"In respect of his DIVINITY the Lord Jesus REMAINS UNIQUELY the only begotten Son of God." The Normal Christian Life

"Spiritual warfare accordingly demands an attitude of total death to feeling and an absolute trust in God. Only a person with this attitude can bear up alone and not seek companions or man's approval in fighting the enemy. Only this caliber of Christian can proceed under all sorts of anguished feelings. He cares not al all for his life nor about death but only cares for the leading of God. He indulges no personal interest, desire, or longing. He has offered himself to death already and then lives exclusively for God. He nether blames nor misunderstands Him because he considers all His ways to be loving. This is the class of person who is able to fill the breach. Though he may appear to be deserted by God and forgotten by men, yet he mans his battle station. He is a prayer warrior. He overcomes Satan." The Spiritual Man, Vol II

"Satan has disguised himself as an angel of light to lead saints to worship with their intellect a Jesus other than the Lord, to receive a spirit other than the Holy Spirit, and by these to propagate a gospel other than the gospel of the grace of God." The Spiritual Man, Vol III

"The spiritual path does not yield any enjoyment to the person himself; it is instead a life of daily fighting. To remove warfare from a spiritual life is to render it unspiritual. Life in the spirit is a suffering way, filled with watching and laboring, burdened by weariness and trial, punctuated by heartbreak and conflict. It is a life utterly outpoured entirely for the kingdom of God and lived in complete disregard for one's personal happiness." The Spiritual Man, Vol II

"Some people perhaps may consider themselves extremely wise in their ability to advance many arguments against the gospel; others may take for granted that unbelief is due to dullness of understanding; but the truth in both cases is that the eyes of man's mind have been covered by Satan... It is difficult to estimate how much of the world's philosophy, ethics, knowledge, research, and science flow from the powers of darkness. But of one point we are certain: all arguments and proud obstacles against the knowledge of God are the fortresses of the enemy." The Spiritual Man, Vol III

"Except a man receive God's new life and serve Him therein, every bit of service for God is but the work of the flesh. His intention to serve and even to suffer for Him is vain. Before he is regenerated, his will, even though it may be inclined towards good and God, is futile. For it is not what fallen man intends to do for God but how God Himself wishes man to do for Him that really counts in God's eyes. Man may devise and initiate countless notable works for God; nonetheless, if they do not originate with God they are nothing more than will-worship." The Spiritual Man, Vol III

"Man is not regenerated because he wills it so. He must be born of God. Nowadays Christians entertain the incorrect concept that if anyone wishes to be saved and seeks the way of life he undoubtedly will be a good disciple of Christ, for nothing can be better than this desire. God nonetheless affirms that in this matter of regeneration as well as in all other matters related to Him, the will of man is totally nonefficacious." The Spiritual Man, Vol III

"In salvation, we are saved not because we want to be saved but because God wants to save us; and so it is to be throughout our lives. We need to see that aside from what God does through us, all other activities, however commendable they may be, are utterly nonefficacious." The Spiritual Man, Vol III

"According to the actual condition of man, while he is a sinner his will is rebellious against God. Therefore God must bring men to Himself as well as grant them new life." The Spiritual Man, Vol III

"Man's spirit needs to be quickened because it is born dead." The Spiritual Man, Vol I

"To be penitent, to feel sorry for sin, to shed tears, to even make decisions does not bring in salvation. Confession, decision, and many other religious acts can never be and are not to be construed as new birth." The Spiritual Man, Vol I

"At regeneration man receives God's own life into his spirit and is born of God." The Spiritual Man, Vol I

"He who is not united with the Lord has not yet believed and therefore has no part in Him." The Spiritual Man, Vol I

"Once a man is born of God he can never be treated by God as not having been so born of Him. However endless eternity may be, this relationship and this position cannot be annulled. This is because what a believer receives at new birth is not contingent upon a progressive, spiritual and holy pursuit after he believes but is the pure gift of God. What God bestows is eternal life. No possibility exists for this life and position to be abrogated." The Spiritual Man, Vol I

"If we who are responsible for preaching the gospel truly perceive that unless people receive God's life into the depths of their beings we have not done anything profitable, then what a drastic reformation will there be in our work! Indeed, such knowledge will brings us to the realization that many who do profess to believe in the Lord Jesus have never actually done so." The Spiritual Man, Vol I

"It is vital that each believer know beyond doubt he has been regenerated already and has received new life." The Spiritual Man, Vol I

"God makes it quite clear in his Word that he has only one answer to every human need -- his Son, Jesus Christ." The Normal Christian Life

"The Son of God died instead of us for our forgiveness; he lives instead of us for our deliverance. So we can speak of two substitutions -- a Substitute on the Cross who secures our forgiveness and a Substitute within who secures our victory." The Normal Christian Life

"I need forgiveness for my sins, but I need also deliverance from the power of sin... I appreciate the blessed fact of God's forgiveness, but I want something more than that: I want deliverance. I need forgiveness for what I have done, but I need also deliverance from what I am." The Normal Christian Life

"The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin." The Normal Christian Life

