Max Anders Quotes & Sayings

Giving works best when the Lord's portion is removed first and believers learn to live within the remainder. — Max Anders

God's love does not depend on the current spiritual condition of those He loves. — Max Anders

An enriched capacity for rejoicing is an expanded capacity for worship. — Max Anders

Intimacy with God is to be preferred above material wealth. — Max Anders

In Deuteronomy 11, God offers Israel a choice; either a life of productivity and enjoyment made possible by obedience to Him, or a life of difficulty and opposition made necessary by disobedience. The happiness Israel desires can only be theirs by being properly related to Him. — Max Anders

God is concerned that Christians live consistent with their profession even in the seemingly small and insignificant areas of life. — Max Anders

A good memory is one of the most precious assets of spiritual living. — Max Anders

Chastening is a mark of affection, not a sign of rejection. — Max Anders

God is able to transform the hostile intentions of wicked people into blessings for His people. — Max Anders

Recalling what our lives were like before Jesus Christ entered them will help keep our daily problems in perspective. — Max Anders

The most blessed gift that God can give any person is a knowledge of Himself. — Max Anders

People sometimes punish to exact judgment for past actions. God disciplines in order to teach and always in the interest of those whom he disciplines. — Max Anders

To know God and to find one's full satisfaction in that knowledge is the ultimate goal of Christian experience. The Lord's greatest delight comes when His people discover the ultimate value lies in the knowledge of God. Nothing in the material world can complete with the delights that are present in His Person. — Max Anders

Spiritual strength is connected to faithful obedience to God's commands. — Max Anders

God realizes His people need protection from the pains and heartaches of the world. — Max Anders

The spiritual heritage of the godly lives on after they are gone. — Max Anders

We dare not trim stones to make God an altar, for if we do we ruin everything. We would spend time bringing people to the altar and saying, "Look at those beautiful stones we trimmed!" We merely need to accept the work that God has done for us in Christ. The object of His restrictions is to help us see how wonderful He is and to spend the rest of our lives rendering true worship to Him. — Max Anders

Courage is the most fundamental of all virtues. — Max Anders

Training leaders is part of the work of discipling. — Max Anders

Religious truth is not false for being narrow any more than mathematical or scientific truth is false for the same reason. — Max Anders

One of the greatest testimonials to God's love is His provision of His Word. — Max Anders

In God's pattern of justice, He takes the risk of the guilty going free but not the innocent being punished. — Max Anders

Kindness that allows barriers to one's relationship with God to spring up is self-destructive. — Max Anders

Worship is accomplished with the life as well as with the words and attitudes of people. Changed and transformed lives testify to the character and supernatural power of the God of heaven. Closeness to Him produces changes in character and holiness. — Max Anders

God leads His people whether they are obedient or rebellious, but His leading is far more pleasant when they obey. — Max Anders

God delights to see His people rejoice in what He has provided. — Max Anders

People are not free to violate law or convention to satisfy their wants and cravings. — Max Anders

Our identity as the people of God is marked primarily by our faithfulness in obedience to Him. — Max Anders

God never forgets a promise. — Max Anders

Every demonstration of God's faithfulness to us is an opportunity for us to testify of Him to others. — Max Anders

God wanted Israel, as He wants Christians, to learn to utterly abhor and detest anything that had the potential of coming between them and their God. The believer's enemies are typically internal rather than external, and they pose a powerful threat to spiritual health and progress. — Max Anders

God warned Israel, "And if thou wilt make me an altar of stone, thou shalt not build it of hewn stone: for if thou lift up thy tool upon it, thou hast polluted it" (Ex. 20:25). To pollute something is to make it ordinary. God insists that any approach crafted by human ingenuity will produce a worship system just like all the pagan systems in the world. In other words, it will be common or profane - just like everyone else's paganism. — Max Anders

The person who believes he must earn the right to go through the door of eternal life will miss the mark. — Max Anders

Discouragement is contagious and is easily transmitted to others. — Max Anders

Hearing alone is less effective in learning God's truth than hearing combined with reading. — Max Anders

Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God. — Max Anders

The heart that delights in God and longs only to see His glory advance will seldom be conscious of sacrifice. God in His wisdom asks that we first love Him and then live in keeping with that core value. He does not want His people to think of what they do as sacrificial, even though from the world's point of view it may be just that. Gratitude for grace of God will always be found near the center of the Biblical Christian's most powerful motivations. — Max Anders

The concept of freedom in Scripture differs from modern notions. Freedom is not a life lived free of restraints but a life that recognizes healthy limits, those that are concern to produce prosperity and order for the person who observes them. — Max Anders

The task of evangelism often involves preparing an open road so offenders can find their refuge in Christ. — Max Anders

Many people find spiritual growth possible only when times are hard; prosperity tends to promote complacency. — Max Anders

God wants us to have love. We must be careful not to settle for sex. — Max Anders

Persistence in prayer brings results that casual prayer does not. — Max Anders

God ought to be given the choice portion of our wealth and not its dregs. — Max Anders

The faithfulness of God in the past fortifies believers for future challenges. — Max Anders

Prosperity is often the enemy of spiritual development. — Max Anders

Truth can be attested by the supernatural, but so can falsehood. — Max Anders

Israel's [as well as our] enjoyment of the land is contingent on their behavior. Blessings or cruses lie before them; the choice is theirs. — Max Anders

