No matter how long we have been walking with Jesus, we need to hear again, do not love the world.
If you want to know God as your Father, you need to know Jesus Christ as your Savior.
Live for God. Obey the Scriptures. Think of others before yourself. Be holy. Love Jesus. And as you do these things, do whatever else you like, with whomever you like, wherever you like, and you'll be walking in the will of God.
Our first love is Jesus. Holiness is not ultimately about living up to a moral standard. It's about living in Christ and living out of our real, vital union with him.
Just about everybody in America likes Jesus, but few like him for who he truly is.
...,the will of God for your life is pretty straightforward: Be holy like Jesus, by the power of the Spirit, for the glory of God.
Jesus didn’t do it all. Jesus didn’t meet every need. He left people waiting in line to be healed. He left one town to preach to another. He hid away to pray. He got tired. He never interacted with the vast majority of people on the planet. He spent thirty years in training and only three years in ministry. He did not try to do it all. And yet, he did everything God asked him to do.
To build your house on the rock is to hear what Jesus says and obey. To be foolish and build your house on the sand is to hear and ignore.
Everything before Jesus is preface. Everything after Jesus is appendix. Jesus is the story.
No one can hate you in this life more than Jesus was hated.
Jesus was not just a prophet but the fulfillment of all prophecy.
No one in the history of the world has been more inclusive of repentant sinners than Jesus and no one has been more intolerant of sin.
The only chains God wants us to wear are the chains of righteousness--not the chains of hopeless subjectivism, not the shackles of risk-free living, not the fetters of horoscope decision making--just the chains befitting a bond servant of Christ Jesus. Die to self. Live for Christ. And then do what you want, and go where you want, for God's glory.
For Jesus, Scripture is powerful, decisive, and authoritative because it is nothing less than the voice of God.
Many in Jesus' day saw him, but they didn't have communion with him. You can have more of Christ by faith than they had by sight.
