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Imagine you had an invisible recorder around your neck and all of your life, all it ever did was record whenever you said to somebody else you ought. It only ever recorded when you told somebody else how they ought to live. In other words, it only recorded your own moral standards, the moral standards that you imposed on other people. It didn't record anything else but what you believe was right or wrong. And what Schaeffer says is what God can do on judgment day is he'll stand in front of people and he'll say, 'Look, you never heard about Jesus Christ or you never heard about or read the Bible. Hey, I'm a fair-minded God. Let me show you what I'm going to judge you by. And then he takes that little recorder off from around their necks, which they didn't know was there, and he says, "I'm going to judge you by your own moral standards." And he plays it. And Schaeffer says there's not a person on the face of the earth that will be able to pass that test.

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If Jesus rose from the dead, then you have to accept all that he said; if he didn’t rise from the dead, then why worry about any of what he said? The issue on which everything hangs is not whether or not you like his teaching but whether or not he rose from the dead.

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When God speaks, it happens. God's Word is a power. God's word is not like our word. We say something, but then we have to do it. God's word is His active power. And when you hear God speaking to you, in His Word, when you study His word, when you hear His voice to you in His Word, that is His power coming into your life, that is His reality coming into your life. If you want to make sure your prayer life is meaningful, you need to be deep into the Word of God. When you study the Word of God, God is speaking to you and then you respond in prayer.

–Tim Keller

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At the very end of C.S. Lewis' radio talks, which were published as Mere Christianity, he talks about how scary it is to let God come into your life and change you like this. But he says, "There's really no alternative." And here's what he says, this is the very last words of those radio talks. He says, "The principle runs through all of life from top to bottom. Give up yourself and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes, every day, and death of your whole body in the end, submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself and you will find, in the long run, only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find him, and with him everything else thrown in."

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We really need to come to grips with what grace is—it doesn't mean, oh, now I can go out and sin all I want because God died for me while I was yet a sinner and he loves me; what did Paul say to that very question? God forbid. You're missing the point dude—that's my paraphrase of what he says in Romans there. The gospel isn't here so that you can keep on sinning. The gospel is what it is, so that you know it is not performance-based. You can be at your worst, and Christ still died for you.

–Michael Heiser

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The fact that you're not sure whether you'll lose your salvation over a divorce and remarriage makes me wonder if you understand the gospel. Salvation cannot be earned. It was extended to sinners, not to people in the process of cleaning up their act. Romans 5:8. Consequently, that which cannot be earned by moral perfection cannot be lost by moral imperfection. And to bring it down to the divorce, salvation wasn't earned by getting married, so it cannot be lost by getting divorced and remarried.

–Michael Heiser

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Today marks one year since my amazingly wonderful husband, Mike, died. How can it be one whole year already without him? It went by so quickly, especially compared to the two long, agonising years that Mike battled with his cancer. When Mike was fighting to survive, I'd say to God, "Please don't take him away. The world needs Mike. I need my husband. The children need their dad." But for some reason, God wanted him home. I would like to think that God just couldn't wait to give Mike his reward—that God was excited to have Mike with him, so he could say, "Well done, Mike. You are a good and faithful servant. Enter into the joy of your master." And this makes it okay with me.

—Drenna Heiser, Feb 20, 2024

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By the way, the Widow of Zarephath and Naaman the Leper are Jesus, in his first sermon in Nazareth, they are his two examples of faith. He pits two pagans over against the Pharisees. And you know that made them happy. Okay, these two obscure pagans. I'll show you what real faith is. It ain't you guys.

–Michael Heiser

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This day I call the heavens and the earth as witnesses against you that I have set before you life and death, blessings and curses. Now choose *LIFE, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

—Deuteronomy 30:19-20 NIV

P.s. *LIFE = JESUS CHRIST ✝️

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The phrase “their worm does not die, and the fire is not put out” is a vivid metaphor used in the Bible to describe the eternal consequences of rejecting God and the severity of divine judgment. This imagery comes from Isaiah 66:24 and is quoted by Jesus in Mark 9:48, referring to the fate of those who persist in rebellion against God. The original context in Isaiah describes the aftermath of judgment, where the corpses of the wicked are left to decay, and the fire consumes them until nothing remains. Jesus uses this imagery to warn against the seriousness of sin and the importance of repentance, urging people to avoid the fate of those who are ultimately destroyed by their own choices. This phrase is a powerful warning about the consequences of rejecting God, using strong imagery of decay and fire to emphasize the permanence and severity of divine judgment. Therefore, place your complete and exclusive trust in who Jesus Christ is and what He did for you on the cross—do it TODAY. There is no sense in waiting. This message is not meant to scare or terrify anyone into repentance and faith in Jesus, but rather to call attention to the reality of every person’s destiny. Now is the time to respond to the life-changing truth of the gospel. Praise be to Jesus our Almighty Lord and Saviour ✝️

P.s. Responding to Jesus’ call is the most important decision anyone can ever make. And you will never ever ever regret it.

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