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As you read these quotes please pray and seek the Lord
to see how they will touch and convict your heart and cause you to repent and go forth with the gospel of Jesus Christ...
Many do not recognize
the fact as they ought, that Satan has got men fast asleep in sin and
that it is his great device
to keep them so. He does
not care what we do if he can do that. We may sing songs about the sweet
by and by, preach sermons
and say prayers until
doomsday, and he will never concern himself about us, if we don't wake
anybody up. But if we awake the
sleeping sinner he will
gnash on us with his teeth. This is our work -to wake people up."
--Catherine Booth-
Repentance does not
bring a sense of sin, but a sense of unutterable unworthiness. When I
repent, I realize that I am
utterly helpless; I know
all through me that I am not worthy even to linger to bear His shoes.
Have I repented like that?
Or is there a lingering
suggestion of standing up for myself? The reason God cannot come into my
life is because I am not
through into repentance."
-Oswald Chambers-
"We are half-hearted
creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite
joy is offered us, like
an ignorant child who wants
to go on making mud pies in the slum because he cannot imagine what is
meant by the offer of a
holiday at the sea. We are
far too easily pleased." -C.S. Lewis
Even if I were utterly
selfish, and had no care for anything but my own happiness, I would
choose if I might under God
to be a soul winner, for
never did I know perfect overflowing, unalterable happiness of the
purest and most enabling order
till I first heard of one
who had sought and found the Savior through my means. ~Charles Spurgeon
We as Christians too
often substitute prayer for playing the game. Prayer is good; but when
used as a substitute for obedience,
it is nothing but a blatant
hypocrisy, a despicable Pharisaism... To your knees, man! And to your
Bible! Decide at once! Don't
hedge! Time flies! Cease
your insults to God. Quit consulting flesh and blood. Stop your lame,
lying, and cowardly excuses.
Enlist! ~C.T. Studd
Have you no concern for the unsaved? Then you are not saved yourself, be sure of that. -Charles Spurgeon
If sinners be darned,
at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. And if they will perish,
let them perish with our
arms about their knees,
imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, at least let it be
filled in the teeth of our exertions,
and let no one go there
unwarned and unprayed for." -Charles Spurgeon
Oh, my friends, we are loaded down with countless church activities, while the real work of the Church, that of evangelizing
and winning the lost, is almost entirely neglected. -Oswald J. Smith
We have been gazing to the heavens while sinners are sinking into hell. -Ray Comfort
If the average church made as much noise about God on Monday as they did to God on Sunday, we would have revival. -Ray
Comfort
You have nothing to do but to save souls. Therefore spend and be spent in this work. ~John Wesley
So long as there is a human being who does not know Jesus Christ; I am his debtor to serve him until he does. ~Oswald
Chambers
If we worship God yet ignore His command to take the gospel to every creature, then our worship is in vain. We made draw
near to Him with our lips, but our hearts are far from Him. -Ray Comfort
I will very gladly spend and be spent for your souls. -Paul
Woe is me if I do not preach the gospel! -Paul
Asked why he was used
of the Lord so greatly in China, Hudson Taylor replied, "God had looked
long for a man weak
enough, and He found me."
He takes the weak things of the world to confound the mighty. Spiritual
wisdom does not come
with years; neither does
maturity. The key to both is obedience. Whatsoever He says unto YOU, do
it. If you love me, keep
my commandments.Jesus
"A church including 100
Christians who are 50 years old has collectively experienced 500,000
individual church attendance
events in their lifetime
(two worship events per week). A 400-member church of various age levels
has attended one million
individually counted total
worship events. A church of 800--two million exposures to church
services. The last thing we need
is more information. What
we need is more application. We need to engage our culture. We need to
get in the game."
--Scott Brockie
The nature of Christ's
salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He
announces a Savior from
hell rather than a Savior
from sin. And that is why so many are fatally deceived, for there are
multitudes who wish to escape
the Lake of fire who have
no desire to be delivered from their carnality and worldliness." - A. W.
