Pastor, you will never be that perfect portrait; the only one who achieved that perfection was Christ. No, rather than being a perfect portrait that assures people that the gospel is true, you and I are called to be windows through which people look and see the glory of the risen Lord Jesus Christ. It is our weakness that demonstrates both the essentiality and power of the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul David Tripp

Warning To The Scorner

Warning To The Scorner

Gem #86 – Warning to the Scorner

Rest well assured, O Scorner, that your laughs cannot alter truth, your ridicule cannot avert your inevitable doom. Though in your foolishness you should make an alliance with death, and sign a covenant with hell–yet swift justice will overtake you, and strong vengeance will strike you down. In vain do you jeer and mock, for eternal truths are mightier than your twisted lies, nor can your sly sayings alter divine truth of a single word of this volume of Revelation. Oh! why do you quarrel with your best friend, and illtreat you only refuge? There yet remains hope, even for the scorner. Hope in a Savior’s veins. Hope in the Father’s mercy. Hope in the Holy Spirit’s supreme means.