Sabbath Keeping

"Direct my footsteps according to your Word;

let no sin rule over me."

~ Psalm 119:133 ~

Love the sinner, 

Hate the sin.

"Other religions deal with sins; 

the Bible alone deals with sin."

~ Oswald Chambers ~ 

"There's one thing we need above everything else; it's something we don't talk about these days. We need a mighty avalanche of conviction of sin. ... We're living in an unprecedented day (when) evil is no longer evil. We've changed the terminology -- iniquity is now infirmity; wickedness is now weakness; devilry is now deficiency." ~ Leonard Ravenhill ~

"When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less. A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is all right. This is common sense, really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping. You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly: while you are making them you cannot see them. You can understand the nature of drunkenness when you are sober, not when you are drunk. Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either."

~ C. S. Lewis ~ 

"The temptation of the age is to look good without being good." 

~ Brennan Manning ~ 

"Men do not differ much about what things they call evils;
the differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable."
~ G. K. Chesterton ~

"Whatever weakens your reason,

impairs the tenderness of your conscience,

obscures your sense of God,

or takes off the relish for spiritual things

then it is sin for you however

innocent it may be in itself."

~ Suzanna Wesley ~

"Primarily, God is not bound to punish sin; He is bound to destroy sin. The only vengeance worth having on sin is to make the sinner himself its executioner." ~ George MacDonald ~ 

"As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived."

~ C. H. Spurgeon ~ 

"You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then."

~ Alexander Whyte ~

"You'll never be able to speak against sin

if you're entertained by it."

~ John Muncee ~ 

"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, not abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God."

~ 1 Corinthians 6:9-11 ~ 

Please pray for ~ those affected by Hurricanes Nate, Marie, Harvey ~ the Las Vegas shooting ~ the earthquakes in Mexico ~ Sandra and Bill ~ Gladys ~ Jim ~ the families locally of the three young men killed in an auto accident this past week ~ 

Sabbath Keeping

"Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you,

and ye shall be clean from all your filthiness,

and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

A new heart also will I give you, 

and a new spirit will I put within you:

and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh,

and I will give you a heart of flesh."

~ Ezekiel 36:25-26 ~

"The Bible will keep you away from sin

or sin will keep you away from the Bible."

~ Dwight L. Moody ~

"Sin will take you farther than you want to go

keep you longer than you want to stay,

and cost you more than you want to pay."

"Sin has a diminishing factor to it. It always gives its best in the beginning. It never gets better after that..it only gets worse." ~ Mark Aulson ~

"Salvation consists in passing from this dark, restless and tormented Existence in which the worldly man lives, to live in truth, to that in which it is really worth living." ~ Catherine of Siena ~

"The chains of sin are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken."      ~ Tom Drout ~

"No sin which we are capable of committing has ever taken God by surprise for He knew we were just like that." ~ Alan Redpath ~

"Sin, which brings death to the soul, is yet sweet to the taste. The more we sin the more perverted becomes our taste, the more clamorous for further indulgence. But these stolen waters of sinful pleasure are not always sweet. Pleasant though they may be at the first, they will become bitter indeed. The power of sin lies in its pleasure." ~ unknown ~

"You do not really care for God's mercy or His comfort either, so long as you live in any sin. And it is well that you do not; for you can have neither. Your peace will be like a river, when you put away your sin; but not one word of true peace, not one drop of true comfort, can you have till then." ~ Alexander Whyte ~

"If I cast up a confessed, repented, and forsaken sin against another, and allow my remembrance of that sin to colour my thinking and feed my suspicions, then I know nothing of Calvary love." ~ Amy Carmichael ~

"As the salt flavors every drop in the Atlantic, so does sin affect every atom of our nature. It is so sadly there, so abundantly there, that if you cannot detect it, you are deceived." ~ Charles H. Spurgeon ~

"We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin." ~ C. S. Lewis ~

"Sin has the devil for its father,

shame for its companion,

and death for its wages."

