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Executive Pastor at @Mission_Bible in Orange County, CA • @MastersSeminary
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“There’s no such thing as PTSD. There’s no such thing as OCD. There’s no such thing as ADHD.”
— John MacArthur
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This is the hill to die on. The gospel. Get it wrong, and nothing else matters.
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Dr. Steven J. Lawson on attending a gay/trans wedding:
"By even attending, much less bringing a gift, you are bringing your endorsement of approval of what is taking place."
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Jesus Christ is the only person who was ever born sinless.
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John MacArthur: The key to spiritual growth is not introspection, but a focus on the glory of God in Jesus Christ.
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Pulpit on fire!
Voddie Baucham: Christ has reconciled us to God.
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Paul Washer: If there was ever a time for a young man to act like a man and to pray to be filled with the holy spirit and to bleed the scriptures and to do something great, it's now!
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A Christian's whole life should be nothing but a visible representation of Christ.
— Thomas Brooks, Works 2:170
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Voddie Baucham: Our resurrection hope is directly tied to the doctrine of Christ's obedience.
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Remember that no sin can stand before the efficacy of Christ’s blood.
— John Flavel
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Alright TwiX fam, on a scale of 1 to Romans Commentary, where’s this MLJ book land?
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The first word of the gospel is not "love." It is not even "grace." The first word of the gospel is "repent."
— Richard Owen Roberts
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Voddie Baucham: Everybody loves Jesus until they understand who He really is.
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Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin will entice a man to cease from prayer.
— John Bunyan
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The reason why our souls are so empty of joy, is because our mouths are empty of prayer.
— Puritan Robert Traill, Works 1:33
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A holy life is the chief sign of grace.
— Jonathan Edwards
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If you try to develop a Christianity that's not offensive, it's not Christianity.
— John MacArthur
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“Why do you call me, 'Lord, Lord,' but do not do what I say?”
“Because they told me lordship salvation is legalism and Christian obedience is optional.”
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The bee will not sit on a flower that has no nectar.
Neither should the Christian entertain a thought that does not feed his spirit.
— William Gurnall, The Christian in Complete Armour
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Sanctification is as much by faith as justification is.
— R.C. Sproul
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Not one for whom Christ died can possibly miss heaven.
— A.W. Pink
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God looked at Christ and saw you. Now He looks at you and sees Christ.
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Want an unholy church? Neglect preaching the imperatives.
Helpful insight from Carl R. Trueman and the issues that Martin Luther discovered after Lutherans began preaching a strict 'law/gospel distinction':
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True practical holiness consists of:
• Being of one mind with God
• Hating what God hates
• Loving what God loves
• Measuring everything in this world by the standard of God’s Word
[J. C. Ryle]
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Steve Lawson: Definite atonement is an outworking of the Covenant of Redemption.
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Pride must die in you, or nothing of heaven can live in you.
— Andrew Murray, Humility
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The prayer of a Christian is not an attempt to force God's hand, but a humble acknowledgment of helplessness and dependence.
— J.I. Packer
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Those who deny Christ's active obedience are teaching that redemption is accomplished by the setting aside of the law's absolute demands, not by Christ's perfectly fulfilling the law on our behalf.
— Phil Johnson
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We’re giving “Thoughts for Young Men” by J.C. Ryle to all the men in our church this Sunday. This book is absolute gold.
If you haven’t yet, read it.
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We must read our Bibles like men digging for hidden treasure.
— J. C. Ryle
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Paul Washer is barely doing more than stating Matthew 28:20 and 2 Timothy 2:15 together and he’s being called a Roman Catholic? We need to do better.
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The cross alone does not justify us. We need not only a substitute to pay for our demerits, but also positive righteousness. We are justified not only by the death of Christ but also by the life of Christ.
— R.C. Sproul
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He who runs from God in the morning will scarcely find Him the rest of the day.
— John Bunyan
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Let people see you practicing what you seek to persuade them about.
— Puritan Richard Baxter
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Your misery can never exceed His mercy.
— Puritan Thomas Goodwin
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Reformed theology is not a system of predestination, but an exposition of the whole counsel of God.
— Joel Beeke
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No length of time can wear out the virtue of Christ’s eternal sacrifice. It is as fresh, vigorous, and potent now, as the first hour it was offered.
— John Flavel
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R.C. Sproul: "If you run into people who seriously claim to be prophets or Apostles in the biblical sense, run for your life."
John MacArthur: "I would also say, grab your wallet!"
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We are saved by works- not by our works, but by the works of Christ.
— R.C. Sproul
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“Repentance is as necessary as faith for salvation. Salvation is salvation from sin. It involves more than forgiveness. It includes our sanctification. It must therefore engage those who are saved in the turning away from sin which is involved in repentance.”
— Sinclair Ferguson
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There’s no greater lust in the world today than ambition.
— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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“Fill your affections with the cross of Christ and you will find no room for sin.”
— John Owen
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John MacArthur’s statement on justification is absolute gold:
“We affirm…apart from His full and active obedience, we could not be saved.”
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Without obedience, there is no real Christianity.
— James Montgomery Boice
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“It is abominable to try and represent the glory of Christ by pictures and images.”
— John Owen
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Justification is received by faith alone, but since that faith unites us to Christ as sanctifier, justification and sanctification can no more be separated than Christ himself can be divided.
— Sinclair Ferguson
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A woman who is unwilling to change her last name is not ready to be married.
