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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

The proper understanding of everything in life begins with God. No one will ever understand the necessity of conversion who does not know why God created us. He created us 'in His image' so that we would image forth his glory in the world. We were made to be prisms refracting the light of God's glory into all of life. Why God should want to give us a share in shining with His glory is a great mystery. Call it grace or mercy or love – it is an unspeakable wonder. Once we were not. Then we existed – for the glory of God!
John Piper

In that day when we stand before the judgment seat of Christ, the whole “edifice” of our earthly works will be tested by the fire of God. Some impressive superstructures will be reduced to rubble, because they are built only for show – not out of lasting material. Like sets on a movie lot, these “buildings” may be magnificent and appear genuine even on close inspection, but the fire will test them for what they are really made of, not for what they look like. All the wood, hay and stubble will be burned away.
John MacArthur

Finney/OE relation

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Finney/OE relation

The Oberlin Evangelist

February 27, 1839

 

 

Mr. Finney wishes us to correct a mistake into which some have fallen respecting his connection with the Oberlin Evangelist. He is constantly receiving letters as editor, or publisher, or both. He is neither. He wishes his friends to understand that he has no connection with, and no responsibility about the paper, except that he makes it a medium through which to publish some of his writings. He sees no other article till after it is published. His relation to it is the same as his relation to the New York Evangelist when his lectures were published in that paper. [The Editor}

 

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