David Devenish on Planting New Churches

"How can we build a strong foundation when there isn't the power of God there right from the start? On that we cannot compromise!".

David Devenish - "The Ephesus Mission: A Pattern for World Evangelisation" - Together on a Mission Conference 2007 at Brighton.

Rob Rufus on what the Kingdom of God is about

"Your Kingdom is not about knowing concepts and bible academics and cerebral information but Your Kingdom is about divine encounters that translate into doing the ministry of the Lord Jesus".

Rob Rufus - "Knowing the Person and Work of the Holy Spirit" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday September 23rd 2007.

Ern Baxter on Authentic Evangelism of Nations

"I believe God's plan for the salvation of the nations not only involves the bringing of men and women into the Kingdom of God but the stemming of ungodliness and the bringing of kingdom principles into the nation. I believe His plan is to go into a country with a kind of spiritual contingent that will unitedly bind the Strongman and blast that nation for God leaving behind evangelism by example - a witnessing community".

Ern Baxter - "Evangelism by Example" - New Wine Magazine - November 1977 - CGM Ministries - (p27).

Ern Baxter on Authentic Evangelism

"The greatest force in evangelism is not the gimmicks and all that goes with it in modern day evangelism; the greatest force is to realise that man's souls are hell-bound by a satanic power that cannot be broken by evangelistic gimmicks and evangelistic meetings but can only be broken by the intercessory prayer and authoratative attack and assault of God's people who break Satan's power over unbelieving men".

Ern Baxter - "Evangelism by Example" - New Wine Magazine - November 1977 - CGM Ministries - (p27).

J C Ryle on the Puritan's Writing

"Their works still speak for them on the shelves of every well-furnished theological library".

J C Ryle - "Foreword to the Works of Thomas Manton" - Volume 2: pxi - cited in Beeke, Joel R and Pederson R J - "Meet the Puritans" - Reformation Heritage Books (2oo6) - (p2).

Joel Beeke on the Puritans and Writing

"Although Puritans were barred from the pulpits and universities, the repressive measures could not silence their pens".

Beeke, Joel R and Pederson R J - "Meet the Puritans" - Reformation Heritage Books (2oo6) - (p9).

Rob Rufus on Together on a Mission 2007

"Recently in Brighton, I went to 4, 500 people who were in a disposition and ready to respond. Most of them were leaders and they had been crying out to God for years. They lifted their sails and it was the easiest thing in the world!".

Rob Rufus - "Knowing the Person of the Holy Spirit - His Names, Titles and Operations - 2" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 16th September 2007.

Rob Rufus on Old and New Covenants

"Under the Old Covenant if you touched a leper then you were unclean. Under the New Covenant if you touch a leper then they are healed".

Rob Rufus - "Knowing the Person of the Holy Spirit - His Names, Titles and Operations - 2" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 16th September 2007.

Rob Rufus on Condemnation

"Condemnation is a lie from the devil - if you believe that lie even though there is NO condemnation, then condemnation will become an illegitimate reality in your life because you lend credibility to a lie".

Rob Rufus - "Knowing the Person of the Holy Spirit - His Names, Titles and Operations - 2" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 16th September 2007.

Rob Rufus on Being Filled with the Holy Spirit

"(Ephesians 5:18) - Present tense! "Be BEING filled!". It is no use being baptised in the Spirit at the end of the Second World War and spoke in tongues for 3 minutes! Be BEING filled with the Holy Spirit. Many think of an empty glass being filled with water - that is static and boring! That isn't what the Greek is saying! "I'm half full now I am full".

"The language is of a big sail of a yacht being FILLED with wind! Christians in a move of the Spirit of God can sit motionless! But others lives are moving forward and being empowered! God wants to bless but they need their sail up - to be BEING filled! The sail is faith that because of the grace of God He can't help Himself but bless us!".

Rob Rufus - "Knowing the Person of the Holy Spirit - His Names, Titles and Operations" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 9th September 2007.

Rob Rufus on the Work Of Jesus Christ

"A perfect Saviour - a perfect sacrifice at the Cross perfectly satisfied the Father on our behalf and a perfectly satisfied Father gives you and me a perfectly clear conscience".

Rob Rufus - "Knowing the Person of the Holy Spirit - His Names, Titles and Operations" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 9th September 2007

Rob Rufus on Communion with God

"There are too many people thinking instead of drinking!".

Rob Rufus - "Knowing the Person of the Holy Spirit - His Names, Titles and Operations" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 9th September 2007

Rob Rufus on Going Into the Land

"We have crossed the Jordan and we are going in! If you are legalistic and stay on the wrong side of the Jordan, your manna is drying up and it's tough! We are no longer wandering in the wilderness eating manna, going around and around mountains! We have replaced desert with vineyards we never sowed, houses we didn't build, land we didn't buy - and milk and honey is ours now!".

Rob Rufus - "Knowing the Person of the Holy Spirit - His Names, Titles and Operations" - City Church International, Hong Kong - Sunday 9th September 2007

Rob Rufus on the True Church

"The Church in it's purest form was birthed by God in a state of supernatural drunkenness, liberty and freedom and they never were more in the plan, will and pattern of God drunk in the Holy Spirit. As the Church got more and more sober and intellectual and cerebral and intellectual, the Church got more and more out of the pattern and the will of God".

Rob Rufus - "Knowing the Person of the Holy Spirit - His Names, Titles and Operations" - City Church International, Hong Kong -Sunday 9th September 2007.

