The first priority of my life is to be holy, and the second goal of my life is to be a scholar – John Wesley
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Humility and patience are the surest proofs of [entire sanctification] – John Wesley
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Assistance of Spiritual Beings
As no good is done, or spoken, or thought by any man without the assistance of God, working in and with those that believe in Him, so there is no evil done, or spoken, or thought without the assistance of the devil, who worketh with strong though secret power in the children of unbelief. All the works of our evil nature are the work of the devil. – John Wesley
Ponder that for a moment – it explains a lot of what is going on in our world today, doesn’t it. pastorwardclinton.com
Seize the Moment
Let me do all the good I can, to all the people I can, as often as I can, for I shall not pass this way again. – John Wesley
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Earn all you can, save all you can, give all you can. – John Wesley
Christian Witness
A Christian man should so shine in his life, that a person could not live with him a week without knowing the gospel. C. H. Spurgeon
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Help Someone
Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one’s own. – Fulton J. Sheen
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Charles Colson Regarding Resurrection
Make America Good Again
Most people would like to have a right social order, but this is possible only with a right condition in those who make up this order. The form of government possessed by any people is more or less the product of the character of the masses under that government. The American system of governance, which is a Representative Republic, is possible if the people under this form of government live up to certain standards of life and character. They must be intelligent, law-abiding, liberty-loving, and respectful of others’ rights. They must believe in freedom of speech, freedom of association, and freedom of worship. When the people in general fall below these standards, the way is opened for another form of government to arise. If the people demand liberty, they will get it. But if they are willing to sell their souls for a “mess of pottage,” they will become slaves to those who buy them. Bill Clinton sold his morals for power, not that he was unique in that aspect but our founders warned us to select only persons of high moral fiber to the offices of governance in our nation and we have suffered the consequences for failing to heed their instruction. Hope is high that with Donald J. Trump we may see a brand-new Great Awakening take place in our nation with a renewing of the founding covenant with God. The Welfare program is another example of “mess of pottage.”
An excerpt from my book “Life’s Fundamental Choices”
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God Said, “Be Holy”
In our day, when the Holy Bible is quite readily available, in multiple translations, just in the English, it is disturbing to observe that the overall trend regarding reading any books is on the decline. Even though the Holy Bible still has the status of being the “best seller of all time” it also likely holds a distinction of being the most neglected book. Therefore people in general only know what they pick up in bits and pieces through bits of sermons which they might not really be paying attention to or quotations, especially the popular misquotes. Therefore we really should not be surprised that there are so many ineffectual Christians as well as people who imagine themselves to be a Christian but have only had enough exposure so as to be inoculated against catching the real thing.
Those two groups occasionally find themselves annoyed by the spirit-filled, effectual, group of Christians; the second more so than the first but both tend to seek out the failures of the sanctified ones, or effectual Christians, in order to exploit them to make themselves feel better about their less=than-optimal level of spiritual living. But every one of us needs to be striving toward being more Christlike, as revealed in the Holy Bible, in order to be more properly equipped for residence in Heaven.
Ladies and gentlemen of the world; if you don’t like being in Church for a couple hours on a weekly basis, what makes you think you are going to like Heaven?
Only holy beings can handle residing in the habitation of the One True God who is the God of Father Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob who is a holy God and He expects His people to be holy like Him. He cannot lie to Himself and call that which is unholy to be what it isn’t without making it be. Now, if someone is content to live in the “I sin daily in thought word and deed” rut, they ain’t holy by any stretch of the imagination. But they still need to be.
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