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I guess we could say that John Bunyan was a bit like Joseph in the Old Testament. Joseph was put into prison and ended up in the palace, second in command of all Egypt. Bunyan was put into prison twice for preaching the gospel; actually three times: once in 1661 for 6 years, and then out for a few months, and then back in for another 6 years until 1672. Then he was imprisoned again in 1675.

When Bunyan went into jail he took two companions with him - the Bible and Foxe's Book of Martyrs. At that time in England no house was considered to be Christian unless it contained those two books.

When Bunyan was in jail the last time, he wrote The Pilgrim's Progress, which is the greatest Christian allegory that has ever been written. Published in 1678, it became an instant success. By 1685 it had gone through eight editions.

Hundreds-of-thousands of Christians, young and old, identified themselves with the struggles of poor Christian. And for many of them, the most unforgettable images was the heavy load that the Pilgrim always carried around on his back and how it rolled away when he came to the Cross.

It wasn't very long before the house of every Christian who could afford it contained three books: the Bible, Foxe's Book of Martyrs, and The Pilgrim's Progress. While writing a tale of his own struggles, an allegory to amuse his children when they visited him, John Bunyan never realized that God planned to use The Pilgrim's Progress to save thousands of souls down through the centuries. Something He's still doing with it today.

God breaks any of His children who are willing to be broken; and afterwards, they are strong in the broken places.

Are You Truly Saved?

"Beware, I pray you, of presuming that you are saved. If your heart is renewed, if you hate the things that you once loved, and love the things that you once hated; if you have really repented; if there is a thorough change of mind in you; if you are born again, then have you reason to rejoice: but if there is no vital change, no inward godliness; if there is no love of God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then you saying "I am saved" is but your own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver you." (Charles H. Spurgeon)

A Common Cause of Spiritual Failure

"One of the commonest causes of failure in Christian life is found in the attempt to follow some good man or woman whom we greatly admire. No man and no woman, no matter how good, can be safely followed. If we follow any man or woman, we are bound to go astray. There has been but one absolutely perfect Man on this earth—the Man Christ Jesus. If we try to follow any other man we are surer to imitate his faults than his excellencies. Look to Jesus and Jesus only as your Guide." (R. A. Torrey)

The Chief Danger of the Church Today

"The chief danger of the Church today is that it is trying to get on the same side as the world, instead of turning the world upside down. Our Master expects us to accomplish results, even if they bring opposition and conflict. Anything is better than compromise, apathy, and paralysis. God give to us an intense cry for the old-time power of the Gospel and the Holy Ghost!" (A. B. Simpson)

The Lord's Assurance to the Born-Again

"I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, the person whose ears are open to My words — who listens to My message — and believes and trusts in and clings to and relies on Him Who sent Me has (possesses now) eternal life. And he does not come into judgment — does not incur sentence of judgment, will not come under condemnation — but he has already passed over out of death into life."  (John 5:24, Amplified Bible)

Being Made Ready
for the Ages to Come

Born-again Christians who suffer many things in this world and hold faithful and obedient to God in and through their suffering, will receive far greater eternal rewards than the Christian Materialists and their leaders who acquire for themselves worldly riches and possessions by their Christiience and was perfected through and by the things He suffered (Hebrews 2:10, 5:7-9), and the servant is not greater than the Master (John 15:20).

If in His humanity it required suffering to teach Jesus obedience and perfect Him in his faith-dependence upon His Father, then how much more it requires the same for us, His servants. Our problem is that rather than seeing the work of God teaching and perfecting us through our sufferings, and holding fast in faith while giving glory to God (Romans 4:20-21), we wallow in self-pity and whine and complain. And far too often we look upon the Christian Materialists and wonder, to ourselves if not out loud, why God is seemingly blessing them more than us.

By so doing, we become less fit for that which God has for us to do in the ages to come, and must be either put through increased trials and tribulations (training, if you will), or laid aside from that which God had intended for us in His eternal heaven.

The choice is ours.

“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." (Matthew 6:19-21)

"These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world."  (John 16:33)

Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God. (Acts 14:22)

And He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses, for Christ’s sake. For when I am weak, then I am strong—[that is, I am self-sufficient in Christ's sufficiency. Amplified Bible]. (2 Corinthians 12:9-10 + Amp)

All the World & Heaven Too!

