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Memorization

 

John 7:18

He who speaks on his own does so to gain honor for himself, but he who works for the honor of the one who sent him is a man of truth; there is nothing false about him.

-Sincerity is a very noble character.  But a person can be sincerely very wrong

  Ravi

-Never judge a philosophy by it’s abuse

St. Augustine

-The mind is to the soul, what the brain is to the body.

  Ravi

-God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?

Numbers ?

Which have forsaken the right way, and are gone astray, following the way of Balaam the son of Bosor, who loved the wages of unrighteousness;

2 Peter 2:15

It all fails to come to grips with the reality of our problem and God’s solution.

It’s imposable to have the biblical gospel and deal with the biblical God, if we are looking for answers to problems that are somehow more important than the one addressed by that Gospel announcement.

-Michael Horton

Creation can show us God as Creator, but it can never show us or give us God as Redeemer.  This is left to Word and Sacrament.

-White Horse Inn Discussion

All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness. 

-2 Timothy 3:16

-Little Girl illustration.  “Harold be your name.”  Sincerity is never (or can lead us unto truth)  a gauge for truth.  We can be sincere and be sincerely wrong.

-We can’t manufacture fruit.  Fruit must be born.  We must bear fruit.

-: "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."  Jim Elliot.

-The way we look at God determines the way we will look at life, and this will determine what we worry about. 

-What makes a person turn his back on virtually everything most people value to live in obedience to what he believes to be the will of God? What's in it for him? What are the returns on that kind of investment?

-Life like Art owes it’s beauty to it’s boundaries.

C.S. Lewis

-And Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, "Come, let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised; it may be that the LORD will work for us; for nothing can hinder the LORD from saving by many or by few."

1 Sam. 14:6

-Then Asa called to the LORD his God and said, "LORD, there is no one like you to help the powerless against the mighty. Help us, O LORD our God, for we rely on you, and in your name we have come against this vast army. O LORD, you are our God; do not let man prevail against you."

2 Chron. 14: 11

-So strengthen me that the power of my example will far exceed the authority of my rank.

Daily Bread study on Joseph.

-Let’s also keep in mind that Scripture doesn’t command us to go out and rail against false teachings; rather, it encourages us to offer biblical reasons with gentleness and respect (1 Pet. 3:15). And remember that tolerance when it comes to personal relationships is a virtue, but tolerance when it comes to truth is a travesty.

Hank Hanagraf

-A presentation of the gospel to a Rasta must be divorced from any Western definition of the gospel. In Defending Black Faith, Craig S. Keener and Glenn Usry address the question, “What do you say when someone claims that Christianity is a white religion?”2 They cite Philip’s presentation of the gospel to the Ethiopian eunuch, as  recounted in Acts 8:26–36, noting that the first Gentile Christian was an Ethiopian. In this book and in Black Man’s Religion, Keener and Usry trace the movement of Christianity in Africa prior to the arrival of the European missionaries. Because Christianity is for everyone, that means it is a black person’s religion as well. It is a faith that is “contextual to each of our cultures…yet [is] supracontextual in Christ in that we enter a new context: the transcultural reign of God.”3

One should also avoid trying to defend or excuse the evil done in Jesus’ name in the past. William Spencer advises, “When evangelizing Rastas, move to the parable of the wheat and tares: the farmer plants the field and weeds spring up in the midst of the wheat. Simply say, ‘This is what happens in the Christian church. The evil one has put false people in who engage in lying, cheating, stealing. These weeds are not Christians…’”4

-Many within Rastafari  also look to Marcus Garvey as a prophet of the movement. When witnessing, it might be helpful to share the following from an address Garvey delivered in 1928 at the Century Theater in London:

I believe in God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Ghost; I endorse the Nicean Creed; I believe that Jesus died for me; I believe that God lives for me as for all men; and no condition you can impose on me by deceiving me about Christianity will cause me to doubt Jesus Christ and to doubt God. I shall never hold Christ or God responsible for the commercialization of Christianity by the heartless men who adopt it as the easiest means of fooling and robbing other people out of their land and country.7

Marcus Garvey.?

http://www.equip.org/free/DR501.htm

Do not say of any error, “It is a mere matter of opinion.” No man indulges an error of judgment, without sooner or later tolerating an error in practice. Hold fast the truth, for by so holding the truth shall you be sanctified by the Spirit of God.

Spurgeon (Morning and Evening Devotional)--July 4 morning- John 17:17

Luke lets us know through the Sadducees' negative example that those with vested interests in power and comfort and with unbiblical preconceived notions will view the gospel as a threat.

