We Preach Christ and Him Crucified - 1 Corinthians 1:23
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And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Faithful is he that calleth you, who also will do it. 1st Thessalonians 5:23-24
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Wisdom from the Proverbs:
“Happy is the man that findeth wisdom (Christ), and the man that getteth understanding . For the merchandise of it is better than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. “ Proverbs 3:13-14
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"Faith brings God into the scene. Therefore, it knows absolutely nothing of difficulty; it laughs at impossibilities. In the judgment of faith, God is the answer to every question; He is the salvation to every difficulty. Unbelief says, how can such things be? Unbelief is full of flaws; but faith has one great answer to ten thousand hows‘, and that answer is God Almighty."
1) Jesus is the chief among ten thousand, and the altogether lovely One! I could not live without Him. To enjoy His company is bliss to me—for Him to hide His face from me is my midnight of sorrow. Oh, for the power to live, to die, to labor, to suffer as unto Him, and unto Him alone!
2) I feel that, if I could live a thousand lives, I would like to live them all for Christ; and I should even then feel that they were all too little a return for His great love to me!
3) It is better to preach five words of God's Word—than five million words of man's wisdom!
4) He who counts the stars and calls them by their names, is in no danger of forgetting His own children! He knows your case as thoroughly as if you were the only creature He ever made, or the only saint He ever loved!
5) As well might a gnat seek to drink in the ocean—as a finite creature to comprehend the Eternal God. A God whom we could fully understand—would be no God.
If we could grasp Him—He could not be infinite. If we could fully understand Him—He could not be divine.
6) Christian! You have . . . God's infallible wisdom to direct you, His immutable love to comfort you, and His eternal power to defend you!
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“ Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; who health all thy diseases. “
Psalm 103:1-3
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The Free, Sovereign Grace of God!
"Those He predestined, He also called; and those He called, He also justified; and those He justified, He also glorified." Romans 8:30
The justified sinner stands the closest to God, of any created being in the universe. Nearer to the throne of the Eternal, he cannot stand.
What marvelous love! Who will dare assert that salvation is not, from first to last of free, sovereign grace!
Let your eye pierce the veil which falls between earth and heaven. Behold that shining, worshiping being, standing so near to the throne of glory, bathed in the overpowering effulgence of its rays!
Who is he? He was once a sinner upon earth, the vilest of his race, the dishonored of his generation, forsaken by man and abhorred of God.
But Jesus met him, and divine love drew him, and sovereign grace rescued, pardoned, and saved him! And now washed from all his guilt by the blood, freed from all condemnation by the righteousness of Christ he stands before the throne "blameless," a "king and a priest unto God." Such is the great love of Jesus! And all this grace, and all this glory, and all this bliss flows from the free, sovereign grace of God!
Octavius Winslow
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2nd Thessalonians 3:16 “Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all. “
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