You never measure a man’s ministry by earthly measurements.
Carey, in India for thirty-five years; and only then did he see a convert. Would anyone question the virtue of his life? Let God be the judge. Let’s bow together in prayer.
Anybody can preach a whittled-down gospel.
Anybody can preach some kind of a deal where you take a little dab of biblical truth and slap it together with human wisdom, and contaminate it with your own cleverness and your own views.
But if you do that, you are a hawker and a huckster.
Any man is adequate for that.
But the man who preaches unmixed, divine truth, pure and clean, can only do that in power that is given from on high.”
So Paul found his way out of the gloom – didn’t he? –
out of the gloom of a broken heart, and he found his way back
to thanksgiving,
began to focus on God,
and realized that he had to go back to the privileges
and not to the problems
What a privilege
the privilege of being associated with the King of kings, and have Him as a leader;
the privilege of a promised triumph, all through his life He’s victorious;
the privilege of influencing men and women for eternity;
the privilege of being pleasing to God; the privilege, the great privilege of having power in proclaiming the truth.
