Calvary Chapel Quakertown

Merrill Tenney – “Birth is our mode of entrance into the world. And it brings with it the potential equipment for adjustment to the world. . .It’s moving from one kind of life and form and environment to another. To be born again means a transformation of a person so that he is able to enter another world and adapt to its condition.”

J. C. Ryle – “There has to be a change of heart, the will, the character by a new nature, new habits, new judgments, new tastes, new appetites, new opinions, new hopes, and new fears.”

Ray Stedman – “Jesus was referring to a transfer of citizenship, a radical departure from what we once were.” (Colossians 1:13)

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CROSS-REFERENCES:

1 Kings 8:39
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
2 Corinthians 6:16
Ephesians 4:26-27
Hebrews 1:8-9
Revelation 3:19

William Temple, renowned archbishop of Cantebury, as defining worship as “quickening the conscience by the holiness of God, feeding the mind with the truth of God, purging the imagination by the beauty of God, opening the heart to the love of God, and devoting the will to the purpose of God.”

G. Campbell Morgan – “God seeks and values the gifts we bring Him—gifts of praise, thanksgiving, service, and material offerings. In all such giving at the altar we enter into the highest experiences of fellowship. But the gift is acceptable to God in the measure to which the one who offers it is in fellowship with Him in character and conduct; and the test of this is in our relationships with our fellow men. We are thus charged to postpone giving to God until right relationships are established with others. Could the neglect of this be the explanation of barrenness of our worship?” (Matthew 5:24)

“Man’s affections may be stirred, man’s intelligence informed, man’s conscience convicted. But still God cannot trust him.”

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CROSS-REFERENCES:

John 12:23
John 15:11
John 17:1
1 Corinthians 9:19-23
Revelation 19:9

"Sin (lust for example) gets its power by persuading me to believe that I will be more happy if I follow it. The power of all temptation is in the prospect that it will make me happier." - John Piper

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CROSS-REFERENCES:

Job 42:5
Psalm 27:8
Psalm 34:8
Jeremiah 29:13
2 Corinthians 1:20
Ephesians 2:10
Revelation 3:20

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CROSS-REFERENCES:

-Luke 11:13

-John 7:38-39

-1 Corinthians 12:13

-1 Thessalonians 5:21

-1 Peter 3:15

-1 John 4:1

Stuart Briscoe: "A witness is someone who by explanation and demonstration gives audible and visible evidence of what he has seen and heard without being deterred by the consequences of his action."

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Cross-References:

-Romans 5:12

-Romans 5:18

-Romans 3:19-20

-Romans 3:21-24

-Romans 4:5

-Ephesians 2:13-14

-Galatians 3:2-3

-John 17:24

-James 1:2-4

-1 Peter 1:6-9