Thewatchman's Comments

Matthew 7:21--Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.

Romans 2:13--For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

I'm so concerned and saddened.....I do believe the LORD Jesus Christ was right when He said When I come back will I find faith on the earth.   I'm afraid His question was right.....it's deteriorated and becoming invisible.  Liberal new age Christians that do not believe His Word, believe partially in His salvation, grace, mercy, and forgiveness, but unwilling to part with their lives and unable to spread the Gospel of Truth.

 "Understand this: The Bible presents Christ. You have an inner sense of an indwelling Lord. You either have that or you do not. The man God needs will live in a vital, living relationship with Jesus Christ." - Gene Edwards

"I walked a mile with Pleasure,
She chattered all the way;
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.

"I walked a mile with Sorrow,
And ne'er a word said she;
But, oh, the things I learned from her
When sorrow walked with me."

http://www.crosswalk.com/devotionals/desert/streams-in-the-desert-september-19th.html

"It is obvious that we are living in times of great spiritual naivete. The church has strayed so far from the pure Word of God, she no longer recognizes that her place in the world is to be "salt" and "light". Instead, of salt and light, she has allowed pernicious doctrines to enter into her midst which have become like "leaven" which is quickly leavening the whole lump." - Jewel Grewe, The Prophets Rise Again, 8/01

Are you living for what people think? God help you if you are.
If you're going to be a true Christian, I'll tell you one thing amongst others: it'll be a lonely life. It's a narrow way and it becomes narrower and narrower and narrower.
He wants to get us to the place where we'd rather fast than feast; where we'd rather be unknown than known.
~Leonard Ravenhill~

"We have taken the latter course as a culture. So there is mass confusion today--even in the evangelical church--over whether the Bible is true and over how far we should go in obeying it." 

"I believe that Jesus meant to shake us up! I believe that He meant for us to consider seriously what it would mean and what it would cost to keep our lamps trimmed and burning brightly in a time of great lawlessness and apostasy. Our Lord knew that in these times there would be those in our churches who are just highly groomed show-pieces of Christianity—middle class and well-to-do, satisfied with a religious life that costs them nothing." – A.W. Tozer, We Put Jesus On The Cross, What Is It Costing You To Be A Christian?, Pars. 1-2

http://www.truthaccordingtoscripture.com/documents/books/counterfeit-cross/saving-faith.php#.V-rHsvArLIU

"Truth is a glorious but hard mistress. She never consults, bargains or compromises."
Of God and Men, 39 A.W. Tozer

Reacting to Circumstances by A. W. Tozer: . . External things and events are the raw material only; the finished product is whatever the mind makes of these. Judas Iscariot and John the Beloved lived in the same world, but how differently they interpreted it. The same may be said of Cain and Abel, Esau and Jacob, Saul and David. From these we learn that circumstances do not make men; it is their reaction to circumstances that determines what kind of men they will be. What then can we Christians do? The answer is, “Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus” (Phpns. 2:5). “Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?” (2 Cor. 13:5). The mental stuff of the Christian can be and should be modified and conditioned by the Spirit of Christ which indwells his nature. God wills that we think His thoughts after Him. The Spirit-filled, prayerful Christian actually possesses the mind of Christ, so that his reactions to the external world are the same as Christ’s. He thinks about people and things just as Christ does. All life becomes to him the raw nectar which the Spirit within him turns into the honey of paradise. Yet this is not automatic. To do His gracious work God must have the intelligent cooperation of His people. If we would think God’s thoughts we must learn to think continually of God. “God thinks continuously of each one of us as if He had no one but ourselves,” said Francois Malaval; “it is therefore no more than just if we think continuously of Him, as if we had no one but Himself.”

"Tolerance is a virtue for those who have no convictions." - Anonymous

If you want a religion to make you feel comfortable, I certainly don’t recommend Christianity. ~C.S. Lewis~

A man’s real belief is that which he lives by. What a man believes is the thing he does, not the thing he thinks. ~George MacDonald~

[Boldness means] outspokenness, frankness...that conceals nothing and passes over nothing...confidence...fearlessness, especially in the presence of persons of high rank.

Reference:  Spirit Empowered Preaching, Christian Focus Publication, 2003, p. 125. ~Arturo Azurdia~

We must interpret the mysterious providences of God not by reason or observation, but by the Word.

Reference:  Comfort for Christians, Chapter 7. ~A.W. Pink~

It is the grandest life "having done all, to stand."
--J. R. Miller