"Who would want something where you're miserable, broke and ugly and you have to muddle through until you get to heaven?" (Joyce Meyer, prosperity teacher, quoted in Time magazine article, "Does God Want You to Be Rich?," September 18, 2006 issue)

What an insult that statement and worldly attitude is to our Lord Jesus Christ, who Himself promised His disciples righteousness, peace, and joy—a promise that is reiterated throughout the New Testament.

The horror of the prattle of Christian Materialists is that it teaches professing Christians to rely on Christianized Motivational Psychology rather than on the all-sufficiency of Jesus Christ, and turns them from laying up treasures in heaven to laying up treasures on earth. By so doing, it also turns their hearts away from heavenly things to worldly things.

(See Matthew 6:19-21, 11:28-30; Luke 17:20, Romans 14:17; John 14:29, 16:33, 17:13; Galatians 5:22)

Modern Preaching(?)

"If Jesus had preached the same message that ministers preach today, He would never have been crucified." (Leonard Ravenhill)

Praise the Lord for Everything

Every day a woman stood on her front porch and shouted, "Praise the Lord!"

And every day the atheist next door shouted back, "There is no Lord!"

One day as she stood on her porch she prayed out loud, "Lord Jesus, I've run out of food. Please send me some groceries."

The next morning, she found two big bags of food on her porch. She shouted in joy, "Praise the Lord! Praise the Lord!"

Her atheist neighbor jumped out of bushes near the porch and shouted, "I told you there was no Lord! I bought those groceries!"

The woman shouted all the more. "Thank you, Lord Jesus! You not only sent me groceries, you made the devil pay for them!"

Walking by Faith
(2 Corinthians 5:7)

Walking by faith is like living in a miracle on the edge of disaster.

Was Jesus Just a Good Man?

I am here trying to prevent anyone saying the really foolish thing that people often say about Him: "I'm ready to accept Jesus as a great moral teacher, but I don't accept His claim to be God." That is the one thing we must not say. A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic—on a level with a man who says he is a poached egg—or else he would be the Devil of Hell.

You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the son of God: or else a madman or something worse. You can shut Him up for a fool, you can spit on Him and kill Him as a demon: or you can fall at His feet and call Him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about His being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to. (C. S. Lewis, Mere Christianity)

Faith in God

The purest faith in God is a naked faith that has nothing perceptible to stand upon; that is kept constantly in the air, without being allowed to touch a foot to solid ground; that penetrates to the death every tentacle of self-love that desires sensible delights from God as proof of God's presence or pleasure.

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What Is a Christian?

Essentially, a Christian is someone who cannot be explained except in terms of Jesus Christ—someone who can only be explained by the fact that Christ is living His life in and through them

• "I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; (Galatians 2:20)

• "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27)

• "Do you not yourselves realize and know (thoroughly by an ever-increasing experience), that Jesus Christ is in you? unless you are [counterfeits] disapproved on trial and rejected!" (2 Corinthians 13:5b, Amplified Bible)

What makes you a Christian is that you are born again, you have received the divine nature—the life of God that Jesus came to bring (John 10:10), Christ now lives in you by the Holy Spirit. Nothing else can make you a Christian.

"God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son. He who has the Son has life; he who does not have the Son of God does not have life." (1 John 5:11-12)

When Christ Takes Over

In every born-again Christian there is a tipping point at which the Christ-life in the person becomes stronger than the self-life, and begins to control the person and press him or her increasingly, irresistibly, and irreversibly into sanctification—that is, separation from the world's ways, attitudes, and values.

(See Galatians 2:20, 2 Corinthians 13:5 (Amplified Bible), Philippians 1:6, 2:13)

Is This Too Hard a Saying?

Leonard Ravenhill, the English evangelist and author, once said, "I doubt that more than two percent of professing Christians in the United States are truly born again." (John 3:1-5)

If he was right, that would explain the vast majority of spiritual and moral aberrations in today's so-called Christian denominations, churches, and ministries.

It would also explain the desire for worldly positions and possessions by the Christian Materialists, even though the Bible clearly says, "Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whoever therefore wants to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God." (James 4:4), and Jesus said to the the Pharisees, "who were lovers of money," "You cannot serve God and mammon." (Luke 16:13-14)

The Christian Materialists may think they can and do, but Jesus said, "You cannot." We serve God only when God accepts our service, and Jesus says, in effect, that God does not accept the service of those who love money and the worldly possessions that money can buy. For they show by that, that they love the world, and the world is an enemy of God.

Choice your side carefully — your eternal life depends on it!

Whatever You Ask, IF . . .
(1 John 5:14-15)

IF you belong to Christ, God will hear your petition, and give you whatever you ask of Him . . . IF what you ask of Him is His will for you.

