Wisdom of the Ages
“If the truths of Christianity were seconded by the devoted and pious lives of all her professed disciples, the unbelief of the world would soon cease. Private example of godliness is what the world most needs”
– Ichabod Spencer
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Wisdom of the Ages – Ichabod Spencer
Wisdom of the Ages
“To cut off the sinner from all reliance upon himself, his merits and his powers; and throw him, naked and helpless, into the hands of the Holy Spirit to lead him to Christ in faith; should be the one great aim of the ministry”
Ichabod Spencer
It is in Christ alone where the strength and the power of life reside; all other resources are miserable, fleeting and wretched. They that live in the flesh cannot please God. The woman at the well came to know that Jesus is the well from which flows the river of His life into the lost and barren of this world. It is in our coming to Him that He becomes the well within our very being…
“He that believeth on me, as the scripture hath said,
out of his belly shall flow rivers of living water”
John 7:38
Quote for Today – Ichabod Spencer
Wisdom of the Ages
“There are multitudes in our congregations who are just waiting while they ought to be acting. They must work, if they would have God work in them. There can be no religion without obedience”
– Ichabod Spencer
“For as the body without the spirit is dead,
so faith without works is dead also”
James 2:26
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