Sermons and Biblical Studies

Just as the sinner’s despair of any hope from himself is the first prerequisite of a sound conversion, so the loss of all confidence in himself is the first essential in the believer’s growth in grace. A.W. Pink

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. Benedict de Spinoza

Just as anyone who climbs a rotten ladder risks his life, so are honors and power a danger for humility. John Climacus

My heavenly bod [body] is just for God. Samantha Fox, Headline in Sun newspaper in which Samantha Fox used to be their top topless Page Three Girl

Jesus has gone to prepare a place for us, and the Holy Spirit has been sent to prepare us for that place. Author unknown The Holy Spirit convicts of sin, man does not. Oswald Chambers The Holy Spirit’s great task is to carry on the work for which Jesus sacrificed his throne and his life … Continue reading “HOLY
SPIRIT’S MINISTRY”

Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. The Bible, 2 Corinthians 5:5

Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word. Matthew Henry

We need the Spirit of Christ, without whom all our works are only worthy of condemnation. Martin Luther For the attainment of divine knowledge, we are directed to combine a dependence on God’s Spirit with our own researches. Let us, then, not presume to separate what God has thus united. Charles Simeon

If you do not join in what the church is doing, you have no share in this Spirit. … For where the church is, there is the Spirit of God; and where the Spirit of God is, there is the church and every kind of grace. Irenaeus The Spirit is given through the Word, through … Continue reading “HOLY
SPIRIT AND THE CHURCH”

The best men in the estate of grace would be in darkness, and call their estate into question, if the Holy Ghost did not convince them, and answer all cavils for them; and therefore we must not only be convinced at first by the Spirit, but in our continued course of Christianity. Richard Sibbes