Pink
"Why does the Church
stay indoors? They have a theology that has dwindled into a philosophy,
in which there is no
thrill of faith, no terror
of doom and no concern for souls. Unbelief has put out the fires of
passion, and worldliness garlands
the altar of sacrifice with
the tawdry glitter of unreality. The Holy Ghost cannot conquer the
world with unbelief, nor can
He save the world with a
worldly Church. He calls for a crusade, a campaign, and an adventure of
saving passion. For this
enterprise He wants a
separated, sanctified and sacrificial people." Samuel Chadwick
If your heart takes
more pleasure in reading novels, or watching TV, or going to the movies,
or talking to friends, rather
than just sitting alone
with God and embracing Him, sharing His cares and His burdens, weeping
and rejoicing with Him, then
how are you going to handle
forever and ever in His presence...?" - Keith Green
"It is one thing to have sin alarmed only by convictions, and another to have it crucified by converting grace."
- Joseph Alleine
"Do not judge the Bible by your experience but judge your experience by the Bible."
-Henry Blackaby-
"If the giving of the
Law, while it was yet unbroken, was attended with such a display of
awe-inspiring power, what
will that day be when the
Lord shall, with flaming fire, take vengeance on those who have
willfully broken that Law?"
-Charles H. Spurgeon-
Worthless nobodies are just the kind of people God uses because that is all he has to work with.
-John MacArthur-
"If you are getting
into the ministry because you think you can do it better, don't! If you
think for one minute
that God is calling you
into ministry because you can surely do it better than someone else,
then here is a new perspective
for you to consider: God
could soon be calling multitudes of people into ministry because they
will be able to do it better
than you! No, competition
or comparison is not why God calls people into ministry. God calls
people into ministry simply because
that is where He wants them
to be."
--Brian Hanson in Is This What I Signed Up For?
The superficial work of
many of the professional evangelists of the last fifty years is largely
responsible for the erroneous
views now current upon the
bondage of the natural man, encouraged by the laziness of those in the
pew in their failure to
prove all things 1 Thess.
5:21. The average evangelical pulpit conveys the impression that it lies
wholly in the power of
the sinner whether or not
he shall be saved. It is said that God has done his part, now man must
do his. Alas, what can a
lifeless man do, and man by
nature is dead in trespasses and sins Eph 2:1! If this were really
believed, there would be more
dependence upon the Holy
Spirit to come in with his miracle working power, and less confidence in
our attempts to win men
for Christ.
A.W.Pink
Evangelism and theology
for the most part go separate ways, and the result is great loss for
both. When theology is not
held on course by the
demands of evangelistic communication, it grows abstract and
speculative, wayward in method, theoretical
in interest and
irresponsible in stance. When evangelism is not fertilized, fed and
controlled by theology, it becomes a stylized
performance seeking its
effect through manipulative skills rather than the power of vision and
the force of truth. Both theology
and evangelism are then, in
one important sense, unreal, false to their own God-given nature; for
all true theology has an
evangelistic thrust, and
all true evangelism is theology in action. - J.I. Packer
Why is it that too
often want we the power and miracles of the first century church, but
without the evangelistic responsibility,
the rejection and
persecution, and the radical message that comes with it and is in fact
the key to that power?"
"The church is the only army in the world that seeks to invite its enemy into their barracks." -- Chris Wright
There is an Irish proverb that goes:
You can't plow a field by turning it over in your mind.
We have to stop
thinking about witnessing (one of the churches we belonged to wrote up a
big, long 75 year mission plan
AND NEVER made a plan to go
out to witness THAT WEEK or any other week) and go beyond praying about
ministering the gospel,
must GO INTO THE field of
souls with the Word of God.
Thinking "outside the box" is not a new concept in this world.
What Christians need to do is "think inside the Word of God," which alone is "settled forever in heaven."
(Ps. 119:89)
Actions speak louder than words.
We, who call ourselves
followers of Christ, cannot be judged on our intentions - we must be
judged by our actions. People
will not judge how much you
cared about their lost souls by your intentions or even your words.
They will know how much you
cared about them by your
actions. People will not judge whether we, the visible church of Jesus
Christ, believe babies in
the womb are precious by
our intentions. They will judge us by our actions, or lack of action.
Talk is cheap.
The whole purpose of
evangelism is primarily to tell men what sin has done to them, to tell
them why they are what they
are, namely, separated from
God. It is to tell them that what they need above everything else is
not to be made to feel happy,
but to be brought back into
a right relationship with the God who is 'light and in him is no
darkness at all'. But that means
preaching holiness. To
separate these two things, it seems to me, is to deny essential biblical
teaching. --Martyn Lloyd-Jones,
Exposition to Ephesians
Jim Elliff powerfully says, The sowing of bad seed has produced massive crop failure yet unprecedented statistics. It
is getting harder to find wheat among the tares.
