Lectures To My Students - Part 3

Here are a handful of quotations that will be the last in the chapter, ‘The Minister’s Self-Watch’.

I wonder how much we really want to be effective for God? I think these days that we profess an awful lot with our mouths, but our desires are otherwise.

“As actions, according to the proverb, speak louder than words, so an ill life will effectually drown the voice of the most eloquent ministry. After all, the truest building must be performed with our hands; our characters must be more persuasive than our speech.”

If we don’t act and live the gospel, what gives us the right to preach it? I have heard time and time again, how we can go over-the-top in our separation and devotion to God. What utter trash! Imagine the Lord Jesus had stopped short of the cross and said, “This is going too far, I think I’ll stop now.” We’d all be in hell if that was the case.

“It is remarkable that the only church history we have is, “The Acts of the apostles.” The Holy Spirit has not preserved their sermons. They were very good ones, better than we shall ever preach, but still the Holy Spirit has only taken care of their “acts.”"

Here was a word for me…’punctuality’

“Take care of your life…avoid little debts, unpunctuality, gossiping, nicknaming, petty quarrels, and all other of those little vices which fill the ointment with flies.”

May God have mercy upon us!

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