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Anyone who sees GOD as austere will not serve Him.
When Jesus commands, no one can countermand.
Wisdom is the sole prerogative and property of GOD.
There always comes a point where there is no explanation; a point at which we
are shut up to faith.
GOD is pleased when what men see provokes more interest.
Christ is a zero-loss Savior.
Wisdom is known in fellowship.
Past victories do not guarantee future successes.
The salvation of man affects heaven.
Limitation is inherent to pretense.
It is good to know our Savior is the “only wise God.”
The beginning of two different manner of wisdoms was in the garden; each one
partakes of the character of its originator.
When a person does not submit their knowledge to GOD, it becomes vain.
We must not hedge up our prayers to protect our unbelief
You have to be discerning in order to tell what is good and what is evil.
One of the areas where an apostate falls down is found in serving one another.
You have to be sensitive of your relationship to the Lord in order for it to mean anything to you.
There are some things in Scripture that are so plain you have to choose to corrupt them.
To know something historically is not to know it doctrinally.
If you love the truth, you will eventually know it.
1. Death is a point of no return. If life is a sentence, death is its period. (9/29)
2. Everyone tabernacling in the flesh must contend with the world. (10/20).
3. As soon as we hear anything that is against God, faith must rise up and refuse to listen. (10/20)
4. I was never satisfied with "unmerited favor" being a definitive description of the grace of God. (11/17)
5. The distance between God and man created by sin created a barrier to the free distribution of Divine favor.
6. Grace had to be brought to us by Jesus. God could not send it without a Mediator. (11/17)
7. Faith gives us access to the grace by which we believed in the first place. (11/17)
8. Anyone who has tasted that the Lord is good is satisfied, but not satiated. (12/1)
9. Without appetites, pleasant things are of no consequence. Without an appetite, one does not press in. (12/1)
10. God is interested in us being interested in Him. (12/1)
11. Until salvation is completed in us, it is changeable. (12/15)
12. Each person is set on a journey with two possible destinies. The one you prepare for is the one you will receive. (12/15)
13.We must get to the point where the first thing that occurs to us in our failure is our relationship to God. (12/15)
14. We are to act upon any inclination toward God. God then gives power to act upon that inclination. (12/15)
15. As long as God is love, love is relevant, for God is love. (12/15)
16. Basically, wherever our heart goes, the rest of us will follow. (12/15)
17. If I am not in the obedience, it is not obedience. (12/15)
18. There are three elements to a call. (1) The one who calls. (2) The message of the call. (3) The ones who are called. (1/12/03)
19. Because God is eternal, nothing He says is irrelevant. (1/12/03)
20. If you want to know what life is, you must think of it in reference to God. (1/12/03)
21. If we can hear, we can have the things whereof we hear. (1/12/03)
22. The word "beloved" is one of the premier effects of salvation. (2/16/03)
23. The "common salvation" is the basis for being "beloved." (2/16/03)
24. The imminent jeopardy of those to whom Jude wrote demanded a different approach. (2/16/03)
25. True discipline is not what God does to us, but what He does for us.
26. Every book of Scripture, if correctly received, is a love letter.
Adam was surrounded by living things, had fellowship with God, and yet was "alone."
God has set in order the process whereby Satan will be destroyed.
Sin tends to spread.
When self is severed from God, sin is the result.
Satan said the eyes of Adam and Eve would be opened. When they were, they had shame and fear.
Adam and Eve's intellect was reduced when they sinned. they should have confessed they had sinned.
Adam and Eve introduced sorrow into this world, and they were partakers of it.
Knowing evil blocked Adam and Eve's access to God and good.
A prideful heart cannot obey God.
The wilderness was a classroom where God was teaching Israel.
True humility can receive what God gives.
Humility is never a mute point with God. God has a response to both pride and humility.
Life is relevant in view of God, not God in view of life.
Without humility, we can take no credit for obedience.
Humility can see the goodness of God. Pride cannot.
Christ subdued His flesh, and can now lead us in doing the same.
We will never tread where the foot of Christ has not trod.
Humility opens the door, and obedience enters in.
Names are integral to knowledge and understanding.
Only God can truly establish a name.
In renaming Abraham, God made a connection between him and Himself.
Your salvation hinges on the accuracy and power of God's name.
All of God's dealings are in harmony with Himself and with each other.
what calling can be higher than to come to god Himself? all other voices are lesser voices.
A valid assembly helps us to enter into the realities declared in Scripture.
We have the responsibility of keeping hole what God has made holy.
The Word of God causes us to see ourselves as we really are.
The heavenly tongue is spoken in human language, but is interpreted to us by the Holy Spirit.
Whenever Christ speaks, there is something that reaches deep within us. His words have power to change us.
The only effectual hearing is the hearing of faith.
By accepting God's deliverance, Israel accepted His authority.
The mind of man cannot conjure up God. he has to be revealed.
