Let’s knock out the psychobabble. He was a pervert, a child molester, he was a pedophile. And to be giving this much coverage to him, day in and day out, what does it say about us as a country? I just think we’re too politically correct. No one wants to stand up and say we don’t need Michael Jackson. He died, he had some talent, fine. There’s men and women dying every day in Afghanistan. Let’s give them the credit they deserve. –Representative Peter King (R)–
In 2003, Jackson was charged by the state of California with molestation and other counts…An FBI agent from Los Angeles traveled to New York to interview a potential witness. The agent found this individual unwilling to cooperate and closed the matter. The case went to court in 2005, and Jackson was acquitted of all charges. –FBI, “Michael Jackson Investigative Files”–
Himself bore our sins in His own body on the tree, that we, having died to sins, might live for righteousness—by whose stripes you were healed. –1 Peter 2:24 (NKJV)–
Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ. –1 Corinthians 11:1 (NKJV)–
He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked. –1 John 2:6 (NKJV)–
Be imitators of God as dear children. And walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma. –Ephesians 5:1-2 (NKJV)–
The cowardly, unbelieving, abominable, murderers, sexually immoral, sorcerers, idolaters, and all liars shall have their part in the lake which burns with fire and brimstone. –Revelation 21:8 (NKJV)–
Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor homosexuals, nor sodomites, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. –1 Corinthians 6:9-10 (NKJV)–
Today, if you will hear His voice, do not harden your hearts as in the rebellion. –Hebrews 3:15 (NKJV)–
It happened, when the musician played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him. –2 Kings 3:15 (NKJV)–
Condemn the Anabaptists, who deny that those once justified can lose the Holy Ghost. Also those who contend that some may attain to such perfection in this life that they cannot sin. –Martin Luther, Augsburg Confession, Art. 12–
Bunnian, an unlearned Antinomian-Anabaptist, wrote against the foresaid book of Dr. Fowler; yet (abating his separation) I never heard that Bunnian was not an honest godly man…And Bunnian’s last preachings give me hope that he repented of his errors. –Richard Baxter, The Scripture Gospel Defended, p. 49–
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A. W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God (Wingspread, 1998).
Richard J. Foster, Prayer: Finding the Heart’s True Home (HarperOne, 1992).
Robert Tuttle, Mysticism In the Wesleyan Tradition (Zondervan, 1989).
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ (Catholic Book Publishing, 1993).
Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God (Whitaker House, 1982).
Dr. Thomas C. Oden, The Transforming Power of Grace (Abingdon Press, 1993).
—. John Wesley’s Scriptural Christianity (Zondervan, 1994).
Dr. Kenneth J. Collins, Wesley on Salvation (Zondervan, 1989).
Dr. Harald Lindstrom, Wesley and Sanctification (Zondervan, 1984).
Dr. John R. Rice, Hell: What the Bible Says About It (SLP, 1945).
Adam Clarke, Christian Theology (Schmul, 1967).
Dr. French Arrington, Christian Doctrine, 3 vols (Pathway Press, 1994).
Jonathan Edwards, The Religious Affections (Banner of Truth, 1986).
Dr. Sam Storms, Signs of the Spirit (Crossway, 2007).
—. Understanding Spiritual Gifts: A Comprehensive Guide (Zondervan, 2020).
Francis Chan, Crazy Love (David C Cook, 2008).
—. Forgotten God: Reversing Our Tragic Neglect of the Holy Spirit (David C Cook, 2009).
I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother, a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law–a man’s enemies will be the members of his own household. –Jesus Christ in Matthew 10:35-36 (NIV)–
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