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I believe that the imperative need of the day is not simply revival, but a radical reformation that will go to the root of our moral and spiritual maladies and deal with causes rather than with consequences, with the disease rather than with symptoms.
An unofficial hierarchy decided what Christians were to believe. Not the Scriptures, but what the scribe thought the Scriptures meant became the Christian creed.
The doctrines were sound but something vital was
missing. The tree of correct doctrine was never allowed to blossom.
As the letter triumphed, the Spirit withdrew and
It assumes, for instance, that if we have the word for a thing we have the thing itself. If it is in the Bible, it is in us. If we have the doctrine, we have the experience. If something was true of Paul it is of necessity true of us because we accept Paul's epistles as divinely inspired.
Assurance of individual salvation is thus no more than a logical conclusion drawn from doctrinal premises, and the resultant experience wholly mental.
emotional satisfaction their natures demanded and their teachers denied them.
Most evangelicals no longer initiate; they imitate, and the world is their model.
It is no longer either dangerous or costly to be a Christian.
Grace has become not free, but cheap.
We are busy these days proving to the world that they can have all the benefits of the Gospel without any inconvenience to their customary way o...
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Unless praying men have the insight and faith to amend their whole way of life to conform to the New Testament pattern there can be no true revival.
Sometimes praying is not only useless, it is wrong. Here is an example: Israel had been defeated at Ai, and "Joshua rent his clothes, and fell to the earth upon his face before the ark of the Lord until the eventide, he and the elders of Israel, and put dust upon their heads." According to our modern philosophy of revival this was the thing to do and, if continued long enough, should certainly have persuaded God and brought the blessing. But "the Lord said unto Joshua, Get thee up; wherefore liest thou upon thy face? Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I
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We must have a reformation within the Church. To beg for a flood of blessing to come upon a backslidden and disobedient Church is to waste time and effort. A new wave of religious interest
will do no more than add numbers to churches that have no intention to own the Lordship of Jesus and come unde...
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God is not interested in increased church attendance unless those who attend amend their ways a...
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All-night prayer meetings that are not preceded by practical repentance may actually be displeasing to God. "To obey is better than sacrifice."
We must return to New Testament Christianity, not in creed only but in complete manner of life as well.
Separation, obedience, humility, simplicity, gravity, self-control, modesty, cross-bearing: these all must again be made a living part of the total Christian con...
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if our hypothetical being knew such blazing souls as Moses, David, Isaiah, Paul, John, Stephen, Augustine, Rolle, Rutherford, Newton, Brainerd and Faber, he might logically conclude that 20th-century Christians had misunderstood some vital doctrine of the faith somewhere and had stopped short of a true acquaintance with God.
a serious contradiction between what we think we are and what we are in reality.
The bold claims that we are sons of God, that we are risen with Christ and seated with Him in heavenly places, that we are indwelt by the life-giving Spirit, that we are members of the body of Christ and children of the new creation, are negated by our attitudes, our behavior and, most of all, by our lack of fervor and by the absence of a spirit of worship within us.
great disparity between our doctrinal beliefs and our lives, he might be dismissed with a smiling explanation that it is but the normal difference between our sure standing and our variable state. Certainly then, he would be appalled that as beings once made in the image of God we could allow ourselves thus to play with words and trifle with our own souls.
After "accepting" Christ they tend to substitute logic for life and doctrine for experience.
Christian truth is designed to lead us to God, not to serve as a substitute for God.
The "deeper life" is deeper only because the average Christian life is tragically shallow.
The children of God have been taught contrary doctrines from the same texts, warned, threatened and intimidated until they instinctively recoil from every mention of the Bible teaching concerning the Holy Spirit. This confusion has not come by accident. An enemy has done this. Satan knows that Spiritless evangelicalism is as deadly as Modernism or heresy, and he has done everything in his power to prevent us from enjoying our true Christian heritage.
The Holy Spirit is our cloud by day and our fire by night. Without Him we only wander aimlessly about the desert.
After a man is convinced that he can be filled with the Spirit he must desire to be.
Who will not permit you to strut or boast or show off? Who will take the direction of your life away from you and will reserve the sovereign right to test you and discipline you? Who will strip away from you many loved objects which secretly harm your soul?
Spirit's filling. Very well, look at the fruit of such doctrine. What is your life producing? You are doing religious work, preaching, singing, writing, promoting, but what is the quality of your work?
further anointing to resist temptation, obey the Scriptures, understand the truth, live victoriously, die in peace and meet Christ without embarrassment at His coming?
