Christian wisdom from Don Fortner, part 2

(You will find it helpful to LISTEN to the Audio, as you READ the text below.)

Though God is absolutely sovereign, having mercy on whom He will have mercy and hardening whom He will--He is strictly just, both in bestowing His saving mercy upon His elect, and in the everlasting damnation of the reprobate.

The only way to live wisely in this world, is to "set your affection on things above, not on things of the earth"--to live in the constant, immediate prospect of eternity. Soon I will meet God in eternity!

The most blasphemous, God-dishonoring, Christ-denying doctrine ever proclaimed by men who claim to believe in God and His Word, is the doctrine of universal atonement: the doctrine that Jesus Christ died for, but failed to redeem and save the multitudes of the damned in Hell!

If Christ died to redeem and justify all, and some are in Hell--then one of two things must be so: Either Christ is a failure, or there are some in Hell who are redeemed and justified!

I have searched the Book of God from cover to cover repeatedly, marking every place where God says something good about humanity with a bold green marker. There are no green marks in my Bible!

The more vile we are in our own eyes--the more precious the Lord Jesus is to us!

There is not a record in the Bible of a single sinner saved by the grace of God, who attributes anything to himself, but sin!

Though He uses the evil devices of men to accomplish His purpose, God neither forces the wicked to do evil, nor approves of the evil they do.

With regard to the Book of God, Christ is "the key of knowledge." Without the key, men can never unlock the chest and discover its riches. They just fumble around.

Slanderers are the billows which Satan uses to stir up fires of contention.

The man who is a slave to his own passions, is a slave to the worst possible despot.

Afflictions are the black dogs by which God chases the evil out of the people whom He loves.

Nothing comes to pass in time, except that which God has purposed in eternity.

Every sermon ought to be prepared and preached as if the preacher knew that all who hear him are on the brink of eternity!

We have been called unto holiness. Let us ever seek to walk in holiness for the glory of our holy Lord God, and the honor of the gospel--by the power and grace of His Holy Spirit.