America's Time of Testing

Reprobate: an unprincipled person, good-for-nothing, a wretch, a sinner predestined for damnation

- God's providence is His oversight and in-ruling of the people on this earth.  Without the Spirit of God we alternately disbelieve and hate the providence of God.

- Providence can never be interpreted reasonably; it can only be understood supernaturally.

- The terror of panic is as certain as God's rule to every person who sides with corruptible things.  

- When we stand face-to-face with God, we are at our final judgment - no refuge anywhere, no advice from friends, nothing at all can shelter us; there is nothing but ourselves and God.  

- The history of how this works in a human soul is a wonderful way of seeing how God works in the world.

- If God were to show Himself suddenly to us, we would be His witless slaves.  But He wants us to come to Him with a perfect understanding of Who we are coming to and why.

- All the terrors of God's processes of perfection in history do not alarm the true Christian,  because the one bit we do know about God is ineffably full of light and joy; therefore, we can learn in patience.

- If a person does not know God, suffering will make him a revolter. 

- Every confidence, every love, every devotion that is not based on a personal relationship to God will be reprobate, not only in the experience of the individual, but in the history of the world.

- God will demonstrate to us in His patient way that if we are building on anything less than Jesus Christ, it will prove useless, because we have banked on the wrong thing.