Here is a marvelous quote from J C Ryle about the rich man in Hades.
“There is no infidelity, skepticism or unbelief after death. Hell is truth known too late.”
J. C. Ryle
Love For Neighbor
Calvin points out in his Institutes and commentaries this remarkable truth about praying for others.
“Therefore our prayers are bound always to seek to express themselves in intercession for all mankind, but especially for the whole Church, not only in this generation, but in generations to come. To make intercession of men is the most powerful and practical way in which we can express our love for them.”
Grace Without
This is one of the most important truths for a believer to grasp. Thomas Boston puts it like this: “The great stay of the believer is not the grace of God within him; that is a well whose streams sometimes run dry; but it is the grace of God without him, the grace that is in Jesus Christ, which is an ever-flowing fountain, to which the believer can never come amiss.”
(Thomas Boston, Human nature in its Four-Fold State, p. 312)
Prayer
Calvin says in his Institutes that “whatever we need and whatever we lack is in God and in our Lord Jesus Christ.”
(Inst. III. xx. 1, p. 850)
Worldliness
The sin of letting your ambition, your appetites and behavior conform you to earthly values. It is the lust of the eyes, the flesh and the pride of life (1 John 2:16). It is not a quaint way of describing our understanding or appreciation of the world.
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