Top 100 John F. MacArthur Jr. Quotes
#3. Do you know what the Spirit-filled life is? It is living every moment as though you are standing in the presence of Jesus Christ!
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#4. 18The LORD is near to all who call upon Him, To all who call upon Him in truth.
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#5. Our greatest limitation isn't the leader of the lives; it is the spirit within us.
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#6. We allow our daily concerns to turn into worry and therefore sin when our thoughts become focused on changing the future instead of doing our best to handle our present circumstances.
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#7. If a dying Savior could bring us to God's grace, surely a living Savior can keep us in His grace.
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#8. Clung tightly to the Lord, faithfully following Him and obeying His commands (v. 6).
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#9. 4Behold, as for the aproud one, His soul is not right within him; But the brighteous will live by his 1faith.
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#10. 18O my God, incline your ear and hear. Open your eyes and see our desolations, and the city that is called by your name. For we do not present our pleas before you because of our righteousness, but because of your great mercy.
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#11. Since God has a will for us, He must want us to know it. If so, then we could expect Him to communicate it to us in the most obvious way.
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#12. True Christianity is not defined on the basis of external moralism, religious traditionalism, or partisan politics, but on the basis of a personal love for Jesus Christ and a desire to follow Him no matter what the cost (John 14:15).
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#13. Praise the LORD! For it is good to sing praises to our God; For it is pleasant, and praise is beautiful.
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#14. The one most valuable lesson humanity ought to have learned from philosophy is that it is impossible to make sense of truth without acknowledging God as the necessary starting point.
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#15. We confess that our best service is altogether unprofitable, and when we have rendered our best obedience, we are still merely unworthy slaves who have done no more than that which we ought to do.
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#16. Jesus gave us, His children, three reasons for not worrying about this life: It is unnecessary because of our Father, it is uncharacteristic because of our faith, and it is unwise because of our future.
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#17. God help us! We have turned the holy fire of God into a circus sideshow - and naive Christians are buying this without realizing that such shenanigans are actually blasphemous.21
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#18. The Lord accomplishes great things through weak people ... What is required of His people is an obedient spirit, not a roster of tremendous gifts and abilities.
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#19. While nothing in the Bible is contradictory, many of the Bible's most provocative and profound truths appear to us paradoxical.
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#21. When Christ said to "pray, then, in this way," He didn't mean to pray with His exact words.
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#22. The symbolism in Jesus' parables is never thickly layered, and rarely even multidimensional.
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#24. It is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man's true spiritual condition. There is nothing that tells the truth about us as Christian people so much as our prayer life. ...
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#25. Moral freedom now reigns. Materialism and the breakdown of the family are epidemic. Abortions, sexual evils, drugs, and crime are rampant.
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#26. How His electing grace and predestined purpose can stand beside His love for the world and desire that the gospel be preached to all people, still holding them responsible for their own rejection and condemnation, is a divine mystery.
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#27. Prayer is not an attempt to get God to agree with you or provide for your selfish desires, but that it is both an affirmation of His sovereignty, righteousness, and majesty and an exercise to conform your desires and purposes to His will and Glory
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#30. On the flip side, those who profess salvation but later fall away, demonstrate that their profession was never genuine (1 John 2:19).
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#31. Christ's atonement fully satisfied the demands of God's righteousness, so forgiveness and mercy are guaranteed to those who receive Christ in humble, repentant faith.
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#32. Sin is the monarch that rules the heart of every man. It is the first lord of the soul, and its virus has contaminated every living being.
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#33. Finally, by making activism our priority, we fashion a reputation as rabble-rousing malcontents and foster hostility toward unbelievers that alienates us from them, and them from us. We need to let go of the notion that culture and
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#34. 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.
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#37. Murray Harris has observed: One of the classic Christian paradoxes is that freedom leads to slavery and slavery leads to freedom.
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#38. To "pray without ceasing" basically refers to recurring prayer, not nonstop talking. Thus it is to be our way of life - we're to be continually in an attitude of prayer.
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#40. God's wisdom is like the rainbow, in symmetry, beauty, and variety. He does not paint scenes merely in black and white, but uses a riot of colour from the heavenly palette in order to show the wonder of His wise dealings with His people. - Sinclair Ferguson
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#41. Exposition presupposes an exegetical process to extract the God-intended meaning of Scripture and an explanation of that meaning in a contemporary way.
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#42. Our responsibility has never been to moralize the unconverted; it's to convert the immoral. Our responsibility is redemptive, not political. We do not have a moral agenda; we have a redemptive agenda. We can't reform the kingdom of darkness that Satan rules.
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#43. 7Two things I request of You (Deprive me not before I die): 8Remove falsehood and lies far from me; Give me neither poverty nor riches - Feed me with the food allotted to me; 9Lest I be full and deny You, And say, "Who is the LORD?" Or lest I be poor and steal, And profane the name of my God.
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#44. But the day of our death will be better than the day of our birth, because the first time we were born into sin. But when we die, we will awaken into the glorious presence of Christ (cf. 2 Cor. 5:8).
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#45. When two people can't live up to each other's expectations, they'll look for their fantasized satisfaction in the next relationship, the next experience, the next excitement.
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#46. Prayer begins and ends not with the needs of man but with the glory of God (John 14:13). It should be concerned primarily with who God is, what He wants, and how He can be glorified.
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#47. J. I. Packer has written, "The repentance that Christ requires of His people consists in a settled refusal to set any limit to the claims which He may make on their lives."17
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#49. The real challenge of Christian living is not to eliminate every uncomfortable circumstance from our lives, but to trust our sovereign, wise, good, and powerful God in the midst of every situation.
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#50. 43There I will meet with the people of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory.
