Paul Washer

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You cannot learn doctrine well until you follow the doctrine you learn!
- Paul Washer
Collection: Doctrine
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You love to listen to the very same things that nailed your supposed Savior to the tree?
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Collection: Tree
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All the decisions you makehow many of those decisions are based on you doing simply what's right in your own eyes, and how many times specifically have you gone to Scripture looking for the answer, with regard to anything?
- Paul Washer
Collection: Eye
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In that moment of salvation, of belief, they are opening their lives to the person of Jesus.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Jesus
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You go up to the devil and ask if he knows he's a sinner and he'll say, "Well, yes I am! And a mighty fine one at that!"
- Paul Washer
Collection: Devil
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If someone is truly converted, they will publicly confess Christ in word and deed. That does not mean presenting them in front of the church on the night of their supposed conversion.
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Collection: Mean
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Everybody wants to go to heaven. They just don't want God to be there when they get there.
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Collection: Heaven
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Pray for the field. If God calls, then prepare for the field. When it is time, go to the field. A life lost for Christ is a life well spent.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Fields
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If we judge our lives by what we know or by what we say, we can easily deceive ourselves into thinking that we are something we are not; it is wiser to evaluate ourselves by the amount of truth we actually live. This is very humbling.
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Collection: Thinking
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Are we willing to risk being misunderstood and maligned in order that truth might be told and men might be saved? Identifying a malady and explaining its seriousness are always the first steps to finding a cure... God has ordained that men come to conviction of sin, repentance, and saving faith through preaching. Yet how can the [Holy] Spirit use our preaching if we are not willing to expose sin or call men to repentance?
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Collection: Men
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A Theologian has nothing on a man who has experienced God
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Collection: Men
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The greatest act of judgment that God can pour out on a people is being poured out on America, and it is this: He's taken away the knowledge of God, and He's closed the mouth of those who are supposed to be speaking for Him. So that little boys lead us with their silly little ideas and we like it that way, because we really do want our best life now.
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Collection: Silly
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The Christian ministry is difficult, and we must not be lazy or trite. However, we often place burdens upon ourselves and make demands upon ourselves that are not according to the will of God. The more I know God and understand His perfect work on my behalf, the more I am able to rest.
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Collection: Christian
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The question is not whether you would like to pray this prayer and ask Jesus to come into your heart - after all, you know, the handle to your heart is on the inside and if you do not open it Jesus cannot come in. My friend, Jesus is Lord of your heart and if He wants to come in, He will kick the door down.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Jesus
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Prior to the reign of the godly King Josiah, the law of God had been lost in the temple for many years. Has the same thing occurred among us? Has the evangel been lost among evangelicals?
- Paul Washer
Collection: Kings
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Maybe that is why there are not a whole lot of problems between the church and worldly culture today, because we are not confronting the culture around us.
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Collection: Church
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Don't touch the ark of God! It is the God of Israel who is wounding people with regards to their sin. Do NOT comfort the soul that God is breaking.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Israel
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We are Christians because we find our identity, life, and purpose in Christ. We are evangelical because we believe the gospel and esteem it as the great central truth of God's revelation to men.
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Collection: Christian
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Most of you live your life on flimsy little songs, not upon the word of God.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Song
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We have taken that truth, that if you truly believe and you confess Christ even if it costs you your life ... we have taken that beautiful truth and reduced it down to, "If you pray a little prayer before a bunch of people in a church in America, you can be guaranteed you were saved if you think you were sincere."
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Collection: Beautiful
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The most precise and thoughtful scholar is limited in what he knows and wrong in some things that he affirms; the most devoted saint is stained with sin and full of error; the bravest heart among us will fail and break; but Christ is altogether lovely, holy, and unfailing.
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Collection: Heart
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We deal five minutes with a person and their conversion and then we spend the next fifty years trying to disciple a goat into a sheep. I'm not saying this because I'm angry. I'm saying this because countless people are being deceived.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Sheep
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To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.
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Collection: Men
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Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner's heart, but on the door of a wayward church.