God commemorated the perfection of His own work in the Sabbath. there was nothing wanting in creation, so the Lord rested.
We are not to use our tongues as weapons against others.
At Sinai, god seemed threatening and frightening. Therefore the people drew back.
God and silver are like a stop sign to the understanding.
If we are not slow of heart, God will orchestrate things so we can receive a fuller message.
There are people who declare there is no God by their indifference.
People who conform to earthly surroundings have said "There is no God."
God gives us the power to judge ourselves, if we will do it.
Do not be distracted by the delivery of the message.
Your heart will effect your demeanor.
If we fail to hear Christ's call higher, we will lose our way.
When we gather together in Jesus' name, we are in an environment where God's voice is amplified and other voices diminished.
It is wrong for us to be exalted now, for our condition does not call for it.
Humility comes in two packages. We can either humble ourselves, or God will humble us.
When God exalts us, He will be glorified.
Unfortunately, it is common to see a weak and anemic approach to the gathering of the saints.
Everything that is or shall be has been effected by the salvation of God.
The mind is a kind of liaison that can both feed and express the intents of the heart.
When we walk in the counsel of the ungodly, we are feeding our mind on the things of this world.
The mind is the collecting place where things are cooled before being sent to the heart. the heart digests, then sends back to the mind what it likes.
If you do not put the Word of God into your mind, it will not come up magically.
None of us can afford giving the advantage to our flesh.
Your mind will express the intents of whatever is controlling you.
There is a part of you that cannot do good, but it does not have to reign.
You need a renewed mind to work with your renewed heart.
Knowing the Lord is true higher education.
You cannot be saved with an unholy mind.
Schisms in the church are unacceptable. They are always caused by corrupt thought.
You are in a state of flux as long as you are in the world.
There is nothing wrong with making yourself do what is right.
There are doctrines that ignore the effect sin has on the individual.
All sin violates God.
Unless you understand sin, death does not make sense.
Grace retrieves, establishes, and employs.
Everything that is going to pass away was effected by the choice of Adam and Eve.
God cannot be joined to something dead or defiled.
From the fall forward, man has had to struggle with a defiled nature.
I cannot out-want what God is able to give.
The time is fast approaching when we will be taken from shadow land.
As long as we have flesh, pride and humility will be an issue with us.
If you get into a contest with God, you as well advise yourself you are going to lose.
Pride robs us of our strength to serve God.
Obedience is foreign to the carnal nature.
It is impossible to be in the flesh and please God.
There were two times in the history of the world when every living person knew God: at creation and immediately after the flood.
Anything that departs from the person of God departs from the truth.
You will not obey God if you do not trust Him.
It is difficult to think about hope without thinking about faith. In a sense, they are twins.
Faith is the foundation from which hope is cast within the veil.
Like the star of Bethlehem, hope gives us a reason to press forward.
When David was cast down, he recovered by reasoning upon the goodness of God.
What we hope for and who we hope in are inseparably yoked.
The new creature has no desire for anything divorced from God.
"Our lives are dimensional, not just a flat line."
"Those who have tasted of the joy of the Lord here will have an inkling what it means to finally enter into the joy of the Lord."
"Keeping the Lord in your mind is what redeems the time."
"Christ makes our thanksgiving acceptable to God."
"Upon the completion of great spiritual undertakings, there is to be thanksgiving."
"Were it not for God, no herb on earth would grow."
"We are to be thankful for the reception and working of God's Word in others."
"Thankfulness allows us to see the magnitude of what God has done for us."
"The tree of the knowledge of good and evil was not so because of the intrinsic nature of the fruit, but because of the consequences of eating it."
"It was a big step for Deity to enter the realm polluted by man."
"In the context of sin, the love of God is seen more clearly. It sparks hope within the human soul."
"Our brethren are a tangible representation of God."
"Filthy dreamers dredge up thoughts from the lowest realms."
"Jesus did everything we could not do, yet left a work for us to do."
"Salvation forbids coming into Jesus and remaining filthy."
"Anything in life that excludes God becomes a closed door. Everything you are comes under the dominion of salvation."
"You cannot always help thinking it, but you can always help saying it. In the context of salvation, the wrath of man is not inconsequential."
"It is possible to neglect the 'little matters' that erode our awareness of salvation."
"Sometimes, when you look only at the finished product, you miss what was involved in its preparation."
"Good Bible words carry with them a lot of luggage other words do not carry."
"Until we see the magnitude of sin, the greatness of the remedy will not be appreciated."
"The sacrifices made under the Law show us the seriousness of approaching to God, and what was required to forgive us."
"You cannot neglect salvation on any level. There is no insignificant area in salvation."
"For us to see the truth, it had to be brought from heaven to us."
"God's initiative is what enables our response."
"The baby Jesus gave no promises, and made no demands."
"Unlike the Corinthians and the Hebrews, Abraham was able to receive great truths from God."