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Israel and the End Times

"It means the bulk of the Jews, the Jews as a whole ... it does meanthat those who have Jewish ancestors and those who cling persistently to the Jews religion will as a whole have their eyes opened. The hardness will be removed and they will believe and enter the Christian church".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 11 - 'To God's Glory'" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1998) - (p185).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Israel and the End Times

"As the fullness of the Jews means the Jews as a nation, as a whole, so the fullness of the Gentiles means exactly the same thing, the Gentiles in general. The Gentile "world" as it were will have to come in and when that has happened, the same is going to happen to the Jews".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 11 - 'To God's Glory'" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1998) - (p181).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Romans 11

"This is one of the most remarkable prophecies of the Bible".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 11 - 'To God's Glory'" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1998) - (p167).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Israel and the End Times

"There never will be two churches - there will never even be two divisions in the Christian church. The Christian church is one and one only. It takes the same grace of God to convert a Jew as a Gentile and the Gentile as a Jew and they will share the same blessings, they are all joint-heirs of exactly the same promises and of the same blessed hope".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 11 - 'To God's Glory'" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1998) - (p109).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Israel and the End Times

"Now my argument is that the Apostle is concerned in the whole of this chapter with the Jews as a "nation" and he is going to substantiate his statement that a day is coming when, as a whole, they will come in".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 11 - 'To God's Glory'" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1998) - (p98).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Israel

"It is part of that glorious hope that we have as children of God. I do not mean the Second Coming. I mean something that is going to be witnessed before the Lord returns. What is it? The bulk of the nation of Israel will be converted to Christ and come into the church. What will this lead to? A confirmation of our faith! A tremendous proof of the inspiration of Scripture!".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 11 - 'To God's Glory'" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1998) - (p91).

R T Kendall on Balance in Doctrine and Experience

"If it is true that if our doctrine of salvation is not accused or being antinomian, it is likely we have not really preached justification, then I think it is also true that if our doctrine of the immediate witness of the Spirit is not accused of being charismatic, we probably have not really held to a robust doctrine of the Spirit".

Dr R T Kendall - "John Cotton - First English Calvinist?" - in "Puritan Experiment in the New World" - Westminster Conference Papers - (1976).

Donald Gee on the Gift of Tongues

"The gift of tongues consisted of the power of more or less ecstatic speech in languages with which the speaker was not naturally familiar".

Donald Gee - "Concerning Spiritual Gifts" - Gospel Mission (1947) - (p57).

Donald Gee on Purpose of Spiritual Gifts

"The ultimate and full purpose of spiritual gifts thus stands revealed. They are to bring men face to face with the reality of the Invisible God. To make the Church realise that the Holy Spirit is ever present and all true ministry springs from Him who is her only source of life and power and to make the unbeliever equally concious that God cannot be forgotten and that sin dare not be trifled with".

Donald Gee - "Concerning Spiritual Gifts" - Gospel Mission (1947) - (p19).

Donald Gee on Cessationism

"One word here; it is surely a serious thing to accuse God of withdrawing these gifts if the real fact is that the church lost them through lukewarmness".

Donald Gee - "Concerning Spiritual Gifts" - Gospel Mission (1947) - (p10).

Donald Gee on Cessationism

"Are spiritual gifts for today? Why not? The burden of proof surely lies with those who say "No" rather than those who say "Yes". There is nothing in Scripture, reason or experience to make us believe that the gifts of the Spirit are not for today - every one of them".

Donald Gee - "Concerning Spiritual Gifts" - Gospel Mission (1947) - (p9).

Donald Gee on Defining Prophecy

"It is impossible to seperate true prophesying from the idea of definite inspiration. The prophet spoke more from the impulse of a sudden revelation at the moment".

Donald Gee - "Concerning Spiritual Gifts" - Gospel Mission (1947) - (p42).

Donald Gee on Prophecy NOT Preaching

"It will at least help to define our study if we immediately dismiss the idea that Scriptural "prophesying" is nothing more than ordinary preaching".

Donald Gee - "Concerning Spiritual Gifts" - Gospel Mission (1947) - (p42).

Donald Gee on Cessationism and Prophecy

"To silence the gift of prophecy is to silence what has in the past and what may we believe often be again the very expression of the emotion of God, the fullness of the Divine feeling finding at least some expression through inadequate human channels".

Donald Gee - "Concerning Spiritual Gifts" - Gospel Mission (1947) - (p48).

Donald Gee on the Gift of Prophecy

"It is sure to cost something to stand for the real gift of prophecy and to give it it's lawful place in our assemblies today but unless we do so we are persuaded that one very big purpose of God in the "latter rain" outpouring of the Spirit will be frustrated".

Donald Gee - "Concerning Spiritual Gifts" - Gospel Mission (1947) - (p46).

Donald Gee on the Protection of Spiritual Gifts

"One of the greatest responsibilities entrusted to us today in the preservation of the actual exercise of these gifts of inspired utterance of these gifts of inspired utterance in the church. We emphasise "actual exercise" because it is so very easy to stand for those things theoretically and doctrinally without actually manifesting them".

Donald Gee - "Concerning Spiritual Gifts" - Gospel Mission (1947) - (p46).

Donald Gee on Prophecy and Church

"(Prophecy) can sweep the assembly up into heights of glory and enthusiasm, can melt with tenderness and make to tremble with awe".

Donald Gee - "Concerning Spiritual Gifts" - Gospel Mission (1947) - (p46).

Donald Gee on Prophesying

"Prophesying is also needed to correct the equal dangers of a purely intellectual and rational line of ministry".

Donald Gee - "Concerning Spiritual Gifts" - Gospel Mission (1947) - (p45).

Donald Gee on the Gift of Prophecy and Teaching

"(Prophecy) provides a most essential balance to the didatic and logical ministry of the teacher. Prophecy appeals mostly to the emotions; teaching to the intellect. Prophecy sets on fire that which teaching enlightens".

Donald Gee - "Concerning Spiritual Gifts" - Gospel Mission (1947) - (p45).

Richard Gaffin on Ignoring the Resurrection

"In fact only by virtue of His resurrection is His death, a dying to sin. A soteriology structured so it moves directly from the death of Christ to the application to others of the benefits purchased by that death, substantially short-circuits Paul's own point of view".

Richard B Gaffin Jr - "The Centrality of the Resurrection - A Study in Paul's Soteriology" - Baker Biblical Monograph, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1978) - (pp116-117).

