The Expositor's Study Bible Quotes

“40 He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart (God set in motion the “Law of Unbelief,” which, in effect, is the “Law of Sowing and Reaping”); that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them (because they willfully refused to believe, God willed a judicial blindness and hardness accordingly).”
― Jimmy Swaggart, The Expositor's Study Bible

“(Reynolds says, “In these Words, we learn that the attraction of the Cross of Christ will prove to be the mightiest, and most sovereign motive ever brought to bear on the human will, and, when wielded by the Holy Spirit as a Revelation of the matchless Love of God, will involve the most sweeping judicial sentence that can be pronounced upon the world and its prince.”).”
― Jimmy Swaggart, The Expositor's Study Bible

“25 He who loves his life shall lose it (hits at the very heart of man’s problem; it could be paraphrased, “He who loves self shall not see fulfillment”); and he who hates his life in this world shall keep it unto Life Eternal (refers to putting self last, and Christ first in all things). 26 If any man serve Me, let him follow Me (follow Christ exclusively); and where I am, there shall also My Servant be (actually means to be “Crucified together” [Rom. 6:3-5], “Glorified together” [Rom. 8:17]): if any man serve Me, him will My Father honour (this is the true honor which comes from God).”
― Jimmy Swaggart, The Expositor's Study Bible

“sinful motive often hides itself under the mask of reverence for another virtue.”)”
― Jimmy Swaggart, The Expositor's Study Bible

“BELIEVERS ARE AS SALT AND LIGHT 13 You are the salt (preservative) of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men (“Salt” is a Type of the Word of God; the professing Believer who no longer holds to the Word is of no use to God or man).”
― Jimmy Swaggart, The Expositor's Study Bible

“5 Even so the tongue is a little member (it is small, but it exerts a powerful influence), and boasts great things (responsible for great things, whether good or bad). Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindles! (The image projected here by James is the picture of a vast forest in flames, all begun by the falling of a single spark.) 6 And the tongue is a fire (speaks of fire in a negative way, that which destroys), a world of iniquity (the tongue in some way is responsible for all the iniquity in the world): so is the tongue among our members (body members), that it defiles the whole body (constantly speaking in a negative way can bring about physical illness in the body), and sets on fire the course of nature (the tongue sets us on a particular path, and in this case the wrong path); and it is set on fire of hell. (By using the word “hell,” we are made to understand not only the wickedness of the tongue, but as well its destructive power.)”
― Jimmy Swaggart, The Expositor's Study Bible

“Whosoever drinks of this water (water of the world) shall thirst again (presents one of the most simple, common, yet at the same time, profound statements ever uttered; the things of the world can never satisfy the human heart and life, irrespective as to how much is acquired): 14 But whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst (“Whosoever” means exactly what it says! Christ accepted is spiritual thirst forever slaked!); but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into Everlasting Life (everything that the world or religion gives pertains to the externals; but this which Jesus gives deals with the very core of one’s being, and is a perennial fountain).”
― Jimmy Swaggart, The Expositor's Study Bible

“7 The Jews answered him, We have a law, and by our law He ought to die (spoke of the Jewish Sanhedrin, the Ruling Body of Israel, both Civil and Religious),”
― Jimmy Swaggart, The Expositor's Study Bible

“21 I do not frustrate the Grace of God (if we make anything other than the Cross of Christ the Object of our Faith, we frustrate the Grace of God, which means we stop its action, and the Holy Spirit will no longer help us): for if Righteousness come by the Law (any type of Law), then Christ is dead in vain. (If I can successfully live for the Lord by any means other than Faith in Christ and the Cross, then the Death of Christ was a waste.)”
― Jimmy Swaggart, The Expositor's Study Bible

“3 And why do you behold the mote that is in your brother’s eye (the Believer is not to be looking for fault or wrongdoing in the lives of fellow Believers), but consider not the beam that is in your own eye? (We have plenty in our own lives which need eliminating, without looking for faults in others. The “mote” and “beam” are contrasted! The constant judging of others portrays the fact that we are much worse off than the one we are judging.) 4 Or how will you say to your brother, Let me pull out the mote out of your eye (the seriousness of setting ourselves up as judge, jury, and executioner); and, behold, a beam is in your own eye? (Once again draws attention to the fact that the person doing the judging is in far worse spiritual condition than the one being judged.) 5 You hypocrite (aptly describes such a person), first cast out the beam out of your own eye; and then you shall see clearly to cast out the mote out of your brother’s eye (the very fact that we do not address ourselves, but rather others, portrays the truth that our personal situation is worse; when we properly analyze ourselves, then, and only then, can we “see clearly”; this is speaking of character assassination and not the correction of doctrine).”
― Jimmy Swaggart, The Expositor's Study Bible

“Message of the Cross, which in effect is the story of the Bible, then spiritual captivity is the result. Freedom over the world, the flesh, and the Devil can be brought about only by Christ and what Christ did at the Cross, which gives the Holy Spirit latitude to work in one’s life. All”
― Jimmy Swaggart, The Expositor's Study Bible

“However, let the reader understand that with God, at least as long as there is breath, it is never”
― Jimmy Swaggart, The Expositor's Study Bible

“(“You” is emphatic. When the eye keeps steadfastly fastened on God’s judgments upon a guilty world and upon His assured Promise of personal Salvation, then the heart is delivered from Earthly expectations and is, at the same time, prepared to suffer calamities in sympathy with national distress.)”
― Jimmy Swaggart, The Expositor's Study Bible

“(Reynolds said, “Love involves obedience, and obedience involves Love. Consequently, obedience is the great proof of Love, and if Love is absent, this means that obedience of the Word is absent as well.”).”
― Jimmy Swaggart, The Expositor's Study Bible

“15 If you love Me, keep My Commandments (His Commandments can be kept only in one way; the Believer must ever make Christ and the Cross the Object of his Faith, which will then give the Holy Spirit latitude to work within our lives and help us do these things which we must do).”
― Jimmy Swaggart, The Expositor's Study Bible

“12 Not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and slew his Brother (presents the prototype of evil). And wherefore slew he him? (Cain was not a murderer because he killed his Brother, but killed his Brother because he was a murderer.) Because his own works were evil, and his Brother’s Righteous (points directly to the Cross; the rejection of God’s Way [the Cross], which Cain did, is labeled by the Holy Spirit as “evil”; Abel accepted the Cross [Gen., Chpt. 4]).”
― Jimmy Swaggart, The Expositor's Study Bible

“7 Jesus answered and said unto him, What I do you know not now; but you shall know hereafter”
― Jimmy Swaggart, The Expositor's Study Bible