"God multiplies Himself in the saints."
"Because salvation is so large, we need different ways to look at it."
"Those who do not come to God by faith in Christ will not be joint-heirs with those who do come by faith."
"If Abraham is the father of the faithful, then they must be like Abraham in their faith."
"There came a time in Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac when the servants were left behind. It was then strictly an issue between the father and the son."
"There is a day coming when the redemption wrought by Christ will be as complete as the sacrifice he offered."
"Any dialogs with the devil are extremely dangerous."
"The chains that bind us are not as strong as Satan would have us believe.
"Not only will our works follow us, God will enlarge and enhance them."
"The Lord came into the world to get us out of it."
"The world never stops calling to us. It has a message for us, and we must learn to close the door to it."
"If we do not come to God, we are an idolater. If we stray from Him we are an adulterer."
"If you love the world, when it is burned up, you will not be able to let go of it."
"The world does not come to you looking like your enemy. It comes saying it has an advantage for you."
"Being nice is not being good. Flesh can be packaged nice, but it is still flesh."
"You have no options about being in the world, but you do have options about being of it."
"If you do not say 'Depart from me' to God now, He will say it to you then."
"Anything that has to do with God is not profane, but holy."
"One of the major preparations regarding the Lord's table is our hearts."
"The very fact that it is called 'the Lord's Table' shows its universality."
"We minister to the Lord in remembering Christ."
"There were precise instructions on how to make the showbread, but no such instructions are related to the Lord's table. We do not come to this table by law."
"To eat in remembrance of Christ is to despise anything hat interferes with that remembrance.
"When we come to the Lord's table, we are to make sure our heart is not divided."
"In the active and volitional putting of Christ first, we are blessed."
"Everything that is going to pass away is inferior to man."
"When we are weak in the flesh, it is an occasion to think of the strength of the Lord."
"When believers die, their works follow them because they are associated with God."
"'The Lord is my Strength' means, it is He who enables me."
"'The Lord is my Song' means He is the rejoicing of my heart."
"There is a song the world cannot suppress."
"If it were not for God, there would be no need for the word 'salvation' in the human vocabulary."
"You cannot know God without being conformed to Him."
"Never be tempted to think your faith and life are of no regard to the people of God."
"Never take the word of man over the Word of God. Man can lie, God cannot."
"The garden of Eden was the epitome of the natural creation."
"When Adam and Eve sinned, they yielded thorns and thistles to God."
"Sin, in its many expressions, boils down to being unlike God."
"Anything that leave 'I' alive cannot root out sin."
"Sin is not reasonable. You have to be spiritually insane to follow it."
"How would we have known about forgiveness if God had not told us?"
"There is a part of you that the world cannot touch unless you let it."
"Light and darkness are moral choices."
"Whenever you are in the light, you are approaching unto God."
"One of the most alarming things is when you are attracted by something God abominates."
"The second time Israel came to Egypt they were not longing for Egypt any longer."
"When Israel came into Canaan, everything was in place for them to possess it: houses, vineyards, and wells."
"We must see our lives like Israel saw Canaan: formerly defiled and now consecrated to the Lord. We must not spare the old man and his deeds, but subdue them."
"Salvation does not just make us a greater debtor, it conforms us to the image of Christ."
"In the case of the woman taken in adultery, Jesus was the only one qualified to take up a rock--and He did not."
"Everyone has the same evidence before them (the creation). Their motives will determine what they conclude."
"As heaven and earth come closer together, the earth becomes more tenuous."
"Law is to do. Grace is to be."
"Having a song in your heart has nothing to do with performance."
"Praise is the overflow of the heart, bubbling out of the mouth."
"Because men move off of the foundation of truth, they become complacent."
"A melody can draw things out of the soul."
"Those living at a distance from the Lord cannot learn the sons of Zion."
"A joy unspeakable and full of glory will find expression."
"Commitment and detachment cannot coexist."
"We want to be alert to the deficiencies that have robbed us of our joy."
"Existence is not life."
"When man became a living soul, he received God's kind of life."
"Neither heaven nor hell can be fully comprehended this side of the veil."
"There is no authorship of life outside of God."
"On the Lord's day, our minds are tuned to a higher frequency."
"Open ears are a principle of the Kingdom."
"Part of our stewardship is to break up our fallow ground, making it more fertile."
"Life is a condition in which all benefits are realized."
"Life is not defined as mere existence, but is intrinsically tied to God."
"the time you spend here makes all the difference when it comes tom your eternal destiny."
"The progressive result of sin: cover, hide, then flee."
"Death entered the world with all of its ramifications."
"Before Christ could give His life to us, He had to give His life for us."
"Christ eradicated sin, and earned the authority to bring us to God."
"Both life and death affect everything they touch."
"The power of Christ impoverishes the list of the eye, and denies the lust of the flesh."
"In a first fruit sense, death is even now being swallowed up of life."