Jesus raised the dead, so did Elijah. So what makes Jesus special?
Elijah: “O LORD my God, I pray, let this child's soul come back to him.” (1 Kings 17:21)
Jesus: “Lazarus, come forth!” (John 11:43)
Elijah begged, JESUS COMMANDED!
JESUS is the GOD to whom Elijah prayed!
Whose name matters most to you, God’s or your own? When you plan your life day to day, whose glory do you seek? God’s or yours? What’s guiding your life, the glory of God or your own? Don’t be the builders of the tower of Babel. If you don’t worship God, you worship yourself.
The protestant reformation is a return to the sound doctrine of the Bible. Revival is the practice of that sound doctrine under the power of the Holy Spirit.
“The Bible in the pulpit must never supersede the Bible at home.”
Prayer as it comes from the saint is weak & languid; but when the arrow of a saint's prayer is put into the bow of Christ's intercession it pierces the throne of grace.
Fear cannot delay our time to die one hour. Willing or unwilling, we pass away. Every godly man may desire to live longer as Paul did, to be able to serve the church, but there isn’t a greater authority or joy than the voice of God saying; “well done, good & faithful servant.”
Sin never announces itself to us with it’s full intentions. It never says, “I am your deadly enemy & I want to ruin you forever in Hell”. It shows it’s pleasure, but hides it’s pain; shows it’s sparkle, but hides it’s death.
Remember that sufferings are the ordinary way to Heaven. Love Heaven better & your sufferings will seem lighter, & your fear of them will be less.
In giving Christ to die for poor sinners, God gave the richest jewel in His cabinet; A mercy of the greatest worth, & most inestimable value. Heaven itself is not so valuable & precious as our Lord Jesus Christ is.
Pope Boniface VIII, in his bull Unam Sanctum, stated that submission to the Roman Pontiff is "altogether necessary for salvation". Not found within the Holy Scriptures, nor by the early church fathers.