Dr. H. A. Ironside, long pastor of Moody Memorial Church, once said in my presence, "The Lord didn't say all things work SEPARATELY but all things work TOGETHER for good." He said, "I like biscuits, but I don't like just plain flour. And just soda-that tastes bad. And I don't want to eat just salt or lard. But mix them all up together into biscuits, cook them in a hot oven, take them out while they are hot and steamy and put butter on them! What good eating!"
So we can thank God in everything. "In every thing give thanks," for we know that is good. Praise the Lord for His mercy! - John R. Rice [Comments on 1st Thessalonians, pg. 31]
"Quench not the Spirit." [1 Th. 5:19]
Every Christian has the Holy Spirit living within. We ought to so live that He will be content to tell us which way to go, and content to give us an uneasiness if we are not in the will of God. - John R. Rice [Comments on 1st Thessalonians, pg. 31]
Sweet Spirit of God! Oh, listen to Him always. He will take care of us and things will always turn out right if we listen to the Spirit of God.
But we can quench the Spirit. The Lord says, "Do this," and you say, "No, I don't want to do that." You quench the Spirit. - John R. Rice [Comments on 1st Thessalonians, pg. 31]
If the Bible is the very Word of God, then Jesus is the very Christ of God. If the Bible is not infallibly inspired and correct, then there is no way to know about the deity of Christ, His virgin birth, bodily resurrection, His miracles and blood atonement: there is no way to know about Heaven or Hell or salvation. Christ and the Bible stand or fall together, and no one is true to Christ who does not accept Him as He appears in the Bible and who does not accept the Bible as Jesus Christ Himself accepted it. - John R. Rice [A Coffer of Jewels about the Bible, pg. iii]
Christians who accept Jesus as eternal God, accept the Bible as the eternal, infallible Word of God, as Jesus said it is. - John R. Rice [A Coffer of Jewels about the Bible, pg. iii]
We sincerely try to "earnestly contend for the faith," as we are commanded to do in Jude 3. It seems as silly to talk about "contending without being contentious," as it would be to plan to go to battle but not hurt anyone, or preach on sin without offending anyone. So true Christians break fellowship with those who do not accept the authority of the inspired Word of God. - John R. Rice [A Coffer of Jewels about the Bible, pg. iii-iv]
There is no other book like the Bible, no book that even remotely compares with the Bible. No other book has been printed in so many copies, in so many languages, but I mean more than that. - John R. Rice [A Coffer of Jewels about the Bible, pg. 9]
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