Friday, April 22, 2011

Peter S. Ruckman Quotes 4

* The worst thing you could possibly to do is try to live a good life, and then trust your good life to save you from sin and hell. You couldn't do any worse.
* God is not a man, that He should lie; neither the son of man, that He should repent: hath He said, and shall He not do it? or hath He spoken, and shall He not make it good? Let God be true, but every man a liar. He that is of God heareth God's words: ye therefore hear them not, because ye are not of God. If they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them. In the Bible, it is just taken for granted that all men are liars.
* If you had to appear in court, and you were charged with being a Christian, would there be enough evidence to convict you?
* Stay humble, or you'll stumble.
* The main reason a man doesn't read the Bible is because the Bible knows all about him and tells it. The main reason you're against God's Book is because the Bible is against you.
* You better get a more permanent residence than this earth. This world is not my home, I'm just a passing through.
* An unsaved man goes straight down to hell when he dies, because there is nothing in him to take him up.
* You need three books to serve the LORD - God's Book, a hymn book, and a check book.
* God cannot lie. When He says something, you can count on it (Numbers 23:19).
* Every unsaved man thinks he is good enough to face God without Jesus Christ; that's the main reason why he is unsaved.
* There are only two ways: Either you trust what Christ Jesus did for you that is finished, or else you try to do it yourself and finish it yourself. The one way is DO, and the other way is DONE. One way is you work and work and work, and hope for the best; and the other way is you trust what Jesus Christ did for you. By grace you're saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast. Nothing can save me but the blood of Jesus Christ. There are only two ways: The one way is you try to do it, the other way is you let the Lord Jesus Christ do it all. Unsaved people count on their good lives in one way or another to help save them. Human nature thinks you can get to paradise in the afterlife by works. There are only two ways: Your way, or Christ's way. Either Christ justifies you, or you're trying to justify yourself. Either you're counting on Christ alone, or you are counting on yourself. That's all there is to it.
* You can always find out the true measure and character of any man by finding out what he is afraid of, and what he loves.
* If you are saved, you know that the only way to heaven is the substitutionary blood Atonement of Jesus Christ. If you don't know that, it's because you're lost.
* Give everything to Jesus and you can't miss, you'll come out on top every time.
* The army of the Lord is a minority that doesn't have any rights.
* You have to do what you don't want to do.
* No hope in the Pope.
* What you need most of all, is a one-on-one face off with Jesus Christ Himself.
* The most terrible word in the English language is "LOST".
* The Bible is the most unknown book in America.
* I think very highly of Jesus Christ; I think He was the greatest person that ever lived; I don't think there's anyone like Him anywhere. You should give Jesus Christ your soul, body, mind, sins, time, money, spouse, children, occupation, health, education, possessions, and everything else you have. You can't make a mistake trusting following Jesus Christ.
* Christ's enemies were rich, smart, educated, political, and religious.
* Jesus died a voluntary substitutionary death for your sins according to the Scriptures. Behold the Lamb of God which taketh away the sin of the world.
* My religion is a Person - His name is Jesus Christ.
* A TV will teach you how to commit every dirty, godless, depraved, rotten, abominable thing you can think of. You need to sit at the feet of Jesus with the Bible and learn from Him.
* Read the Bible clear through, and ask God to reveal it to you. Read the Bible with the eye of faith. Make notes when you read the Bible, and the Bible will begin to mean something to you, and it will give you wisdom and clean you up. The Bible ought to have a grip on you.
* As you get older, if you keep eating three square meals a day, you will wind up round and fat.
* The best you can do will land you in hell; that is the offense of the Gospel. If you reject Jesus Christ, you will have to pay for your sins.
* Your reputation is what men think you are, and your character is what God knows you to be. Many a man who lost his reputation kept his character, and many a man who kept his reputation lost his character.
* Your personal witness should lead lost people to a Person (Jesus Christ), not to your church, or a doctrine, or a feeling. You to have a personal witness for Jesus Christ.
* Your first consideration should always be your soul, not your body.
* Are you a fruit of religion, or a fruit of Calvary?
* Do you witness to lost people? Do you speak up for Jesus Christ? Do people know that you belong to Jesus Christ? Do they now that you believe that unsaved people go to hell when they die? You ought to be in action for the Lord.
