Ben Maxson

[Ben Maxson @BenMaxson1]

@pastormarct You don't get rid of darkness by fighting against it. Instead you turn on the light. The best way to confront the devil's attacks is by focusing on and lifting up Jesus. He won that battle at the cross, and He gives us His victory.

[Ben Maxson @BenMaxson1]

What you do can help you walk closer with Jesus or lead you away from Him. Your relationship with Jesus or lack thereof will determine your salvation as well as your behavior.

[Ben Maxson @BenMaxson1]

Salvation is not based on your behavior, but on your relationship with Jesus Christ. Your behavior can impact your salvation, but cannot determine it.

[Ben Maxson @BenMaxson1]

God does not merely call us to obedience. He calls us to be like Christ. He invites us to join in a journey of Christlikeness that reflects His person and character. Obedience on this journey is the result of our relationship with Him, and a means of going deeper with Him.

[Ben Maxson @BenMaxson1]

@minmag "To comprehend and enjoy God, is the highest exercise of the powers of man." (RH May 30, 1882)

[Ty Gibson @tyfgibson]

One of the strongest impulses of the immature mind is to be right and prove it. Spiritual adulthood, by contrast, is characterized by a desire to understand and be understood attended by a keen sense that I may be wrong.

[Ben Maxson @BenMaxson1]

We, the people, are the Church, and while the Church has an organization and institutions, they are never the Church. Organizations and institutions never are or have a Church. People connected to Jesus Christ are the only real Church.

[Ben Maxson @BenMaxson1]

The spiritual life with God is a life-long journey. The wonder
of it is that when you step into that journey you have
already arrived at the destination for walking with God is
our desired destination. Heaven is but a continuin phase of that
journey with Him.

[Ben Maxson @BenMaxson1]

In Christ’s kingdom there can be no human manipulation or devising. Only that which is done by and through the Holy Spirit will be effective in leading God’s people forward.

[Ben Maxson @BenMaxson1]

Above all, Spiritual Leaders represent and reflect Jesus and His kingdom in His church and to this world. Thus, Christ’s methods alone serve to lead His people.

Only those who have been “crucified with Christ” and yet live in Him can effectively lead His Church.

[Ben Maxson @BenMaxson1]

@garykrause7 How true. Public evangelism as we know it rarely has any process for building relationships with God or with a church family. Without the relational glue, evangelism becomes only an intellectual exercise that cannot transform hearts.

[Ben Maxson @BenMaxson1]

The core and essential message of the first angel of Rev 14 that he is proclaiming is the everlasting gospel—the good news that Jesus, and only Jesus saves.

[Ben Maxson @BenMaxson1]

Only those who have experienced the gospel can truly worship the Creator in the “judgment hour” of Rev. 14.

[Ty Gibson @tyfgibson]

The truth of Scripture belongs to those who read the actual story and comprehend the big picture, while proof-texting and micromanaging verses is the breeding ground of heresy.

[Ben Maxson @BenMaxson1]

John 15:6 reminded me this morning that when we nurture the root of the connection with Christ we don’t have to worry about fruit—It will come.

[Derek Morris @DrDerekMorris]

If you will seek the Lord and be converted every day; if you will of your own spiritual choice be free and joyous in God...all your murmurings will be stilled, all your difficulties will be removed, all the perplexing problems that now confront you will be solved. EGW, MB107

[bryant f rodriguez @bfrodriguez_]

Wait there’s a not silent mode https://t.co/qDH9rqR8q5

[Ben Maxson @BenMaxson1]

Ps 46:10 - You cannot experience God’s grace while focusing on what you think you have to do. Waiting on God in quiet faith is one of the greatest ways to praise and exalt Him.

[Ben Maxson @BenMaxson1]

Ps 46:10 - We cannot know the wonder of God while working hard to save ourselves or to solve our problems.

[Ben Maxson @BenMaxson1]

@miltondmarquez So true, and so powerful.