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Testimony that Grabs Away Christ’s Glory and Honor

February 18, 2020December 2, 2012 by Jun P. Espina

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Updated on February 18th, 2020

Giving a Testimony

Many Christians want to share their testimonies and experiences with the risen Lord Jesus Christ, especially during prayer meetings. And we don’t have a problem with that because sharing a testimony is biblical. But what kind of statement do you have: a testimonial about how holy you are, and that is why God worked with you and answered all your prayers; or that when you prayed to Jesus, He showed up, because you are more faithful and more favored by God? That’s what I want to talk about using the experience of Dr. Harry Ironside from his book titled: “Holiness: The False and the True (1912).”

Real Love of God Can be Experienced

February 10, 2020December 2, 2012 by Jun P. Espina

Where are you?” (Gen. 3:9) It is one verse of Scripture where God demonstrated the existence and authenticity of His real love to Adam and Eve in particular, and to all of the human race in general. God’s love is just so true as the stars in the skies or the fish in the ocean.

Dependence Upon God is the Key Factor

March 22, 2020November 27, 2012 by Jun P. Espina

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Updated on March 22nd, 2020

One strange thing about man’s life is its nature of complete dependence upon another. Self-sufficiency is never life’s architecture. From his mother’s womb down to his lonely grave, something buoyed up man somehow outside of himself. His Maker breathed life upon him.

Secret Prayer Really Works

February 18, 2020November 25, 2012 by Jun P. Espina

Secret prayer will work for you. Secret devotion or prayer keeps man closer to God. It is also his spiritual source of strength and power. What one will find behind all true Christian successes in this world as in the case of John Wesley or Charles Spurgeon? One will discover they were men of prayer. Without intense and ceaseless worshipfulness, they couldn’t have been used so wonderfully by our Lord.

Lukewarmness & the Pastor’s Restricting God’s Membership

September 18, 2022November 25, 2012 by Jun P. Espina

Lukewarmness, however, remains the most eloquent testimony of our pulpits’ spiritual powerlessness! We need more Christ, not more verses, for He is the wisdom of God.

Religious Pride Fills the Human Heart Naturally

September 4, 2022November 25, 2012 by Jun P. Espina

Saul, who later became Paul, the Apostle, had a heart filled with religious pride before his conversion. He thought of Judaism, the religion of the Jews, as God’s only faith system, which they practiced for thousands of years. There should be no other tenet than that which was given by God to Moses. This conviction has led him to persecute the followers of Christ. His religious pride heightened in toxicity when Saul consented to the death of the first Christian martyr named Stephen. (See Acts 7:58.)