Richard Gaffin on Christ's Cross and Resurrection

"Strictly speaking not Christ's death but His resurrection (that is His exaltation) marks the completion of the once-for-all accomplishment of redemption".

Richard B Gaffin Jr - "The Centrality of the Resurrection - A Study in Paul's Soteriology" - Baker Biblical Monograph, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1978) - (p116).

Richard Gaffin on the Centrality of Christ's Resurrection

"This does not imply that Paul compromises the absolute necessity and intrinsic efficacy of Christ's death (as an atonement). It does mean however that he does not confuse the ransom price, no matter how sublime and precious with what is secured by it's payment".

Richard B Gaffin Jr - "The Centrality of the Resurrection - A Study in Paul's Soteriology" - Baker Biblical Monograph, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1978) - (p116).

Richard Gaffin on the Resurrection of Christ

"The resurrection is the salvation of Jesus as the last Adam; it and no other event in His experience is the point of His transition from wrath to grace".

Richard B Gaffin Jr - "The Centrality of the Resurrection - A Study in Paul's Soteriology" - Baker Biblical Monograph, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1978) - (p116).

Richard Gaffin on the Resurrection as Part of Gospel

"The resurrection is not an aspect or component of the death. Rather ... each has a meaning of its own which is supressed at the risk of seriously distorting Paul's Gospel".

Richard B Gaffin Jr - "The Centrality of the Resurrection - A Study in Paul's Soteriology" - Baker Biblical Monograph, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1978) - (p115).

Richard Gaffin on Resurrection and New Creation

"Resurrection is here nothing less than the counterpart of creation. The resurrection of Christ is the beginning of the new and final world-order; an order described as spiritual and heavenly. It is the dawn of the new creation, the start of the eschatological age ... the commencement of the age to come".

Richard B Gaffin Jr - "The Centrality of the Resurrection - A Study in Paul's Soteriology" - Baker Biblical Monograph, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1978) - (p89).

Richard Gaffin on Resurrected Christ

"The resurrected Christ is the life-giving Christ. The plain implication is that the last Adam became life-giving Spirit at His resurrection".

Richard B Gaffin Jr - "The Centrality of the Resurrection - A Study in Paul's Soteriology" - Baker Biblical Monograph, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1978) - (p88).

Richard Gaffin on Baptism and Resurrection

"Baptism signifies and seals a transition into the experience of the recipient a transition from being (existentially) apart from Christ to being (existentially) joined to Him".

Richard B Gaffin Jr - "The Centrality of the Resurrection - A Study in Paul's Soteriology" - Baker Biblical Monograph, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1978) - (p50).

Richard Gaffin on the Centrality of the Resurrection

"Resurrection with Christ involves an existential component. The believer's continuing walk in newness of life is based upon resurrection with Christ as that has taken place in his actual life history".

Richard B Gaffin Jr - "The Centrality of the Resurrection - A Study in Paul's Soteriology" - Baker Biblical Monograph, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1978) - (p47).

Richard Gaffin on the Centrality of the Resurrection

"Paul views resurrection with Christ not only in terms of solidarity with Him at the time-point of His resurrection but also as a part of a decisive transition in the life-time of the individual believer".

Richard B Gaffin Jr - "The Centrality of the Resurrection - A Study in Paul's Soteriology" - Baker Biblical Monograph, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1978) - (p46).

Richard Gaffin on the Centrality of the Resurrection

"For Paul, "life" in the soteriological sense ... is grounded specifically in the resurrection of Jesus and it's manifestation is always an expression of that resurrection. Life for Paul is pointedly resurrection-life".

Richard B Gaffin Jr - "The Centrality of the Resurrection - A Study in Paul's Soteriology" - Baker Biblical Monograph, Grand Rapids, Michigan (1978) - (p47).

Joel Beeke on Joseph Caryl's Works on Job

"Caryl's work on Job had been called the crown jewels of Puritan preaching".

Joel Beeke and Randall J Pederson - "Meet the Puritans" - RHB, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2006) - (p136).

Joel Beeke on Defining Puritanism

"Doctrinally Puritanism was a kind of vigorous Calvinism; experientially it was warm and contagious, evangelistically it was aggressive yet tender, ecclesiastically it was theocentric and worshipful, politically it aimed to be scripturally balanced and bound by conscience before God in the relations of kings, Parliament and subjects".

Joel R Beeke and Randall J Pederson - "Meet the Puritans" - RHB, Grand Rapids, Michigan (2006) - (pxviii).

A W Tozer on Worship and Experience

"Worship becomes a completely personal love experience between God and the worshipper".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p69).

A W Tozer on Worship and Experience

"Real worship is a feeling about the Lord our God. It is in our hearts. And we must be willing to express it in an appropriate manner".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p65).

A W Tozer on Worship and Experience

"I have had people tell me very dogmatically that they will never allow "feeling" that they will never allow "feeling" to have any part in their spiritual life and experience. I reply "too bad for you!" - I say that because I have voiced a very real definition of what I believe true worship is to be: Worship is to feel in the heart!".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p64).

A W Tozer on the Church and Worship

"That is why there is a Church. The Christian church exists to worship God first of all. Everything else must come second or third or fourth or fifth".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p45).

A W Tozer on the Holy Spirit and Worship

"Without an infusion of the Holy Spirit there can be no true worship".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p38).

A W Tozer on the Holy Spirit and Worship

"If the Holy Spirit should come upon us as in earlier times, visiting church congregations with the sweet but fiery breath of Pentecost, we would be greater Christians and holier souls. Beyond that we would also be greater poets and greater lovers of God and His universe".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p37).

A W Tozer on the Presence of God

"In my own being I could not exist very long as a Christian without this inner conciousness of the Presence and nearness of God".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p27).

A W Tozer on the Love of God

"This is the best of good news: God loves us for ourselves".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p26).

A W Tozer on Worship and Communion with God

"The God who desires our fellowship and communion is not hard to please although He may be hard to satisfy. He expects of us only what He has Himself supplied. He is quick to mark every simple effort to please Him and just as quick to overlook our imperfections when He knows we meant to do His will".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p25).

