Inspirational Quotes by John MacArthur
“Stiff as the competition is, the Church has the truth of God. It knows the beauty of biblical manhood, biblical womanhood, biblical marriage, biblical sexuality, and biblical creation order. We are not playing from behind or with a weak hand. We have the very mind of Christ (1 Corinthians 2:16). Furthermore, as our culture and society grow increasingly evil, God will use that encroaching darkness to draw people to the light. He is a saving God, and He loves to turn evil purposes to divine ends.”
“Be not among drunkards [5] or among gluttonous eaters of meat, 21for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and slumber will clothe them with rags.”
“We do sin, yes, and even fall into patterns of sin as a believer, necessitating spiritual carefulness and regular repentance (James 3:2). But no one can reverse the decision of God anchored in the death of His Son and realized in justifying faith. If in Christ we are not legally condemned, we cannot be legally condemned (Romans 8:33–34). We are innocent in God’s sight. No ideology can change this. While fighting situational sin until we die, our judicial status is unchanged and unchanging: “innocent” in Christ. This is our standing now, and it will be our standing until the end of the age, when we are acquitted by divine grace before the Great White Throne.”
“Grace does not diminish our responsibility to the moral requirements of what God requires. Grace does not lower the standard. Rather, grace enables us to meet it. Grace empowers us to fulfill what God requires. Obedience to the word is never optional for the Christian.”
“But the steadfast love of the LORD is from everlasting to everlasting on those who fear him, and his righteousness to children's children, 18to those who keep his covenant and remember to do his commandments.”
“Here again we see something vital about wokeness. Though it announces itself to us in positive terms, telling us we should be for “racial equity” and “justice” and “unity,” it conceals thunder. It is not a movement of unity at all, nor does it preach tolerance. In actuality, it saves its strongest firepower not for extraordinary offenders, but for ordinary men and women who live quiet, normal American lives. These people, it turns out, are the true villains. If this language sounds strong, consider what Kendi—a much-praised professor at Boston University—has said: Such people, mostly “white,” constitute the “most threatening racist movement” today, worse than actual white supremacists who create real terror and division. The “regular American” is worse than the cross-burning Klan member; as DiAngelo suggested, America today is worse than in the days of Jim Crow, and “white fragility” and all it disguises are to blame.”
“in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice. 5†Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand; 6†do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. 7†And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
“There is not one drop of real joy to be experienced apart from him. All joy is in the Lord.”
“only that, but we f rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering g produces endurance, 4[†]and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, 5[†]and h hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love i has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.”
“False doctrine was threatening to disconnect the Philippian believers from their source of joy in Jesus Christ.”
“There is no common grace in wokeness; there’s just the righteous (the woke) and the guilty (ordinary white people).”
“Ethnicity deepens our vision of oneness in Adam—we are unified, but distinctly and wonderfully made.”
“She will bear a son, and you shall call his name Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.” 22”
“Ruth was not swayed by the promise of a better life in her home country of Moab. She rejected the chance to go back “to her people and to her gods” (verse 15); she did not want to return. She is an example of a woman who presses in to know the Lord and His people. In this true story, we are getting a little preview of a resonant biblical melody. Though God loved Israel, He loved others from outside the nation as well. Israel was God’s covenant people; yet Israel could not rightly conclude that God loved only Israelites. His people were bigger and broader than this chosen nation, vital as it was to God’s plan; indeed, as the story went on, figures like Ruth and Rahab show us that many who were not of Israel by birth were actually more “of Israel” spiritually than many Jews by birth.”
“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel”
“You are not here by accident. You are where you are by divine appointment, for the purposes of sharing the gospel”
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“Behold, the virgin shall conceive and bear a son, and they shall call his name Immanuel” (which means, God with us).”
“Yet wokeness pushes even harder on this point, and as presented by some advocates insists that reason itself is racist. This claim ends up being nonsensical, however, for unless one commits oneself to communicating in gibberish, one has to use reason.30 Clearly, it is not reason itself that woke thinkers critique as Western (for they publish lengthy books that make numerous reason-based arguments), but rather the use of reason to support un-woke precepts and worldviews that they dislike.”
“The flesh is always self-reliant, while the Spirit creates Christ-reliance. The flesh always trusts in its performance; the Spirit gives confidence in Christ’s performance.”
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John F. MacArthur, Jr. is a fifth-generation preacher who serves as a pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California. He is also a prolific author, conference speaker, and is president of The Master's College and Seminary. MacArthur received a B.A. from Los Angeles Pacific College, his M.Div. from Talbot Theological Seminary, Litt.D. at Grace Graduate School, and D.D. from Talbot Theological Seminary. In addition to his administrative responsibilities, he regularly teaches Expository Preaching at the seminary and frequently speaks in chapel.
MacArthur's pulpit ministry has been extended around the globe through his media ministry, Grace to You, and its satellite offices in Australia, Canada, Europe, India, New Zealand, Singapore, and South Africa. In addition to producing daily radio programs for nearly 2,000 English and Spanish radio outlets worldwide, Grace to You distributes books, software, audiotapes, and CDs by John MacArthur. In thirty-six years of ministry, Grace to You has distributed more than thirteen million CDs and audiotapes.
John Fullerton MacArthur, Jr. is a United States evangelical writer and minister, noted for his radio program entitled Grace to You. MacArthur is a fifth-generation pastor, a popular author and conference speaker and has served as the pastor-teacher of Grace Community Church in Sun Valley, California since 1969, and as the President of The Master's College (and the related The Master's Seminary) in Santa Clarita, California.
Theologically, MacArthur is a conservative far-right Baptist, a strong proponent of expository preaching, a dispensationalist and a self-described Calvinist. He has been acknowledged by Christianity Today as one of the most influential preachers of his time, and is a frequent guest on Larry King Live as representative of an evangelical Christian perspective.
MacArthur has authored or edited more than 150 books, most notably the MacArthur Study Bible, which has sold more than 1 million copies and received a Gold Medallion Book Award. Other best-selling books include his MacArthur New Testament Commentary Series (more than 1 million copies), Twelve Ordinary Men, (more than 500,000 copies), and the children's book A Faith to Grow On, which garnered an ECPA Christian Book Award.