“The center of all culture is cultus, worship, and so the pagan world system was a culture built upon the centrality of accusation. The pagan world worships accusations.”
Divide From the Dividers
“If you don’t want division, you must separate from the principle of division. If you don’t want accusations, you have to cast out the accusing devil.”
Wrong Side
“To be a member of a faction within the church, and to give your allegiance to that faction as a faction, is to confess yourself to be a member of the devil’s faction.”
A Floor Covered With Snakes
“If we have put on the whole armor of God, our feet are shod with the gospel of peace (Eph. 6:14). What do feet shod with peace do? They crush accusations, that’s what they do. They crush devils; they walk on snakes.”
The Cup Was Not the Important Part
“But Paul says to put away all strife and envy, and he includes them in that toxic mix. To give up sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll but keep the envy is surely a bad deal. That is like surrendering the golden Babylon orgy goblet in order to drink the poison out of a modest little Dixie cup you found in the church kitchen.”
Nothing Stranger Than Gospel
“It was the strangest trial I ever heard of. A guilty man was dragged into court, as furtive and as guilty and as ashamed as a man could possibly be, and it all ended with the prosecutor being dragged out of the courtroom and summarily hanged. And after that the judge came back from the dead.”
What Faith Alone Sees
“Believing on Jesus to everlasting life means looking at Jesus, with the eyes of faith, as though He were an impaled serpent.”
Reap a Lot
“Sow a little envy, and reap a life of ungrateful misery. Sow a little, and reap a lot.”
The Devil is a Guilt Farmer
“The devil . . . is a guilt farmer, and the seed is sin. Relativism is just a teaching calculated to get fools to throw their seed everywhere.”
Testifying, Not Explaining
“I can illustrate the Creator-creature divide on the blackboard, but I cannot do the physics involved and show my work. If I could do that, I wouldn’t be on this side of that divide.”