The Gospel According to Jesus Quotes

“It is a widely held misconception that anyone who questions whether he is saved is challenging the integrity of God’s Word. What misguided thinking that is! Scripture encourages us to examine ourselves to determine if we are in the faith (2 Cor. 13:5). Peter wrote, “Be all the more diligent to make certain about His calling and choosing you” (2 Peter 1:10). It is right to examine our lives and evaluate the fruit we bear, for “each tree is known by its own fruit” (Luke 6:44).”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith?

“We do not "make" Christ Lord; He is Lord! Those who will not receive Him as Lord are guilty of rejecting Him. "Faith" that rejects His sovereign authority is really unbelief.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., The Gospel According to Jesus: What Does Jesus Mean When He Says "Follow Me"?

“We have no business preaching grace to people who do not understand the implications of God's law. It is meaningless to expound on grace to someone who does not know the divine demand for righteousness. Those who do not even sense their own guilt cannot possibly comprehend God's mercy. You cannot preach a gospel of grace to someone who has not heard that God requires obedience and punishes disobedience.”
― John MacArthur, Gospel According to Jesus, The

“To say “Lord, Lord” and then disobey is the moral equivalent of a Judas kiss.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith?

“When Jesus called people to follow Him, He was not seeking companions to be His sidekicks or admirers whom He could entertain with miracles. He was calling people to yield completely and unreservedly to His lordship.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith?

“Tax-gatherers and harlots have an easier time than Pharisees getting into the kingdom because they are more likely to recognize their sin and repent of it. Even the worst of sins will not keep a sinner out of heaven if he or she repents. On the other hand, even the most impressive Pharisee who shelters his sin and refuses to acknowledge or repent of it will find himself shut out of the kingdom. There is no salvation apart from the repentance that renounces sin.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith?

“As D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones said: Repentance means that you realize that you are a guilty, vile sinner in the presence of God, that you deserve the wrath and punishment of God, that you are hell-bound. It means that you begin to realize that this thing called sin is in you, that you long to get rid of it, and that you turn your back on it in every shape and form. You renounce the world whatever the cost, the world in its mind and outlook as well as its practice, and you deny yourself, and take up the cross and go after Christ. Your nearest and dearest, and the whole world, may call you a fool, or say you have religious mania. You may have to suffer financially, but it makes no difference. That is repentance.20”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith?

“On the other hand, being a true follower of Christ means the end of human autonomy. And that is as it should be, because self-determination turns out to be nothing more than an illusion anyway. The only kind of liberty it offers is “free[dom] in regard to righteousness” (Rom. 6:20) — and that is the very essence of bondage to sin. Its inevitable end is death and destruction. If we want true liberty from sin and all its fruits, it is not autonomy that we need, but a different kind of bondage: complete surrender to the lordship of Christ.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith?

“Saving faith, repentance, commitment, and obedience are all divine works, wrought by the Holy Spirit in the heart of everyone who is saved.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith?

“salvation is by God’s sovereign grace and grace alone. Nothing a lost, degenerate, spiritually dead sinner can do will in any way contribute to salvation. Saving faith, repentance, commitment, and obedience are all divine works, wrought by the Holy Spirit in the heart of everyone who is saved.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith?

“The good news is that although the gate is narrow, it is wide enough to accommodate the chief of sinners (cf. 1 Tim. 1:15).”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith?

“Romans 6 is Paul’s rebuttal to antinomianism.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith?

“The repentance that Christ requires of His people consists in a settled refusal to set any limit to the claims which He may make on their lives.”17”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith?

“The great miracle of redemption is not that we accept Christ, but that He accepts us.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith?

“Lo que es particularmente interesante acerca de la determinación de Pablo de tener el solo propósito de predicar el evangelio no diluido es su admisión inmediata de que luchaba con los mismos sentimientos de aprensión e intimidación que todos nosotros experimentamos ante nuestro deber de proclamar el evangelio. Al reflexionar sobre su temprano ministerio en Corinto, Pablo lo caracterizó de esta manera: «Y estuve entre vosotros con debilidad, y mucho temor y temblor» (1 Corintios 2.3).”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., La evangelización

“Al crear un evangelio sintético, facilitan que las iglesias se llenen de personas que no se han arrepentido de sus pecados. En lugar de hacer al mundo como la iglesia, tales esfuerzos tienen solo el éxito de hacer la iglesia más como el mundo. Esta precisamente fue la enseñanza de Jesús en Marcos 4 para evitar esto.”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., La evangelización

“false promises of an easy life or indulgence of sins. But in good times, the cost does not seem so high, and people take the name of Christ without undergoing the radical transformation of life that true conversion implies.”
― John MacArthur, The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith?

“J. I. Packer has written, “The repentance that Christ requires of His people consists in a settled refusal to set any limit to the claims which He may make on their lives.”17”
― John F. MacArthur Jr., The Gospel According to Jesus: What Is Authentic Faith?