"We should understand that the meaning of our body as the temple of the Holy Spirit is more than its being the recipient of a special privilege. It likewise means being a channel for effective power." The Spiritual Man, Vol III

"God makes it quite clear in his Word that he has only one answer to every human need -- his Son, Jesus Christ." The Normal Christian Life

"The Son of God died instead of us for our forgiveness; he lives instead of us for our deliverance. So we can speak of two substitutions -- a Substitute on the Cross who secures our forgiveness and a Substitute within who secures our victory." The Normal Christian Life

"The Blood deals with what we have done, whereas the Cross deals with what we are. The Blood disposes of our sins, while the Cross strikes at the root of our capacity for sin." The Normal Christian Life

"We need forgiveness for the sins we have committed, lest we come under judgment; and they are forgiven, not because God overlooks what we have done but because he sees the Blood. The Blood is therefore not primarily for us but for God... The blood was put on the lintel and on the doorposts, whereas the meat, the flesh of the lamb, was eaten inside the house; and God said, 'When I see the blood, I will pass over you.' Here we have another illustration of the fact that the blood was not meant to be presented to man but to God, for the blood was put on the lintel and on the doorposts, where those feasting inside the house would not see it." The Normal Christian Life

"God keeps short accounts, and we are made nigh by the Blood every day, every hour and every minute. It never loses its efficacy as our ground of access if we will but lay hold upon it. When we enter the Most Holy Place, on what ground dare we enter but by the Blood?... the Blood has never changed and never will. Your approach to God is therefore always in boldness; and that boldness is yours through the Blood and never through your personal attainment." The Normal Christian Life

"Never should we try to answer Satan with our good conduct but always with the Blood." The Normal Christian Life

"The teaching of Romans is not that we are sinners because we commit sins, but that we sin because we are sinners. We are sinners by constitution rather than by action... Yes, the one who sins is a sinner, but the fact that he sins is merely the evidence that he is already a sinner; it is not the cause... It is birth that counts. So I am a sinner because I am born in Adam. It is a matter not of my behavior but of my heredity, my parentage. I am not a sinner because I sin, but I sin because I come of the wrong stock. I sin because I am a sinner." The Normal Christian Life

"Our sins are dealt with by the Blood, but we ourselves are dealt with by the Cross. The Blood procures our pardon for what we have done; the Cross procures our deliverance from what we are." The Normal Christian Life

"We are members of a race of people who are constitutionally other than what God intended them to be. By the Fall, a fundamental change took place in the character of Adam whereby he became a sinner, on constitutionally unable to please God; and the family likeness which we all share is no merely superficial one but extends to our inward character also. We have been constituted sinners... We are sinners, not because of ourselves but because of Adam. It is not because I individually have sinned that I am a sinner, but because I was in Adam when he sinned. Because by birth I come of Adam, therefore I am a part of him. What is more, I can do nothing to alter this. I cannot, by improving my behavior, make myself other than a part of Adam, and so a sinner... Unless we can change our parentage there is no deliverance for us." The Normal Christian Life

"In Adam we receive everything that is of Adam; in Christ we receive everything that is of Christ... Our despair is in Adam; our hope is in Christ." The Normal Christian Life

"Just as no man could ever commit suicide by crucifixion, for it were a physical impossibility to do so, so also, in spiritual terms, God does not require us to crucify ourselves. We were crucified when Christ was crucified, for God put us there in Him. That we have died in Christ is not merely a doctrinal position, it is an eternal and indisputable fact." The Normal Christian Life

"The Lord Jesus, when He died on the Cross, shed His Blood, thus giving His sinless life to atone for sin and to satisfy the righteousness and holiness of God. To do so was the prerogative of the Son of God alone. No man could have a share in that. The Scripture never told us that we shed our blood with Christ. In His atoning work before God He acted alone; no other could have a part. But the Lord did not die only to shed His Blood; He died that we might die. He died as our Representative. In His death He included you and me." The Normal Christian Life

"As the last Adam, Christ is the sum total of humanity; as the second Man he is the Head of a new race... We died in Him as the last Adam; we live in Him as the second Man. The Cross is thus the mighty act of God which translates us from Adam to Christ." The Normal Christian Life

"Just as we cannot have justification if we have not seen Him (Jesus Christ) bearing our sins on the Cross, so we cannot have sanctification if we have not seen Him bearing us on the cross... what is true of your forgiveness is also true of your deliverance. The work is done." The Normal Christian Life

"Has Christ been crucified? Then can I be otherwise? And if He was crucified nearly two thousand years ago, and I with Him, can my crucifixion be said to take place tomorrow? Can His be past and mine present or future? Praise the Lord, when He died on the Cross I died with Him. He not only died in my stead, but He bore me with Him on the Cross, so that when He died I also died. And if I believe in the death of the Lord Jesus, then I can believe in my own death just as surely as I believe in His." The Normal Christian Life

"Any true experience of value in the sight of God must have been reached by way of a new discovery of the meaning of the Person and work of the Lord Jesus." The Normal Christian Life

"The finished work of Christ really has gone to the root of our problem and dealt with it. There are no half measures with God. He has made full provision for sin's rule to be utterly broken." The Normal Christian Life