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J.I. Packer (1926-2020) “Live slowly enough to be able to think deeply about God.”

C.H. Spurgeon on Ezekiel 37: "The meaning of our text, as opened up by the context, is most evidently, if words mean anything, first, that there shall be a political restoration of the Jews to their own land and to their own nationality; and then, secondly, there is in the text, and in the context, a most plain declaration, that there shall be a spiritual restoration, a conversion in fact, of the tribes of Israel." (Spurgeon, The Restoration and Conversion of the Jews, sermon no. 582, in The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, vol. 10; London: Passmore and Alabaster, 1864.)

“Look less at yourself and more at Christ, and you will find besetting sins dropping off and leaving you, and your eyes enlightened more and more every day." -J.C. Ryle

J.C. Ryle (1816-1900) - "Never was there a greater mistake than to suppose that vital Christianity interferes with human happiness."

One day closer to the age in which we will actually hear God “exult” over His people “with loud singing.” (Zeph. 3.17)

Impatience is kryptonite to the apostolic task.

Stephen Charnock (1628-1680) - "[God] doth not shoot all His thunders at once, and bring His sharpest judgments in array at one time, but gradually, that a people may have time to turn to Him." (The Works of Stephen Charnock, Vol. 2, Banner of Truth 2010; p. 519)

The diabolical—and weird—amalgamation of leftist wokeism and Islam today isn't new, but it's swelling as never before. I’m not date-setting, but it may well constitute the womb from which 'the man of lawlessness' will arise. Still, this is no time to cower. We have work to do.

Thomas Watson (1620-1686) - “God would have us part with nothing for Him, but that which will damn us if we keep it. He has no design upon us, but to make us happy.”

This remarkable prophecy concerning Israel’s final chastening, redemption, and restoration has not yet been fulfilled. But it will be, when Christ the King returns. Ezekiel 39:21-29— “And I will set My glory among the nations, and all the nations shall see My judgment that I have executed, and My hand that I have laid on them. The house of Israel shall know that I am the LORD their God, from that day forward. And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they dealt so treacherously with Me that I hid My face from them and gave them into the hand of their adversaries, and they all fell by the sword. I dealt with them according to their uncleanness and their transgressions, and hid My face from them.” “Therefore thus says the Lord GOD: Now I will restore the fortunes of Jacob and have mercy on the whole house of Israel, and I will be jealous for My holy name. They shall forget their shame and all the treachery they have practiced against Me, when they dwell securely in their land with none to make them afraid, when I have brought them back from the peoples and gathered them from their enemies’ lands, and through them have vindicated My holiness in the sight of many nations. Then they shall know that I am the LORD their God, because I sent them into exile among the nations and then assembled them into their own land. I will leave none of them remaining among the nations anymore. And I will not hide My face anymore from them, when I pour out My Spirit upon the house of Israel, declares the Lord GOD.”

“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!” —Is. 5.20 Repent, Mayor Lucas.

One day closer to the age in which "Jerusalem shall dwell in security" and "the LORD will be king over all the earth." (Zech. 14.9, 11)

In Matthew 24 the Lord Jesus prophesied that lawlessness would increase, the love of many would grow cold, and the Gospel of the Kingdom would be proclaimed effectually among all peoples. Our eschatology should not be merely pessimistic or optimistic, but biblical.

"O Lord, I have heard Thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive Thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy." -Hab. 3.2

One day closer to the age in which sermons and books calling for reform in the Church will no longer be necessary.

C.H. Spurgeon (1834-1892) - "Unbelief, you see, has the Cain-mark upon its forehead. God hates it; God has dealt hard blows upon it: and God will ultimately crush it. Unbelief dishonors God. Every other crime touches God's territory; but unbelief aims a blow at His divinity, impeaches His veracity, denies His goodness, blasphemes His attributes, maligns His character; therefore, God of all things, hates first and chiefly, unbelief, wherever it is." (From his sermon The Sin of Unbelief, preached January 14, 1855 at New Park Street Chapel, Southwark.)

One day closer to the age in which no one will ever make shipwreck of their faith.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813-1843) - “A man cannot be a faithful minister until he preaches Christ for Christ's sake - until he gives up striving to attract people to himself and seeks only to attract them to Christ."