A W Tozer on Worship versus Pharisee

"Unbeknown to the understanding of a Pharisee, God communes with His redeemed ones in an easy unhibited fellowship that is restful and healing to the soul".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p25).

A W Tozer on Worship and Pleasure in God

"The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasures".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p25).

A W Tozer on the School of the Spirit

"We will have much to learn in the school of the Spirit".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p23).

A W Tozer on Worship

"I wish that we might get back to worship again. Then when people come into the Church they will instantly sense that they come among holy people, God's people. They can testify; "Of a truth God is in this place".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p20).

A W Tozer on Worship and Revival

"We should say too that whenever the church has come out of her lethargy rising from her sleep and into the tides of revival and spiritual renewal, always the worshippers were behind it".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p19).

A W Tozer on Worship and Passion

"Listen to me! Practically every great deed done in the church of Christ all the way back to the apostle Paul was done by people blazing with the radiant worship of their God".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p19).

A W Tozer on Personal Worship

"I would not even attempt to tell you how many hymn books are piled up in my study. I cannot sing a note, but that is nobody's business. God thinks I am an opera star!".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p18).

A W Tozer on Worship and Prayer

"We should confess that in many "good" churches we let the women do the praying and let the men do the voting".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p18).

A W Tozer on Worship and Noise!

"The worshipping saints of God in the Body of Christ have often been a little noisy".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p16).

A W Tozer on on Worship and Noise!

"This may be hard for some to admit but when we are truly worshipping and adoring the God of all grace and of all love and of all mercy and of all truth, we may not be quiet enough to please everyone!".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p15).

A W Tozer on Worship and the Holy Spirit

"When the Holy Spirit comes among us with His anointing, we become a worshipping people".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p15).

A W Tozer on Worship and Heaven

"Any man or woman who is bored and turned off by worship is not ready for heaven".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p14).

A W Tozer on Worshipping God

"A worshipper can work with eternal quality in his work. But a worker who does not worship is only piling up wood, hay and stubble for the time when God sets the world on fire".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p13).

A W Tozer on Worship

"We should not be concerned about working for God until we have learned the meaning and delight of worshipping Him".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p13).

A W Tozer on Worship

"It is certainly true that hardly anything is missing from our churches these days - except the most important thing - we are missing genuine and sacred offering of ourselves and our worship to God and the Father our Lord Jesus Christ".

A W Tozer - "Whatever Happened to Worship?" - Kingsway, Eastbourne (1985) - (p11).

Father Andrew Greeley on the Church

"I'm angry at the Church because I love it ... I wonder if anyone who loves the Church can help being angry at it. It is an organised community with a divine mission made up of all levels of human beings - saints and sinners, idiots and geniuses, devout and indifferent, virtueous and corrupt, fools and brilliant, sensative and clueless. It has a rich and powerfully beautiful heritage ... hypocrisy - mountains of hypocrisy ... it wraps itself in the aura of the sacred to hide it's stupidity".

Father Andrew Greeley - "Making of the Pope" - Clays, St Ives (2005) - (pxviii).

J I Packer on a Needed Revival of Puritanism

"Churches and Christians today are sadly Laodicean; complacent, somnolent, shallow, stuffy. We need reviving. What to do? Opening the windows of our souls to let in a breath of fresh air from the seventeenth century would, I suggest be the wisest possible course".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p106).

J I Packer on Puritan Writing

"Puritan analytical method accounts for the length of Puritan expositions - Joseph Caryl's 6000 pages on Job; 2000 plus in folio on Hebrews from John Owen, Hildersham's 152 sermons on Psalm 51:7, over 800 pages of small print in William Gurnall's treatment of Ephesians 6:10-20 ... What led the Puritans into such long-windedness was their passion for throughness in extracting all doctrines and developing all applications.

Clearly once they started drawing out implications and applications they found it hard to stop. Yet their variety of matter is great, repetition is minimal, the sense that they begin in the middle rather than at the beginning is soon overcome and interest once gained does not fade".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p95).

J I Packer on Defining a Spiritual Gift

"A spiritual gift is an ability, divinely bestowed and sustained to grasp and express the realities of the spiritual world and the knowledge of God in Christ for the edifying of both others and oneself".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p296).

John Owen on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit

"By these gifts doth the Lord Christ demonstrate His power and exercise His rule".

John Owen - "Works of John Owen" - Volume 13 - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh, (p426).

J I Packer on the Gifts of the Holy Spirit

"Gifts of the Spirit are Christ's sole weapons for setting up, extending and maintaining His Kingdom".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p294).

J I Packer on John Owen and the Gifts of the Spirit

"It is clear that were Owen with us today he would be urging us to seek a recovery of 'every member ministry' through a renewed quest for the best gifts of the Holy Spirit".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p293).

J I Packer on the Puritans and Communion with God

"In private they talked freely of their experiences of God, for they had deep experiences to talk about it".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p283).

J I Packer on the Puritans and Communion with God

"We cannot but conclude that whereas to the Puritans communion with Godwas a great thing, to evangelicals today it is a comparatively small thing. The Puritans were concerned about communion with God in a way that we are not ... when Christians meet, they talk to each other ... but rarely of their daily experience of God".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p282).

John Owen on the Song of Solomon

"He is white in the glory of His deity and ruddy in the preciousness of His humanity".

John Owen - "Works of John Owen" - Volume 2 - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh - (p49).

Merrill Unger on Song of Solomon

"It conveys a blessed revelation, not only of the purity and sanctity of human love in courtship and marriage but in mystical form it foreshadows especially Christs great love for His redeemed".

Merrill Unger - "Unger's Commentary on the Old Testament" - AMG Publications, USA (2002) - (p1105).

Sinclair Ferguson on the Song of Solomon

"The theme of Canticles is this essentially; the Christians sense of the love of Christ and the effect of it in communion with Him by prayer and praises is divinely set forth in the book of Canticles. The church therein is represented as the spouse of Christ and as a faithful spouse she is always solitious about His love and rejoicing in it".

