DISCIPLE

"It is forgotten that our God is a consuming fire [cf. Deut. 4:24 and Heb. 12:29]. Many there are who, in the blindness of unbelief of the last days, proudly say, "We reject the Jehovah of the Old Testament." It is "the Jesus that loved little children," and "went about doing good," who "taught us to call God, Father": - this is the one in whom people say they believe. But will you remember that this same Jesus is called in the Old Testament Jehovah's Servant, and that under Jehovah's smiting hand of wrath He poured out His blood on Calvary and was laid in a tomb, dead, and that it is this Jesus, the Son of God, dead and risen, upon whom you are called to believe?" Newell,  Romans Verse by Verse , page 119, Moody Press

  “There is a common worldly kind of Christianity in this day, which many have—a cheap Christianity which offends no one, and requires no sacrifice, and costs nothing, and is worth nothing.” J. C. Ryle (1816-1900)     “The preaching of the gospel must come with the understanding the messenger will not be popular and that he will be called to stand where Jesus stood before the world: to be admired by many, loved by a few, and rejected by the vast majority.” A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)  for excellent articles, visit:  http://www.bibleandlife.org/Newsletters