* Stay in fellowship with Christ, read and study the word of God, rest in Christ's finished work, keep your witness bright to lost folks.
* The only thing that men learn from history is that men don't learn from history.
* We are not waiting to go from the great nowhere to the great somewhere, we're not going beyond the anywhere into the great blue of the something or other, no, we're going to a mansion in glory to live with Jesus Christ. I've got a mansion just over the hilltop.
* The Pope is a liar, he tells everyone he sees that they cannot know where they're going when they die, but the Bible says you can know where you're going when you die, just read I John 5:13.
* Folks are weird. They think they can pray people into heaven after they die. Aren't folks peculiar? That's good stuff for fairy tale stories, but that's not The Book.
* Do you love God? If you love someone, you won't mistreat them; you're not going to misrepresent them; you're not going to misjudge them; you like to spend time with them; you love to spend money on them; you like to think about them; you love their friends; you like to talk to them; you stay away from their enemies; you rejoice in their victories. You see what I mean jellybean.
*It's so easy to get out of the will of God, and so hard to get in it.
*You can do something in five minutes, that could mess you up for five years.
* Hide your money in your Bible, that's the last place a thief will look for your money, if he breaks in your house. There's something about the Holy Bible that just doesn't appeal to a thief.
* If you think you're tough, get off by yourself, get down on your knees, and say, "Okay Lord, from now on, it's going to be what You want, instead of what I want. Try that out.
* The worst place to die is in your sins.
* The closer you get to God, the closer you'll get to the devil. The reason why the devil doesn't bother most Christians today is because they're not close enough to God for the devil to mess with them.
* Every man that's saved has an inner conflict within his soul. When a man gets saved, he has two natures, and a war starts in his soul. For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would. Those two natures will never get along; they fight all the time. They are called the Spirit and the flesh; the old man and the new man.
* The world is bugs about 'new' things. But in the Bible there are only four new things: the new heavens, the new earth, New Jerusalem, and a new creature. Everything else is old.
* The main reason a Christian doubts his salvation is because he's not living right.
* Just believe what God said. Rest your soul on the naked words of God. That's all there is to it. The just shall live by faith. Lean on the finished work of Jesus Christ. There's nothing you can do to help save yourself, Jesus Christ has already done it all. Just believe what God said.
* Sin will be working in your members until you're dead and gone, but you shouldn't let your sins run you, Romans 6:14.
* God wants you to live as sinless as you can live, that's all.
* The Gospel is so simple, human nature just throws it out the window.
* If you don't want to fly with the eagles, you'll wind up fellowshipping with the turkeys.
* If I could just get rid of me, I'd solve every problem I've got.
* When you get to the place where you can't thank God, you're in trouble.
* The only way you can avoid the White Throne Judgment and the Lake of Fire is to trust the shed blood of Jesus Christ.
* Don't think Hell got air conditioned, just because three or four-thousand preachers going there don't dare preach about it, or they try their best to redecorate hell before they move in.
* Biblical Christianity is an aggressive, bold, militant attack on your sins and the world system.
* The Bible says you don't have to go to Hell. Acts 16:31; Romans 10:13; II Corinthians 6:2
* When were you saved? Where were you saved? How were you saved? Who saved you? What did He save you from? Do you want eternal life? Those are the real questions.

* Bible Reading - Take heed to God's word, Psalm 119:9; John 17:17; Ephesians 5:26. Spend time in God's book, I Peter 2:2; Psalm 119:15,23,48,78,148.
* Promise Claiming - Romans 4:21; 8:28; Philippians 4:13,19; Isaiah 40:31; I Corinthians 10:31
* Dead Reckoning - Reckon yourself to be dead indeed unto sin. Romans 6:11, Galatians 5:24
* Instant Praying - Romans 12:12, ask God for a way out, Lord save me, Nehemiah 2:4-5
* Blood Pleading - I John 1:7; Hebrews 9:12,14; The blood of Christ is always available; Acts 20:28; Hebrews 13:12; Revelation 1:5
* Thanks Giving - Romans 1:21; Ephesians 5:20; Colossians 1:12; 3:17; I Timothy 2:1; Hebrews 13:15; Colossians 2:7; 4:2
* Soul Winning - Make some attempt to win people to Christ and it will keep your fresh, fruitful, and faithful. Spend time every week going after lost souls. You ought to love lost people enough to warn them about going to hell. Psalm 1:3; Proverbs 11:30; Psalm 92:13-15; 126:6; James 1:22; 5:20