Pressing Thoughts from Earlier Saints

I have been keeping these remarks for several years, seeking the right moment to share them with you. I think the time has arrived. Let’s read, digest and apply these admonitions to ourselves and then make the necessary repentance to the Lord, as necessary and as benefiting our souls. Please take these comments to mind especially in light of today’s sermon from 1 Corinthians10:1-13, “Serious Cautions from a Sinful Community,” Pt. I, with particular concentration on v. 12, “Therefore let anyone who thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.”

“Some people want only as much of God’s salvation as will keep them out of Hell, and they measure out with unconscious precision how much worldliness and sin they can still hang on to without jeopardizing their chances. This is ‘conversion’ without repentance. Flee from it!” David Shepherd

“Are you guilty of this insidious practice? Are you unconsciously weighing out each day how much sin and worldliness you can still enjoy, and yet miss Hell’s eternal torment and flames? If this is the case with you, then you are a religious pretender and a gross hypocrite who needs to swiftly run to the foot of the Cross and repent of such an atrocity!

“A ‘worldly Christian’? Can there be such a thing? Or is this a term that the backslidden Church came up with to try to appease their guilty consciences and to excuse their ungodly ways? The concept of a ‘worldly Christian’ is a total absurdity! A true Christian is devoted, dedicated, or consecrated to God’s service–not worldliness. We are either devoted to Jesus–or to the world. Which is it for you?” C. Giordano

“Nothing worse can happen to a church, than to be conformed to this world! Those who would be transfigured by Jesus, must not be disfigured by conformity to the world.” Charles Spurgeon

“If I find anyone who is settled down too snugly into this world, I always doubt whether he’s ever truly been born again.” A.W. Tozer

“No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money!” Matthew 6:24