The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ March 20, 2024

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

“When the churches drift into formalism, ritualism, liberalism, Calvinism, etc., the world will continue its drift toward Hell unwary and unimpeded.”

“The darkest spot on Earth is the place where the light of the Gospel is not shining.”

“Down beneath the surface of the sea there is a part that is never stirred, and the peace of God is that eternal calm which, like a cushion of the sea, lies far too deep down to be reached by any external trouble and disturbance; and he who enters into the presence of God becomes partaker of that undisturbed and undisturbable calm.” -A. T. Pierson

“An infinite God can give all of Himself to each of His children. He does not distribute Himself that each may have a part, but to each one, He gives all of Himself as fully as if there were no others.” -A. W. Tozer

“The emergency against which I shall most carefully provide is failure.” -David Livingstone

“After Christ went up to Heaven, the Holy Spirit came down, and the disciples of Christ went out ‘every where preaching the word’ (Acts 8:4).”

“Do not have your concert first and then tune your instrument afterward. Begin the day with the Word of God and prayer, and get first of all into harmony with Him.” -Hudson Taylor

“When I get to Heaven, I shall see three wonders there. The first wonder will be to see many people there whom I did not expect to see. The second wonder will be to miss many people whom I did expect to see. And the third and greatest wonder of all will be to find myself there.” -John Newton

“There is a great craving today for a religion that shall adorn but shall not restrain, for a religion which shall be toothless and have no bite in it, for a religion that shall sanction anything we want to do. Popular Christianity is a very easy-fitting argument; it is like an old shoe that you can slip on and off without any difficulty.”

“The man who hasn’t the time to do the things that are worthwhile is probably doing some things that are not.”

“They that enter Heaven will find that they are neither unknown nor unexpected.” -J. C. Ryle

“If I could hear Christ praying for me in the next room, I would not fear a million enemies. Yet distance makes no difference. He is praying for me.” -Robert Murray M’Cheyne

“Moses spent 40 years thinking he was somebody; 40 years learning he was nobody; and 40 years discovering what God can do with a nobody.” -D. L. Moody

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ March 1, 2024

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

“Only one life, ’twill soon be past; Only what’s done for Christ will last.” -C. T. Studd

“If you believe indeed in the Lord Jesus for the salvation of your soul, if you walk uprightly and do not regard iniquity in your heart, if you continue to wait patiently and believingly upon God; then answers will surely be given to your prayers.” -George Muller

“Press forward. Do not stop…do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you.” -George Whitefield

“Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.” -Adoniram Judson

“If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you’ll never enjoy the sunshine.” -Morris West

“A sad countenance is a poor testimony for a Christian.” -John R. Rice

“I am always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” -Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965), British Prime Minister

“It is not enough to have a song on your lips. You must also have a song in your heart.” -Fanny Crosby

“No one can be a good Christian who does not, with holy zeal, set out to know, delight in and live by the Word of God!” -John R. Rice

“Resolution One: I will live for God. Resolution Two: If no one else does, I still will.” -Jonathan Edwards

“There will be no peace in any soul until it is willing to obey the voice of God.” -D. L. Moody

“Too many churches are little more than four walls and a roof.” -Billy Sunday

“The church suffers most from its misrepresentatives. There are entirely too many ‘Christianettes’ who do not ‘adorn the doctrine of God in all things.’ There is plenty of LOVE in books; what we need above everything else is LOVE in boots.”

“Love is the very essence of God, for ‘God is love.’ No man has ever fully comprehended or even estimated the love of God. It is like a bottomless ocean without shores. Its reaches are as far as the east is from the west.” -William E. Troup

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ February 16, 2024

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

“The Bible is a book of faith, a Book of doctrine, a Book of morals, a Book of religion and of special revelation from God.” -Daniel Webster

“After six years given to the impartial investigation of Christianity, as to its truth or falsity, I have come to the deliberate conclusion that Jesus Christ was the Messiah of the Jews, the Saviour of the world and my personal Saviour.” -Lew Wallace

“Jesus shall reign where’re the sun

Doth his successive journeys run;

His kingdom stretch

from shore to shore

Till moons shall wax

and wane no more.”

-Isaac Watts

“All we want in Christ, we shall find in Christ. If we want little, we shall find little. If we want much, we shall find much; but if, in utter helplessness, we cast our all on Christ, He will be to us the whole treasure of God.”

