Adrian

The Worst Form of Badness

October 9, 2009

I want you to tell you something big, plain and straight. Salvation is not a reward for the righteous. It is a gift for the guilty.

Many come to church and perhaps say, “You know, I need to change my way of living. I am going to change my lifestyle. I want to be right with God.” And so they begin to reform themselves.

I‘ve often wondered what a church full of Pharisees would be like. Number One, they would be the most faithful attendees. Number Two, all of them would tithe. Number Three, they would live outwardly clean, pure, moral lives. Number Four, they would be very busy doing church work. Sounds like a good church, doesn’t it?

Oh, did I forget to mention Number Five? They would all be going to hell. Why? Because they are ignorant of God’s righteous. They attempt to establish their own righteousness and have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

The worst form of badness is human goodness when human goodness becomes a substitute for the new birth.

Adrian Rogers

Delftsman: A Well-Planned Retirement

Delftsman: A Well-Planned Retirement: "A Well-Planned Retirement

From The London Times:


Outside England 's Bristol Zoo there is a parking lot
for 150 cars and 8 buses. For 25 years, its
parking fees were managed by a very pleasant
attendant. The fees were 1 for cars ($1.40),
5 for busses (about $7).


Then, one day, after 25 solid years of never missing
a day of work, he just didn't show up; so the Zoo
Management called the City Council and asked it
to send them another parking agent.


The Council did some research and replied that the
parking lot was the Zoo's own responsibility.
The Zoo advised the Council that the attendant was
a City employee.
The City Council responded that the lot attendant
had never been on the City payroll.


Meanwhile, sitting in his villa somewhere on the coast of Spain

(or some such scenario), is a man who'd apparently had a
ticket machine installed completely on his own; and then
had simply begun to show up every day, commencing
to collect and keep the parking fees, estimated at about
$560 per day -- for 25 years.
Assuming 7 days a week, this amounts to just over
$7 million dollars!

......

And no one even knows his name."

Peter Hofer Jagdwaffen - Readily available

Peter Hofer Jagdwaffen - Readily available

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Will California become America's first failed state? | World news | The Observer

Will California become America's first failed state? | World news | The Observer