Inspirational Quotes by John MacArthur

“The Gospel announces forgiveness and resulting innocence; wokeness announces guilt and unending condemnation.”

“What we are warning people away from is not just bad behavior, but a disenchanted worldview. More simply, we are turning them away from neopaganism. Paganism is the anti-wisdom of the serpent which deconstructs ordered reality—the God-made world—and replaces it with a new order, an anti-order ruled by the devil. In this anti-order, there is no Creator; no divine design; no male or female; no script for sexuality; no God-designed family with a father, mother, and children;”

“Economist Walter Williams explains why: “The relative color blindness of the market accounts for much of the hostility towards it. Markets have a notorious lack of respect for privilege, race, and class structures.”63 If woke leaders truly wanted “fairness” and “equity,” they would be unabashed supporters of the free market.”

“Gain" means to receive a great profit. Paul realizes that death will usher him to a much greater gain. The grave will graduate him to glory.”

“Warning Against Worldliness JAMES 4 [†]What causes quarrels and what causes fights among you? Is it not this, that your passions [1] are  y at war within you? [2] 2[†]You desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet and cannot obtain, so you fight and quarrel. You do not have, because you do not ask. 3[†]You ask and do not receive, because you ask  z wrongly, to spend it on your passions. 4[†] a You adulterous people! [3] Do you not know that friendship with the world is enmity with God?  b Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. 5[†]Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit  c that he has made to dwell in us”? 6[†]But  d he gives more grace. Therefore it says,  e “God opposes the proud, but  d gives grace to the humble.” 7[†]Submit yourselves therefore to God.  f Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8[†] g Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you.  h Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and  i purify your hearts,  j you double-minded. 9[†] k Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. 10[†] l Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. 11[†] m Do not speak evil against one another, brothers. [4] The one who speaks against a brother or  n judges his brother, speaks evil against the law and judges the law. But if you judge the law, you are not a doer of the law but a judge. 12[†]There is only  o one lawgiver and  p judge, he who is able to save and  q to destroy. But  r who are you to judge your neighbor?”

“God the Holy Spirit We teach that the Holy Spirit is a divine person, eternal, underived, possessing all the attributes of personality and deity, including intellect (1 Cor. 2:10–13), emotions (Eph. 4:30), will (1 Cor. 12:11), eternality (Heb. 9:14), omnipresence (Ps. 139:7–10), omniscience (Isa. 40:13–14), omnipotence (Rom. 15:13), and truthfulness (John 16:13). In all the divine attributes he is coequal and consubstantial with the Father and the Son (Matt. 28:19; Acts 5:3–4; 28:25–26; 1 Cor. 12:4–6; 2 Cor. 13:14; and Jer. 31:31–34 with Heb. 10:15–17). We teach that it is the work of the Holy Spirit to execute the divine will with relation to all mankind. We recognize his sovereign activity in the creation (Gen. 1:2), the incarnation (Matt. 1:18), the written revelation (2 Pet. 1:20–21), and the work of salvation (John 3:5–7). We teach that a unique work of the Holy Spirit in this age began at Pentecost when he came from the Father as promised by Christ (John 14:16–17; 15:26) to initiate and complete the building of the body of Christ.”

“In our third and final treatment of Ephesians 2, we see how Paul brings theological resolution to his treatment of blood-bought unity. It is not merely that redeemed people are saved; it is that God is joining them together. So then you are no longer strangers and aliens, but you are fellow citizens with the saints and members of the household of God, built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the cornerstone, in whom the whole structure, being joined together, grows into a holy temple in the Lord. In him you also are being built together into a dwelling place for God by the Spirit. (Ephesians 2:19–22)”

“our culture and society are falling prey to what we call “monocausality.” This means that we trace very complex realities to just one simple factor”

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“El tema central de toda la Biblia es Jesucristo, el Redentor de todos los que lo invocan”

“J. Gresham Machen wrote: [W]hat the liberal theologian has retained after abandoning to the enemy one Christian doctrine after another is not Christianity at all, but a religion which is so entirely different from Christianity as to belong in a distinct category.”

“Men have labored diligently since the Fall to create a god of their own design, rather than submit themselves to their sovereign Creator.”