-Henry Benjamin Whipple

“Christianity has not failed. It is simply that nations have failed to try it. There would be no war in a God-directed world.” -Rear Admiral Richard F. Byrd

“He who shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.” -Benjamin Franklin

“A church membership does not make a Christian any more than owning a piano makes a musician.” -Douglas Meador

“The Christian is like the ripening corn; the riper he grows, the more lowly he bends his head.”

“Christianity can be condensed into four words: admit, submit, commit and transmit.” -Samuel Wilberforce

“If you pray for bread and bring no basket to carry it, you prove the doubting spirit which may be the only hindrance to the boon you ask.” -Dwight L. Moody

“It is never a question with any of us faith or no faith; the question always is, ‘In what or in whom do we put our faith?'”

“The beginning of anxiety is the end of faith and the beginning of true faith is the end of anxiety.” -George Muller

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ January 19, 2024

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

“Treasures are laid up in Heaven when the treasures of Earth are laid down.”

“Thinking, trying, toiling and trusting in God is the full story of my biography.” -John Wanamaker 

“If you expect to leave footprints on the sands of time, you’ll need to get up out of your recliner.”

“The same people who say they can’t understand ‘thee’ or ‘thou’ in a hymn hav no prblm figrng out a txt lik dis.”

“Spread out your petition before God, and then say, ‘Thy will, not mine, be done.’ The sweetest lesson I have learned in God’s school is to let the Lord choose for me.” -D. L. Moody

“Error is like leaven of which we read, ‘A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.’ Truth mixed with error is equivalent to all error, except that it is more innocent-looking and, therefore, more dangerous. God hates such a mixture! Any error, or any truth-and-error mixture, calls for definite exposure and repudiation. To condone such is to be unfaithful to God and His Word and treacherous to imperiled souls for whom Christ died.” -Dr. Harry Ironside

“To all of those whose lives you touch, you are either a stumbling block or a stepping stone.”

“How can we play the game of life if we do not know where the goalposts and the boundary lines are?”

“You can’t no more learn something from someone who don’t know nothing than you can come back from where you have not been.”

“The human race owes much of its advancement to those who worked hard and were not content to leave well enough alone.”

“Morale is when your hands and feet keep on working when your head says it can’t be done.” -Admiral Benjamin Morell

“If you cross your bridges before you get to them, you’ll still be on the same side of the river.”

“Yesterday is over, done, gone; tomorrow is promising but uncertain; today is what you have; it is here now. Grab hold of it and use it.”

“God makes a promise. Faith believes it. Hope anticipates it. Patience confidently and quietly awaits it.”

 

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ December 1, 2023

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

“Our citizens should early understand that the genuine source of correct republican principles is the Bible, particularly the New Testament.” -Noah Webster

“Not all terrorist networks answer to the same orders and same leaders, but all terrorists burn with the same hatred. They hate all who reject their grim version of tyranny. They hate people who love freedom. They kill without mercy. They kill without shame. And they count their victories in the deaths of the innocent.” -George W. Bush

“I believe every step I take, I have the eternal God as my refuge. And every breath I breathe, I breathe locked in the arms of the eternal God.” -Tom Malone

Personal Work…

All can do it.

It can be done anywhere.

It can be done anytime.

It reaches all classes.

It hits the mark.

It provides large results.

-R. A. Torrey

“Resolved: never to do anything which I should be afraid to do if it were the last hour of my life.” -Jonathan Edwards

“If I take care of my character, my reputation will take care of itself.” -Dwight L. Moody

Is alcoholism a sickness? If so, it is a sickness that is self-imposed; and unlike other sicknesses, it produces murder, rape, broken homes and broken hearts.

“It is your actions and attitude when you are on your own that reflect what you really are.” -Martin Vanbee

“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way.” -J. F. Clarke

A good thing to remember,

A better thing to do-

Work with the construction gang,

Not with the wrecking crew.

“Some people are always telegraphing to Heaven for God to send a cargo of blessings to them, but they are not at the wharfside to unload the vessel when it comes.” -F. B. Meyer

“Satan has no objection to any man adopting a religion that keeps him as a decent worldling. Oh no, he will even give such his patronage and applause. The world will speak well of him; he will be caressed and admired by all. Worldly religion embraces everything and condemns nothing but wholeheartedness for Christ.” -John Ritchie

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ October 20, 2023

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

“Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the Devil and then blowing the smoke into the face of God.” -Billy Sunday

“Unless a man cultivates a habit of systematic giving when he has not much to give, he will give little when he is rich.” -Samuel Chadwick

“Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.” -Will Rogers

“I will place no value on anything I have or may possess except in relation to the kingdom of Christ.” -David Livingstone

“What a splendid thing it would be if those who lose their tempers could not find them back again.”

