Friday, April 21, 2017
John R. Rice Quotes of the Week
To deny the resurrection of Christ is to deny His deity. To deny the resurrection of Christ is to deny historic Christianity. To deny the resurrection of Christ is to deny the Bible. To deny the resurrection of Christ is to place one's self beside the infidels and scoffers. If Bob Ingersoll and Tom Paine were to join a church and put on clerical robes, yet believe and preach their infidelity, that would not make them Christians. So, infidels in the church today are not Christians. Those who deny the resurrection of Jesus Christ deny Christ and Christianity. - John R. Rice
James 5:14-15 Is any sick among you? let him call for the elders of the church; and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord: And the prayer of faith shall save the sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him.
That Scripture does not say it is always God's will to heal. That Scripture does not say that God will always give the faith to heal. Sometimes God does want a Christian to die and go on to Heaven. Sometimes he is to lie flat on his back and know God is with him and can comfort him in time of sorrow. Sometimes a Christian needs to get things right. Still we are plainly commanded, "Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed" (vs. 16). Christians usually ought to be healed when they are sick. And they ought to pray day by day about health. - John R. Rice
There are some people who cannot pay their bills. They ought to check up and quit spending money they do not have. Perhaps they ought to live a little cheaper. Nobody has a right to spend money he doesn't have. But if a Christian has bills he ought to pay, then he ought to pray about it and get God's help. - John R. Rice
Philippians 4:6-7 Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
What does that say? Be anxious for nothing, or be careful for nothing. To be full of care is wrong. It is sin. These Christians who have to have tranquilizing pills, have to have Sominex pills to sleep; these Christians who worry and fret and get high blood pressure and ulcerated stomach - that is wrong. A Christian ought to learn to rest in the Lord and have peace. - John R. Rice
Worry is a "respectable" sin. Nearly everybody worries some. But you ought to admit it is a sin. What is it? It is unbelief. You don't really believe all these promises of God. You don't really think that God is going to take care of you as He said He would, and so you worry and fret. How are you going to cure it?
Take it to God in prayer! Take all your burden and stay there until you can thank Him and come away happy. You don't ever have to worry. You don't ever need to have tension that draws, drains, and kills. A Christian can have peace of mind all the time. Prayer is God's cure for worry. - John R. Rice
You say, "But Brother Rice, I read in a theology book where it said that prayer might mean praise and adoration, thanksgiving, confession, petition, etc." You may have read that in a book, but that is not what the Bible calls prayer. Prayer is the petition part. You say, "Is thanksgiving wrong?" No. We read in Colossians 4:2, "Continue in prayer, and watch in the same with thanksgiving." So prayer goes with thanksgiving. That means thanksgiving is not prayer. It accompanies prayer sometimes. Daniel said in Daniel, chapter 9, "I prayed. . .and made my confession" (vs. 4). What did you do Daniel? "I did two things. I prayed (I asked Him to deliver Israel from bondage), and I made my confession." Confession is good, but it is not prayer. Prayer in the Bible is asking. - John R. Rice
Wednesday, April 19, 2017
DOES GOD CARE ABOUT YOUR CLOTHES?
Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Quotes of the Week
Man's history does not indicate any degree of evolution, but it does declare a sordid record of revolution. - J. Vernon McGee
Men are not saved by the light they have. Men are judged by the light they have. - J. Vernon McGee
A saved sinner has a much in heaven as Christ has, for he has all the merit and righteousness of Christ. - J. Vernon McGee
Justification by faith is not just the subtraction of guilt from the sinner but rather the addition of the righteousness of Christ. It means that God pronounces or declares the sinner righteous because he is in Christ. - J. Vernon McGee
The sinner is declared to be righteous because he is in Christ. The sinner is as much saved the moment he trusts God as he will be a million years from today. This is justification by faith. - J. Vernon McGee
Justification by faith is more than the subtraction of our sin (forgiveness); it is the addition of the righteousness of Christ. We are not merely restored to Adam's former position, but now we are placed in Christ where we shall ever be throughout the endless ages of eternity. - J. Vernon McGee
God saved men on credit in the Old Testament. The penalty was never paid in the Old Testament and the guilt was not removed. There was merely atonement - a covering for sin. It looked as if the justice of God was sleeping. The death of Christ paid the penalty for all the sins of the Old Testament economy. The cross reveals God's righteousness whether men believe or not. It honors God and can save men. - J. Vernon McGee
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him. Rm. 5:9
The Believer is delivered from all judgment both present and future, which includes the Great Tribulation. To contend that the Church, which He purchased with His blood, must go through the Great Tribulation is to impugn the doctrine of justification by faith. Justification by faith looks to the future and offers security in Christ, which was made possible by His blood. - J. Vernon McGee
Predestination has application only to those who love God - God's children - and it simply guarantees that God's high and holy purpose will be consummated in them. - J. Vernon McGee
[all of these quotes are taken from the book - Reasoning Through Romans, Part I]
Monday, April 17, 2017
THE MESSAGE OF THE GATES, THE WALLS, THE LIFE
Sunday, April 16, 2017
RESURRECTION TRUTH
Saturday, April 15, 2017
Question of the Week: 🌿 Do Plants Communicate? 🌳
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Subject: 🌿 Do Plants Communicate? 🌳
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Friday, April 14, 2017
John R. Rice Quotes of the Week
Now, the first thing to remember is the connection of the Holy Spirit with the Great Commission. Jesus said - and He put it here together and no one has a right to separate it - you are to preach the Gospel to the whole world but wait for power. And in Acts 1:8 He said, "But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me. . . ." So God put together a command and then He told us about power for that command. Any interpretation of Pentecost that doesn't mean this connection that Jesus put there, is not a good interpretation. It is a false kind of teaching. - John R. Rice
What is the real meaning of Pentecost? The meaning is here. Three thousand people heard the Gospel and wonderfully repented of their sins and were saved. Three thousand people saved in a day - that is a marvelous thing! I someway don't have much patience with people who talk about Pentecost, but don't care about those thousands of people who turned to Jesus and were kept out of Hell forever. You don't know what God is talking about. You are not thinking about what the Bible is talking about. unless you think of Pentecost this way: they had power to go and witness and win souls. They wanted what God said He would give and did give. - John R. Rice
Soul winning is the main thing for Christians. We are to go preach the Gospel to every creature, as commanded in Mark 16:15. "Ye shall be witnesses unto me," Jesus said in Acts 1:8. Revelation 22:17, " . . . Let him that heareth say, Come." People are to be converted and then get baptized, and then we are to teach them 'to observe all things I commanded you apostles to do.' So the one main business for Christians is to get people saved. And the coming of the Holy Spirit with the enduement of power is the equipment we need to win souls. - John R. Rice
I ought to say this also. It is not just one time, for in Acts 2:4 they were filled with the Spirit and won souls. In Acts 4:31 they prayed again and were filled again and won souls. Ephesians 5:18 commands us, "And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit." And in the Greek form, it is in the present tense. What it is really saying is, "Keep on being filled - filled and filled and filled with the Spirit."
I am not talking about one event that happened way back yonder. I am talking about the enduement of power from on High for us today, and tomorrow, and the next day. If I am going to preach, I am going to need power. If I am going to witness again, I need power. If I go to a new place and a new situation, I need power. - John R. Rice
I believe that Jesus was not crucified on Friday, but on Wednesday. Preachers have usually accepted the Roman Catholic teaching that He was crucified on Friday and have never investigated what the Bible teaches on that subject. All Bible evidence proves that Jesus was crucified on Wednesday, buried that night, and arose from the dead some time Saturday night, before sunrise Sunday morning. Remember that the Jewish day began at sundown and the night was counted a part of the following day.
Matthew 12:40 plainly says that Jesus would be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth, or the grave, like Jonah was three days and three nights in the whale's belly. If Jesus were crucified Friday and raised Saturday night, or before sunrise Sunday morning, He would have been in the grave one day and part of two nights. Certainly that would not fulfill His plain promise.
Many people have supposed that John 19:31 was evidence that Jesus was crucified on Friday since the Jews wished to take His body down before the Sabbath. Notice, however, that "that Sabbath day was an high day." It was not an ordinary weekly Sabbath, but an annual Sabbath, the one mentioned in Exodus 12:16. It was a day of rest, the first of seven days of eating of unleavened bread, the day on which the Passover lamb was eaten.