“We are also taught from Scripture that while some events in our lives may indeed be tragic, God is in absolute control (Romans 8:28). While this fact may be hard to reconcile in our own minds, God is the one who knows the end from the beginning. Therefore, only He knows how a circumstance can serve to: • Humble a person (Job 42:1-6) • Draw a person to Himself (John 6:44) • Show Himself to be a greater-than-anything God (Jeremiah 32:17; Genesis 50:20) • Reveal Himself to a believing sufferer as Refuge, Strength and Helper (Psalm 46:1; Isaiah 57:15; John 9:1-3).”

“God honored Solomon's request because he was pleased with what Solomon had asked. This teaches us that God values discernment and honors those who seek after it.”

“Solo podemos juzgar entre lo bueno y lo malo cuando sepamos lo que Dios dice que es cierto. Esto solo lo podemos conocer de las escrituras.”

“When we have rejected the doctrine of the sufficiency of Scripture, we allow Christians to depend on things other than the Bible as their guide to matters of life and faith. In particular, people begin to depend upon mysticism, upon ways of supposedly knowing God apart from the Bible. They look inward for intrinsic wisdom rather than outward to the Bible for its extrinsic wisdom. They forsake biblical reason in favor of feelings, voices, visions, or other subjective means of supposedly knowing God. This is a deadly error, for spiritual discernment must be founded upon God's objective revelation of himself in Scripture. We can only judge between what is wrong and what is right when we know what God says to be true. We can know this only from Scripture.”

“and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight." The word translated as "insight" is a Hebrew equivalent to "discernment.”

“Why the kingdom? Because the Kingdom is God’s total answer to man’s total need.”

“Cuando Jesús hubo tomado el vinagre, dijo: Consumado es» (Juan 19.30). En el texto griego, «Consumado es» es una sola palabra: ¡Tetelestai! Fue un grito triunfante, lleno de rico significado. Él no quiso decir simplemente que su vida terrenal había terminado. Quería decir que la obra que el Padre le había dado que hacer estaba ahora completa. Aunque colgaba allí, pareciendo una víctima patética y perdida, Él celebró el triunfo más grande en la historia del universo. La obra expiatoria de Cristo había sido terminada, la redención de los pecadores estaba completa y Él estaba triunfante. Cristo había cumplido a favor de los pecadores todo lo que la ley de Dios requería de ellos. La completa expiación había sido hecha. Todo lo que la ley ceremonial presagió se había cumplido. La justicia de Dios estaba satisfecha. El rescate por el pecado fue pagado en su totalidad. La paga del pecado se estableció para siempre. Todo lo que quedaba era que Cristo muriera para que resucitara también. Es por esto que nada se puede añadir a la obra de Cristo para la salvación. Ni ritual religioso ya sea el bautismo ni penitencia, ni ninguna obra humana puede ser añadida para hacer eficaz la obra de Cristo. No hay obras humanas adicionales que pudieran aumentar o mejorar la expiación que Él compró en la cruz. El pecador no está obligado a contribuir en nada para ganarse el perdón o una buena relación con Dios; el mérito de Cristo por sí solo es suficiente para nuestra completa salvación. ¡Tetelestai! Su obra expiatoria se hizo. Es todo lo que se necesita.”

“La verdadera felicidad en la vida resulta de la transformación de sus procesos de pensamiento. Colosenses 1.16 dice que «todo fue creado por medio de él y para él». Esto lo incluye a usted. Puesto que ha sido hecho para Dios, usted no conocerá la verdadera felicidad hasta que sepa lo que le agrada a Él. Pero no lo sabrá hasta que usted sepa lo que dice su manual para la vida: La Biblia. Al estudiar su Palabra y aprender a vivir según sus principios, usted comenzará a experimentar una gran satisfacción y felicidad. El profeta Jeremías se dio cuenta de esto cuando dijo: «Fueron halladas tus palabras, y yo las comí; y tu palabra me fue por gozo y por alegría de mi corazón» (Jeremías 15.16). Cuando entiende lo que Dios quiere de su vida y todas las promesas que Él ha preparado para usted, le traerá alegría más allá de lo imaginable. Quizá usted está teniendo problemas en una relación. Tal vez su hogar no sea todo lo que debería ser. Es posible que no tenga el dinero para comprar algo que necesita desesperadamente. Usted podría estar pasando por dificultades en la escuela o en el trabajo. A pesar de que nada parece estar trabajando para su bien en este momento, le aseguro que todo saldrá bien al final. ¿Cómo puedo hacerle una promesa temeraria como esa? Debido a que las promesas de Dios en Cristo se cumplirán en usted. La Biblia lo dice. Y esto le da a cada cristiano un motivo de regocijo.”