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(Rom 6:23/The Message) Work hard for sin your whole life and your pension is death

(Ray Stedman on Rom chpt 1) God does not hate the people who do such things;He truly loves them--- but He will not remove either their free will nor the consequences of their actions

(Charles Stanley) How could any real believer glory in what God abhors?

(Warren Wiersbe) Christian living depends on Christian learning;duty is always founded on doctrine. If satan can keep a Christian ignorant, he can keep him impotent

(Wiersbe) Justification: righteousness imputed; sanctification: righteousness imparted

(Wiersbe) Too many Christians are " betweeners": they live between Egypt and Canaan, saved but never satisfied; or they live between Good Friday and Easter, believing in the Cross but not entering the power and glory of the Resurrection

(Wiersbe) Jesus Christ not only paid the penality for sin, He broke the power of sin

(Wiersbe) To reckon means to believe that what God says in His Word is really true in your life. Reckoning is a matter of faith that issues in action. Reckoning is both claiming a promise and acting on a fact

(Wiersbe) The Lord asks some of us to die for Him, but He asks all of us to live for Him

(William Carey)  Expect great things from God. Attempt great things for God

(Wiersbe) The act that we are saved by grace does not give us an excuse to sin; but it does give us a reason to obey

(Wiersbe) Rom 6:19 suggests that the Christian ought to be as enthusiastic in yielding to the Lord as he was in yielding to sin. A friend of mine once said to me, " I want to be as good a saint as I was a sinner"

(Wiersbe) The prodigal son wanted to find himself, but he ended up losing himself. What he thought was freedom  turned out to be the worst kind of slavery

(Phillip Yancey) No Christian resurrected to new life should be pining for sin. If we truly grasped the wonder of God's love for us, we would spend our days trying to fathom and share, not exploit His grace

(The Daily Bread) God does not save us by grace so that we live in disgrace

(Ray Stedman) The first step in moral decline always begins with our desires and emotions

(C. Stanley) Everything the Lord had forbidden kings to due in Dt 17:14-20 Solomon did. Solomon- no other man ever soared so high but fell so low

(C. Stanley) Unhealthy compromise is costly, it corrupts, and it brings collapse

(Wiersbe)  Earning money is not a sin, but loving money and living just to aquire riches is a sin( I tim 6:7-10)

(Wiersbe) Someone has wisely said," it's good to have things money can buy, provided you don't lose the things money cannot buy. " The more we add to our possessions so people will admire us, the less true wealth and beauty we really have. Nobody seems to have admonished Solomon to pay more attention to making a life instead of amassing a fortune. A Roman proverb says. "riches are like saltwater- the more you drink, the more you thirst". We brought nothing into this world and we shall take nothing out( I Tim 6:7, Job 1:21,Ps 49:17)