~ Thomas Watson ~ 

"I'm against sin. I'll kick it as long as I've got a foot, and I'll fight it as long as I've got a fist. I'll butt it as long as I've got a head. I'll bite it as long as I've got a tooth. And when I'm old and fistless and footless and toothless I'll gum it til I go home to Glory and it goes home to Perdition." ~ Billy Sunday ~

"Embrace in one act the two truths--thine own sin,

and God's infinite mercy in Jesus Christ."

~ Alexander MacLaren ~ 

"When Jesus had lifted up himself

 and saw none but the woman,

He said unto her, "Woman, where are those thine accusers? 

hath no man condemned thee?"

She said, "No man, Lord."

And Jesus said unto her, "Neither do I condemn thee:

go, and sin no more."

~ John 8:11 ~ 

Please pray for ~ Alicia ~ MacKenzie ~ Robbin and her Mom ~ Connie and husband Jay ~ Jill ~ Tesha ~ Jettie ~ 

Sabbath Keeping

"Then I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: 

from all your filthiness and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: 

and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, 

and I will give you a heart of flesh."

~ Ezekiel 36:25-25 ~

"One of the misfortunes of our time is that in getting rid of false shame, we have killed off so much real shame as well." ~ Louis Kronenberger ~

"The world has lost the power to blush over its vice;

the Church has lost her power to weep over it."

~ Leonard Ravenhill ~

"To be humbly ashamed is to be plunged in the cleansing bath of truth."
~ George MacDonald ~

"The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity." ~ Lord Byron ~

"Heart-suffering because of sin is the best proof that the Holy Spirit dwells in your heart."
~ Johann Arndt ~

"Any concept of grace that makes us feel more comfortable sinning is not biblical grace. God's grace never encourages us to live in sin, on the contrary, it empowers us to say no to sin and yes to truth."
~ Randy Alcorn ~

"It is impossible for a man to be freed from the habit of sin before he hates it, just as it is impossible to receive forgiveness before confessing his trespasses." ~ Ignatius ~

"Men tell us in these days that sin is what you think it is. 

Well, it is not.

Sin is what God thinks it is.

You may think according to your own conscience.

God thinks according to His."

~ John G. Lake ~ 

"Self is the root, the tree, and the branches of all the evils of our fallen state." ~ William Law ~

"We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin." ~ C. S. Lewis ~

"In short, a man must be set free from the sin he is,

which makes him do the sin he does."

~ George MacDonald ~ 

"Whatever weakens your reason, impairs the tenderness of your conscience, obscures your sense of God, or takes off the relish for spiritual things then it is sin for you, however, innocent it may be in itself." ~ Suzanna Wesley ~

"It is perilously easy to have amazing sympathy with God's truth and remain in sin."
~ Oswald Chambers ~

"The temptation of the age is to look good without being good." ~ Brennan Manning ~

"Men do not differ much about what things they call evils; 

they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable."

~ G. K. Chesterton ~ 

"You are the way you are because that's the way you want to be.

If you really wanted to be any different,

you would be in the process of changing right now."

~ Fred Smith ~ 

"Honesty before God requires the most fundamental risk of faith we can take: the risk that God is good, that God does love us unconditionally. It is in taking this risk that we rediscover our dignity. To bring the truth of ourselves, just as we are, to God, just as God is, is the most dignified thing we can do in this life." ~ Gerald May ~

"God never takes away anything that He doesn't replace with Himself."
~ Jacquelyn K. Heasley ~

"To sin is a human business,

to justify sins is a devilish business."

~ Tolstoy ~ 

"Sin and the child of God are incompatible.

They may occasionally meet;

they cannot live together in harmony."

~ John R. W. Stott ~ 

"You'll never be able to speak against sin if you're entertained by it."

~ John Muncee ~

"Knowing this: that our old man is crucified with him 

that the body of sin might be destroyed, 

that henceforth we should not serve sin.

For he that is dead, is freed from sin."

~ II Corinthians 5:17 ~

Please pray for ~ Patty and daughters ~ Diana and her Hero ~ Daniel ~ Julie and Nancy ~ Anita ~ Sara and family ~ Jim and Gladys ~ Nancy ~ Mildred and John ~ Bonnie and family ~ Sandra ~