The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ February 2, 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 holiness of God demands sin must be dealt with regardless of whose heart that is.” -Dennis Leatherman

“We’ve been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something – for liberty and freedom…and these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to.” -Ronald Reagan

“Everything the Devil does has a lie connected to it.” -Norris Belcher

“His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson on Abraham Lincoln

“My worst day as a Christian is better than my best day as a lost person.” -Ron Titus

“Until we deal with sin in our lives, we cannot expect revival.” -Dan Carr, Sr.

“If someone today faces the crucified Saviour, realizing you have wounded Him, have grieved Him, perhaps have denied Him; if you have disgraced your profession of faith in Christ, have lost the joy of salvation, have even lost the assurance that your sins are forgiven, oh, poor backslider, come on back to Jesus!” -John R. Rice

“If your lips would keep from slips, five things observe with care; of whom you speak, to whom you speak, and how and when and where.”

“Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; it is also what it takes, on occasion, to sit down and listen.”

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have…. I must stand with anybody who stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.” -Abraham Lincoln

“It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits and humbly implore His protection and favor.” -George Washington

“Victory is not the absence of an enemy – it is the defeat of one.” -Dr. Jeff Fugate

“Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.” -George Washington (1732-1799), Continental Army General and the first American President

“No legacy is so rich as honesty.” -William Shakespeare

“Culture never trumps Scripture – Scripture trumps every culture!” -Mike Allison

“Half a truth is often a great lie.” -Benjamin Franklin

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” -Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16th President

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 ~ January 5, 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 best medals are given to those men and women who go beyond ‘the call of duty.’ -J. Lubbock

“If you are a genuine Christian, it will be real to you and increasingly obvious to others as you grow in the Lord.” -Shelton Smith

“Separation of church and state was never meant to separate God and government.” -Judge Roy Moore

“Men come and go; leaders, teachers, thinkers speak and work for a season, and then fall silent and impotent. He abides. They die, but He lives. They are lights kindled, and, therefore, sooner or later quenched; but He is the true Light from which they draw all their brightness, and He shines for evermore.” -Alexander MacLaren

“If it were possible for me to alter any part of His plan, whatever I did would only spoil it.” -John Newton

“Revivals begin with God’s people; the Holy Spirit touches their heart anew and gives them new fervor and compassion, and zeal, new light and life, and when He has thus come to you, He next goes forth to the valley of dry bones…. Oh, what responsibility this lays on us! If you grieve Him away from yourselves or hinder His visit, then the poor perishing world suffers sorely!” -Andrew Bonar

“If you are truly a follower of the Lord, you will be a fisher of souls (Matthew 4:19).” -Evangelist John Hamblin

“The tendency of fire is to go out; watch the fire on the altar of your heart. Anyone who has tended a fireplace knows that it needs to be stirred up occasionally.” -William Booth

“Let me forget the world and be swallowed up in the desire to glorify God.” -David Brainerd

“There are some so-called Christian homes today with books on the shelves that have no more business there than a rattler crawling about on the floor or a poison within the child’s reach.” -Billy Sunday

“The true Christian is right-side up in an upside-down world.” -Anonymous

“Many kiss the hands they would feign see chopped off.”

“Remember, God knows about every tear which comes to our eyes. Christ cares and is concerned about us. Your heartaches are known to Him.” -Lee Roberson

“Tell me how it is that in this room there are three candles and but one light, and I will explain to you the mode of the divine existence.” -John Wesley

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 ~ November 17, 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

“Don’t be a quitter because somebody criticizes you. Many a choir singer has performed until somebody hurt her feelings. Then the nightingale became a raven croaking ‘Nevermore.'” -Vance Havner

“I never prayed earnestly for anything, but it came sooner or later, and oftentimes in the way I least imagined.” -Adoniram Judson

“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

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

“It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.” -Defoe

“Jesus Christ is willing to receive the Devil’s castaways.” -George Whitefield

“Christ may wait long, but He will not wait forever.”

“It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation’s humble acknowledged dependence upon God.” -John Adams, the 2nd President of the United States

“Morality without religion is a tree without roots, a stream without any spring to feed it, a house built on the sand, a pleasant place to live until the heavens grow dark, and the storm begins to beat.” -J. B. Shaw

“Will the church that bows down and compromises succeed? Of course, it will. It is the very thing that the natural man wants, but it is the lure of a wrong road to the kingdom. Beware of putting anything sweet and winsome in front of the One who suffered in Gethsemane.” -Oswald Chambers

“It would be a great business transaction for me to die, for my Heavenly Father has insured me for more than I am worth, and I can only collect the policy by exchanging the cross for my crown. Hallelujah! Amen!” -Bud Robinson

“Even if you don’t have faith to do it, if it’s right to do it, just go ahead and do it anyhow.” -Bill Rice

“Allow nobody to live in your family whose sentiments, habits, manners or temper may corrupt your children.” -Charles G. Finney

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ November 3, 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

“I desire to have both Heaven and Hell ever in my eye, while I stand on this isthmus of life, between two boundless oceans.” -John Wesley

“I never want to get more joy out of meeting the needs of Christians than winning souls to Christ.” -Bob Kelley