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Collection: Heart
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You love to listen to the very things that nailed your supposed Master to the tree?! Come off of it, man! Become a hellion, give yourself to demons, run wild; but don't come in here saying you're a believer and playing that game! You want to dance with the devil, then dance all night long! But don't come in here dancing with Christ for a moment, and then go back out there and share your love.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Running
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The work is hindered. The glory of God is tarnished and it is because the people of God no longer know how to discern the things of God.
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Collection: People
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You have Jesus and Jesus has you or you are barren and wasted and lost!
- Paul Washer
Collection: Jesus
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The great truths of Christianity do not belong to the professional theologians alone, but to every person who calls upon the name of Christ.
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Collection: Names
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The work of God in salvation is a supernatural work, but in the United States of America and among Baptists it's been reduced down to a few evangelical hoops that if we can get someone to jump through, we declare them popishly to be savedit has been the pulpit that's sending more people to Hell than any liberal organization on the face of the earthnot a liberal Methodist, not a liberal Episcopalian, but a Baptist who claims to know God's word and yet does not understand the gospel of Jesus Christ.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Jesus
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The terrible sticky thing about truth is if it exists, it's coming for you.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Truth Is
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Remember this: you must always be growing in the gospel and your knowledge of it. It is not Christianity 101, but Christianity from A to Z. You have not mastered the gospel, nor will you master it, but it will master you!
- Paul Washer
Collection: Growing
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Our weaknesses are not as negative as we may believe. They make us rely upon God's grace and power for greater Christlikeness and ministry.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Believe
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How can you learn unconditional love if you’re married to a woman who meets all your conditions?
- Paul Washer
Collection: Unconditional Love
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I would not send my child to a vacation Bible school in 99.9% of the Baptist churches in America. Have some teacher that doesn't even understand anything about the gospel of Jesus Christ, ask those little children, 'How many of you want to go to Heaven?' and damn most of them! Harden their heart to the gospel with some silly profession of faith because it was a silly proclamation of the gospel! It brought no genuine repentance, it brought no faith; it's no different than the Roman church that baptizes every infant that is born.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Teacher
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We live in a culture bound by sin like bands of iron. Moral stories, quaint maxims, and life lessons shared from the heart of a beloved pulpiteer or spiritual life coach have no real power against such darkness. We need preachers of the gospel of Jesus Christ who know the Scriptures, and by God's grace face any culture with the cry, 'Thus saith the Lord!'
- Paul Washer
Collection: Spiritual
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Most people today in our churches are lost, and they demonstrate that they are lost because their entire Christianity is nothing more than, 'They made a decision.'
- Paul Washer
Collection: People
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Men and women who are used of GOD, if I had only a few words to describe them, they are the passionate-weak, they are the violently-desperate.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Men
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The mark of a man of God is God upon the man.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Men
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We honor the old prophets, we honor the Tozers and Spurgeons but we don’t want to pay the price they paid, and they paid the price by being men who walked alone who lived with God and who loved His word.
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Collection: Men
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People who only listen to preachers have a tendency to put them on a pedestal, but those who live with preachers recognize that they are just common men.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Men
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In the gospel of Jesus, sincere and costly discipleship always accompanies genuine conversion. The gospel of Jesus teaches men that a mere profession of faith alone is no sound evidence of salvation.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Jesus
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The devil would gladly give a Bible to every man and promote obedience to its commands if in exchange we would surrender to him the Gospel
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Collection: Men
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The preachers are the greatest problem in the United States of America.
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Collection: America
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I have great assurance when I study my own conversion, when I discuss it with other men, when I look over the 25 years of my pilgrimmage with Christ; I have great assurance of having come to know Him. But even now, if I were to depart from the faith and walk away and keep going in that direction into heresy and worldiness, it could be the greatest of proofs that I never knew Him, that the whole thing was a work of the flesh.
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Collection: Men
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The true gospel is radically exclusive. Jesus is not a way; he is the way, and all other ways are no way at all... We live in an age of humanism - over the last several decades, man has fought to purge God from his conscience and culture. He has managed to make himself the center of all things.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Jesus
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God is an inexhaustible source of all we need. Our unbelief is discovered in how little we avail ourselves of this infinite fountain
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Collection: Littles
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Everywhere......everyone you meet....is a potential brother or sister in CHRIST.
- Paul Washer
Collection: Brother