Keith Green Quotes
"We're all kids who grew up a little bit and we're trying to play the adult game. That happens to old people when they go senile, they just quit trying to play the game. ... The eyes of the Lord are in all places watching the good and evil. God ain't blind! ... It says, 'When we fall, we have an advocate.' An advocate is not a blind man."
"In this example of pretzel logic, we are lead to believe that any believer who isn't really walking with the Lord at the present time and is indulging in the sins of the world and the lust of the flesh can still be considered a Christian. But not a Christian of the first class, no, no! But a Christian of the second class! Find THAT in the bible! A carnal Christian - here we have the case of the believer who doesn't believe. Oh, he still believes and quotes that God is God and there;s a heaven and hell and so on. But don't forget the devil believes all these things, too, according to James 22. And he's not going to heaven. ... He knows all the right things to say to convince Granny and the pastor and his Christian friends he's still hanging in there. He can sort of believe in himself.
Seems he's got everybody fooled. Everybody that is, except God! The bible is clear that if we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we LIE and do not practice the truth. It's what we PRACTICE, that proves who we serve."
"Today, possibly the greatest insult of the Gospel has been the almost total neglect of the preaching of holiness to the Christian. Jesus doesn't want to make believe that we're holy, He wants to impart His holiness to us by the Holy Spirit.
But because people are not being driven to the cross, convicted by His law to repentance, in real rebirth - then we have to spend hours in our seminaries trying to find suitable, complicated ways to explain away the obvious meanings of scripture."
"You look at the people that are on the earth today. ... When was the last time you heard 3 thousand people actually getting saved? ... There wasn't even a billion people on the earth when Jesus walked. And thousands, and thousands and thousands got saved, that was when the Holy Spirit was moving! Today, 500 people get saved here, 10 people get saved there, and we think it's the second pentecost! If a real revival broke ever out on this earth, there wouldn't be a church big enough to hold even the usher's meeting!
Our vision is so small. ... God isn't waiting for Charles Finney to rise from the dead. He;s not waiting for your pastor to go door to door. He's waiting for every one of YOU - every Christian in the world - to get alive so that they can save the people around them. If that happened, the whole world would at least have a chance to get saved; Have a chance to be confronted with the Gospel."
"And because this bible... even the cults, when they use a little bit of the truth, get results - The mormons, and the Jehovah's Witnesses, and the Moodys, they quote from the same book that you and I love. And that's power, man. That is power. This has got power in it. You take the scripture, even twist it, it STILL WORKS!!! Somewhat to entice somebody, to draw them - that's why the devil quoted scripture to Jesus. He didn't bring out the bhaga vida, the bible of ghavida, the Qur'an - he brought out the bible. Because he knew the only way to trick God is with His own words. ...
It is estimated that 90% of all people that make decisions for Christ do not attend church regularly 5 years later. ...what kind of converts 'todays Gospel' produces. ...
1. It's me-centered, instead of Christ-centered. ...The bible places Jesus at the center of God's plan. Not the sinner. One of the most well-known phrases in modern evangelism is 'God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.' But the biblical truth that needs to be presented to the sinner's mind is, 'You've made yourself the enemy of God.'"
Keith Green 1980's (but still true today!)
