CROSS-REFERENCES:

- Numbers 11:26-29

- Numbers 12:3

- 1 Corinthians 4:1-3

- 1 Corinthians 4:7

- 1 Corinthians 12:26

- Philippians 1:15

“Success exposes a man to the pressure of people and thus tempts him to hold onto his gains by ‘fleshly’ methods and practices, and to let himself be ruled wholly by the dictatorial demands of incessant expansion … Success can go to my head unless I remember that it is God who accomplishes His work, that He can continue to do so without any help, and that He will be able to make out with other means whenever He ‘cuts me down to size.’”

F.B. Meyers - “The only hope of a decreasing self is an increasing Christ.”

William Carey - “When I am gone, don’t talk about William Carey. Talk about William Carey’s Savior. I desire that Christ alone might be magnified.”

Nicolas Von Zinzendorf - “Preach the gospel. Die and be forgotten.”

CROSS-REFERENCES:

- Numbers 21:4-9

- Isaiah 45:22; 55:9

- 1 Corinthians 2:14; 10:9

- 2 Corinthians 5:21

- Hebrews 11:6; 12:1-2

- 1 John 2:2

CROSS-REFERENCES:

- Ezekiel 36:24-28

- Romans 8:16

- 1 Corinthians 3:1

- 2 Corinthians 5:17

- Colosians 1:13

- 1 Peter 1:3, 23; 2:1-3

Merrill Tenney – “Birth is our mode of entrance into the world. And it brings with it the potential equipment for adjustment to the world. . .It’s moving from one kind of life and form and environment to another. To be born again means a transformation of a person so that he is able to enter another world and adapt to its condition.”

J. C. Ryle – “There has to be a change of heart, the will, the character by a new nature, new habits, new judgments, new tastes, new appetites, new opinions, new hopes, and new fears.”

Ray Stedman – “Jesus was referring to a transfer of citizenship, a radical departure from what we once were.” (Colossians 1:13)

CROSS-REFERENCES:

- 1 Kings 8:39

- 1 Corinthians 6:19-20

- 2 Corinthians 6:16

- Ephesians 4:26-27

- Hebrews 1:8-9

- Revelation 3:19

William Temple, renowned archbishop of Cantebury, as defining worship as “quickening the conscience by the holiness of God, feeding the mind with the truth of God, purging the imagination by the beauty of God, opening the heart to the love of God, and devoting the will to the purpose of God.”

G. Campbell Morgan – “God seeks and values the gifts we bring Him—gifts of praise, thanksgiving, service, and material offerings. In all such giving at the altar we enter into the highest experiences of fellowship. But the gift is acceptable to God in the measure to which the one who offers it is in fellowship with Him in character and conduct; and the test of this is in our relationships with our fellow men. We are thus charged to postpone giving to God until right relationships are established with others. Could the neglect of this be the explanation of barrenness of our worship?” (Matthew 5:24)

“Man’s affections may be stirred, man’s intelligence informed, man’s conscience convicted. But still God cannot trust him.”