God supplies the needs of His people according to their needs but does not ordinarily allow stockpiling. — Max Anders

Grace is always given freely by God, but grace received should always issue in a joyous delight in Him. — Max Anders

God not only allowed for joyful worship but also commanded it. — Max Anders

False teaching - anything that would weaken the believer's ties to his Lord - must be confronted wherever it appears, even if that confrontation requires painful correction. — Max Anders

Since all wealth ultimately comes from God, His people ought to acknowledge His primacy by offering Him the best of their wealth, time, and abilities. — Max Anders

Father, we ask that you give us a passion for the truth and not merely a hatred of falsehood. Keep us concerned for the spiritual health of people but open to your own rebukes from your mighty Word. — Max Anders

Individual believers are not to usurp the role of civil government and judge people who are offensive. — Max Anders

What we do in public determines our reputation; what we do in private determines our character. — Max Anders

Attachments to older forms of worship may be comfortable, but they may contain elements of falsehood that make them unacceptable to God. — Max Anders

No amount of human willfulness can overcome God's determined love. — Max Anders

Fear of God and love for God coexist happily in the heart of people who are rightly related to Him. — Max Anders

Spiritual leadership ought to be given to those who have proven themselves under stress. — Max Anders

God is glorified when His people find satisfaction in Him and in His provisions for them. — Max Anders

The believer who feels the agony caused by rebellion will grow to become the best intercessor. — Max Anders

Since the success of believers is tied to our knowledge of and obedience to God's Word, the memorizing of portions of the Bible is advisable. — Max Anders

God expects believers to improve their attitude in giving as well as their giving itself. — Max Anders

God's commandments not only reflect His holiness, they promote our happiness. — Max Anders

God's loving discipline brings us face-to-face with our pride. — Max Anders

The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God. — Max Anders

There is no limit to what God's people can expect their God to do if they are rightly related to Him. — Max Anders

Only people of proven character should be placed in positions of spiritual leadership. — Max Anders

Those who serve God in vocational ministry must learn to trust Him for their daily needs before they can encourage others to do so. — Max Anders

Believers should be more concerned for God's opinion of them than for what human opponents might do to their bodies. — Max Anders

It is sometimes easier to trust God in a life-threatening battle than in the small challenges of daily life. — Max Anders

God delights in providing His people with material gain and comfort, although prosperity can pose a threat to spiritual well-being. — Max Anders

Believers have just as much to fear from legalism as from waywardness. The first detracts from the beauty of the message, while the second mars it content. — Max Anders

Theological error is the most pernicious of errors; it strikes at man's center and separates him from his Creator and Redeemer. God insisted not only that Israelites should judge their own hearts and cast aside falsehood about Him but that they should also confront it wherever it emerged. — Max Anders

The worship of false gods is always an outgrowth of spiritual deception. — Max Anders

God is enough like us to understand our problems and enough above us to be able to solve them. — Max Anders

Compassion is easily forsaken in the midst of prosperity, even when this prosperity is God given. — Max Anders

Although the world places a premium on the latest things, some realities are discovered by looking into the past. — Max Anders

Error is most painful when it is found inside the family. — Max Anders

Curiosity is an enormous challenge to godly living. — Max Anders

Mental confusion can be the product of divine discipline. — Max Anders

Moses warned them [Israelites] that the leading spiritual danger they would face on entering the [promise] land would be forgetting the Lord. What adversity would not do, prosperity and satisfaction could. They were to be on their guard against spiritual lethargy. — Max Anders

Exposure to false doctrine places a person at risk not just for theological errors but for moral failure. — Max Anders

Demons lie behind much of the world's pagan worship systems. — Max Anders

There is a kind of misguided pity that deals gently with false teachers at the expense of their victims. — Max Anders

Nothing should be considered outside the scope of God's authority. — Max Anders

God's Word calls His people to adore Him exclusively and completely and to love people as themselves. — Max Anders

Although spiritual growth puts our wills to the test, after the battle has been won, we recognize that the Lord is the true victor in the struggle. — Max Anders

A worshiper's gift makes a statement about the worshiper and his God. — Max Anders

Even guilty people deserve to be treated as those made in the image of God. — Max Anders

When shame is missing from corporate life, society, quickly becomes uncivilized. — Max Anders

Protection of human life can be costly; but so is the neglect of that protection. — Max Anders

In any spiritual undertaking, God's first order of business is to see to the spiritual health of His people. — Max Anders

Giving to God should come from the firstfruits of a person's labor rather than from what is left after the bills are paid. — Max Anders

God chose Israel not because they were superior but because of what He could do through them for others. — Max Anders

If Israel is to please the Lord fully, they will live lives that are as distinctive among the nations as their Lord is different from pagan deities. — Max Anders

The wise Christian will learn from the spiritual blunders of others. — Max Anders

Christians must allow no unclean thing to interfere with a harmonious relationship with Christ. — Max Anders

Our lives will last as long as God has something for us to do. — Max Anders

Conversion is essential, but it is a beginning, not an end. The believer in Jesus Christ is not simply rescued from the penalty of his sin; he is redeemed to love God and his neighbor so that others might come to know him. — Max Anders