“The difference between ‘just so-so’ and ‘really great’ is midnight oil, elbow grease and the power of God!” -Shelton Smith

“Being a Christian is not a thing that goes by families but by individuals. You are an American because your father is an American, but you are not a Christian because your father is a Christian.” -John R. Rice

“Not to do what we ought to do can be as bad as doing what we ought not to do.” -George W. Truett

“The blood alone makes us safe. The Word alone makes us sure.” -D. L. Moody

“One spark of fire can do more to prove the power of powder than a whole library written on the subject.” -Billy Sunday

“If the increase of the ravages of alcohol in our country is to be halted and reversed, the pulpit and Sunday school must be reconsecrated to a militant doctrine of abstinence.” -Andrew C. Ivy

“A people who value their privileges above their principles soon lose both.” -Dwight Eisenhower

“The cross is the theme of all Heaven’s music, the power of all gospel preaching, the only hope of a lost world and the only safe refuge from God’s wrath and judgment.” -Tom Malone

“Will you and I have any scars to show?” -T. DeWitt Talmage

“Since I learned that there are 110 calories in a cup of Cracker Jacks, I no longer eat them in a cup.” -Shelton Smith

“So thick do Heaven’s mercies fly that the arrow of prayer can never be shot aright without bringing down some blessing. If it bring not that which we seek, it shall bring us that which we need.” -Mark Guy Pearse

“Men are remembered for what they overcame as much as for what they accomplished.” -Raymond Barber

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ August 18, 2023

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

“Always go the extra mile in service. ‘Always abounding in the work of the Lord’ (I Corinthians 15:58). The word abound means ‘doing more than enough.’ The man who succeeds is the man who does more than enough and keeps on doing it. It is not only important to do more than enough, but you must keep on doing it day after day, week after week.” -Dr. Curtis Hutson

“If lips and life do not agree, testimony will not amount to much. The testimony of the lips indicates the state of the heart.” -Harry Ironside

“I will not permit any man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.” -Booker T. Washington

“To forgive is to ‘take it off the account,’ never to be mentioned again.” -Mike Allison

“Perfect freedom is necessary to the health and vigor of both commerce and citizenship, and both will have freedom concurrently, or neither will have it at all.” -Patrick Henry

“Those who expect to reap the blessing of freedom must undertake to support it.” -President Ronald Reagan

“Honesty is not only the best policy; it should be the only policy. It pays to be honest, but we should not be honest because it pays: we should be honest because it is right. If you are honest simply because it pays, you are not honest but greedy.” -Dr. Curtis Hutson

“If I think I am sowing good seed and it happens to be bad, I shall have a bad harvest. Therefore, it becomes me to see what kind of seed I am sowing.” -Dwight L. Moody

“The greatest event in history since the very creation of the world itself, as well as the crowning proof of the truth of Christianity, is the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ.” -Henry Morris

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ July 7, 2023

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

“Isn’t it strange how some Christian men and women can be perfect gentlemen and gracious ladies all day long all over town, but as soon as they enter the driveway at their own homes, they greet their own families with a gruff, sourpuss personality that would shock others who know them? Such strangeness reflects an unfinished work of grace, a flagrant carnality that needs to be addressed as much as if the same person were swearing or stealing!” -Shelton Smith

“It does not require a decision to go to Hell.”

“A Christian is always on duty!” -Guy Pearse

“I am almost afraid to make some people laugh for fear I will be arrested for breaking a costly piece of antique bric-a-brac.” -Billy Sunday

“Six men were turned out of Oxford for praying. Among them were the two Wesleys and Whitfield.” -D. L. Moody

“Go as far as you can see, and when you get there, you will see farther.” -Marden

“Anchor yourself to the throne of God, then shorten the rope.”

“Serving the Lord with a doubt in your mind is like trying to drive with the brakes on.”

“The prime reason many believers do not have the fulness of the Holy Spirit is that they just absolutely are not thirsty enough. If you can take it or leave it, you will leave it. You have to get to the place where you say, “I have to have it! I won’t give up! I don’t care what happens; I won’t give up!” -Curtis Hutson

“We have depended on culture and learning, but schools and literature do not make prophets like Jeremiah! We have depended on organizations and institutions, but they do not bring the power that came at Pentecost and converted three thousand in a day.” -John R. Rice

“Anytime you find the truth standing in your way, you may be sure you are heading in the wrong direction.”

