Clarence Sexton > Quotes

“Some say, “Do you mean to tell me that if we all tithe and give offerings, there will be the accumulative effect of enough money?” Enough offering means some of that offering is in time, talent, ability, and gospel giving.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“Some people have done everything imaginable for their children except practice a life of obedience to God. The greatest gift you can give your children is the gift of your personal obedience to God. If you disobey God in an area, then you are sinning against your children.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“Judah was at his wit’s end. He did not understand everything that had happened. He had no way to explain how the cup got into Benjamin’s sack. He did not know all the details. He could have thrown up his hands and said, “Why is all this going on?” But he realized God was in it and he said, “What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves? God hath found out the iniquity of thy servants.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“No reserves. No retreats. No regrets.” He found the secret of I John 2:17: “And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.” It is just like our God, our all-wise God, to create the Christian life so that as we apply our hearts to wisdom on a daily basis and have the proper stewardship of our time, what we do in time with our days will abide forever.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“Another one of these ground rules is found in I Timothy 5:8, which says, “But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.” I say to young boys and girls, “Do you realize that someday you are going to face the heavy responsibility of providing for your own family?” You ask, “Where did you get that?” We get that from God.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“The Christian life is not living a life that is a little better than people who are not Christians; it is living a life that is totally different.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“The work of “occupying” is laboring to see these citizens changed, coming to Christ. The great illustration of this is in Luke 19:1-10.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“If we limit our understanding of what God has given us to only money, then we forget that God has given us such things as health, opportunity, and influence.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“When we read an expression like this in Matthew 10, you and I have to stop and think, “How much of what we have received have we truly given?” If we are truly God’s stewards, if God has placed His goods in our hands, then of all we have freely received, how much have we freely given? Our Lord wants us to receive from Him and give as we have freely received.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“Would it not be wonderful if in all the glory days of our lives, when the sun is shining brightly and everything is going well, we trusted God with all our strength and might and lived for the Lord daily with all the desire possible? But it does not typically happen that way. It is during the days of darkness and the hours of great difficulty, during days of affliction when things go wrong, that we are made to realize we have a need, and we turn our hearts toward the Lord.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“Millions have come to the Lord because someone on this end prayed and God worked on the other end to bring them to Christ. This is the way the Lord works. This is the way God moves. God speaks to people. In Psalm 85:8 the Bible says, “I will hear what God the LORD will speak: for he will speak peace unto his people, and to his saints: but let them not turn again to folly.” God will speak to us. If you have read Genesis chapter forty-one, you know that through a dream God stirred Pharaoh and also prodded the memory of the butler. God spoke to those men. God dealt with them.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“The Christian life is not a life that is a little better; it is completely different.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“If you hear someone teaching about doing something for God to the neglect of the family, I do not think they are teaching the Bible. God gives us assignments, and they never come into conflict. We conflict them, but God never means for them to conflict. His assignments do not conflict.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“As we speak of prayer, we are speaking about communication with God. In that sense, our prayer life is our Christian life. God created man not only so that we could communicate with Him, but also so that we could labor together with God.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“When Joseph grew old and was nearing death, he spoke to his brethren with great confidence in God. He looked back across his life and understood that God had sent him to Egypt in order to preserve the lives of many people, including his own father and family. He said to his brothers in Genesis 50:20, “But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“The Bible says in verse twenty-two, “And the keeper of the prison committed to Joseph’s hand all the prisoners that were in the prison.” Even in prison, God gave Joseph favor. This reminds us that the Word of God says in Proverbs 22:1, “A good name is rather to be chosen than great riches, and loving favour rather than silver and gold.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“Many have the idea that once someone has made a profession of faith, that is all it is—a profession of faith. But God says we come to know Him so we can obey Him and do what He has given us to do. Our response to God determines how God responds to us—with the same measure.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“One of our missionaries called recently and said to me, “It is amazing how you learn how little you really need.” I wanted to say to him that I had not learned that yet. How many of you have not learned that yet? I am not sure he has learned it, but at least he said it. If we discover true riches, it will affect the way we live.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“No matter who you are or what you think about yourself or what opinions you think others have of you, you need to go immediately to being accepted in the beloved. In other words, you need to know that God has made you, and He loves you just as you are. You do not have to earn His love. You do not have to do something to cause God to like you. He already loves you with an everlasting love, and He has endowed you and gifted you.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“There is a world of difference between thinking about the Lord and actually thanking the Lord. Thanking God is not simply thinking, “Well, this came from the Lord. Isn’t God good?” We must take the time from everything else to thank the Lord, to call out to God and say, “Lord, we know this came from You and we want to thank You for it.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“Some sorrow is without explanation. I do not think there is any way to explain all suffering. Whatever the reason, the Lord wants to use suffering to bring us unto Himself.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“The Devil does not always use bad things. He gets more of his work done using good things. He gets much more damage done as an angel of light rather than as a roaring lion walking about “seeking whom he may devour” (I Peter 5:8). He will give you a good idea that is not in agreement with what God says. He will give you something good to do with your life that seems wonderful as far as this world is concerned, but it is actually a waste of our lives because it has no eternal effect on the world to come.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“God said the reason that we have been forgiven is not because we deserve forgiveness. We have been forgiven by God for Christ’s sake. When the Lord God looks at the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ and the precious blood presented to God the Father in heaven, God forgives us for Christ’s sake, not for our sake. Because we have been the recipients of God’s forgiveness, mercy, and grace, He says that we ought to be stewards of His grace to others.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“A man called me who watches our television program and said, “We are taking an offering for you, and we would like to give an offering to the gospel work in England. You just mentioned it in the sermon.” I said, “We would deeply appreciate it.” He said, “Maybe we can raise ten thousand dollars.” I said, “Oh, that would be so greatly appreciated because we are trying to open another chapel in another city in England, training the people to go there.” He called me after he took the offering and he said, “We do not have ten thousand, we have twenty, and we may have twenty more coming.” What did God do? I thank God for those people, but I am telling you the Lord raised the windows open in heaven.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“The fact is, God allows the circumstances, and through the circumstances He speaks to us. So often our disappointments are His appointments.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“The one requirement God makes of a steward is that the steward be faithful.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“We are going to answer to God for what we have done with what God has given us and for what we could have done.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God

“Shiloh” means “rest.” This is one of the names used for our Lord Jesus. He is our rest. God revealed to Jacob that Judah was the son who would form the tribe from which the Lord Jesus Christ, the promised Savior, would come.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“God put something in his heart that he could hold to in the darkest hours of life. God built something into his character that made him into the giant of a man he became in Egypt to deliver the people of God. God prepared Joseph, not only by what He revealed to him through dreams, but also by what He allowed him to go through as a young man.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Life of Joseph: God Meant It Unto Good

“A London newspaper put the following question in the newspaper for a number of weeks: “What is the definition of money?” They offered a very handsome prize of money to the person who submitted the best definition of money. I was so taken by what I read that I wrote it down in the margin of my Bible. Here is the winning answer: “Money is an article which may be used as a universal passport everywhere except heaven and a universal provider for everything except happiness.” In other words, money can get you anywhere except heaven and buy you everything except happiness.”
― Clarence Sexton, The Stewardship of Life: Our Response to God