Thursday, 30 August 2007

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Unction in Preaching

"Seek Him! Seek Him! What can we do without Him? Seek Him! Seek Him always. But go beyond seeking Him, expect Him. Do you expect anything to happen to you when you get up to preach in a pulpit? Seek this power, expect this power, yearn for this power; and when this power comes, yield to Him. Do not resist. Forget all about your sermon if necessary. Let Him loose you, let Him magnify His power in you and through you".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Preaching and Preachers" - Hodders (1971) - (p325).

Thomas Goodwin on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

"There is a light that cometh and overpowereth a man's soul and assureth him that God is his and he is God's and that God loved him from everlasting ... It is a light beyond the light of ordinary faith ... the next thing to heaven; you can have no more, you can have no more until you come hither ... It is faith elevated and raised up beyond its ordinary rate, it is the electing love of God brought home to the soul".

Thomas Goodwin - "The Works of Thomas Goodwin" - Volume 1 - James Nichols, Edinburgh (1909) - (pp233, 236, 237).

William Guthrie on the Baptism of the Holy Spirit

"There is a communication of the Spirit of God which is sometimes vouchsafed to some of His people that is somewhat besides, if not beyond, that witnessing of a sonship spoken of before. It is a glorious divine manifestation of God unto the soul, shedding abroad God's love in the heart.

It is a thing better felt than spoke of. It is no audible voice but is a ray of glory filling the soul with God as He is life, love and liberty".

William Guthrie cited in Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "The Sons of God" - Romans Series Volume 7 - Banner of Truth (1969) - (p342).

Tony Sargent on Spirit-Filled Preaching

"No preacher should settle in his mind for anything less than unction as he enters the pulpit. To know the anointing of the Spirit in the act of expoundingthe Word should be one of the most sought-after phenomena".

Tony Sargent - "The Sacred Anointing" - Hodders (1994) - (p25).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Spirit-Filled Preachers

"There is one thing that gives a preacher authority, and that is he must be "filled with the Holy Spirit".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones - "Knowing the Times" - Banner of Truth (1989) - (p160).

Tony Sargent on Dr Lloyd-Jones Preaching

"I reiterate that one cannot seperate Lloyd-Jones' pneumatology from his homiletics".

Tony Sargent - "The Sacred Anointing" - Hodders (1994) - (p295).

Dr Lloyd-Jones on Spirit-Anointed Preaching

"Oh there is preaching and preaching! What is the test of preaching? I will tell you; it is power!".

Dr Martyn Lloyd-Jones cited in Tony Sargent - "The Sacred Anointing" - Hodders (1994) - (p294).

Gordon Fee on the Gospel

"The single concern: the Gospel proclaimed through human weakness but accompanied by the powerful work of the Spirit so that lives are changed through a divine-human encounter".

Professor Gordon D Fee - "The First Epistle to the Corinthians" - Eerdmans Publishing (1987) - (p96).

Tony Sargent on Quotes

"To fail to learn from the pulpit of the past is to impoverish that of the present".

Tony Sargent - "The Sacred Anointing" - Hodders (1994) - (p260).

Wednesday, 29 August 2007

Derek Prince on True Faith

"A faith that does not result in activity of any kind is a dead faith; it is empty, worthless, insincere".

Derek Prince - "Foundational Truths for Christian Living" - Charisma Publications (2006) - (p478).