52 Weeks through the Bible Quotes

“God deserves the credit for what He accomplishes through us. The people God uses to accomplish His will are His instruments, so we should never take personal credit for what God does through us. Just as no brush takes the credit for a masterpiece it was used to paint, no Christian should deny or belittle what God does through him or her—for to do so is to deny and belittle God’s own work.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“One of the ways the Spirit equips Christians for greater service is through spiritual gifting. A spiritual gift can be defined as a divine enablement for ministry that the Holy Spirit freely imparts to every believer. Such gifts cannot be earned, pursued, or worked up. They are merely received through the grace of God. Paul presents some of the categories of spiritual gifts here—“prophecy . . . ministry . . . teaching . . . exhortation . . . liberality [giving]” (Romans 12:6–8), in addition to leading and showing mercy. Each believer has at least one gift, or often a combination of gifts uniquely blended together. Spiritual gifts are not for the exaltation of the one with the gift but are to be used in loving concern for the benefit of others in the church.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“Our salvation does not come by confirmation, communion, baptism, church membership, church attendance, trying to keep the Ten Commandments, or by living out Jesus’ teachings in the Sermon on the Mount. It does not come by giving to charity or even by believing there is a God! It does not come by simply being moral and leading a respectable life. Rather, salvation comes only when we enter through “the narrow gate” and receive by faith the gift of God’s grace.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“We cannot serve two masters. Jesus taught, “No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will be loyal to the one and despise the other.” Jesus was speaking specifically about the love of money (or mammon in the Greek), saying, “You cannot serve God and [money]” (Luke 16:13). God desires for us to have a heart that is completely devoted to Him and not divided—to love and serve Him with all our heart, with all our soul, with all our strength, and with all our mind (see Luke 10:27). As Jesus said to the Pharisees who overheard Him, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts” (Luke 16:15). God knows our hearts, and He will not share the throne of our affections with anyone or anything else.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“For us to be saved, we must come to Christ with the dependent attitude and outlook of a little child: simple, helpless, trusting, unaffected, unpretentious, and unambitious. Of course, this is not to say that children are without sin; rather, they are naive and unassuming, dependent on others, and free from selfish claims to grandeur. They submit to the care of their parents and other loved ones, relying on them to meet all their needs. This is the kind of humble and dependent attitude anyone must have who seeks to enter the kingdom of God.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“The high value that Jesus accorded to women is especially significant. From the prominence of Mary, Elizabeth, and Anna in the nativity account to the events that occurred on resurrection morning, women played a central and visible role in the life and ministry of our Lord.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“Many people today also deny God created the earth and humankind while simultaneously elevating His creation in His place. It is a bitter irony to treat the things of God with disdain, as Belshazzar did, while praising the very things He made.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“Practically any field of endeavor necessitates hard work if a person is to advance—and wisdom is no exception. This is balanced with the fact that God gives wisdom freely to those who”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“Finishing strong means persevering in wisdom, keeping company with the wise, and not fighting against correction.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“transforming our lives. In this, we must remember that wisdom from the Lord is not a one-time acquisition, or merely a collecting of knowledge, but a daily commitment to walk according to the Word of God.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“God puts us where He wants us. Esther was a young Jewish woman who was whisked from obscurity to become queen of the world’s most powerful empire. It seems surprising that she could rise to such a position—but it was no surprise to God. He had placed Esther exactly where He wanted her to be so He could work out a bigger plan that He had for His people’s salvation. In the same way, God placed Mordecai exactly where He wanted him to be so that he could influence Esther. Esther and Mordecai could not have seen what God intended to do through them, and neither can we. Our job, like theirs, is to work faithfully wherever the Lord has placed us and allow Him to take care of the future.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“God loves to meet our needs. In 2 Kings 4, we read of five situations of dire need: (1) the widow on the verge of starvation, (2) the barren woman, (3) the grieving mother, (4) the sons of the prophets with the poisoned stew, and (5) the one hundred men on the brink of starvation. God met each need with His gracious provision, which reveals He loves to meet His people’s needs. However, when we choose to rely on our wealth or find our joy in our possessions, we miss out on the fact that God is capable of meeting our needs in this way. The same principle applies to our spiritual condition. Only when we realize the depth of our sin can we recognize the graciousness of God in salvation (see Luke 5:31–32).”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“God wants His people to refrain from sinful behavior, but He also knows we are sinners by birth (see Psalm 51:5).”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“God will send discipline into our lives to make us purer and more like Christ, but His deep desire is for us to obey Him out of love and gratitude rather than by the compulsion of hardship. It is a mark of spiritual maturity to obey God’s Word simply because we know that it pleases and glorifies the Father.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“God wants us to place our faith in His sovereignty and remember that the outcome of our lives is entirely in His hands.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“again, they continuously accused Him of treachery. It is a natural human response to complain when things go wrong, but when we do so, we are actually saying that we do not trust the Lord’s sovereignty. Instead, as Paul wrote, we should choose to “do all things without complaining and disputing” (Philippians 2:14).”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“The Ten Commandments fall into these two categories. Some of them spell out what it means to love God with all our hearts, souls, and minds, while others give practical ways of loving our neighbors as ourselves. These two principles summarize what it means to live a godly life.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“We may never become world leaders in this life, but the Lord’s plans for our future are still important in the eternal scheme. He is preparing each of us now to be ready for that great role of leadership, and He uses every circumstance in our lives for that preparation—including suffering and hardship.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study

“God then made a promise to Abram that in spite of his old age”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., 52 Weeks through the Bible: A Year-Long Bible Study