Quips & Quotes while traveling the Jesus road
A few anecdotes, quotes, and truths noted while travelling the Jesus road. -Brother Murray
JESUS loves you just as much now as when He was voluntarily dying on the cross for your sins! He is "the same yesterday, and today, and for ever!" (Hebrews 13:8)
The key to victory in the game of life: hang in there with Jesus! "But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, BE YE STEDFAST, UNMOVEABLE, ALWAYS ABOUNDING IN THE WORK OF THE LORD, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." - I Corinthians 15:57-58)
“There is only one way of escape, one exit, off the hell-bound train: JESUS! All the other exits are imaginary.”
Have you heard the good news? Jesus loves you!!! He died to prove it! But death couldn't hold the sinless Son of God! He rose from the dead on the third day with all power in heaven and on earth, and He invites you: "Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest!" — Matthew 11:28
“The LORD Never Panics”
Just a thought...
It's not God's will for anyone to go to hell! "The Lord is... not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance." - 2 Peter 3:9 If a person goes to hell, he or she does so AGAINST the will of God! -MNBJr
I'd rather be a peanut in heaven than a big shot in hell. -MNBJr
JESUS is my best friend, and He is LORD of all! WOW!!! -MNBJr
"Are you tired of running into walls? Then go through the open door: JESUS!" - MNBJr
“Whatever you don’t give to God, the devil will steal from you!”
Have you heard the good news? Jesus loves you!!! He died to prove it! But death couldn't hold the sinless Son of God! He rose from the dead on the third day with all power in heaven and on earth, and He invites you: "Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest!" (Matthew 11:28)
“In every life an election takes place: God is voting for you, the devil is voting against you, and you cast the deciding vote!”
No-one and no thing is worth going to hell for! -MNBJr
If you don't deny yourself, you will deceive yourself! Read Mark 8:34 & James 1:22 -MNBJr
There is only one way to walk with God: HUMBLY! -MNBJr "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" - Micah 6:8
God wants to do more than just help us have a better life in the here and now; He wants to help us get ready for the forever side! -MNBJr
“Life is not so much what happens TO you, but rather what you MAKE happen by what you hang onto in your own heart.” — MNBJr
"Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life." - Proverbs 4:23.
“It’s okay if the garbage is in orbit around you, but don’t you go into orbit around the garbage!”
“Don’t push me: I’m making mistakes as fast as I can.”
You've got to have a "no-matter-what" commitment, because if you don't, there will always be a "what". -MNBJr
There will be no unbelievers in hell, only those who waited too long to believe! "The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel!" - Jesus, in Mark 1:15 -MNBJr
The most important question anyone will ever answer: "What shall I do then with Jesus which is called Christ?" (Matthew 27:22) -MNBJr
The score in the game of life is 1-0, and Jesus is the One! There is victory in Jesus for you right now, if you will only believe and receive it in the name of Jesus, that name that is above every other name!!! -MNBJr
"God always honors the preaching of His word!" - Dr. W. Charles Harris, Central Bible College, 1977
"If you want God to use you, show Him how much you love His Word!" - Frank Lumetta (1976 or 1977)
“Love is something you do!”
"Keep those prayers and intercessions coming in, folks!" - My friend, Larry Metz
"Something beautiful, something good! All my confusion He understood! All I had to offer Him was brokenness and strife, but He made something beautiful out of my life!" - The Bill Gaither Trio
"Give them all, give them all, give them all to Jesus: shattered dreams, wounded hearts, broken toys! Give them all, give them all, give them all to Jesus, and He will turn your sorrow into joy!" - as sung by Evie, song written by Phil Johnson and Bob Benson, Sr.
"If Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice is too great for me to make for Him." - C.T. Studd (now with the Lord)
“If you wait until you’re perfect before you do something for God, you’ll never do anything for God!”
"Some are called. Some are sent. Some just got up and went." - Dr. Ben Aker, Central Bible College, 1977
"What we deserve is hell, so anything less than that must be mercy." - Kevin Garland
"I'd rather limp to heaven than leap to hell!" - D.L. Moody
“One plus God equals a majority! ”
"Little is much when God is in it!" - from a Gospel song
“Robinson Crusoe was the only man who got all of his work done by Friday. ”
You can't outgive God! "Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again." - Jesus, in Luke 6:38
"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot (now with the Lord)
"God can even use the devil. He can use the devil to keep you humble." - Pastor Ralph Wilkerson, 1979, while pastoring Melodyland Christian Center, Anaheim, California (...and God gives grace to the humble. - James 4:6)
"Trust God and watch everybody else!" - Pastor Chuck Smith (1979), Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa, California
"Major on the majors, not the minors!" & "Define your terms!" - Dr. Terry Lewis, in Intro. to Theology, at Central Bible College, in Springfield, Missouri (1976)
"The plain thing is the main thing!" - Pastor Ken Keene
"Empty box-cars make the most noise." - Dr. Ben Aker, Central Bible College
"In Jesus, it's victory all the way!" - Dr. Thomas F. Harrison (now with the Lord), Central Bible College
"No-one ever became the man of the hour by watching the clock." - On the marquee of Boulevard Baptist Church in Springfield, Missouri (1981)
"We'll just have to put it in the Lord's hands." - Rev. Marjorie Brown, my mom (now with the Lord)
"Don't chafe!" and "I gave up looking for the perfect church a long time ago, because I figured that if I ever did find a perfect church, it would cease to be perfect as soon as I joined it." Rev. Murray N. Brown, Sr., my dad (now with the Lord)
"Only Jesus can satisfy your soul!" - Old gospel song.
"If you want to get something done, find somebody who's busy." - Dr. Raymond T. Brock (now with the Lord)
“Patience is waiting on God’s timing. ”
You'd better get on the stick, before the stick gets on you!
I've heard it said that "a good marriage is the union of two good forgivers."
I've also heard it said that to God our character is much more important than our comfort.
— MNBjr
The temptation to sin must be cut off at the pass. Where's that? Between the ears and behind the eyeballs. -MNBJr
"For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds;) Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ;" - 2 Corinthians 10:3-5
“There are two kinds of people in the world: people who love people and use things, and people who love things and use people. Which kind of people are you?”
”Hurt people hurt people.”
”Until the pain of remaining the same is greater than the pain it will take to change, most people remain the same.”
“God will love you all the way to hell, and you will still go there, if you don’t settle some things.”
“Oh, the outrageous slings and arrows of life! ”
“Either this book (the Bible) will keep you from sin, or sin will keep you from this book. ”