Bible Gateway Commentary on Acts 4

All human beings, whether they are studied or unstudied in philosophy, ultimately look for their lives to conform to reality as they understand it.  Whether it is right or wrong (If they know that fire burns, they will avoid putting their hand in there, unless they are purely masochistic or suicidal).  They want their lives and their bodies to correspond to that which is real.  So that even if they don’t use logic and reason, they want their lives to be consistent with reality.  And what has happened at this the tail end of the twentieth century… the reason there is a breakdown, is not even so much that rational strength and the ability to think has been abandoned, but our lives are breaking down because we don’t understand what reality is all about. (Perfect for the Keeping it Realist)

Dr. Ravi Zacharias

The Mystery of Evil and the Miracle of Life (part 1 of 3)

http://resources.christianity.com/ministries/rzim/main/talkInfo.jhtml?id=32615&JServSessionIdroot=qeng398gh1

You watch a generation’s words, and you will find out what they are doing with reality.  Are we calling God a liar?  All the wickedness in the world that we see starts off from one fundamental principle, choosing to call God a liar.  Wickedness is the natural outworking of believing a lie.  Goodness is the natural outworking of believing the truth.  If you’re a good man sir, if you’re a good woman mame, it is because you are believing the truth.  And if you are an evil person, it is because you are living with a lie. It is as simple as that, but as catastrophic.  

Dr. Ravi Zacharias

The Mystery of Evil and the Miracle of Life (part 2 of 3)

 

2 Corinthians 4


Treasures in Jars of Clay

1Therefore, since through God's mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. 2Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God. 3And even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing. 4The god of this age has blinded the minds of unbelievers, so that they cannot see the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God. 5For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus' sake. 6For God, who said, "Let light shine out of darkness,"[1] made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
7But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. 8We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; 9persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 10We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. 11For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus' sake, so that his life may be revealed in our mortal body. 12So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you.
13It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken."[2] With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, 14because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. 15All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.
16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

Note, To distrust Christ, and to disturb ourselves when we are in straits and difficulties, is an evidence of the weakness of our faith, which, if it were in exercise as it should be, would ease us of the burthen of care, by casting it on the Lord, who careth for us.

Mathew Henry’s Concise Commentary. Matt 16-7,8

 

“For those who honor Me I will honor” (1Sam. 2:30)

 

Greg Johnson does not fear to address the world in its terms to declare God on his terms. This is bold truth for ears that have tuned out religious babble."
Bryan Chappel, President, Covenant Theological Seminary

 

 

“I hope I have the logic which can appeal to men's hearts; but I am not very prone to use the less powerful logic of the head, when I can win the heart in another manner.”

-Spurgeon (A Sermon (No. 107))

12 I have not departed from the commands of his lips;
I have treasured the words of his mouth more than my daily bread.

-Job 21:12

Acts 17
26And He has made from one blood[1] every nation of men to dwell on all the face of the earth, and has determined their preappointed times and the boundaries of their dwellings, 27so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope that they might grope for Him and find Him, though He is not far from each one of us; 28for in Him we live and move and have our being, as also some of your own poets have said, "For we are also His offspring.' 29Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art and man's devising.

T.S. Eliot said that the temptation which was the greatest treason was to do the right thing for the wrong reason. Satan and the Son of God met in such a conflict of reason, imagination and will. This is a classic passage.

Ravi

 

Luke 16:19-31

-Rich Man and Lazarus

            We always make the same mistake that the Rich man supposes…that being if we could just send a more influential or credible or relative (someone from the dead—very interesting thought in terms of physical and spiritual dead) witness people will be more aped to believe. Jesus’ parable teaches us that this is not true.

“ worship that can be conducted by persons who refuse to give shelter to the houseless, to give bread to the hungry, clothing to the naked, and who enjoin obedience to a law forbidding these acts of mercy, is a curse, not a blessing to mankind. The Bible addresses all such persons as "scribes, pharisees, hypocrites, who pay tithe of mint, anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgement, mercy and faith."”

-Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?" 5 July 1852 (Corinthian Hall)

 

“I know what good morals are.  But your suppose to disregard good morals when your living in a crazy, bad world.  If your in Hell, how you gonna live like an angel.  You sitting here surrounded by devil’s and you trying to live like an angel.  That’s suicide!

-Tupac quoted from his autobiographical movie “Resurrection”

I believe his comments are very interesting, because they are the antithesis of the life Christ commands us to live.

 

Woodrow Wilson is quoted as saying, “No one has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual adulthood until they have found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve themselves.”

 

 

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