Nuggets from An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith by Dave Hunt - Let's Make a Deal?

Nuggets from “An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith” by Dave Hunt – Let’s Make a Deal?

Christ’s declaration to the Father, “Not my will, but thine, be done” (Luke:22:42Saying, Father, if thou be willing, remove this cup from me: nevertheless not my will, but thine, be done.
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William Law had given the gift of expressing with unusual clarity the choice between heaven and this world. He pointed out that a man would be considered insane who spent his life planning the house, tennis court, swimming pool, and retirement condominium that he expected to build on Mars – yet someone who spent his life equally absorbed in planning, achieving, and enjoying such things in this world would be respected as successful and prudent. In fact, said Law, both men are fools. The first is obsessed with a world where he cannot live – while the other is attached to a world where he cannot stay. The degree of their folly differs only by a few short years.

What a tragedy to barter eternal life for the enjoyments of this brief world. The Bible does not say that sin has no pleasure; it says that the pleasures of sin can be enjoyed “for a season” (Hebrews:11:25Choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God, than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season;
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