Sinclair Ferguson - "John Owen on the Christian Life" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1987) - (pp79-86).

J I Packer on John Owen and the Song of Solomon

"Owen here aligns himself with those many Puritans who follow in the footsteps of Bernard and other medievals in expounding Song of Solomon as a parable of the mutual love of Christ and His spiritual bride the church and sometimes the Christian".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p274).

J I Packer on the Gospel

"That is the reality of communion".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p265).

John Owen on the Gospel

"Christ's great undertaking in His life, death, resurrection, ascension, being a mediator bewteen God and us ... to bring us to an enjoyment of God".

John Owen - "Works of John Owen" - Volume 2 - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh - (p78)

John Owen on the Gospel

"Let faith look on Christ in the gospel as He is set forth dying and crucified for us. Look on Him under the weight of our sins, praying, bleeding; bring Him in that condition into the heart by faith; apply His blood so shed to thy corruptions. Do this daily".

John Owen - "Works of John Owen" - Volume 6 - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh - (p85)

J I Packer on Prayer and Mortification

"The activity by which the Christian directly secures the mortification of his sins is prayer".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p263).

J I Packer on John Owen

"Owen did not write for superficial readers. He wrote rather for those who, once they take up a subject cannot rest until they see to the bottom of it and who find exhaustiveness not exhausting but satisfying and refreshing".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p253).

J I Packer on the Reception of the Spirit

"The reception of the Spirit after believing certainly had experimental repercussions for some New Testament Christians as Acts and Galatians 3:2 makes plain; it produced not merely charismatic action (prophecy, tongues, miracles) but also great joy, boldness and vigour in Christian life and service".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p246).

Thomas Goodwin on the Seal of the Spirit

"The seal of the Spirit is the proper work that answereth to baptism. Therefore it is called "baptism in the Spirit" (Acts 1:5, 11-16) because it is that fruit of baptism that answereth the outward seal".

Thomas Goodwin - "Works of Thomas Goodwin" - Volume 1 - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1967) - p248

Thomas Brookes on Assurance of Salvation

"A soul under assurance is unwilling to go to heaven without company".

Thomas Brookes - "Works of Thomas Brookes" - Volume 2 - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh - (p515).

J I Packer on Assurance of Salvation

"He may think and hope and with reason that he is a child of God. But he cannot say, in the unqualified sense of John's First Epistle that he knows his sonship till the Spirit sets this certainity home on his heart".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p239).

J I Packer on Assurance of Salvation

"Assurance is the concious fruit of a supernatural enlightenment and cannot exist till it pleases God to give it".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p239).

Thomas Brookes on Assurance of Salvation

"Assurance is the reflex act of a gracious soul whereby he clearly and evidently sees himself in a gracious, blessed and happy state; it is a sensible feeling and an experimental discerning of man's being in a state of grace".

Thomas Brookes - "Works of Thomas Brookes" - Volume 2 - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh - (p371).

J I Packer on Assurance of Salvation

"Assurance is not normally enjoyed except by those who have first laboured for it and sought it and served God faithfully and patiently for some time without it".

J I Packer - "Among God's Giants" - Kingsway (1993) - (p238).

Rob Rufus on Encounters and Miracles

"God can only manifest through you what He manifests to you. Or another way - God can only manifest through you, what you ALLOW Him to manifest to you".

Rob Rufus - "You can't have greater miracles without great intimacy" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 25th Febuary 2007.

Greg Haslam Defining a Conservative

"A conservative; someone who believes God should never do anything for the first time".

Greg Haslam - "Fire Keepers or Smoke without Fire?" - Brighton Leadership Conference 2002 - Thursday 27th June 2002.

Terry Virgo on the Ascension Gifts

"The universal church has suffered by our failure to see the diversity of the gifts mentioned".

Terry Virgo - "Church in Unity, Diversity and Maturity" - Brighton Leadership Conference 2002 - Thursday 27th June 2002.

Dave Holden on the Gifts of the Spirit in Worship

"The gifts of the Spirit are not the pinnacle of worship - but they enable and encourage us to worship the Lord in a more glorified way".

Dave Holden - "Worship - Charismatic or Electronic?" - Brighton Leadership Conference 2002 - Thursday 27th June 2002.

David Holden on True Worship

"Worship is about knowing His Presence and thirsting after more of Him".

David Holden - "Worship - Charismatic or Electronic?" - Brighton Leadership Conference 2002 - Thursday 27th June 2002.

Terry Virgo on Grace and the Holy Spirit

"Be careful of emphasising grace to the neglect of the "ultimate imperative" (Gordon Fee) - being filled with the Holy Spirit to live lives worthy. If you are filled with the Spirit - you will live the godly life".

Terry Virgo - "Church in Unity and Diversity and Maturity" - Brighton Leadership Conference 2002 - Wednesday 26th June 2002.

Terry Virgo on the Church

"The Church on earth is to be a demonstration of the one-ness of God. It is (the Trinity) the most attractive thing in the whole cosmos".

Terry Virgo - "Church in Unity and Diversity and Maturity" - Brighton Leadership Conference 2002 - Wednesday 26th June 2002.

John Groves on the Promises of the Word of God

"There are promises in God's Word that no-one has sort to find - gold and silver that noone has ever discovered - medicines in the Word that people have died for want of".

John Groves - "The Word of God" - Brighton Leadership Conference 2002 - Tuesday 25th June 2002.

Rob Rufus on Self-Righteous People

"Self-righteous people are judgemental, critical and they are not close to God. They are legalistic and they do not have the power of God".

Rob Rufus - "Aligning Our Allegiances for the Anointing to Flow at Full Volume" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 10th June 2007.

