You who will not take Jesus Christ and flee to Him for refuge will find yourselves hounded and pursued by your own sins and so certain of eternal ruin. - John R. Rice [Revival Appeals, pg. 33]
Man has become not the inmate of Eden but the apprentice for Hell. - John R. Rice [The Bible Garden, pg. 18]
Two things. God through the Holy Spirit washes the sins and changes our hearts and gives the Holy Spirit to be within us. And so you need to get settled, "I am saved by grace. I did not earn it. I cannot earn it."
You say, "But you have to keep it." You cannot keep it. Somebody says, "Oh, I want to hold out faithful." You never started faithful. There was never ten seconds of your life when you were good enough to deserve Heaven. You had just as well settle it that your kind of faithfulness is frail and human and so you need help. - John R. Rice [Wonderful Bible Truth, pg. 16]
Children are to be brought up in the chastening or discipline and the admonition of the word.
You say, "Well, you ought to love your children." Sure you ought to love your children so much you are never content for one of them to land in Hell. You ought to love your children so much you will never be content for them to grow up as wild, irresponsible young people who never learn to obey the law and have no God but their own desires. No, children will be happy when they are reared right, and that means discipline. - John R. Rice [The Christian Home, pg. 18]
Oh, Solomon, bad company is the way to ruin! It led to the captivity and binding and death of Samson. Heathen marriages before the flood, when the sons of God took the daughters of men, as many as they chose and the whole world became violent and wicked, led to a violent, wicked race. So when Peter sat by the fire with soldiers who would crucify Jesus, he lost all his courage and cursed and swore and denied the Saviour. - John R. Rice [Great Men of the Bible, page 128]
Are you burdened about your soul? Then you have not committed the unpardonable sin. Revelation 22:17 proves that WHOSOEVER WILL may take of the water of life. If you had committed the unpardonable sin, your heart would be like ice. You would not be concerned about your soul. - John R. Rice [Revival Appeals, pg. 16]
How are you going to get saved? God loves you and He gave His Son "...that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." Aren't you glad God loves sinners? That is the best thing I know about God. He loves righteousness, sure. Pharisees all love righteous people. Worldly people love righteous people. But God loved poor, wicked sinners. He went to all the lengths that a holy God could go to; He took out of Heaven his own dear Son, the fairest Jewel of Heaven, and let Him be born in this world in poverty, live a life of sacrifice and scorn; then God let Him have the bloody sweat of Gethsemane, then Pilate's judgment hall, the crown of thorns, the lash on His back, then up the Way of Sorrows to a hill shaped like a skull and nailed there. He was mocked six hours and God turned away His face and let Jesus die.
Thank God, there is a way of salvation! Thank God, it is all paid! - John R. Rice
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