No man can be a Christian by knowingly and willfully taking Christ on the installment plan, as Savior now, and Lord later.

God knows His own. It is well that He does, for sometimes it would be difficult for us to determine who are His!

God isn't a talent scout looking for someone who is "good enough" or "strong enough." He is looking for someone with a heart set on Him, and He will do the rest.

I remember when the Titanic sank in 1912, it was the ship that was supposed to be unsinkable. The only thing it ever did was sink. When it took off from England, all kinds of passengers were aboard - millionaires, celebrities, people of moderate means, and poor folks down in the steerage. But a few hours later when they put the list in the Cunard office in New York, it carried only two categories - lost and saved. Grim tragedy had leveled all distinctions.

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, "shake well before using." That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

The Word of God is either absolute or obsolete.

We are not to be isolated but insulated, moving in the midst of evil but untouched by it.