Obedience is the hallmark of all who truly love Christ.
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Category Archives: John MacArthur
The Pivot Point of the Resurrection
The truth of the resurrection gives life to every other area of gospel truth. The resurrection is the pivot on which all of Christianity turns and without which none of the other truths would much matter. Without the resurrection, Christianity would be so much wishful thinking, taking its place alongside all other human philosophy and religious speculation.
By Love Shall All People Know You Are Jesus’ Disciple
Biblical love is not chemistry. It’s not impulse. It’s not emotion. It’s self-sacrifice, and when you love like that, and I love like that, the Church will be Christlike, and the world will know that we belong to God.
HT: @gracetoyou
God Is Able to Keep His Promises
Our security doesn’t depend on our ability to stay saved, but on God’s ability to keep His promise.
HT: challies.com
Danger to the Church Often Comes from Inside
Satan is most effective in the church when he comes not as an open enemy, but as a false friend.
HT: @ghostlntheshell
To Deny the Resurrection Is to Deny Christianity
The resurrection of Jesus Christ is the single greatest event in the history of the world. It is so foundational to Christianity that no one who denies it can be a true Christian…A person who believes in a Christ who was not raised believes in a powerless Christ, a dead Christ. If Christ did not rise from the dead, then no redemption was accomplished at the cross and “your faith is worthless,” Paul goes on to say; “you are still in your sins” (v. 17).
How Important Is the Church to You?
It is impossible to overstate the importance of the Church in the eternal plan of God.
John MacArthur in Don Kistler, ed., Onward Christian Soldiers, p. 4
Salvation = Identity with Christ
Belief in Jesus Christ is total identity with Him. There is no such thing as partial belief or partial salvation.
HT: @ChristianRep
What Entertains You?
We should not be entertained by the sins for which Christ died.
HT: @challies
Joy: the Divine Benefit
Joy is the divine benefit of the Christian’s standing in Christ, one of the ‘spiritual blessing(s) in the heavenly places in Christ.’ (Eph. 1.3).
John MacArthur, 1 & 2 Thessalonians (Chicago: Moody Press, 2002), 25.
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