It is the complicity of
the evangelical church in this deception, either through misinformed
enthusiasm or love for repute,
that is the most
disturbing. We have poured over materials on methodology for bringing
people in and used our theology books
for doorstops. We have
entertained more cleverly than ever before and made the outside world
feel good again about the idea
of church. We have been
quiet enough about sin to make it worth their while to show up
repeatedly and perhaps even to join.
We have taught them how to
act Christian without conviction, to praise God without loving holiness,
and, as one has said,
to say Amen without saying
Oh me! Is it any wonder that when our converts leave the services, they
take the pastors hand and
say, It surely is fun to be
in this place rather than Surely God is in this place?
"You cannot separate what a man believes from what he is.
For this reason
doctrine is vitally important. Certain people say ignorantly, I do not
believe in doctrine; I believe
in the Lord Jesus Christ; I
am saved, I am a Christian, and nothing else matters'. To speak in that
way is to court disaster,
and for this reason, the
New Testament itself warns us against this very danger. We are to guard
ourselves against being 'tossed
to and fro and carried
about with every wind of doctrine', for if your doctrine goes astray
your life will soon suffer as
well.
So it behooves us to
study the doctrines in order that we may safeguard ourselves against
certain erroneous and heretical
teachings that are as rife
and as common in the world today as they were in the days of the early
Church." --Martyn Lloyd-Jones,
Exposition of Ephesians
"If Satan can't stop you from sowing seeds, he'll make you proud that you're doing it."
- Darrel Rundus
"You can always count the seeds in an apple, but you can never count the apples in a seed."
-Darrel Rundus
"We go fishing for men, but Satan goes fishing for Sin"
-Darrel Rundus
Witnessing: God loves it, satan hates it. So do you think you should be doing it?" - Mark Cahill
"Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell."
- C.T. Studd
"Whatever you do, do something . . . and do it now." - Ray Comfort
"Jesus Himself
describes hell as a horrible place filled with suffering. It is a place
filled with weeping and gnashing
of teeth. Thirst is
unbearable. It is a lake of sulfur and you are going to have a lake-side
cabin." - Todd Friel
"The gospel is simple... But it's not easy" - John MacArthur.
"What are we doing to reach the lost? It should concern us if we have dry eyes when we pray." - Ray Comfort
(WOTM p. 186)
When preaching and
private talk are not available, you need to have a tract ready. . . Get
good striking tracts, or none
at all. But a touching
gospel tract may be the seed of eternal life. Therefore, do not go out
without your tracts. - C.H.
Spurgeon (WOTM p 192)
"The gospel is only good news if it gets there in time" - Carl F. H. Henry
"Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan." - John Bunyan
"The Bible tells us to love our neighbours, and also to love our enemies; probably because they are generally the
same people." - G. K. Chesterton
Not called!' did you
say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to
the Bible, and hear Him bid
you go and pull sinners out
of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart
of humanity, and listen
to its pitiful wail for
help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the darned entreat you to
go to their father's house
and bid their brothers and
sisters and servants and masters not to come there. Then look Christ in
the face -- whose mercy
you have professed to obey
-- and tell Him whether you will join heart and soul and body and
circumstances in the march to
publish His mercy to the
world. --William Booth
Someone asked Will the
heathen who have never heard the Gospel be saved? It is more a question
with me whether we -- who
have the Gospel and fail to
give it to those who have not -- can be saved. -- Charles Spurgeon
I have but one passion:
It is He, it is He alone. The world is the field and the field is the
world; and henceforth that
country shall be my home
where I can be most used in winning souls for Christ. -- Count Nicolaus
Ludwn Zinzendorf
Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell. -- C.T. Studd
We talk of the Second Coming; half the world has never heard of the first. -- Oswald J. Smith
No one has the right to hear the gospel twice, while there remains someone who has not heard it once. -- Oswald J. Smith
I have but one candle of life to burn, and I would rather burn it out in a land filled with darkness than in a land flooded
with light-- John Keith Falconer
Give me one hundred
preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I
care not a straw whether they
be clergymen or laymen;
such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven
on earth. --John Wesley
He is not seeking a powerful people to represent HIM. Rather, He looks for all those who are weak, foolish, despised,
and written off: and He inhabits them with His own strength. -- Graham Cooke
While women weep, as
they do now, I'll fight; while children go hungry, as they do now I'll
fight; while men go to prison,
in and out, in and out, as
they do now, I'll fight; while there is a drunkard left, while there is a
poor lost girl upon the
streets, while there
remains one dark soul without the light of God, I'll fight-I'll fight to
the very end! --William Booth
"Brethren, there is no hope for China, no hope for the world, no hope for our own city, while the Church is sluggish
and lethargic."
