Daniel "purposed in his heart" that he would not defile himself. I was just thinking about this tonight - I don't know whether it is original with me; I don't know whether anybody else ever thought of it or not - but my resolutions are the only real, true John Rice there is. You may look at me. You look at the way I live and the way I act and the failures I make, but you don't know my heart at all. Only in my resolutions am I what I long to be. "Blessed are they which hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled." Not until I see the Saviour, not until I am all that I want to be, all that I am hungry to be, all that I resolve to be, will I be what I ought to be, when my resolutions catch up with me, or when I catch up with my resolutions. So resolutions are the only true John Rice there is, or the only true anybody else. So make your resolutions. That is the right thing to do. - John R. Rice [Sweet Family Ties in Heaven and Hell, pg. 154]
Some people believe that Satan himself is master and manager of Hell. That is not true. Satan is not even in Hell now. He goes about like a roaring lion seeking whom he may devour. He is called "the prince of the power of the air" (Eph. 2:2). But the time is coming when he will be cast into Hell and be punished forever. - John R. Rice [Immanuel--God With Us, pg. 112]
In Revelation 1:7 is another plain statement proving that all those in Hell as well as those on earth will see Jesus when He comes to the earth in clouds of glory to reign: "Behold, he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him, and they also which pierced him: and all kindreds of the earth shall wail because of him. Even so, Amen." - John R. Rice [Immanuel--God With Us, pg. 117]
Those who do not believe in the second coming of Christ are illogical as well as ignorant. I tell you that Calvary could not be the end for the Son of God! The dealing of a wicked world that hated the Saviour must be punished. Christ must be vindicated! Do you think that God would permit that the last contact Jesus should have with this old world would be when He was hated and despised bi it? Do you think that the world could dispose of Jesus with the crucifixion? Do you think that God would let men get by with that? No, a just and holy God will see that the Lord Jesus comes back to reign where He was crucified. And He will see that the men who hated Him, the men who denied Him and rejected Him and crucified Him, see His glory. - John R. Rice [Immanuel--God With Us, pg. 117]
One cannot be saved without believing the Bible, particularly in the essential matters about Jesus Christ Himself. - John R. Rice [A Coffer of Jewels About the Bible, pg. 40]
No one can believe what the Bible says about Jesus, without taking the word of Jesus that the Bible is true! There is no way to accept Jesus as what He claimed to be without accepting what Jesus said about the Scriptures! In other words, any wholehearted acceptance of Jesus Christ takes His authority for the infallibility of the Scriptures. - John R. Rice [A Coffer of Jewels About the Bible, pg. 40]
Some befuddled people who have not thought things through and who do not quite know what they believe may have questions and doubts without necessarily rejecting Christ. But anyone who knowingly and intentionally turns against the Bible as the Word of God and thus rejects the Word of God, rejects Jesus Christ at the same time. Christ and the Bible stand or fall together. - John R. Rice [A Coffer of Jewels About the Bible, pg. 40]
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