When any other writing is put equal with the Bible, the Bible is discredited. This is the sin of Catholics with their teaching about the church and its authority, of Mormons or Latter-day Saints in heeding the Book of Mormon, of Seventh-Day Adventists who believe the writings of Mrs. White inspired, of Christian Science, falsely so-called, in relying on the writings of Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, etc. In every case where one accepts any other authority as equal with the Bible, the Bible is discredited. - John R. Rice [Matthew, pg. 223]
A nice Lutheran woman up in Wisconsin wanted to get saved. At her church nobody got saved. What would she do? She thought, if I go to the Holy Land, maybe I could get saved over there.
And a Catholic woman who takes THE SWORD OF THE LORD said, "You ought to go with Brother John Rice. He takes a crowd every year, a very V.I.P. crowd, to go to the Holy Land."
So this Lutheran sent in her reservation. I didn't know then the hungry heart of this woman. She went with us to the Holy Land. And in Jerusalem at a gospel service where Rev. Ron English preached, this woman came forward to trust the Lord at the invitation. How happy she was! She talked to me later and said, "Jesus said, 'Seek and ye shall find.' I sought and I found!"
Isn't that strange? God can use a Lutheran woman in a far-off state and a Catholic friend to get her to go on my tour to the Holy Land; she goes all the way over to Jerusalem to get saved!
The Lord is in the business of saving people and He will do anything that anybody will help Him do to get somebody saved. - John R. Rice [Some Amazing Bible Conversions, pg. 13]
But how will I know that He has received me?" someone asks. Why, poor foolish man or woman, can you not believe what Jesus said? Do you want any further evidence than the solemn promise of the Son of God? You who will take the word of men about promises to pay, you who honor the signature of men on a check, you who will believe a printed guarantee of a company - are you unwilling to risk the plain promise of the Son of God Himself, written down here in the Bible? - John R. Rice [Soul-Saving Sermons for Sinners, pg. 202-203]
Don't sell out to sin. I would hate it, avoid it, run from it. Is there a man here tonight who thinks, "What difference do a few drinks make?" My friend, it may mean the difference in ruin and success for your boy. A few drinks may mean the once happy home shattered and one day shame and disgrace and broken hearts. It may mean the difference between freedom and prison for something you will do when you are drinking and do not know anything about it. It means the difference between the wrath of God and His mercy. Don't sell out to sin.
But you think it is so cheap. You don't know all you buy when you sell out to the Devil. You buy trouble and certain judgment and punishment. Don't do it! - John R. Rice [Preaching that Built a Great Church, pg. 509]
I think it is a great mistake to make a big dispensational matter out of Pentecost. In the first place, that is not the time when the Holy Spirit came into the body of Christians to dwell. That happened the day Jesus arose from the dead, according to John 20:19-22, when Jesus breathed on the disciples and said, "Receive ye the Holy Ghost," and they did then surely receive the Holy Spirit in their bodies. Thar didn't happen at Pentecost. Pentecost was simply a time when the disciples, after waiting, were "endued with power from on high." And we have played down the Scriptures by making an artificial meaning there which the Bible does not give, so I understand. - John R. Rice [Great Controversial Subjects Settled from the Bible, pg. 134-135]
Nobody knows when Jesus is coming. Don't listen to those who say, "I know by some signs that we are in the last days and that Jesus is coming soon."
A foolish man said the other day, "In 1984 [this was published in 1980] Jesus has to set up His kingdom." That is not found in the Bible. People have silly ways of reading in something as if it were spiritual truth, something they figured out.
- John R. Rice [Comments on 1st Thessalonians, pg. 25]
Modernists say they do not believe in Christ's deity because of lack of scientific evidence. They lie. There is overwhelming evidence for every humble and contrite heart that Jesus is all He claimed to be - God, Creator in human form; evidence that the Bible is all Jesus said it is - the infallible Word of God. It is not lack of evidence that makes unbelief, but willfully sinful, biased hearts that are resolutely closed against Christ. - John R. Rice [Matthew, pg. 236]
No part of the Bible really contradicts any other part. There are no mistakes in the Word of God. If there seems to be, then the seeming so is only because of our ignorance or unbelief. In so many incidents in these thousands of years the Word of God has so proved itself infallibly correct that it would be folly now to have a doubt because in some few cases our ignorance leaves us in the dark. - John R. Rice [Matthew, pg. 314-315]
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