“God is looking for broken men who have judged themselves in the light of the cross of Christ. When He wants anything done, He takes up men who have come to te end of themselves, whose confidence is not in themselves, but in God.” -Harry Ironside

“The government has been instituted because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.” -Alexander Hamilton

“Jesus met the Devil…with the Scriptures: ‘It is written…’; ‘It is written….’ If He could defeat the Devil with three verses out of Deuteronomy, we ought to be able to do it with the whole Bible.” -Vance Havner

“No man ever got a vision of God and went away bragging.” -Ron Comfort

“Shout the victory of Jesus Christ.” -John “Praying” Hyde (his dying words)

“A single day in Hell will be worse than a whole life spent in carrying the cross.” -J. C. Ryle

“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

“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 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 ~ October 6, 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

“In law and culture, as in all spheres of life, the ‘natural order’ tends always to disorder. Culture, as the term implies, must be cultivated, because bad ideas drive out good ones like weeds in an unkempt garden.”

“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” -James Madison

“Prayer gives you courage to make the decisions you must make in a crisis and then the confidence to leave the results to God.” -Dwight Eisenhower

“I would like to get a pitchfork and go up and down this land and make people get on one side of the fence or the other; be for God or for the Devil.” -John R. Rice

“The sun has never risen upon China without finding me at prayer. In forty years, I saw seven hundred missionaries and one thousand native workers in China.” -Hudson Taylor

“To have an unforgiving spirit and harbor bitterness only hurts one’s self. Hatred is a poison that destroys the vessel in which it’s kept.” -Curtis Hutson

“I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man. All the good of the Saviour of the world is communicated to us through the Book. But for it, we could not know right from wrong.” -Abraham Lincoln

“Don’t be a quitter because somebody criticizes you. Many a choir singer has performed until somebody hurt her feelings. Then the nightingale became a raven croaking ‘Nevermore.'” -Vance Havner

“A single day in Hell will be worse than a whole life spent in carrying the cross.” -J. C. Ryle

“I never prayed earnestly for anything, but it came sooner or later, and oftentimes in the way I least imagined.” -Adoniram Judson

“The Bible is the one Book from which no scholar has ever graduated.”

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ September 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

“Rather than complain about the thorns on roses, be thankful for roses among the thorns.”

“Never forget that America is in the shape she is in at this moment because of a sad shortage of John the Baptist prototype pulpiteers.” -Dr. John N. Hamblin

“A Christian increases his stature when he learns to kneel.” -Ivor Powell

“Money never changes our circumstances in the least degree.” -Herbert Lockyer

“God gave the matter, the truth, the thought, in the Bible, and God gave the very words in which these thoughts are expressed.” -Dr. John R. Rice

“When the waiting is over, the struggle ended and the victory won, it will be worth it all.” -Raymond Barber

“We are not what we ought to be; we are nor what we could have been; but we thank God that we are not what we were, and what we are now shall not be when we see HIM face to face.”

“I am often told that what the church needs in order to succeed is to catch the spirit of the age. I reply that the church succeeds only in proportion as she corrects the spirit of the age.” -G. Campbell Morgan

“We do not want a church that will move with the world. We want a church that will move the world. We want one that will move it away from many of the things toward which it is now moving.” -G. K. Chesterton

“Treasures in Heaven are laid up only as treasures on earth are laid down.”

In a hotel room, the management posted this notice: “We have your license number. If you leave something, we will send it to you. If you take something, we will send for you.”

“The more we come to appreciate the sacrifice of Christ, the less we think and talk about our own sacrifices.”

The Sword Of The Lord ~ Dr. Shelton Editor ~ September 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

“Be sure you will do God’s will, no matter what His will for your life may be. Many people are curious to know God’s will so they can decide whether or not they will do it. But you must decide you will do His will before you know it. It means you must trust Him completely and know that whatever He leads you to do is the best thing you can do, and wherever He leads you is the best place you can be.” -Curtis Hutson

“One thing have I desired of the Lord, that will I seek after; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life….” -Ps. 27:4.

“If the average business tried to operate like the average church, it would go out of business quickly. How many businesses could operate with half its employees present on any given working day? Someone has said that a church is like an ailing lung – only a few cells are working! So, it is not faithfulness here that I refer to, but the desire to be in the house of God! “My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord” (Ps. 84:2). By the grace of God, I have missed only a few services in the house of God in the last 25 years, but it is because I earnestly desire to be there and therefore I do not find excuses to lay out but look for reasons to go! When that desire is low, it is an early warning for me!” -Dr. Dan Reed

“Other books pass out of date, but the Bible is never out of date. The Bible fits all men of all ages.” -John R. Rice

“The silver is mine, and the gold is mine, saith the Lord of hosts’ (Hag. 2:8). And so we give Him of what we have, not that it might become His but because it is His by creation and by redemption and by every other right.” -Herbert Lockyer

“The faithful dependability of God is beyond question; and happy are the people who trust in His care.” -Ivor Powell

“Our Lord Jesus Christ, who emancipates from the burden and thralldom of sin as a strong and sufficient Saviour, expects in return the loyalty of our love and labor.” -Charles J. Rolls