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The Wisdom and the Power of the Cross: 2020 Edition QUOTES

The Wisdom and the Power of the Cross: 2020 Edition QUOTES

1 " The altars that the patriarchs left behind at forsaken campsites must have seemed strange to the inhabitants of the land when they came across them. They were so simple and crude, always made from dirt or unshapen stones of the field. On the top could be found the charred remains of an animal. The heathen were never able to carry away from those abandoned campsites any religious ornamentation or figurine of Israel’s God that the people of Abraham may have misplaced or lost. How strange it must have seemed to the people of the land that these nomads spoke out into the thin air when they prayed. How easy it is to imagine them saying, “I want something that I can look at when I pray. I want something I can hold in my hand!”

What wonder, awe, and fear the strange worship of Israel invoked upon all of Palestine when for forty years they slowly moved around in a barren land where ordinarily no one could survive. It seems that God has always allowed impossible settings for His people. Our Lord has never apologized for expecting His people to do the hard things. God has always seemed inclined to choose the weak things over the strong, the lowly and despised things, the things that are not, that He may bring to nought the things that are. "

― J.T. Pugh , The Wisdom and the Power of the Cross: 2020 Edition

2 " Love seeks its life outside itself; self seeks its life in itself. Love, in order to secure and produce, sacrifices selfishness; while self, in order to possess, keeps itself and sacrifices love. "

― J.T. Pugh , The Wisdom and the Power of the Cross: 2020 Edition

3 " The cross has never been compatible to any culture. Its preaching has always established a counter-culture. Jesus Christ is timeless. He is not the product of any human culture and thus has never been enmeshed in any one culture. He both transforms and transcends culture. "

― J.T. Pugh , The Wisdom and the Power of the Cross: 2020 Edition

4 " The strongest statement against eternal security is the word of Jesus, "Every branch in me that beareth not fruit, He taketh away: If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered. "

― J.T. Pugh , The Wisdom and the Power of the Cross: 2020 Edition

5 " We know that the church is God’s earthly body of flesh, which is to manifest or reveal Jesus to the people of this earth. It is God’s instrument of Gospel propagation throughout the world. "

― J.T. Pugh , The Wisdom and the Power of the Cross: 2020 Edition