“Although a Christian can never lose the precious gift of salvation, he can still have a power failure.”

“Bad officials are elected by good citizens who do not vote.”

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ June 21, 2023

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

“Extraordinary times demand extraordinary courage on the part of ordinary people.” -Raymond Barber

“There’s no amount of “good program” and “great music” that can offset bad doctrine. “It’s such a friendly pace” cannot substitute for Bible truths!” -Shelton Smith

“The trouble with a little sin is that it won’t stay little.”

“Personally, I’m always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.” -Winston Churchill

“The greatest problem of the churches is the preacher problem: “Like priest, like people.” Preachers are usually good men, often learned men, sincere men; but many lack the divine fire, the Christlike passion, the John the Baptist boldness, the Pauline urgency, the Holy Spirit enduement of power that will fire the churches of God. They lack the supernatural evidences that accompanied New Testament preachers. The miraculous, the supernatural, is missing in the average preacher’s life and message and results.” -John R. Rice

“Make us to see that our liberty is not the right to do as we please, but the opportunity to please to do right.” -Peter Marshall, in a prayer for the U. S. Senate

The Bible Within this ample volume lies The mystery of mysteries. Happiest they of human race To whom

their God has given grace To read, to fear, to hope, to pray, To lift the latch, to force the way; But better had

they ne’er been born That read to doubt or read to scorn.” -Sir Walter Scott

“The scriptures contain more true sublimity, more exquisite beauty, purer morality, more important history and finer strains of both poetry and eloquence than could be collected within the same compass from all other books that were ever composed in any age or in any language.” -Sir William Jones

“God was undertaker for Moses; God was uppertaker for Enoch and Elijah; God is caretaker for every believing child of His.”

“There is an old English proverb, “Before you make a friend, eat a peck of salt with him,” by which is meant, merely, familiarize yourself with his character.” -W. B. Riley

“Lighthouses blow no horns; they only shine.” -D. L. Moody

“There wouldn’t be so many non-churchgoers if there were not so many non-going churches.” -Billy Sunday

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ May 19, 2023

Judges 7:20 King James Version (KJV)
And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the Lord, and of Gideon.

An Independent Christian Publication, Standing for the Verbal Inspiration of the Bible, the Deity of Christ, His Blood Atonement, Salvation by Faith, New Testament Soul Winning and the Premillennial Return of Christ; Opposing Modernism (Liberalism), Worldliness and Formalism.

The Amen Corner

As the excellence of steel is strength and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character. -A. W. Tozer

Tithe before you go on vacation. Don’t run the risk of running so short you shortchange God.

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can. -John Wesley

There is no difference between being saved and “really saved.” There is no such thing as degrees in salvation. No one is more saved than another. Those who are trusting Jesus Christ are saved and they have everlasting life. And those who are not trusting Him are not saved, “but the wrath of God abideth on” them (John 3:36). -Curtis Hutson

You may be saved and faithfully serving God, but that doesn’t exempt you from the turmoil of troubles of living in this old world where the Devil roams the earth like a roaring lion. Be alert to his presence and be aggressive to oppose him lest he rend you to pieces. -Shelton Smith

You can never cultivate self into anything but self. -D. L. Moody

Evangelism is at this moment the insistent need of the churches. As not before in many decades the cause of evangelism languishes. With a strange unanimity conservatives and critics alike are waking to this dire condition of things – the waning of the evangelistic spirit. -W. B. Riley

Out of the will of God there is no such thing as success. -Christian Chronicle

“Mr. Sunday, the church is full of hypocrites,” you say. So is Hell; and if you don’t want to go to Hell and live with that bunch forever, come into the churches where you won’t have to associate with them very long. There are no hypocrites in Heaven. -Billy Sunday

People have preached the Bible’s funeral ten thousand times, but they have never gotten it buried. Before they can get it into the grave, it is up and out again, carrying its message of hope, cheer and salvation to the uttermost parts of the earth. -Jarrette Aycock

Footprints in the sands of time were not made sitting down.

The Ten Commandments, which are the foundation of all good law – Roman law, German law, English law, American law – are the best foundation upon which to build character. -T. DeWitt Talmage