Kindle Notes & Highlights
Thousands each year find their desire for salvation and holiness becoming too acute to bear, and turn to the One who was born in a manger to die on a cross.
Whenever Christ is preached in the power of the Spirit, a judgment seat is erected and each hearer stands to be judged by his response to the message. His moral responsibility is not to a lesson in religious history but to the divine Person who now confronts him.
It is quite in keeping with the ways of God that He should make the hope of the world to hang upon something as weak as a new baby.
Faith is an organ of knowledge, and love an organ of experience. God came to us in the incarnation; in atonement He reconciled us to Himself, and by faith and love we enter and lay hold on Him.
The needs of the people, not our own convenience, decide how far we shall go and how much we shall do.
Before the judgment seat of Christ my service will be judged not by how much I have done but by how much I could have done. In God’s sight my giving is measured not by how much I have given but by how much I could have given and how much I had left after I made my gift. The needs of the world and my total ability to minister to those needs decide the worth of my service.
The Law was given by Moses, but that was all that Moses could do. He could only “command” righteousness. In contrast, only Jesus Christ produces righteousness. All that Moses could do was to forbid us to sin. In contrast, Jesus Christ came to save us from sin.
Unbelief is actually perverted faith, for it puts its trust not in the living God but in dying men.
Had men not been lost, no Savior would have been required. Had they been abandoned no Savior would have come.
this world is not the end. We are made for two worlds and as surely as we now inhabit the one we shall also inhabit the other!
The same man who will check his tires and consult his road map with utmost care before starting on a journey may travel for a lifetime on the way that knows no return and never once pause to ask whether or not he is headed in the right direction.
The Incarnation may indeed raise some questions, but it answers many more.
When you read your New Testament and realize afresh the attitudes and the utterances of our Lord Jesus Christ, you will know exactly how God feels.