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Smug Orthodoxy

"God forbid that in our desire to safeguard against certain errors, we should become guilty of quenching the Spirit. We can become so assured of ourselves and so much in control of the position that we are not giving the Spirit of God an opportunity".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Romans Chapter 9" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1991), (p328).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Quenching the Spirit

"God forbid that any of the spirit of prejudice that was in the Jew should ever possess us and lead us to this pathetic position ... We must be orthodox but we must not be proud of it, we must not rely on it - even that. Let us realise this great lesson of the sovereignity of God, His great and glorious purpose; that it is He who calls and He calls whom He wills; He raises and He puts down".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Romans Chapter 9" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1991), (p328).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Legalism

"I think one of the greatest dangers in the Christian life is always to be falling back upon works in some shape or form. Like the Galatians, we start in the Spirit but end in the flesh".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Romans Chapter 9" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1991), (p318).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on the Unsaved

"So why is anybody lost? Is it because they are not elected? No! What accounts for the lost is their rejection of the gospel ... We are responsible for our rejection of the gospel but we are not responsible for our acceptance of it. That is the result of the electing grace of God".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Romans Chapter 9" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1991), (p285).

Rob Rufus on the Church

"Lots of people come to church but very few people BECOME the church".

Rob Rufus - "Aligning Our Allegiances for the Anointing to Flow at Full Volume" - City Church International, Hong Kong - 10th June 2007.

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Election of Saved and Unsaved

"Election alone accounts for the saved but non-election does not account for the lost".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Romans Chapter 9" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1991), (p285).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on the Spirit of Adoption

"When a man really has the Spirit of adoption, he knows that God is his Father and welling up out of the depths of his being comes this cry, "Abba! Father!". It is deep emotion not just some quite polite addressing God as Father!".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Romans Chapter 9" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1991), (pp262-263).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Real Christianity

"I will call them My people which were not My people. If you are a Christian then that is what you are! Do not think of Christianity merely in terms of forgiveness of sins. It is that, but it is much more than that ... We become betrothed to Him! We become married to Him! ... The church is the bride of Christ with all that represents not only by way of dignity and position but especially of care and concern and guardianship!".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Romans Chapter 9" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1991), (pp257-258).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on the Holy Spirit Operating in Trinity

"The Spirit shall not speak of Himself - which does not mean that He will not say things about Himself, so much as that He is not going to originate things Himself".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Romans Chapter 9" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1991), (p230).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on the Grace of God

"What is grace? Grace is favour shown to those who are utterly and completely undeserving. Grace is kindness shown to people who deserve nothing but punishment. They deserve nothing good at all and yet in spite of that they are shown great favour. That is the meaning of the word "Grace" and the riches of God's glory are shown in His grace towards us".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Romans Chapter 9" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1991), (p228).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on the Glory of God

"Now the ultimate truth about God, His ultimate attribute if we may so speak, is glory. We talk about the power of God, His omnipotence, His omniscience and His omnipresence and all these various other attributes but of course ultimately what makes God, God is His glory! You cannot explain it, you cannot define it ... what is it? Well all I know is that it is perfect light, perfect love".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Romans Chapter 9" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1991), (p224).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Romans Chapters 9-11

"What then are chapters 9-11? They are what must be called a THEODICY - a justification of the ways of God with respect to man ... God's purposes are absolute and nothing can frustrate them".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Romans Chapter 9" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1991), (p6).

Rob Rufus on Hearing the Voice of God

"Everyone of you as a New Covenant believer should be hearing the inward, audible voice of God yourselves".

Rob Rufus - "Mobilise Main Session" - Together on a Mission Conference 2007 - Brighton.

Bob Mumford on the Work of the Holy Spirit

"The Holy Spirit was given to make effective the power released through the work of Christ".

Bob Mumford - "Maintaining a Life of Worship" - New Wine Magazine - January 1975 - CGM Ministries - (p23).

John Wesley on True Discipleship

"To bring people to conversion and make no subsequent for their instruction is to beget children for the murderer".

John Wesley cited in Derek Prince - "Can These Bones Live?" - New Wine Magazine - January 1973 - CGM Ministries - (p9).

David Mansell on the Gifts of the Spirit as Kingdom Rule!

"The gifts of the Spirit demonstrate on earth Jesus' enthronement in heaven. Jesus rules by sending forth the word of prophecy to declare and accomplish His will here on earth. He rules in situations of confusion by giving words of knowledge and wisdom and discerning of spirits. He rules over sickness by gifts of healing. He rules over apathy by faith and miracles. He rules over our present mortal limitations by enabling us to pray and worship supernaturally in tongues and interpretations. Our God reigns!"

David Mansell - "The Gifts of the Spirit" - Restoration Magazine - January/February 1977 - Harvestime, Bradford - (p4).

Rob Rufus on Revelation

"Reason has to rest in revelation".

Rob Rufus - "Living in the Grace of God" - Authentic Books (2007) - (p98).

Rob Rufus on Radical Grace

"Radical change encounters radical opposition but grace will always win!".

Rob Rufus - "Living in the Grace of God" - Authentic Books (2007) - (p50).

Rob Rufus on a Vision of Real Grace Churches!

"The people who live in the grace of God are people who learn to love one another and accept one another. Church becomes family when we live in the grace of God. People living in the grace of God pray for one another more, reach out to the lost more and value people more. They start feeding the hungry, clothing the poor and going amongst the broken street people restoring dignity to them. They go beyond the walls of their buildings to infiltrate the world and mix with sinners.

They help those who are sick. They know it is not the Christian's job to judge whether the illnesses people suffer from are what they deserve. None of us deserve salvation. Just because someone is dying from a disease like Aids doesn't make them any less deserving of salvation!".

Rob Rufus - "Living in the Grace of God" - Authentic Books (2007) - (p49).

Rob Rufus on Church Laid Guilt

"The prostitutes followed Jesus and got released when they were in His company but the church lays guilt on them!".

Rob Rufus - "Living in the Grace of God" - Authentic Books (2007) - (p48).

