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That is the history of how many tens of thousands of “I will be saved tomorrow” souls perish today.
Are you going to live today, or are you going to postpone living until tomorrow, and never live?
Put chains on a man’s ankles and wrists, and he knows it. Look deep into his eyes and you will find there the sullen revolt of the free human spirit against the bonds of slavery. But conditioning the mind creates a slave who doesn’t know it. We are constantly being fed harmful ideas that we adopt and learn to believe in, thinking they are all right, and so we ignorantly follow. This is done without our knowing that a keen, sharp, unscrupulous mind is seeking to control us.
The greatest war is still being waged today by every effective technique created to get us to stop thinking for ourselves.
Whoever controls this media is controlling the ideas and the thinking of the American people today.
One of the most successful techniques ever devised by the mind of man for the control of mass thinking is advertising.
They are eager for everyone to think the same about everything.
Wherever you have reason for doing some action, it makes you a philosopher.
We all have a certain philosophy of life. We look out upon life and see it from a certain viewpoint.
us to think the way it wants us to think—especially about God, religion, our values and the future. What I think about money is important, but what I think about God is most important.
The strategy is to control our conduct by disseminating ideas and to gain acceptance for the counsel of the ungodly.
We always must keep in mind that this is a fallen world, and whatever originates in the world is bound to be bad and godless. Whatever originates in organized society, with thoughts from fallen minds and fallen hearts, is godless.
The Word of God was given to counteract godless counsel among godly men and to form our minds, not by all the techniques of the media, but by God Himself.
That God wants to control our minds, and He has no hesitation in saying that we are to have the mind of Christ.
Somebody is going to control your mind. Who is it going to be? Is it going to be the advertiser? Is it going to be the public school? Is it going to be the media? Or is it going to be God? You have to make up your mind on that, my friend. Whether you want to or not, somebody is going to control your mind; who is it going to be? “Wherewithal shall a young man cleanse his way? by taking heed thereto according to thy word” (Ps. 119:9).
that he was a slave to God Almighty and to Jesus Christ.
Love never feels slavery, and love never knows bondage. That obedience to Jesus Christ, which Paul called slavery, is not the slavery that imposes itself from the outside by laws, nor by the introduction of alien ideas into the mind. It is the happy, joyous bondage of freedom and love; and the holiest and most free creature in heaven above is the angel that is nearest the throne of God.
Those creatures that bow and spread their wings, and run swift to do the will of God, and have no mind but God and no will but His, are the mos...
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Wherever we do the will of God, we are free. Wherever we break from the will of God, we are slaves.
Rom. 6:16).
He vexed his righteous soul. He was a part of Sodom, but he hated it.
But he was not big enough to get up and walk out.
The only way to help the world is to stay free from its brainwashing. The man who has adopted its ways can never help it. It is by standing aloof from its ways that we can help it. The aloof man is the
only man that can do any good. You can only help a sinner by going contrary to him.
There is only one way to bless mankind, and that is by opposing mankind. For wherever mankind is wrong, and wherever he is different from God, it means that brother must be divided from brot...
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Better to be a radical on the right side than weak on the wrong side. Better go too far than not far enough.
I’m not as holy as I want to be.
The only slavery I recommend is the sweet slavery of Jesus’ yoke, which is easy, and His burden is light
sea . . . how long since you have used what God has given you?
that we should compare instead of doing something about it.
You possess the most precious thing in the world.
he has a life given to him from God.
You possess it, and it is the most precious thing in the entire world, for it gives meaning to everything else. It is on loan from God to you. I do not know how God makes souls, but I know God lends them to us.
My soul—that in me which is most like God of anything in the universe—I would not give it up. I would still say that a man is lucky to have a soul. What potentialities, what unbounded possibilities God has given to the man with a soul.
The only thing smarter than an excuse is a man who would try to hide behind it.
The little three-year-old asks more questions than the 30-year-old; and the 30-year-old asks more questions than the 50-year-old.
how much is of God and how much is merely social.
I wonder if the social were suddenly removed, how much of the spiritual would be left? It seems like we always have to be doing something to keep happy.
Stop a bit. Think. Look up. Hear God speaking. Say to yourself, Now wait a minute here, just a minute, am I really a Christian? Do I really know God? Am I really right with God? How long has it been since I’ve said a prayer out loud with anything but mumbling? Ask yourself, How long has it been since I sought God alone, with my Bible, and nobody knew it? How long since there has been a tear of repentance or joy in my eye? Am I just living on meetings and social fellowships and pizza? Or is there something more profound than that? Have I met God?
I had seen Him, I had known Him, He deigns to walk with me, and the glory of His presence shall be mine eternally.
“I cannot answer your questions, but I can tell you my testimony.
The reason is, they are taught that the power lies in the words, and if you get the words right, you are all right. Whereas, Paul says, the kingdom of God does not lie in words at all. The kingdom of God lies in the power that indwells those words.
you can have the words without the power,
The Holy Spirit is not something we can argue about or somebody that we can say of, “You believe your way and I’ll believe my way.” The Holy Spirit is an absolute necessity in the Church.
Reverence is the astonished awe that comes to the human heart when it sees God.
I want to point out that this prayer Jesus made that night in the garden was an anticipatory prayer; that is, He prayed in anticipation of something He knew was coming in the will of God, and He prepared for it. I want to emphasize and lay upon your conscience to practice anticipatory prayer, because battles are lost before they are fought.
Battles are always lost before they are fought.
It was also true of Israel. In the Old Testament, when Israel went in to battle righteous and prayed-up, she never lost a battle. When she went in filled with iniquity, and prayerless, she never won a battle.
David was a young man who knew God,
He had prayed and meditated and lay under the stars at night and talked to God and had learned that when God sends a man, that man can conquer any enemy, no matter how strong.
