Christian wisdom from Don Fortner, part 3

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

"Faith bows to Christ as King, and does so willingly. Faith bows to the will of the King, the Word of the King, and the way of the King--no matter how contrary to the flesh His will, His Word, and His way may be."

"Worry is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If indulged, it will cut a channel into which all other thoughts are drained. Worry is an intrusion upon God's wise providence. It calls into question God's wisdom, loving care and goodness. Worry casts a slur upon God's faithfulness. Worry is unbelief."

"Learn this one thing, that "Salvation is of the Lord," that God alone planned it, God alone purchased it, God alone performs it, God alone preserves it, God alone perfects it, and God alone shall have the praise for it--and you will have learned more than most preachers, religious leaders, and theologians ever learn. You will have learned that which no man can learn, except he is taught by God."

"Faith in Christ cannot be obtained or communicated to anyone by heredity, education, human reason, or religious ceremony. Faith in Christ is the free gift of God's sovereign grace."

Christ's claims dominion as King over the lives of His redeemed people, not over our hearts and souls alone, but over our entire lives: our time, our possessions, our families, our finances, our recreations. And nothing can be more reasonable than that He should.

No greater blasphemy ever spewed from the pit of Hell, than the blasphemous assertion that Christ died to redeem the multitudes who there suffer the wrath of God.

Nothing is more dangerous to our souls, than a barren familiarity with sacred things.

Let every man called by God to preach the Gospel, disentangle himself from the affairs of this world, with determined consecration to Christ, His Gospel and His Church--addicting himself to prayer, study and preaching.

In the fall, we see a picture of Christ's love for his church. As Adam, because of his love for Eve, plunged himself into sin, death and condemnation--so Christ, because of His love for us, plunged Himself into sin, death and condemnation as our Substitute, under the wrath of God.

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