Rob Rufus on Legalists

"Grace haters are the legalists who will try to intimidate, manipulate and dominate people with a spirit of witchcraft. The religious spirit in them wants everyone stereotyped and conformed to their own bondage. They are parrots and puppets, no longer voices for God, but echoes not pursuing God but pursuing opportunities for position and prestige. They are cloned to act the same, dress the same and speak in the same religious tones".

Rob Rufus - "Living in the Grace of God" - Authentic Books (2007) - (p40).

Rob Rufus on Legalism

"Let's not listen to people who teach legalism".

Rob Rufus - "Living in the Grace of God" - Authentic Books (2007) - (p27).

Tremper Longman on the Song of Solomon

"The Song is more than a canonical sex manual as some recent treatments have implied".

Tremper Longman III and Raymond B Dillard - "Introduction to the Old Testament" - Zondervan (2006) - (p299).

Don Basham on Defining the Interpretation of Tongues

"The gift of the interpretation of tongues is the supernatural ability to speak by the inspiration of the the Holy Spirit in the known languages of the assembled worshippers, the meaning of what was previously spoken through the gift of tongues".

Don Basham - "Stepping Out in Prophecy" - New Wine Magazine - January 1977 - CGM Ministries - (p21).

Don Basham on Spiritual Gifts and the Gift of Tongues

"To stop with tongues is to barely step inside the door of the virtually unlimited supernatural realm of the Spirit".

Don Basham - "Stepping Out in Prophecy" - New Wine Magazine - January 1977 - CGM Ministries - (p21).

Bruce Yocum on the Prophetic

"When prophecy functions in this way, the Holy Spirit is primarily DOING something to the people through prophecy rather than SAYING something to them".

Bruce Yocum - "What is a Prophet?" - New Wine Magazine - January 1977 - CGM Ministries - (p9).

Bruce Yocum on the Gift of Prophecy

"The speaking of the prophetic word itself brings into action the power of God".

Bruce Yocum - "What is a Prophet?" - New Wine Magazine - January 1977 - CGM Ministries - (p7).

Stuart Bell on Defining "Charismatic".

"Those who recognise that the gift of the Spirit is to be received and the gifts of the Spirit are to be exercised".

Stuart Bell - "Sane Spirituality" - Sovereign World Publishers - (HT: Adrian Warnock).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Seeking God for the Baptism of the Spirit

"Seek a knowledge of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ. Seek Him! Say that you want to know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings! Desire knowledge of God and of Christ in this intimate manner and the knowledge of His love "shed abroad in your hearts". That is what we are to seek! Seek to be holy, seek God's glory! Do not merely desire a comfortable experience but say to yourself "apart from this I can never be a true witness. I cannot witness truly for Him anymore than these disciples could before the Day of Pentecost ... say to yourself "Is it conceivable that I can be a witness without that power and is not it's absence perhaps the reason why I am such a poor witness?". Seek His glory - not your own!".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 8:5-17 - The Sons of God" - Romans - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1995) - (p392).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Scripture and the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

"Some would even go as far as to say that it is sinful to pray such a prayer now (Luke 11:11-13). Does not Romans 8:9 tell us that "If any man have not the Spirit of God he is none of His?". I reply if you are going to take that dispensational view of this verse then why do you not take a similar view of every verse in the Gospels?

The Sermon on the Mount they say has got nothing to do with Christians ... If such is the case the position obviously becomes ridiculous. It is certain that these verses apply to us as much as they did to the people whom our Lord first uttered them and we are to ask God as our Father for the Holy Spirit today as then".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 8:5-17 - The Sons of God" - Romans - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1995) - (p387).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Praying for the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

"A contrary argument is frequently brought forward which sounds very scriptural and spiritual. It asks; "Where do you find any teaching of the New Testament telling us to pray for this blessing of the Holy Spirit? It is surely wrong for us to seek it". This seems to me to be not only a false argument but a most dangerous one. The same argument is brought by the same people against praying for revival, they so so they do not pray for revival.

How then do we answer such a plea? We do so by remembering that in the New Testament period all that is described for us in the pages of the NT was a time of great outpouring of the Spirit ... the Apostle takes it for granted that "having believed they were sealed with the Spirit of God".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 8:5-17 - The Sons of God" - Romans - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1995) - (p280).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on the Depth of Experience in the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

"Every Christian should always be seeking the best and the highest. We should never be content with anything less than what is described as possible to the Christian in the New Testament".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 8:5-17 - The Sons of God" - Romans - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1995) - (p384).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on the Baptism of the Spirit and Sanctification

"It is the greatest stimulus to sanctification but it is not sanctification itself".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 8:5-17 - The Sons of God" - Romans - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1995) - (p383).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on the Error of Fear of Excess

"To refuse anything that is offered in the Word of God because you are afraid of certain possible consequences is a most grievious sin and it will undoubtedly receive the punishment it deserves. The way to face this problem is not to turn your back upon it; it is to be clear as to the difference between the true and the false. Because there is the real danger of false experiences, you must not shut out all experiences".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 8:5-17 - The Sons of God" - Romans - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1995) - (p280).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on the Sealing of the Spirit

"The whole object of the Sealing of the Spirit is to give us certainity about our inheritance. It is an earnest, a foretaste of good things to come. It is essentially experimental".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 8:5-17 - The Sons of God" - Romans - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1995) - (p327).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on 1 Corinthians 12:13

"1 Corinthians 12:13 has nothing whatsoever to do with the Baptism of the Holy Spirit".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 8:5-17 - The Sons of God" - Romans - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1995) - (p314).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on the Fear of Excess

"Why should any be guilty of such a traversty? I have already given the explanation. It is their fear of excesses. To put it quite bluntly they are so afraid of Pentecostalism that they are driven to such exegesis and I suggest that they are thereby guilty of "quenching the Holy Spirit". Non-experimental! Look at the 2nd chapter of Acts!".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 8:5-17 - The Sons of God" - Romans - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1995) - (p310).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on the Experiential Nature of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

"There are books which do not hesitate to say that the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is "not experimental". That has been the popular evangelical teaching during this present century .. It passes my comprehension as to how anyone can possibly say such a thing".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 8:5-17 - The Sons of God" - Romans - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1995) - (p310).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit Outside of the Word

"The assurance does not always come through the Scriptures ... we must be careful lest in our fear of a certain emphasis on the part of people who talk much about the Holy Spirit, we may become guilty of "quenching the Spirit". Normally this testimony is given through the Word but it can be given without the Word".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 8:5-17 - The Sons of God" - Romans - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1995) - (p307).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on the Experience of the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

"Let us realize then the profound character of the experience. This is not light and superficial and ordinary. It is not something of which you can say "Don't worry about your feelings". Worry about your feelings? You will have such a depth of feeling that for a moment you will imagine that you have never felt anything in your life before. It is the profoundest experience that a man can ever know".

