Not Called! Did You Say? --William Booth-- Wiebe's Corner Quotes

'Not called!' did you say? 'Not heard the call,' I think you should say. Put your ear down to the Bible, and hear him bid you go and pull sinners out of the fire of sin. Put your ear down to the burdened, agonized heart of humanity, and listen to its pitiful wail for help. Go stand by the gates of hell, and hear the damned entreat you to go to their father's house and bid their brothers and sisters, and servants and masters not to come there. And then look Christ in the face, whose mercy you have professed to obey, and tell him whether you will join heart and soul and body and circumstances in the march to publish his mercy to the world."

William Booth 'Founder of Salvation Army'

1829-1912

Ravenhill on Personal Accountability

Someone once said to that great scholar, Daniel Webster, “You have a colossal mind.  What is the greatest thought that you have ever had?” He said, “I’ve thought about many things, but the most awesome, the most terrifying, the most shattering thought I’ve ever had, is my personal accountability to God one day.”

Leonard Ravenhill

Judgment

Wit and Wisdom That Have Impressed Me Lately

I get a magazine called the Week and here are some Quotes from the June 8, 2012 Issue,:


Read each one and think about it.


"If you want your children to turn out well, spend twice as much time with them, and half as much money"
-Abigail Van Buren


"Pain plus time equals humor"
-Lenny Bruce


"To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self"
-Joan Didion


"Critics are men who watch a battle from a high place, then come down and shoot the survivors."
-Ernest Hemingway

Wiebe's Corner Quotes

We will experience the freedom to be ourselves in Christ when we accept that we are ordinary people within whom an extraordinary God abides.

Lesson 10

A Godly Woman's Virtue

Adult & Youth Sunday School Lessons

March, April, May 2012

Churches Either Supernatural or Superficial: Wiebe Quotes Ravenhill

I believe every church is either supernatural or superficial.  I don't believe there's any middle ground.

    

Leonard Ravenhill

In Light of Eternity

The Life of Leonard Ravenhill

Mack Tomlinson

Wiebe's Quotes: Martyr's Mirror

The enemies of the truth having apprehended and sentenced to death the apostle Andrew, he went joyfully to the place where he was to be crucified, and having come near to the cross, he said, O beloved cross! I have greatly longed for thee with a peaceful conscience and with cheerfulness, desiring that I, who am a disciple of him who hung on the cross, may also be crucified." The apostle said further, " the nearer I come to the cross, the nearer I come to God, and the further I am from the cross, the further I remain from God. He hung 3 days on the cross.

    As Ignatius was led to the pit of lions he testified, " My dear Jesus my saviour, is so deeply written in my heart, that I feel confident, that if my heart were to be cut open and chopped to pieces, the name of Jesus would be found written on every piece.

- Martyr's Mirror 

Op-Noah on Martyr's Mirror----(This is a large old book of Nonresistant Christians from the time of Christ through reformation in the 1500's. It records the persecution of Christians by Pagans, the Roman Empire, and Roman Catholic Church. It has court dialog, letters, and overviews of baptism and persecution through the centuries of Waldeneses and also other connected conservative Christians that tried to make a separation with the World and its system. Most Mennonite groups would be acquainted with its content)

Isaac Newton Close to Death

Isaac Newton, great Christian Scientist,"I don't know what I may seem to the world. But as to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than the ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.


Some Verses on the Witness of Creation

But ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee:

Or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee: and the fishes of the sea shall declare unto thee.

Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind. Job 12: 7-10

 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they [men] are without excuse 

Romans 1:20

Don't Die This Way

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away. But the word of the Lord endureth for ever. 1 Peter 1:24-25

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment 

Heb 9:27

The quotes below are quite well published abroad and you probably have heard them before. Some people would challenge them and that is their business. 

I merely record them here as a thought provoker that there is life after death. I would rather the reader to entertain those thoughts now than before it is too late for it to do much good.
 Tomorrow we will hear a different side of the story.

Karl Marx, born in a Christian Jewish family, originator of Communism. On his deathbed surrounded by candles burning to Lucifer, screamed at his nurse who asked him if he had any last words:
"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."

Cesare Borgia, statesman:"I have taken care of everything in the course of my life, only not for death, and now I have to die completely unprepared."

David Hume, the Atheist, He cried: "I am in flames!" His desperation was a horrible scene.

Henry the Eighth:When his turn came:
"So, now all is gone—Empire, Body and Soul!"

Napoleon Bonaparte, 

About Napoleon, Count Montholon wrote: "The Emperor died forsaken by all, on this horrible rock. (St. Helena) His death struggle was awful!"

Niccolo Machiavelli:
Florentine diplomat and political philosopher, died in 1527
"I desire to go to Hell and not to Heaven. In the former I shall enjoy the company of popes, kings and princes, while in the latter are only beggars, monks and apostles"

Voltaire, the famous skeptic, 
Voltaire died a terrible death. His nurse said: "For all the money in Europe I wouldn’t want to see another unbeliever die! All night long he cried for forgiveness."

Sir Thomas Scott,
Scott, once president of the English Lower House said: "Up until this time, I thought that there was no God neither Hell. Now I know and feel that there are both, and I am delivered to perdition by the righteous judgment of the Almighty."

Stalin

About Stalin's death struggle, his daughter Swetlana Allilujewa, who in March 1953 was called to the dying dictator in his dacha in Kunzewo, stated: "Father died terribly and difficult. God gives the righteous an easy death."


 Aleister Crowley – famous occultist

 I am perplexed. Satan Get Out

A few more that I have not heard some can even try to find a lighter side to it but it still remains finale,

James French, a convicted murderer,

 Hey, fellas! How about this for a headline for tomorrow’s paper? ‘French Fries’!   Was sentenced to the electric chair. He shouted these words to members of the press who were to witness his execution.

James Rogers 

When asked for any last requests whilst faced with the firing squad, 

replied,"Why, yes! A bullet proof vest,"

Nostradamus: Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here  

King Herod --Acts 12:23:

"And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost."

The Rich Man and Lazerus-- A story from the Bible on this topic Luke 16:19-31

 ¹⁹There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:

 ²⁰And there was a certain beggar named Lazarus, which was laid at his gate, full of sores,

 ²¹And desiring to be fed with the crumbs which fell from the rich man's table: moreover the dogs came and licked his sores.

 ²²And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;

 ²³And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.

 ²⁴And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.

 ²⁵But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.

 ²⁶And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

 ²⁷Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:

 ²⁸For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

 ²⁹Abraham saith unto him, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

 ³⁰And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one went unto them from the dead, they will repent.

 ³¹And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

Wiebe Quote: Salted Sacrifice

A Christian is as consecrated and sanctified, or as casual and luke­warm, as 


he or she has chosen to be. We probably

are not aware of mak­ing such a conscious decision, but our consecration is 


also the sum of what we choose to think and do. We spend as much time in 


prayer and with God's Word, being fed and strengthened, as we have 


chosen.

Lesson 12 - A Salted Sacrifice

Adult & Youth Sunday School Lessons

December 2011 - February 2012