A young mother had a miscarriage, and she sobbed in great grief. We said to her, "You have two children; you are young; you will have other children. Do not weep." But, sobbing, she said, "Oh, I know, but I wanted that one, too!" So Jesus feels, we are sure, about every lost sinner in the world. And so should we feel also. - John R. Rice [Luke, pg. 367]
On the Shepherd's shoulder. What a sweet picture of salvation! All of grace and not of human merit nor works! The sheep is put safely on the Shepherd's shoulder. He does not have to know the way home. He does not have to outrun wolves. He does not have to be faithful in effort. He simply rests on the Shepherd's should and is carried home. - John R. Rice [Luke, pg. 367]
Some "sheep" have stood up in prayer meeting and have left the wrong impression; they have said, "I'm determined to make Heaven my home!" and "I want all to pray for me that I may hold out faithful. And as far as meeting God's standard for righteousness, none of us were faithful to start with, and none of us has ever been righteous for even ten minutes in the pure and absolute sense that would deserve Heaven. No, our righteousness is Christ's righteous! - John R. Rice [Luke, pg. 367]
Some translations of the Bible, as the Revised Standard Version, the N. E. B., and the Good News for Modern Man, are not only presumptuous to change John 3:16 to say that "God gave his only Son," leaving out the word "begotten"; it was irreverent presumption to conjecture about the text but it is also fatally wrong in doctrine: Jesus is not the only Son of God. He is simply the only one physically begotten of God without a human father. In our second birth, Christians are "born of the Spirit" and so we became "partakers of the divine nature" (II Pet. 1:4). - John R. Rice [Luke, pg. 379]
It is shocking that money becomes a master. It is a good servant but a bad master. - John R. Rice [Luke, pg. 390]
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