Dr Martyn Ll0yd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 8:5-17 - The Sons of God" - Romans - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (1995) - (p280).

Spurgeon on the joy of assurance

"He cannot be an unhappy man who can cry, 'Abba, Father.' The spirit of adoption is always attended by love, joy and peace, which are the fruits of the Spirit; for we have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear, but we have received the spirit of liberty and joy in Christ Jesus. 'My God, my Father.' Oh how sweet the sound. But all men of God do not enjoy this, say you. Alas! we grant it, but we also add that it is their own fault. It is the right and portion of every believer to live in the assurance that he is reconciled to God, that God loves him, and that he is God's child, and if he doth not so live he has himself only to blame.

If there be any starving at God's table, it is because the guest stints himself, for the feast is superabundant. If however, a man comes, and I pray you all may, to live habitually under a sense of pardon through the sprinking of the precious blood, and in a delightful sense of perfect reconciliation with the great God, he is the possessor of a joy unspeakable and full of glory."

C H Spurgeon - "The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Volume 17" - Pilgrim, Sermon 1027, p 712.

Dr Lloyd-Jones on the Gift of Prophecy

"Prophecy always has the element of direct and immediate inspiration ... Prophecy is un-premeditated, unprepared, the revelation is always given".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 12 - Christian Conduct - Romans" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (2000) - (p260).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Speaking in Tongues

"So Paul is saying, 'I thank my God that I speak in tongues more frequently than ye all'. Now if speaking in tongues is something that people can do whenever they like then I see no point whatsoever in that statement of the apostle because all he is saying is that he decides to speak more frequently than anybody else.

But if he means that he finds himself taken up by the Spirit and speaking in tongues, if it is a kind of spiritual ecstasy into which he has been lifted - not something he has decided to do but something which he has been given - then there is point in him claiming he knows more about it and does it more frequently than any one of them - ... they are always given, they are always initated by the Spirit".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 12 - Christian Conduct - Romans" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (2000) - (pp250-251).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Prophetic Utterances

"A prophetic utterance is not self-initiated; it is not something that we can give whenever we want to".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 12 - Christian Conduct - Romans" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (2000) - (p6).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Edward Irving

"He (Irving) and his followers claimed that the gifts of the early church - speaking in tongues and particularly prophetic utterance - had been restored to them - and this undoubtedly happened".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 12 - Christian Conduct - Romans" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (2000) - (p6).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on the Gift of Prophecy

"Prophetic utterance is only of value as it draws attention to the faith that has already been given. It brings out some particular aspect or facet of the faith and emphasises it because it may have been needed supremely at that time but prophetic utterance never lays down doctrine and our doctrine must never be shaped or decided by a prophecy".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 12 - Christian Conduct - Romans" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (2000) - (pp247-248).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on the Abscence of the Gifts of the Spirit

"The absence of the manifestation of the gifts is due solely to the low state of spirituality in the church".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 12 - Christian Conduct - Romans" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (2000) - (p227).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Proper Exegesis of Scripture

"One of the greatest dangers it always seems to me is to interpret the Scriptures in light of our experience instead of testing our experience by the teaching of Scripture".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 12 - Christian Conduct - Romans" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (2000) - (p227).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Spiritual Gifts

"We are entitled therefore to argue that if some of these gifts have been in evidence throughout the history of the church and still are, then why not all of them?".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 12 - Christian Conduct - Romans" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (2000) - (p227).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Temporary and Permament Gifts

"The argument therefore is that the apostles is teaching that the gifts were only temporary and that once we had the New Testament Scriptures the gifts would no longer be necessary. So there have never been any gifts since the end of the apostolic age and it is very wrong for them to seek for them at any other time and particularly not now. But as we have seen, what Paul says about tongues and prophecy he also says about knowledge! So to be consistent you have to say that since we have had the Scriptures, knowledge has passed away. The whole thing is wrong of course".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 12 - Christian Conduct - Romans" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (2000) - (p215).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on the Power of the Holy Spirit

"The power of the Spirit in this vital, living sense working through one person can do more in a minute than thousands can do in a hundred years".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 12 - Christian Conduct - Romans" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (2000) - (p207).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on 1 Corinthians 12:13

"1 Corinthians 12:13 - This is an action which, again the Holy Spirit alone can work. It is not the baptism with the Spirit but the Spirit baptizing us, whom He has first of all made regenerate into the body of Christ. Unfortunately there is confusion today about that. It is the Lord Jesus Christ who baptizes with the Spirit. But here we are told of an action of the Spirit baptizing us into the body of Christ and making us members of that body".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 12 - Christian Conduct - Romans" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (2000) - (p190).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Preaching

"Preaching has been overestimated many and many a time and this has led to grevious trouble. Towards the end of the Victorian era for example there was undoubtedly a worshipping of preachers and we are still reaping the results of that".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 12 - Christian Conduct - Romans" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (2000) - (p165).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Anti-Intellectualism

"God's people are not meant to be thinkers only or people with fine sensibilities and nothing else but whole men and women redeemed and functioning as a people for God's own special possession".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Exposition of Chapter 12 - Christian Conduct - Romans" - Banner of Truth, Edinburgh (2000) - (p6).