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We cannot continue to send our children to Caesar for their education and be surprised when they come home as Romans.
— Voddie Baucham
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High degrees of Christian assurance are simply not compatible with low levels of obedience.
— Sinclair Ferguson
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Without repentance there is no salvation. The need for repentance is one of those absolutes about which the Bible does not argue. It just says it.
— D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
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A believer cannot sin away the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
— Puritan Thomas Brooks
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“The greatest proof of final salvation and assurance is union with Christ.”
— Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans 5:1-2
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Jesus not only had to die for our sins, but He also had to live for our righteousness.
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“Justification by faith alone” is merely shorthand for “justification by the righteousness of Christ alone.” His merit, and only his merit, is sufficient to satisfy the demands of God’s justice.
— R.C. Sproul
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One of the clearest evidences of a darkened heart and a depraved mind is the inability to discern that abortion is among the most flagrant possible kind of offenses to the God of the Bible.
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@MikeRiccardi_
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It is much more pleasing to deny a temptation than to yield to it; the pleasure of sin is short-lived, but the pleasure of self-denial is eternal.
— Puritan Thomas Manton, Works 1:331
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We affirm double imputation:
Just as the price of our sin was charged to Christ’s account, so the full credit of His righteousness is reckoned to our account.
— John MacArthur
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If you neglect to instruct [children] in the way of holiness, will the devil neglect to instruct them in the way of wickedness? No; if you will not teach them to pray, he will to curse, swear, and lie. If ground be uncultivated, weeds will spring.
— John Flavel
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The doctrine of the imputation of the righteousness of Christ to the helpless believer is at the very heart and soul of the gospel itself. If you reject that, you are rejecting the gospel.
— R.C. Sproul
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If I speak with the theological precision of the scholastics, but do not have love, I am nothing.
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“Though we are commanded to ‘wash ourselves’, to ‘cleanse ourselves from sins’, to ‘purge ourselves from all our iniquities’,
yet to imagine that we can do these things by our own efforts is to trample on the cross and grace of Jesus Christ.”
– John Owen
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He died for me; He made His righteousness mine and made my sin His own; and if He made my sin His own, then I do not have it, and I am free.
— Martin Luther
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“Till men get a sight of God in Christ, they cannot tell what the grace of God is.”
— Puritan Robert Traill
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The Spirit prays 𝙞𝙣 you, because Christ prays 𝙛𝙤𝙧 you.
He is an intercessor on Earth, because Christ is an intercessor in heaven.
— Puritan Thomas Goodwin
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That which troubles the true man of God most is that which troubles the worldly man the least: his indwelling corruption.
Richard Sibbes
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Providence not only brings you to heaven, but it brings heaven to your soul now.
— Puritan John Flavel
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Christ is not loved at all till He be loved above all.
— Puritan Ralph Robinson
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Remember, there was never but one perfect man on earth, and He was not loved, but hated.
— J. C. Ryle
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It is those who look to Christ, not only for pardon but for holiness, that are successful in subduing sin, while the legalist remains its slave.
— Charles Hodge, Commentary on Romans
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Without repentance, there can be no faith…. For no man can choose his sins and Christ too.
— Puritan Samuel Willard
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Say much of what the Lord has done for you, but say little of what you have done for the Lord. Do not utter a single self-glorifying sentence!
— Charles H. Spurgeon
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The children of God are distinguished from the reprobate by this: they live a godly and a holy life.
— John Calvin
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The Law sends us to the Gospel for our justification; the Gospel sends us to the Law to frame our way of life.
— Puritan Samuel Bolton
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The Bible is inspired, inerrant, infallible, authoritative, and sufficient.
The DSM-5 is not.
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The sanctification of the elect is the evidence that God has chosen them.
— Wilhelmus à Brakel
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We should not use the Trinity as our model for the marriage relationship, both because it is not necessary for complementarianism to be true and because the metaphysical inner workings of the ineffable Trinity do not readily allow for easy lifestyle applications.
— Kevin DeYoung
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The more bitterness we taste in sin, the more sweetness we shall taste in Christ.
― Puritan Thomas Watson
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Psychology and psychiatry have never cured anyone of anything, nor do they claim to be able to.
— Voddie Baucham
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We could not stand before God without the imputed righteousness of His Son.
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Instead of asking if something is "technically a sin," it is better to ask "does this strengthen my witness, draw my affections toward Christ, and ultimately glorify God?"
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O take heed that you are not found overvaluing earthly things—and undervaluing your soul.
— Puritan Matthew Mead
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A humble soul overlooks his own righteousness, and lives upon Christ’s righteousness.
— Thomas Brooks, Works 3:12
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While Jesus is representing me in heaven, may I reflect him on earth;
While he pleads my cause, may I show forth his praise.
— Valley of Vision, “God Enjoyed”
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I have sinned, yet my Christ in whom I believe has not sinned, and all that's His is mine, and all that's mine is His. As the bride in the Song of Solomon says, "I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine."
— Martin Luther
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A true believer would have to deny the new birth to reject his duty to obey the law of God.
— John MacArthur
#shepcon
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A poor sinner cannot be elevated
to a higher state of glory and happiness than to be united to Christ by faith and to be betrothed unto Him forever!
— Dutch Puritan Theodorus VanderGroe
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A desire is an idol when you’re willing to sin to get it, or if you react sinfully when you don’t get it.
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