Category: Quote of the Day

Sam Jones used to say that mustard was not effective in a can on a shelf; it had to be put into a plaster or poultice and applied to the trouble in order to be effective. So it is with the Word of God. The saints today enjoy lectures on mustard but they resent the poultice! And yet the truth must be applied to the trouble before we can be helped.

Have you considered the almost violent language of the Book of Acts? “the place was shaken”; “Ananias fell down and gave up the ghost”; “they were cut to the heart”; “they gnashed on him with their teeth…and stoned him”; Herod “killed James with the sword”; “O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil”; “having stoned Paul they drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead”; “And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison” – so it goes. This was no sham battle.