David Guzik > Quotes

“When Abraham was confronted with a promise and a command from God which seemed to contradict each other, he did what we all should do: he obeyed the command and let God take care of the promise. God was more than able to do this.”
― David Guzik, Hebrews

“Repentance must never be thought of as something we must do before we can come back to God. Repentance describes what coming to God is. You can’t turn towards God without turning from the things He is against.”
― David Guzik, Acts

“set before us: Race is the ancient Greek word agona, a word used for conflict or struggle of many”
― David Guzik, Hebrews

“priests”
― David Guzik, Acts

“Faith does not contradict reason, though it may go beyond reason.”
― David Guzik, Hebrews

“In man’s ideas of equality, often everyone ends up equally poor. God’s idea of equality means abundance for everyone.”
― David Guzik, Verse by Verse Commentary on the Book of Genesis

“Let the preacher aim at the heart, and preach the all-conquering love of Jesus, and he will by God’s grace win more doubters to the faith of the gospel than any hundred of the best reasoners who only direct their arguments to the head.” (Spurgeon)”
― David Guzik, Psalms 41-80 Commentary

“has a preposition in it which turns the look away from everything else. You are to look from all beside to Jesus. Fix not thy gaze upon the cloud of witnesses; they will hinder thee if they take away thine eye from Jesus. Look not on the weights and the besetting sin-these thou hast laid aside; look away from them. Do not even look upon the race-course, or the competitors, but look to Jesus and so start in the race.” (Spurgeon)”
― David Guzik, Hebrews

“Their rescue from prison was wonderful, but for a purpose”
― David Guzik, Acts

“A mother listens for the breathing of her babe in the dark. It will tell her so much. The soft, measured breath, or the laboring, gasping breath. God never hides His ear from our breathing; or from those in- articulate cries, which express, as words could not do, the deep anguish and yearning of the heart. If you cannot speak, cry, sob, or groan, then be still. God can interpret all.” (Meyer)”
― David Guzik, Jeremiah and Lamentations: Commentary

“Though Christians are now alive, they must never forget where they came from. They were dead in trespasses and sins.”
― David Guzik, Galatians and Ephesians

“I am delighted to find that sin stings you, and that you hate it. The more hatred of sin the better. A sin-hating soul is a God-loving soul. If sin never distresses you, then God has never favored you.” (Charles Spurgeon)”
― David Guzik, Romans

“The church gave Holy Ghost deacons and got converted priests…The disciples chose Holy Ghost deacons, and got Holy Ghost martyrs and evangelists.”
― David Guzik, Acts

“Some warp the idea of God’s great mercy and love into something that justifies our pride. Some imagine that God loves us because we are so lovable. Instead, God’s love is so great that it extends even to the unlovely - to the children of wrath mentioned in the previous verse.”
― David Guzik, Galatians and Ephesians

“iv. The Corinthian people were also world known: for partying, drunkenness, and loose sexual morals. The term Korinthiazomai was well known in the Roman Empire and it meant literally “to live like a Corinthian.” But everyone knew it really meant “to be sexually out of control.” “Aelian, the late Greek writer, tells us that if ever a Corinthian was shown upon the stage in a Greek play he was shown drunk.” (Barclay)”
― David Guzik, 1 Corinthians

“He breaks the whole law, though not the whole of the law: as he that wounds a man’s arm wounds the whole man, though not the whole of the man.” (Poole)”
― David Guzik, James & 1-2 Peter

“Now he reminds us what grace is by definition: the free gift of God, not given with an eye to performance or potential in the one receiving, but given only out of kindness in the giver.”
― David Guzik, Romans

“d. More than in the season that their grain and wine increased: The ungodly can be happy when the money is coming in and everything is prosperous. David can be happy even in distressing times, because the Lord put gladness in his heart.”
― David Guzik, Psalms 1-40 Commentary

“True pillars in the church support the church, and they look to Jesus as their support foundation.”
― David Guzik, Revelation

“David knows the Lord will hear when I call to Him. i. All Christians should have the same assurance. They should be confident that God will hear their prayers. When prayer seems ineffective, it is worth it to take a spiritual inventory to see if there is a reason for unanswered prayer. The Bible tells us there are many reasons why prayer may not be answered. Not abiding in Jesus (John 15:7). Unbelief (Matthew 17:20-21). Failure to fast (Matthew 17:21). A Bad marriage relationship (1 Peter 3:7). Unconfessed sin (James 5:16). Lying and deceitfulness (Psalm 17:1). Lack of Bible reading and Bible teaching (Proverbs 28:9). Trusting in the length or form of prayer (Matthew 6:7).”
― David Guzik, Psalms 1-40 Commentary

“hupomone, “which does not mean the patience which sits down and accepts things but the patience which masters them . . . It is a determination, unhurrying and yet undelaying, which goes steadily on and refuses to be deflected.”
― David Guzik, Hebrews

“Whenever, in short, it appears to us that everything is in a ruinous condition, let us recall to our remembrance that Christ is called Wonderful, because he has inconceivable methods of assisting us, and because his power is far beyond what we are able to conceive. When we need counsel, let us remember that he is the Counselor. When we need strength, let us remember that he is Mighty and Strong. When new terrors spring up suddenly every instant, and when many deaths threaten us from various quarters, let us rely on that eternity of which he is with good reason called the Father, and by the same comfort let us learn to soothe all temporal distresses. When we are inwardly tossed by various tempests, and when Satan attempts to disturb our consciences, let us remember that Christ is The Prince of Peace, and that it is easy for him quickly to allay all our uneasy feelings. Thus will these titles confirm us more and more in the faith of Christ, and fortify us against Satan and against hell itself.” (Calvin)”
― David Guzik, Isaiah: Verse-by-Verse Commentary