So Jesus was crucified on Wednesday, was taken down from the cross before sunset Wednesday (John 19:31)... Jesus stayed in the grave fully seventy-two hours, three days and three nights, and arose then some time Saturday night, that is, part of Sunday, the first day of the week which began at sundown. - John R. Rice
Now there is some false teaching about Pentecost. One of those teachings is about the origin of the church. Dr. Scofield and the great Scofield Reference Bible, the best reference Bible in the world in many, many ways, has the Plymouth Brethren teaching. That is a mistake based on a misinterpretation of one verse of Scripture. They say the church began at Pentecost. They base that on I Corinthians 12:13, ". . . we are all baptized into one body" by one Spirit. Now Paul is writing to the heathen people at Corinth. They had never even heard of the Gospel at the time of Pentecost. They were not there. They were not even then saved. They didn't hear it before. No, no! That was now what happened.
What happened at Pentecost was, the Christians who waited were filled with the Spirit, covered with the Spirit, immersed in the Spirit, baptized in the Spirit, an enduement of power. There was nothing said in the Scriptures about the origin of the church. Somebody says, "But so many people believe that; and I believe that, too." But the Bible never mentions that the church began at Pentecost. The trouble is, people don't even know what the church is. They are thinking about a combination of all the denominations or something like that. No. - John R. Rice
Sometimes people say, "Well, Pentecost meant sanctification. Oh, you need to get sanctified." Or sometimes they say "the second blessing" and so on. Sometimes they say "a second work of grace," by which they mean that when you are converted, born again, there is a miraculous change. You become regenerated. But in so-called sanctification they say there is another miraculous action by which the carnal nature is burned out and destroyed. That is wrong, or course. In the first place, that does not happen to anybody this side of the rapture or this side of the resurrection, but there is certainly nothing said about that at Pentecost. No. They were endued with power from on High at Pentecost, and they witnessed for Jesus and saw three thousand people saved. Nobody has a right to make that mean something else. - John R. Rice
Wednesday, April 12, 2017
THE GOOD SHEPHERD
Tuesday, April 11, 2017
QUOTES OF THE WEEK
God provides salvation as He gives water and man has only to drink; as He provides bread and man has only to eat; as He provided the brazen serpent, and man had only to look; as He provided the sacrificial Lamb upon Calvary and man has only to receive. - J. Frank Norris
The church should be a place where "No man is respected for his wealth or rejected for his poverty." - J. Frank Norris
A dying sinner was once asked if he would not like to be saved. "I certainly would, " he replied; "but," he added earnestly, "I don't want God to do anything wrong in saving me." It was through the letter to the Romans he learned how "God can be just and the Justified of him which believeth in Jesus." You will remember how Socrates expressed himself five hundred years before Christ. "It may be," he said, addressing himself to Plato, "that Deity can forgive sins, but I do not see how." It is this that the Holy Spirit takes up so fully in this Epistle. He shows us that God does not save sinners at the expense of His righteousness. In other words, if saved at all, it will not be because righteousness has been set aside in order that mercy might triumph; but mercy has found a way whereby divine righteousness can be fully satisfied and yet guilty sinners justified before the throne of high heaven. - H.A. Ironside
"As many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law, and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law." No principle could be sounder. Men are held responsible for what they know, or might know if they would. They are not condemned for ignorance unless that ignorance be the result of willful rejection of light. "men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil." - H.A. Ironside
The law promised blessing upon obedience and denounced judgment on disobedience. None have kept it. Therefor, "The law worketh wrath." It cursed. It could not bless. It intensified sin by giving it the specific character of transgression, making it willful violation of known law. It could not be the means of earing what was freely given. [salvation by faith in Christ] - H.A. Ironside
Monday, April 10, 2017
THE ANSWER BOOK
Sunday, April 09, 2017
BUILD UP THE WALL
Saturday, April 08, 2017
Question of the Week: How Does a Frog Catch Its Meal? 🐸
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Subject: Sticky Spit: How Does a Frog Catch Its Meal? 🐸
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