Spurgeon
Ravenhill,
"There are two kinds of people, those dead in sin and those dead to sin."
"Either we concentrate in prayer, or we pray in concentration camps.
"A mouse was caught by
its tail in a trap the other day, and the poor creature went on eating
the cheese. Many men
are doing the same. They
know that they are guilty, and they dread their punishment, but they go
on nibbling at their beloved
sins."
- C.H. Spurgeon
1. Before grace can revive a sinner from death, the law must first put him there.
2. If you LOVE YOUR SIN, you HATE HIS LAW. If you LOVE HIS LAW, you will HATE YOUR SIN!
One day a lady criticized D. L. Moody for his methods of evangelism in attempting to win people to the Lord.
Moodys reply was, I agree with you. I don't like the way I do it either.
Tell me, how do you do it The lady replied, I don't do it.
Moody retorted, Then I like my way of doing it better than your way of not doing it.
God did not save you so you could become Satan's punching bag." Dave Spear
Great quote from Roy Hargrave:
"Reach out to lost
people. Give them the truth. Be bold about it. Don't be sheepish or
apologetic about it. What
we do is the measure of
what we really believe. The rest is just religious talk. Faith without
works is dead."
R.A. Torrey
Exodus 34:6-7; Genesis 6: 5-7; Psalm 5: 4-6
God does not punish the
sinner merely for the sinner' good. God is holy. God hates sin. His
holiness and hatred of sin,
like everyone of His
attributes, is living and active and must manifest itself. His holy
wrath at sin must strike. See Isaiah
53:6 "All we like sheep
have gone astray; we have turned everyone to his own way; and the LORD
have laid upon Him the
iniquity of us all." The
literal translation of the Hebrew for "has laid on" is "caused to strike
upon."
Any view of punishment of sin that leaves out the thought of its being an expression of God's holy hatred is not only
unbiblical, but also shallow and dishonoring to God.
God is holy, infinitely
holy, and He infinitely hates sin. We get glimpses at times of what
God's hatred of sin must be
in our own burning
indignation at some enormous iniquity, but God is infinitely holy; God's
wrath at the smallest sin is infinitely
greater than ours at the
greatest enormity. God is love, it is true, but this love is not of the
sentimental sort that sends
costly bouquets and tender
missives to moral monsters, as some of our Universalist theologians
would have us think... "Our
God is a consuming fire"
Heb 12:29. God's love for sinners will never be appreciated until it is
seen in the light of
His blazing wrath at sin.
Isaiah 6: 5-6; Job 42:5-6
The pure light of God's holiness reveals the blackness of our sin.
If any man thinks well
of himself, he has never met God. Nothing will demolish
self-righteousness like one real sight
of God. When dealing with
self-righteous people, get them into the holy presence of God if you
can.
Rom 5:8
The wonderfulness of
God's love! It would be no wonder if an unholy God could love unholy
men; but that the God whose
name is Holy, the
infinitely Holy God, could love beings so utterly sinful as we are, is
the wonder of the eternities. There
are many deep mysteries in
the Bible, but no other as profound as this.
In response to people asking about watching TV with "just a little bit" of swearing or nudity in it:
Just how much sin does it take before the Holy Spirit is grieved? The biting of a fruit will just about do it. - Paul
Washer
"We have false churches for false converts." Jeff Noblit
Christian's don't tell lies, they sing them in church. A W Tozer
"If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him."
C.T. Studd
"There must appear a
new type of preacher. The proper, ruler-of-the-synagogue type will never
do. Neither will the
priestly type of man who
carries out his duties, takes his pay and asks no questions, nor the
smooth-talking pastoral type
who knows how to make the
Christian religion acceptable to everyone. All these have been tried and
found wanting. Another
kind of religious leader
must arise among us. He must be of the old prophet type, a man who has
seen visions of God and has
heard a voice from the
Throne. When he comes (and I pray God there will be not one but many) he
will stand in flat contradiction
to everything our smirking,
smooth civilization holds dear. He will contradict, denounce and
protest in the name of God and
will earn the hatred and
opposition of a large segment of Christendom." A.W. Tozer
The prince of preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon said, The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit
which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
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