God does not bring a loved one who is worthy, does not grow love in the heart, or does not give approval in a Christian's spirit, then let the Christian be content to be happy and single, rather than to marry out of the will of God. - John R. Rice [The Home, pg. 79]
People always have plausible excuses for not doing right. - John R. Rice [The Home, pg. 108]
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