A Prayer that Should Precede All Prayers

"May the You to Whom I pray be the true You, and may the I who prays to You be the true me."

What Is . . .?

What is Christ to the heart of God? Whatever He is, He should be the same to our heart. What is God to the heart of Christ? Whatever He is, He should be the same to our heart. May the Holy Spirit truly reveal both to us.

The Reason for the Church

"The Church exists for nothing else but to draw people into Christ, to make them little Christs. If the Church is not doing that, all the buildings, clergy, missions, sermons, even the Bible itself, are simply a waste of time. God became Man for no other purpose. It is even doubtful, you know, whether the whole universe was created for any other purpose." (C. S. Lewis)

The Apostle Paul & Jesus Christ

All of the apostle Paul's theology and teachings sprang out of Jesus Christ, and all of his theology and teachings centered in Jesus Christ. Most of organized Christianity, however, has taken the writings of the inspired apostle and developed thousands of theologies and doctrines that divert Christians away from the simplicity and exclusiveness of Jesus Christ and into many things.

But it was not so with Paul. With all his sometimes difficult to understand writings about the person, divinity, purpose, and accomplishments of Jesus Christ, Paul never diverted from Him into other things. Instead, toward the end of his life he focused all of himself personally into one intellectual, emotional, and spiritual endeavor: "to know Him and the power of His resurrection" (Philippians 3:10a).

Love Not the World

It's astounding and fearful that so many Christians today accept as Bible doctrine the Christianized motivational psychology that is peddled by greedy self-proclaiming television preachers and parroted from thousands of church pulpits by pastors and ministers who want to emulate them.

Where in God's holy name are the truly sanctified men and women of God who preach nothing but Jesus Christ and Him crucified - those God-separated men and women who speak not in word's that human wisdom teaches, but in words that the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual things? And where are the spiritual Christians who want to hear them and abide by the spiritual teachings of the Holy Spirit? May God in His infinite grace and mercy bring them together!

Bring All Things Into the Light

In John 3:19-21, Jesus said, in essence, to bring all things into the light that it may be seen that they are of God. Which means that everything in our lives - whether business, ministry, or personal - should be of such a nature that it could be openly revealed to all who wish to see it, and that in seeing they would see that the thing revealed was of God!

The Lord indicated, also, that the only reason why someone would not bring something into the light was because that thing was of darkness and not of God.

Paul said the same things in a slightly different way in Ephesians 5 where he wrote to the born-again Christians, "you were once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord. Walk as children of light."

Who Is Your Supplier?

God will supply all your need (Exodus 16:16a, Philippians 4:19); but when you get past need into greed, it is no longer God supplying it.

Christians are Born, Not Made

You cannot make a person a Christian through teaching or training−God's children are born into the kingdom of His son, not tutored into it. Becoming a child of God is a spiritual birth experience, not an intellectual process. It is an experience that is performed by and subsequently witnessed to by the Holy Spirit (John 3:3, 4; Romans 8:9, 16)

Prayers & Coincidences

I started preaching and teaching a few years after I became a Christian. One Sunday after I taught on prayer, an older - in years in the Lord - and more knowledgeable Christian told me that prayers changed us but that God did not intervene in our lives because we prayed, and that all the things I talked about as being answers to my prayers were only coincidences.

Well, that being so, and it must be so since this Christian who was older in the Lord and more knowledgeable had told me so, I stopped praying as much as I did. And when I did, I discovered this strange thing: the coincidences that had been happening so regularly in my life virtually stopped.

Being of a curious nature, I went back to praying the way I used to, and this strange thing occurred: all those coincidences started happening again.

Well, I did not like going against that knowledgeable Christian and saying that he was wrong, but after meditating on it for some time I realized that for a Christian there are no such things as coincidences, there are only God-incidences. And those God-incidences happen most frequently when we spend time talking things over with God - what most folks call prayer.

Be Careful

Sometimes the severest penalty God can inflict upon His children when they reject what they need is to give them what they want. In the Old Testament they demanded a physical king so they could be like other nations and He gave them Saul. In recent times a certain segment of Christianity has demanded visible signs and wonders that they can see and He has given them ----- ----.

The Purpose-Driven Life

Regardless of the phenomenal popularity of the book of the same title, born-again Christians need not a purpose-driven life but a Christ-driven life, not self-esteem but Christ-esteem, not self-confidence but Christ-confidence, and not self-righteousness but Christ's righteousness − that righteousness which is from God by faith!