If a church is lacking in discipline herself, what right has she to talk about the indiscipline of society?
The history of the world in a sense is just the history of man clinging desperately to new hopes and ideas, believing that if only this new thing can be put into practice, all his problems will be solved.
The gospel puts me right with God, it puts me right, and above all He, Christ, satisfies my every need. He never fails, He never changes--whatever I may need in this life Christ can give me, and He will not leave me in the hour of death.
Prayer is the highest activity of the human soul, and therefore it is at the same time the ultimate test of a man’s true spiritual condition (there is nothing so much as prayer life that tells the truth about us as Christina people.) Everything we do in the Christian life is easier than prayer.
'Why doth he yet find fault? For who hath resisted his will?' (Rom. 9:19) This objection surely proves beyond any doubt whatsoever that the Apostle has been teaching that salvation is entirely the result of the sovereign will and election of God and nothing to do with us at all. There is nothing new in this objection to this doctrine. People were objecting to it in the first century and they have been objecting to it ever since. It has nothing to do with modern learning, modern knowledge, modern science -- nothing at all. People have always done it.
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