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All I am doing is to ask people to face the facts – to understand the questions which Christianity claims to answer. And they are very terrifying facts. I wish it was possible to say something more agreeable. But I must say what I think is true. Of course, I quite agree that the Christian religion is, in the long run, a thing of unspeakable comfort. But it does not begin in comfort; it begins in dismay I have been describing, and it is no use at all trying to go on to that comfort without first going through that dismay. In religion, as in war and everything else, comfort is the one thing you cannot get by looking for it. If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end: if you look for comfort you will not find either comfort or truth – only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin with and, in the end, despair. C.S. Lewis
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The invitation to salvation makes people literally kill off all their dreams, ambitions, felt needs, and selfish desires. And then we call them to a repentance and faith that is absolutely against the grain of every normal human impulse.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 47
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Don’t make anything out of me. Don’t name cathedrals or cities in Minnesota in my honor. I’m just a servant of Christ, a steward of the mysteries of God. I’m an under-rower, a third-level galley slave; I pull my oar, and that’s what I’m supposed to do, nothing worthy of special attention. ~ John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 46
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What was the Lord doing? He picked people with absolutely no influence.
None of the great intellects from Egypt, Greece, Rome, or Israel was among the apostles. During the New Testament time, the greatest scholars were very likely in Egypt. The most distinguished philosophers were in Athens. The powerful were in Rome. The biblical scholars were in Jerusalem.
Think of it like this: He passed by Herodotus, the historian; He passed by Socrates, the great thinker. He passed by the father of medicine, Hippocrates. He passed by Plato the philosopher, Aristotle the wise, Hipparchus the astronomer, Cicero the orator, and Virgil the poet. He didn’t pay attention to any of those people when selecting the preachers of the difficult-to-believe message of salvation.
He’s still doing it. He is still in the business of passing up the gold and silver bowls and picking up clay pots.
~ John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 45
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For we do not preach ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves [merely] as your bond-servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” is the One who has shone in our hearts to give us the Light of the knowledge of the glory and majesty of God [clearly revealed] in the face of Christ.
But we have this precious treasure [the good news about salvation] in [unworthy] earthen vessels [of human frailty], so that the grandeur and surpassing greatness of the power will be [shown to be] from God [His sufficiency] and not from ourselves.
~ 2 Corinthians 4:5-7
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The gospel has never moved through history, filling the redemptive plan, by relying on the prestige of influential personalities. It moves, for the most part, with us—the unimpressive, impotent, nothing, nobodies.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 42
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Other religions are not truth and lead only to eternal damnation. Islam is a damning system. Buddhism is a damning system. Hinduism is a damning system. Simply not believing the gospel is itself enough to damn a person.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 37, 38
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If a gospel messenger got it wrong and thus led people astray about the most important news in human history, the Apostle Paul thought that preacher should suffer the same consequences that their error wrought on others. Since getting the gospel of Jesus right is ultimately a matter of heaven or hell for those who hear it, preaching the gospel with truth and accuracy ought to be a matter of heaven or hell for those who preach it.
Scott Lothery
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People who preach a different gospel aren’t Christians because their gospel has no means by which to remove the curse caused by sin. Jesus is the only Savior of sinners. Salvation from curse unto blessing is found in no one else. There’s no other name under heaven by which people can be saved. Thus, people who change the gospel to something contrary to it, remain cursed.
Scott Lothery
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Paul thought people who preach a false gospel should be considered as still under the curse of sin. In other words, by preaching a different good news they proved that they were not Christians. True Christians preach the gospel delivered once for all from Jesus to the church through the Apostles.
Scott Lothery
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The Bible’s weird, but maybe not as weird as it seems at first. When we take the time to investigate the text and look to interpret it carefully, we can bring clarity to difficult passages.
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The gospel confronts man and exposes him for what he really is. It ignores the disappointment that he feels. It offers him no relief from the struggles of being human. Rather it goes to the profound and eternal issue of the fact that he is damned and desperately needs to be rescued.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 33
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The message of the cross is not about felt needs. It is not about Jesus loving you so much He wants to make you happy. It is about rescuing you from damnation, because that is the sentence that rests upon the head of every human being.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 33
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The cross says that God requires death for sin, while it proclaims to us the glory of substitution. It rescues the perishing.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 33
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The gospel collides with our emotions; it collides with our minds, it collides with our relationships. It smashes into our sensibilities, our rational thinking, and our tolerances.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 33
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It's the singularity of the gospel, on top of everything else, that bothers people.
John MacArthur, Hard to Believe, p. 32
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But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to that which we [originally] preached to you, let him be condemned to destruction! As we have said before, so I now say again, if anyone is preaching to you a gospel different from that which you received [from us], let him be condemned to destruction! ~ Galatians 1:8-9
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The wise men are shamed, They are dismayed and caught. Behold, they have [manipulated and] rejected the [truth in the] word of the Lord, And what kind of wisdom and insight do they have?
Jeremiah 8:9
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