Is Your Zeal About Things According to God’s Mind?

If zeal is true it will be a zeal about things according to God’s mind, and sanctioned by clear examples in God’s Word. Take, for example, that highest and best kind of zeal-I mean zeal for our own growth in personal holiness. Such zeal will make a man continually feel that sin is the mightiest of all evils, and conformity to Christ the greatest of all blessings. It will make him feel that ...

Is Your Zeal Man Centered or God Centered?

When is a man truly zealous in Christianity? If zeal is true, it will be a zeal according to knowledge. It must not be a blind, ignorant zeal. It must be a calm, reasonable, intelligent principle, which can show the warrant of Scripture for every step it takes. The unconverted Jews had zeal. Paul says, ...

A Christian Should Not be Anything but Zealous!

Zeal in Christianity is a burning desire to please God, to do His will, and to advance His glory in the world in every possible way. It is a desire, which is not natural to men or women. It is a desire which the Spirit puts in the heart of every believer when they are ...

Lord Slay Me, That You Alone May Live.

Of late I've been falling repeatedly in sin and the wants of my flesh. It's a horrible experience and season to go through. Trying so hard to live a holy life for God, yet I slip again and again in sin. Often times I ask God why He would let me fall into this pit of sin and infidelity of living an unholy life. A hypocritical life. But then I've yet again been brought to ...

Thy Life in my death?!

Today we have a quote from Mr. John MacArthur's book, "Hard to Believe", specifically from the first chapter. Christianity, in the hands of some seeker-sensitive church leaders, has become a "get what you want" rather than a "give up everything" movement. These leaders have prostituted the divine intention of the Gospel. They have replaced the glory of God with the satisfaction of man. They have traded the concept of abandoning our lives to the honor of ...