Quotes
February 2020
Man makes his choices in life based on sin. Every day, man is surrounded by sin outwardly and possessed by sin inwardly. Sin is man’s driving force. And mankind desires to call his sin ‘his will.’ – Michael Haigh
. . . this Christian dispensation is not the last great aeon of God’s dealings with mankind, but rather a beginning of what, in His unsearchable counsels, He has in store for the blessings of this sin-blighted world. – Sir Robert Anderson (1841 – 1918)
Christ is the only One of all those who have ever appeared on this earth who wielded the powers of Providence, swayed the scepter of omnipotence and exercised the full faculties of omniscience. – Charles J. Rolls (1856 – unknown)
Christ came as the purity of heaven to redeem mankind to that purity. There was no Adam within Him; therefore, Christ was completely free from Adam’s sin. As Adam became foreign to God in his sin, Christ without sin was foreign to Adam. – Michael Haigh
The religion of the vast majority of Christendom today is one of tradition, form, or sentiment — destitute of one particle and transforming power. – Arthur Pink (1886 – 1952)
Lean liberty is better than fat slavery. – Proverb source unknown
The action of faith is to reassure the heart, soul, and spirit of the redeemed that their trials are a result of their faith and not the rejection of God. – Michael Haigh
The Word of God expresses the Son and the Son of God expresses the Word. The truth reveals the Son, and the Son reveals the truth. The Scriptures interpret the Son, and the Son interprets the Scriptures. Wisdom unveils the Son, and the Son unveils wisdom. The Father declares the Son and the Son declares the Father. – Charles J. Rolls (1856 – unknown) – (Luke 10:22) (John 1:1) (Luke 11:49 – compare Proverbs 8)
Man is in a dilemma. He does not want to believe of heavenly things. Adam will not allow it. For Adam is of the earth, earthy. Sin has darkened his vision and his thoughts; therefore, Adam cannot even believe in his own Creator, or that his Creator is the Creator of ALL things, and possesses ALL power in heaven and in earth. If mankind, therefore, is not willing to believe his own Creator, how is he going to be willing to believe in heavenly things. – Michael Haigh – (John 3:12) If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things?
Erroneously mankind has built a fortress around his preconceived notion of free will and has attempted to redefine free will as his personal untouchable democratic domain, or else he again erroneously assumes that he is merely a robotic machine controlled by a so-called ‘higher power.’ What foolishness! Man is responsible for his actions, and consequently he is answerable to God. Creation was not based on democratic principles or assumptions, but it was based on God’s will, God’s purpose, God’s plan, God’s determinate counsels, and God’s Sovereignty. – Mary Haigh
Not to know is bad; not to wish to know is worse – Source of proverb unknown
“We may be very zealous for the glory of God, but the greater our zeal is, the more harm it will do if it is not according to knowledge.” J. N. Darby ( 1800 – 1882) (I add in order to clarify ‘knowledge’ that it is ‘the knowledge of the holy.’)
The symbolical and typological teaching takes data from all realms. In the astronomical realm Christ is said to be the Star and Sun; in the animal kingdom He is declared to be the Lion of Judah and the Lamb of God; in the biological world He is titled the Tree of Life and Fountain of Life; in the botanical sphere He is the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valleys; in the geological order He is the Rock of Ages and Precious Cornerstone; in the mineral kingdom He is likened to the sardine and jasper stones; and in the philological field He is Alpha and Omega and the Word. Charles J. Rolls (1856 – unknown)
TEACHING MOMENTS
God Hates Sin, But Loves the Sinner
The religious cliché that ‘God hates sin, but loves the sinner’ implies that the sinner is accepted by God in their sins. God saves from sin, not saves in sin (meaning to continue in and to sin).
The religious cliché that ‘God hates sin, but loves the sinner,’ implies that God’s view of sin is malleable. The cross was the divine measure of God’s hatred of sin as it was the measure of His love for the sinner. God cannot, and will not, love the sinner outside of acknowledging and accepting His work on the cross.
The religious cliché that ‘God hates sin, but loves the sinner,’ implies that God’s view of sin is flexible. Yes, God hates sin, and because He does He must judge sin. And how can He judge sin if not to judge the object that bears the sin — the sinner! The wonder of it all is that God is love, and because He is Love He has already judged sin in His love, by His love, and through the Son of His love: Jesus Christ.
The religious cliché that ‘God hates sin, but loves the sinner,’ implies that there is only one kind of sinner; however, this is a false premise: there are two types of sinners: forgiven and unforgiven. Which one are you?
(Thoughts by Mary Haigh.)