Quotes
December 2018
Man fools himself. He prays for a long life and he fears old age. – Chinese Proverb
There are three principles that are brought forth by the High Priest, He evaluates our work on the basis of good and evil. He evaluates our labor based on the principal of good and evil, He evaluates our patience on the principle of good and evil. – Michael Haigh
The words, ‘Let me tell you about my church,’ should instead become, ‘Let me tell you about my Christ.’ – Mary Haigh
Separation from all evil is God’s principle; and this principle can never be infringed without serious damage to the truth. – C. H. Macintosh – (1820 – 1896)
How easy we have slipped from Person-worship to place-worship – Michael Haigh
There is no sin for which it is worth your while to be damned. – Spurgeon – (1834-1892)
The last act of faith is age. – Michael Haigh
Church history is just the progressive history of what the church has done when, having ceased to lean on God, it began to lean on itself. – J. N .Darby – (1800-1882)
No man would be able to stand before God unless God performed a supernatural work in creating a new heart, a new spirit, and a new soul. – Michael Haigh
If what draws people to a building is the success and the size of the building (money) and the entertainment (music/lights/stage craft/technical display) than you have achieved the drawing power of the theater. What the church is missing is the drawing power of the Holy Spirit of God by the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ. – Mary Haigh
The Law manifests what was in man — sin; grace manifests what is in God — love, mercy. – A. W. Pink – (1886-1952)
The very scope of the plan of redemption is so elaborate, every tooth of the gears of sovereignty falls into place with divine accuracy. It is God’s will that is the driving shaft of the divine gears of truth. Truly, a wheel within a wheel bringing all things together, cementing the determinate counsels of God in the Man Jesus Christ, His beloved Son. – Michael Haigh
Beware of a door that has many keys. Portuguese Proverb
God hath taken a marvelous way to manifest His love. When He would show His power, He makes a world. When He would display His wisdom, He puts it in a frame and form that discloses its vastness. When He would manifest His grandeur and glory of His name, He makes a heaven, and puts angels and archangels, principalities and powers therein. And when He would manifest His love, what will He not do? God hath taken a great and marvelous way of manifesting it in Christ: His Person, His blood, His death, His righteousness. – Ralph Erskine – (1685-1752)
God deals in moral realities. – C. H. Macintosh – (1820 – 1892)
It is the supernatural heart of a supernatural being that possesses, upholds, and maintains His own supernatural righteousness. God declared that He is love because there is no greater love than His love for His love is upheld by His righteousness, and the work of the Lord Jesus Christ in Calvary . – Michael Haigh
You can never lead anyone beyond where you are yourself. – J. B. Stoney – (1814 – 1895)
The Godhead is very unique, and so it should be, it should be beyond our intelligence, for we are but creatures of the Creator. The Bible and the Spirit of God want to show us the complete unity of the Godhead, whether Spirit or manifested in Jesus Christ, the Godhead is One, and there is no division, there is no separation, and therefore, we have the completeness of God in the determinate counsels of God. All three working as One in the divine plan of redemption, and to fulfill the purposes and will of the most high God. The Godhead is always united in every way: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. – Michael Haigh
I believe that one reason why the church of God at this present moment has so little influence over the world is because the world has so much influence over the church. –Spurgeon – (1834 – 1892)
The Teaching Moment
The Missing Power in the Church
Jesus answered and said unto them, Ye do err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power of God. (Matthew 22:29)
For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek. (Romans 1:16)
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. (1 Colossians 1:18)
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away. (2 Timothy 3:5)