Quotes
September 2022
One should always remember that secular writing does not prove the word of God. It is the word of God that proves or disapproves secular writings. – Michael Haigh
There never was a saint yet, that grew proud of his fine feathers, but what the Lord plucked them by-and-by. – C. H. Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)
Stop trying to compete with others. Give yourself to God and then be what and who you are without regard to what others think. – A. W. Tozer (1897 – 1963)
To emphasis the sovereignty of God, without also maintaining the accountability of the creative tends to fatalism; to be so concerned in maintaining the responsibility of man, as to lose sight of the sovereignty of God, is to exalt the creature and dishonor the Creator. – A. W. Pink (1886 – 1952)
No matter what transpires in the future, the battle has already been won, and the outcome has already been determined. – Michael Haigh
The devil is a better theologian than any of us and is a devil still. – A. W. Tozer (1897 – 1963)
Promises are like babies. Easy to make, hard to deliver – Proverb source unknown.
Understand that the great white throne is NOT a place of trial, it is a place of SENTENCING, for mankind has already been tried in his lifetime, in his history, and he has been found wanting. – Michael Haigh
The wrath to come is as inexpressible as the glory that shall be revealed hereafter. – C. H. Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)
God’s foreknowledge is not the cause of events, rather are events the effects of His eternal purpose. When God has decreed a thing shall be, He knows it will be. –A. W. Pink (1886 – 1952)
He is able to make a small work into a work of His own glory. He is able to take the most unlikely weapon of His warfare and open the stammering lips to fill the presence of those around with both the word and the glory of God. – Michael Haigh
Re: The Christian: “You are not lost when you are put into the tomb; you are but seen sown to ripen against the eternal harvest.” – C. H. Spurgeon (1834 – 1892)
Worship and gospel are two distinct spiritual arenas: the gospel is the outreach to the world of the unsaved, and worship is ONLY for the saved. The world CANNOT and should not be allowed to worship with the saints. How can the world, the unsaved, worship who they do not know? – Michael Haigh
The government that could or would allow evil to go unjudged, uncondemned, unpunished would not be a perfect government – would not be the government of God. – C. H. Macintosh (1820 – 1896)
Exhalation is as necessary to life as in inhalation. To accept Christ it is necessary that we reject whatever is contrary to Him – A. W. Tozer (1897 – 1963)
TEACHING MOMENT
Taken from SonofHisLove.com – The Worldly Sanctuary – Hebrews 9:1
The Seven (7) Major Points of Blindness in Scripture.
• The Blind Judge: The first blindness that we have is Samson. But the Philistines took him, and put out his eyes, and brought him down to Gaza, and bound him with fetters of brass; and he did grind in the prison house. (Judges 16:21)
• The Blind Priest – Eli. Now Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see. (1st Samuel 4:15)
• The Blind Prophet – Ahijah. And Jeroboam’s wife did so, and arose, and went to Shiloh, and came to the house of Ahijah. But Ahijah could not see; for his eyes were set by reason of his age. And in the days of Jeroboam we there was a blind prophet. (1st Kings 14:4)
• The Blind King – Zedekiah was also blinded.Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; where he gave judgment upon him. (Jeremiah 52:9) And the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes: he slew also all the princes of Judah in Riblah. (Jeremiah 52:10) Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death. (Jeremiah 52:11)
• The Blind Nation of Israel. Up to this point we are dealing with God’s covenant people, and every position that God have them was broken by them. Judge, priest, prophet, and king. Paul wrote that blindness in part had fallen over Israel showing a nation of blindness. For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.(Romans 11:25)
• The Blind World of the Gentiles. This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, (Ephesians 4:17) Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart. (Ephesians 4:18)
• The Blind Church. Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. (Revelation 3:17) However, Israel is not alone because in the book of the Revelation, the last church, Laodicea is also blind. During the tribulation period, the whole world is in blindness until the Son of righteousness appears with healing in His wings. God reveals man’s failure in every position and realm in life.