Inspirational Quotes by John MacArthur

“times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent, 31†because he has fixed a day on which he will judge the world in righteousness by a man whom he has appointed; and of this he has given assurance to all by raising him from the dead.”

“When any sinner comes to God, repentant and convinced he has no power to save himself from the deserved judgment of divine wrath, and pleads for mercy, God’s promise of forgiveness is granted.”

“But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”

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“O Father, may our souls be like mirrors, which at once behold and reflect the glory of Christ.”

“Expect progress, not perfection.”

“Just as Jesus Christ is the primary Person behind justification, the Holy Spirit is the primary Person behind sanctification. A believer can no more sanctify himself than he could have saved himself in the first place. He cannot live the Christian life by his own resources any more than he could have saved himself by his own resources.”

“El evangelio de la prosperidad es la versión del cristianismo de la lucha libre profesional. Usted sabe que es falso, sin embargo, tiene valor como entretenimiento.”

“Knowledge is essential, but it’s not sufficient.”

“Joy. First, we must choose to have a joyful attitude. Joy is not something we automatically feel. Many times joy is a choice we must make. It is a decision that comes from the will. We can choose the attitude we will have. We can choose whether we will laugh or frown. We can choose whether we will praise or keep silent. We can choose whether we will express joy to others or express sorrow.”

“The worst extremes usually start with slight deviations.”

“Look in your local Christian Bookstore. You could take most of the books there, throw them into the sea, and not lose anything valuable. The vast majority of them are just placebos that superficially attack trivial problems. During the eras when the church was most holy, Christians had very few books to read, but the ones they did have told them how to have a relationship with God. Most books today don't do that.”

“Righteous wrath is no less noble than love, since both coexist in God.”

“Truth is intolerant.”

“The truth is in Jesus and it leads to the fullness of truth about God, man, creation, history, sin, righteousness, grace, faith, salvation, life, death, purpose, meaning, relationships, heaven, hell, judgement, eternity, and everything else of ultimate consequence.”

“A husband's work as provider will be so difficult that it can only be fulfilled in the power of the Spirit and a transformed life.”

“Service to Christ is the perfect freedom.”

“The primary responsibility of the mother is the nurture of those children.”

“we have a doctrinal statement at our church and it is 14 or 15 pages long, we call it "what we teach". We don't call it "what we believe", because we don't all believe it yet!”

“Some of the scholastic rabbis just prior to Jesus' time became embarrassed by the fact that a woman with Rahab's background was spared in the destruction of Jericho and brought into Israel as a proselyte. They proposed a different understanding of the Hebrew word for harlot in Joshua 2:1. The Hebrew term is similiar to a word meaning "to feed," they claimed. Perhaps Rahab was really just an innkeeper or a hostess, they countered. The problem is, the actual Hebrew word really can mean only one thing: "harlot." That was the uncontested undertanding of this text for centuries. In fact, there is no ambiguity whatsoever in the Septuagint or in the Greek tests of Hebrews. The Greek word used to describe Rahab is porne, meaning harlot. Notice that the term comes from the same root as the English term pornography and has similar negative moral overtones. The idea of sanitizing Rahab's background was revived by some churchmen with overly delicate sensibilities in the Victorian era. C>H> Spurgeon, the best-known Baptist preacher in late nineteenth-century London, replied, This woman was no mere hostess, but a real harlot....I am persuaded that nothing but a spirit of distaste for free grace would ever have led any commentator to deny her sin. He was exactly right, of course,. Remove the stigma of sin, and you remove the need for grace. Rehab is extraordinary precisely because she received extraordinary grace. There's no need to reinvent her past to try to make her seem less of a sinner. The disturbing fact about what she once was simply magnifies the glory of divine grace, which is what made her extraodinary woman she became. That, after all, is the whole lesson of her life.”