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#51. 14For the earth will be afilled With the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, As the waters cover the sea.
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#52. 8Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, For in You do I trust; Cause me to know the way in which I should walk, For I lift up my soul to You.
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#53. And how can one be a slave and not a slave? When he does all for God: when he feigns nothing, and does nothing out of eye-service towards men: that is how one who is a slave to men can be free.
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#54. Scripture does what psychoanalysis can't do-it pierces the heart, penetrates deep into the soul and judges the motives. To see yourself in the light of Scripture, is to see yourself as you really are.
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#55. The doctrine of adoption establishes the reality that believers, once saved, are always saved.
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#56. Peter and others who experienced the special filling on Pentecost Day (2:4) were filled with the Spirit again and again (4:8, 31; 6:5; 7:55) and so boldly spoke the word of God. That was just the beginning. The fullness of the Spirit affects all areas of life, not just speaking boldly (
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#57. All those who are truly born again will be kept by God's power and will persevere as Christians until the end of their lives, and that only those who persevere until the end have been truly born again.
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#58. 2The kings of the earth set themselves, And the rulers take counsel together, Against the LORD and against His Anointed, saying, 3"Let us break Their bonds in pieces And cast away Their cords from us." 4He who sits in the heavens shall laugh;
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#59. Impotence in prayer leads us, however unwillingly, to strike a truce with evil. When you accept what is, you abandon a Christian view of God and His plan for redemptive history.
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#60. Naturalism attempts to fortify itself against God by altogether shutting Him out of public life, social policy, the courts, and eliminating all biblical influence in morality and ethics.
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#61. It wasn't a potential atonement actuated by the sinner, it was an actual atonement initiated by the savior.
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#62. We knock a time or two at the gate of mercy, and as no friendly messenger opens the door, we go our ways. Too many prayers are like boys' runaway knocks, given, and then the giver is away before the door can be opened.
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#63. Men have no excuse for not knowing about God because He has revealed Himself in man's conscience and in the physical world (Rom. 1:19, 20; 2:15).
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#64. But if believers are to grow in Christlikeness, they must be continually filled with the Spirit - allowing His power to permeate their lives so that all they think, say, and do reflects His divine presence.
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#66. 5Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help, Whose hope is in the LORD his God, 6Who made heaven and earth, The sea, and all that is in them;
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#67. Abraham obeyed God in the extremity, and as a result, he became the model of faith. Thus anyone who has faith in God and is thereby justified is a child in the spiritual line of Abraham. If we trust God as Abraham did, we can be confident in any test or trial.
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#68. In the Middle Ages, the Roman Catholic papacy developed into an abusive, corrupt, autocratic, totalitarian system by claiming apostolic authority through a supposed line of succession back to Peter.
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#69. For the faithful, Spirit-filled Christian, every place becomes a place of prayer.
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#70. The true gospel is a call to self-denial. It is not a call to self-fulfillment.
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#72. 12When ahe was in distress, he entreated the LORD his God and bhumbled himself greatly before the God of his fathers.
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#73. Adam was refined dirt; Eve was a glorious refinement of humanity itself. -John MacArthur, Twelve Extraordinary Women
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#74. The world doesn't judge us by our theology; it judges us by our behavior. The validity of Scripture in the world's view is determined by how it affects us.
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#75. If saving faith is present, it can't help but produce fruit. Good works don't save a person, but they do show that his or her faith is genuine.
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#76. Paul was far more concerned with obeying his divine calling than with gaining man's approval. Only one thing mattered - pleasing the Master.
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#78. Satan has demanded permission to sift you like wheat; but I have prayed for you, that your faith may not fail; and you, when once you have turned again, strengthen your brothers. Satan
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#79. Why the kingdom? Because the Kingdom is God's total answer to man's total need.
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#80. Genuine believers are characterized by a deep love for Christ, and that love inevitably manifests itself in obedience. By contrast, those who do not love the Lord, either by what they say or how they live, evidence the fact that they do not belong to Him.
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#81. The freedom of the Christian is not freedom to do what he or she wants but freedom to obey God - willingly, joyfully, naturally.
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#82. Proverbs 23:9 9Do not speak in the hearing of a fool, For he will despise the wisdom of your words.
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#83. Nothing can separate us from the love of Christ, not even our own disobedience or our failure to love Him as we should. We can be thankful for His love which is unending and will reach out to recover us.
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#84. But avoidance is only part of the biblical approach to media. The Christian life is not only concerned with avoiding immorality; it is also consumed with pursuing Christ. In putting off "the deeds of darkness," we must also "put on the armor of light" (Romans 13:12).
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#85. preach Christ as Savior but not as Lord is to present a gospel message that is incomplete.
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#86. When the gospel has been eclipsed (whether by repression, false religion secularism, humanistic philosophy, or spiritual decay within the church), the status of women has declined accordingly.
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#88. If the disciples had their eyes set on great prominence and high rewards in eternity, they had to know the path to that end is marked by great suffering and endurance.
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#90. Like Lazarus lying motionless in the tomb, the unredeemed soul remains lifeless until the voice of God commands it, "Come forth!
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#91. It's not the length of man's life that establishes his importance and influence, in fact, the length of a man's life has very little to do with it's impact.
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#95. You and I believed the gospel, not because we were wiser or more righteous than anyone else but because God graciously intervened, opening our hearts to head His Word and believe.
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#96. Human ideas and concepts are temporal and completely incapable of producing spiritual truth or guidance.
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#99. The American family shattered for the simple reason that it was American, not global.
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#100. Take great pleasure and joy in the outcome of a time of suffering, trial, or persecution, realizing that we are enhancing our heavenly reward and understanding more about the power of suffering (Rev. 2:10).
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