Status Updates From Matthew 1-7 (The MacArthur ...

"Prayer is not trying to get God to agree with us or to provide for our selfish desires. Prayer is affirming God's sovereignty, righteousness, and majesty and seeking to conform our desires and our purposes to His will and glory." - MacArthur

"Love's question is never who to love - because we are to love everyone - but only how to love most helpfully." - MacArthur

“The law only pointed to righteousness, but Christ gives us righteousness.” - MacArthur

"Christians are to be both subtle salt and conspicuous light." - MacArthur

"When we become Christ's salt and Christ's light, our salt will sting the world's open wounds of sin and our light will irritate its eyes that are used to darkness." - MacArthur

"When self is first, peace is last..." - John MacArthur

"To be hungry is not enough; I must be really starving to know what is in God's heart toward me. When the prodigal son was hungry, he went to feed on the husks, but when he was starving, he turned to his father."

"The mark of the mature life is not sinlessness ... but growing awareness of sinfulness." - MacArthur

"Until a soul is humbled, until the inner person is poor in spirit, Christ can never become dear, because He is obscured by self." - MacArthur

“In Christ we partake of the very bliss of God Himself.” - MacArthur