Paul Tate

Pastor in Beckley, WV

[Josh Howerton @howertonjosh]

Romans 1 is a clear warning about what American culture is doing TODAY.

This is why there was so much anger over the MLB players who refused to celebrate "pride."

[Biblical and Reformed @reformedhg]

When a generation tolerates sin, the next will celebrate it, and the generation after them won’t even know it’s sin.

J.C. Ryle

[T. S. Sinclair @_TSSinclair]

“We are saved—not by the intensity of our faith, but by the Object of our faith.”

— D.A. Carson

[Melissa the Hopeful🏠Homemaker @BiblicalBeauty]

Chuck Swindoll preaching powerfully on the only way we can find hope in death:

“But Job. What a man. I just read again his words. Listen to them:

‘I know that my Redeemer lives and at the last He shall stand on this earth, and though after worms destroy this body, in my flesh, shall I see God.’

What a great, great statement. He believed he would be raised whole and complete because of his Redeemer. Interesting word—Redeemer. It’s from the Hebrew goel. It means ‘defender.’ Don’t you love that?

I know that my Defender lives. You see, at death, we don’t need a priest, a preacher. We don’t need an attorney or physician, a warrior heavily armed. Does us no good. We need a Defender, someone to acquit us before a holy God because even as Job may have been a fine man, he was not sinless. Nor is any one of us.

And knowing that we are sinful, how can we stand before a holy God when we are raised? We must have a Defender. One who paid a price for us on a cross…

Death will not win. Death has no sting. The grave has no victory when you have a Defender…”

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Joseph of Arimathea pulled a corpse off a cross with his bare hands.

Blood under his fingernails. The weight of a dead man sagging into his arms.

He wrapped God in linen, pressed the fabric into wounds that were still wet.

Nicodemus brought seventy-five pounds of burial spice. A king's funeral for a man the world just murdered.

They carried Him into a hole in the rock and rolled the stone shut.

And everything you've ever done went in with Him.
Every night you can't sleep because of what you did. Every morning, you can't look in the mirror. The thing you did to her. The thing you did to them. The
lie you've been carrying so long it feels like bone.

The version of you that drinks alone and pretends tomorrow will be different.

That man was buried with Christ.

Stone sealed. Done.
Not managed. Not in therapy. Not on a payment plan with God where you slowly earn your way back. Buried. In a tomb. Under rock. Gone.
Three days of silence. Three days of a cold body in the dark.

Then the stone moved.
And when He walked out, the grave clothes were folded on the slab. He didn't stumble out tangled in death. He left it sitting there like a man who's done
with the clothes he used to wear.
Lazarus needed someone to unwrap him. Death still clung to him even after he was breathing.
Jesus folded His own burial linen and walked out clean.

That's the difference between religion and resurrection. Religion unwraps you slowly. Asks you to manage your sin. Attend the class. Read the book. Try harder next week.
Resurrection says the man who walked into that tomb is dead. The man who walked out doesn't know him.
You're not fixing the old you. The old you is in a sealed tomb in Jerusalem, and he's not coming back.
The man reading this, the one who thinks he's too far gone, you're not too far. You're already buried. The funeral happened two thousand years
ago.
Now get up. The stone's already moved. The linen's already folded.

Walk out.

[Gospel Quotes @QuotesGospel]

"Saying, 'Preach the gospel daily, use words if necessary' is like saying 'Feed the hungry, use food if necessary'."
-Ligon Duncan.

[Paul Tate @paultater]

A New American Heresy https://t.co/4124aNTlf0

[Gospel Quotes @QuotesGospel]

"Every heart with Christ is a missionary, every heart without Christ is a mission field." -Count Zinzendorf.

[Pastor Jim Cymbala @jimcymbala]

“Why aren’t there more prayer meetings in our churches? I’m convinced that the main reason is that pastors know the folks won’t come due to their lukewarm spiritual condition. . . . But can’t we start somewhere, even if it means just two or three hearty souls?” Fan the Flame

[Paul Tate @paultater]

@ReformedRap Just started reading this book. So far…soul stirring.

[Paul Tate @paultater]

@G3Conference Same could be said about preachers in suburbia. Probably more so. Where one is doesn’t determine the depth or accuracy of what one preaches.

[Paul Tate @paultater]

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[Terri Green @TerriGreenUSA]

When we give hearty approval of sin to those who practice Romans 1:18-32, we are as guilty as they are. There are a lot of social media influencers that give hearty approval to people who are gay.

“They not only do the same, but also give hardy approval to those who practice it. They know it’s wrong. They know the consequences. They do it anyway and they give hardy approval to others who do it. I always think about when the impeached President Clinton was caught in his scandalous immorality, his approval ratings went up. That’s Romans 1. Of course they went up because all the rest of the sinners feel comfortable with a leader that’s like them.” — John MacArthur

[Paul Tate @paultater]

@birdchadlouis This is just fantastic! Wow and Yes!

[Chad Bird @birdchadlouis]

First word of Genesis: בְּרֵאשִׁ֖ית (in the beginning)
Last word of Genesis: בְּמִצְרָֽיִם (in Egypt)

Genesis begins with God speaking life into creation, including humanity.

Genesis ends with a mummified body in a coffin: Joseph "was put in a coffin in Egypt."

From life with God to death in exile.

The stage is thereby set for a creative, vivifying act in Exodus. And God does not disappoint. Israel is fruitful and multiplies. God un-creates Egypt through the ten plagues. Israel passes through the waters of the deep on dry ground (cf. Gen. 1:9). The tabernacle becomes a new variety of Eden, where God walks among his people.

Exodus is thus a kind of Genesis 2.0, foreshadowing the true regenesis we have in Christ, who accomplishes his exodus in Jerusalem (Luke 9:31) and thereby makes us new creations (2 Cor. 5:17).

[Paul Tate @paultater]

@TheMLJTrust This is so on target 🎯!!

[Paul Tate @paultater]

@reformedhg Whatever keeps me from the altar (prayer and worship) keeps me from God.

[Paul Tate @paultater]

This is so powerful. We need ministers who will proclaim this truth on the mountaintops and in the valley. Let this message, “He’a not here, He is risen” be spoken boldly with conviction! Jesus is alive, the law is fulfilled in Him, sin and death are defeated and Jesus is Lord!

[Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones | MLJ Trust @TheMLJTrust]

"The resurrection, as we emphasized when we were dealing with that great statement, is God's public proclamation to the whole universe, that he is satisfied with the work of his son, that he has honored the law absolutely, that he has borne the most ultimate penalty of the law and its demands. In raising him from the dead, God is proclaiming that he and his law are absolutely satisfied and that the work of salvation is complete." ―Dr. Martyn Lloyd-Jones

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[Joel C. Rosenberg @JoelCRosenberg]

Christians around the world, I urge you to pray without ceasing for the political and spiritual liberation of 92 million Iranians. And for the protection and peace of Jerusalem and 10 million Israelis. This is a spiritual battle. What the Tyrants of Tehran are doing is demonic.