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Salvation cannot be accomplished by a bath. John 4:2 says Jesus baptized no one. If baptism were a condition of salvation, He would have been baptizing people; after all, He came to seek and to save the lost (Luke 19:10).The Gospel According to Jesus 3e(54)
We should not be entertained by the sins for which Christ died.
Bee-masters tell us, that they are the best hives which make the greatest noise; so that conscience is the best which makes the greatest noise in daily reasonings and debates before it's own bar.
The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.
Salvation always results because God first pursues sinners, not because sinners first seek God.Gospel According to Jesus 3e(86)
l would define FREEWILL as this: every human being has the freedom to choose whatever sin he wants. That's free will.
if it was considered an honor to be the slave of one of the Caesars, it is infinitely more so to be the slave of ChristSlave (97)
Conscience is like a looking glass. If it be foul and dusty, you can see nothing in it; but wipe away the dust, and you may see your face in it clearly. There is a time coming when God will wipe off the dust from the glass of a man's conscience, and he shall see his sins clearly represented.
Conscience is God's echo, and sometimes it is so shrill and clamorous that the sinner cannot endure the noise, but silences conscience; and at last by often sinning, conscience begins to be sleepy and seared.
But the sincere Christian that allows himself in no sin delights to commune with his own soul and when he is debating things with his own conscience esteems himself in good company. He had rather God's deputy, conscience, should admonish him to contrition than that God Himself should do it to his confusion.
Conscience is the territory or dominion of God in man which He hath so reserved to Himself that no human power can possibly enter into it or dispose of it in any wise.
Conscience must be satisfied with something; therefore men usually please themselves with so much of obedience as is least contrary to their interests and inclinations and have not an entire uniform respect to the whole law. As if a servant should think himself dutiful when he goes to a feast or a fair when his master bids him, when in the meantime he declines errands of less trouble but of more service; whereas in such matters he does not obey his master's will, but his own inclination. So in commands easy and compliant with our own humors and designs, we do not so much serve God as our own interests, and there is more of design than of duty and religion in such actions; and therefore they lose their reward with God.
Every quiet conscience is not a clear conscience. Some are lulled asleep in security, and their consciences are quiet merely because they are insensible. It may be they have so harassed and wasted their consciences by dreadful sins, so often mortally wounded them, that now they have not strength enough to become quarrelsome and troublesome; and this they call peace.
This is conscience: that faithful register in every man's bosom that writes down the actions, discourses, and cogitations of every hour and minute.
He that hath a blind conscience which sees nothing, a dead conscience that feels nothing, and a dumb conscience that says nothing is in as miserable condition as a man can be in on this side hell.
You must know conscience is a faculty that is corrupted as much as any other by nature and is very often made use of by Satan to deceive both good and bad, godly and ungodly. Many that know their consciences, they say, speak peace to them will be found merely cheated and gulled when the books shall be opened; no such discharge will then be found entered in the book of the word as conscience hath put into their hand. And many gracious souls who passed their days in a continual fear of their spiritual state and were kept chained in the dark dungeon of a troublesome conscience shall then be acquitted and have their action against Satan for false imprisonment and accusing their consciences to the disturbing their peace.
Conscience is the seat of guilt. It is like a burning glass, so it contracts the beams of the threatenings, twists them together, and reflects them on the soul until it smoke, scorch, and flame.
The first step to the cure of a wounded conscience is for thee to know the grace of God, especially the grace of God as to justification.Riches
A dead conscience and a dissolute life are inseparable. And how many that are surrounded with the celestial beams of the gospel are as impure and impenitent as those in the black night of paganism? They stand at the entrance of the bottomless pit yet do not smell the brimstone that enrages the fire there. The flames of their lusts have seared their consciences to a desperate degree of hardness and insensibility. Danger of Prosperity
Erroneous times may unsettle truth, but the conscience of a good man is firm.
Apart from the blood of Jesus Christ, who can hope to escape from an awakened conscience?
When the Christian looks every night for the coming of God's deputy, his conscience, to spy and search into his heart and life... it will be a special means to make him watchful over his ways, and exact in his carriage and conversation.
Children are born sinful, and that sinfulness manifests itself not because of what parents do, but because of what they don't do.
For the faithful, Spirit-filled Christian, every place becomes a place of prayer.
Sixteen of the thirty-eight parables of Jesus deal with money. One out of ten verses in the New Testament deals with that subject. Scripture offers about five hundred verses on prayer, fewer than five hundred on faith, and over two thousand on money. The believer's attitude toward money and possessions is determinative.
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