You won’t regret listening to this clip today from John MacArthur about his fixed time on earth.
A Death for the Glory of God — John MacArthur // September 7, 2014
It’s a proverb, and the proverb is simple, very simple proverb. You can’t lengthen the daylight. You can’t shorten the daylight, right? Nothing any friend can do can lengthen the daylight. Nothing any enemy can do can shorten the daylight. It is what it is and it is fixed by God, and so is my life. No enemy can shorten it. No friend can lengthen it. It is what it is. And in that light of life which God has ordained for me, I will not stumble. That is to say, nothing will happen to me that is outside the plan. I’m not going in the dark. I’m going in the light of God’s divine day. A day can’t finish before its ordained end.
The time allotted to me to accomplish my earthly ministry is fixed. It’s fixed by God. It can’t be lengthened by any precautionary measures. You don’t have to go hide somewhere in a cave. You don’t have to avoid conflict. You don’t have to run from your enemies because you can’t lengthen your life, and you can be bold and you can step right into the face of your enemies because they can’t shorten it. I tell you, just from my own personal standpoint, I live in that confidence. I can’t do anything. Neither can anybody else to lengthen my life. I’m not afraid that somebody, some enemy can do anything to shorten my life. My day is what God has ordained it will be, and in that I go forward with confidence and boldness.
Jesus knew that His hour was coming, but it hadn’t come yet, and many times He’d said, “My hour hasn’t come. My hour hasn’t come.” And He escaped all of the plots and all of the mob violence. This has great application for us I think to realize that if you’re walking in the Spirit and serving the Lord, you have your day. Being a coward and taking all kinds of precautionary steps and not being faithful isn’t going to lengthen it; and being bold in the face of enemies isn’t going to shorten it because it is what God has ordained it to be. https://t.co/WxL6x26nJg
As we gathered for our meeting at the White House yesterday, JD Vance mentioned to us that he had never before visited the Oval Office. I told him and President Trump that I HAD to capture the moment on video. Only in America can a hardworking young man from Appalachia rise from his humble circumstances to enter the Oval for first time as VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. What a country! 🇺🇸
@MichelleDLesley Revelation 6:1-2 ... we've been studying Revelation for months now. This morning he preached on the first seal and the false peace it will bring. It's been a humbling experience! He's also my hubs :)
The greatest favor ever showed to the human race, and the greatest honor ever put upon human nature, were exemplified in the Lord Jesus. - Matthew Henry #Psalm8
I'm not one of those "Well, @tomascol wrote it so I'm not going to take it seriously," or, "@edlitton wrote it so it's woke trash," people. If you write something serious, I'll read it seriously (even if I myself write a lot of stuff that is not actually that serious).
Here's how the sufficiency of the scripture applies to my conservatism: When I say that I am a conservative, I mean by that that I am an inerrantist and a biblicist. My conservatism includes no allegiance whatsoever to any political movement or philosophical movement.
“Be careful that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deceit based on human tradition, based on the elements of the world, rather than Christ. For the entire fullness of God’s nature dwells bodily in Christ,” Colossians 2:8-9 CSB #sufficiencyofscripture
Romans 4:25 … He was delivered up for our trespasses and raised for our justification! Praise God we are not left to ourselves pursuing righteousness but His Holy Spirit dwells deeply in us to convict us & lead us! Thank you, Lord! 🙌🏼
Youth Sports is a god in America.
Parents don’t think twice about their kids missing church on Sundays to play ball.
Then wonder why some of them struggle with attending church services in their 20’s.
Wake up.