Untold Injury (and other devotionals)

 To offer a sinner the gift of salvation based upon the work of Christ, while at the same time allowing him to retain the idea that the gift carries with it no moral implications, is to do him untold injury where it hurts him worst. Many evangelical teachers insist so strongly upon free, unconditional grace as to create the impression that sin is not a serious matter and that God cares very little about it. He is concerned only with our escaping the consequences. The gospel then in practical application means little more than a way to escape the fruits of our past. The heart that has felt the weight of its own sin and along with this has seen the dread whiteness of the Most High God will never believe that a message of forgiveness without transformation is a message of good news. To remit a man's past without transforming his present is to violate the moral sincerity of his own heart. To that kind of thing God will be no party. We must have courage to preach the whole message. By so doing we shall undoubtedly lose a few friends and make a number of enemies. But the true Christian will not grieve too much about that. He has enough to do to please his Lord and Savior and to be true to the souls of all men. That may well occupy him too completely to leave much time for regrets over the displeasure of misguided men.
A. W. Tozer
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" I don't bow down to great men. I bow down to the Great Man, and if you have learned to worship the Son of Man, you will not worship other men. " A. W. Tozer
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Don't ask God to take away your problems. Instead, ask God to guide you and give you faith, strength and courage to face the problems.
~A. W. Tozer~
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When there is something in the Word of God that I don't like, the problem is not with the Word of God. It's with me.
~R. C. Sproul~
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He that reads the Bible to find fault with it will soon discover that the Bible finds fault with him.
~Charles Spurgeon~
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Things that won't get you into heaven: good works, baptism, church, religion, Sunday school, charity, money, mass, communion, parents, political affiliation, denomination, friends, positive thinking and just being a good person. Things that will get you to heaven: Jesus Christ.
~Unknown~
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People often claim to hunger for the truth, but seldom like the taste when it is served up.
~A. W. Tozer~
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I must realize that my obedience even in the smallest detail of life has all the omnipotent power of the grace of God behind it.
~Oswald Chambers~
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When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles. When he stops studying the Bible the devil laughs. When he stops praying the devil shouts for joy.
~Corrie Ten Boom~
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For a Christian this world is the only hell they will know. For the unbeliever this world is the only heaven they will know.
~A. W. Tozer~
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A part-time Christian cannot defeat a full-time devil.
~A. W. Tozer~
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The devil won't bother you when you are living in sin, he'll bother you when you're trying to get out.
~A. W. Tozer~
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To be born again is to enter into a new existence, to have a new mind, a new heart, new views, new principles, new tastes, new affections, new likes, new dislikes, new fears, new joys, new sorrows, to love the things once hated, new hatred to things once loved, new thoughts of God, ourselves, the world, the life to come.
~J. C. Ryle~
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To promise heaven, and not warn of hell. To offer forgiveness without repentance, to preach the gospel without the Cross, is a false message giving false hope.
~Greg Laurie~
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Believers must never adjust the Bible to the age, but the age to the Bible.
~Charles Spurgeon~
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Life begins once Jesus becomes the reason you live it.
~A. W. Tozer~
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I can't brag about my love for God because I fail Him daily. But I can brag about His love for me because it never fails.
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The heart that learns to die with Christ soon knows the blessed experience of rising with Him, and all the world's persecutions cannot still the high note of holy joy that springs up in the soul that has become the dwelling place of God.
~A. W. Tozer~