Vincent Cheung Quotes & Sayings

The gospel never claims to produce perfect people in this life, and these individuals might or might not be genuine believers in the first place. — Vincent Cheung

The field is the world, and the good seed stands for the sons of the kingdom. The weeds are the sons of the evil one. (Matthew 13:38) — Vincent Cheung

God is the ruler over every person and every institution, not just the believer and the church. And since the Bible is his revelation, it carries the same authority over every person and every institution. Therefore, every human government must submit and operate under the Bible, and any deviation from it constitutes sinful rebellion against divine authority. — Vincent Cheung

Christianity teaches that man needs salvation, and that he is saved by faith in Jesus Christ. — Vincent Cheung

Try to remember. Have you ever felt mercy in your heart where there was once hatred? Peace where there was once turmoil? Love where there was once greed and lust? Humiliation where there was once self-righteousness? — Vincent Cheung

But ignorance of divine revelation affects all of thought and life, from one's view toward history and philosophy, to one's interpretation of music and literature, to one's understanding of mathematics and physics. — Vincent Cheung

one of the first principles that any believer in any phase of his life must enforce is to honor God as the center of his daily living and to make communion with God the foundation for all his other activities. — Vincent Cheung

Our desire gives birth to sin (v. 15), but God's truth gives birth to our renewed spirits as believers in Jesus Christ (v. 18), so that "we might be a kind of firstfruits of all he created." Of — Vincent Cheung

When a trumpet sounds in a city, do not the people tremble? When disaster comes to a city, has not the LORD caused it? (Amos 3:6) — Vincent Cheung

God exhibits a natural benevolence toward all his creatures, and it is called "love" in this restricted sense. The purpose is to preserve them for his use, including the display of his wrath when he punishes them for their sins. But to the chosen ones, God's love also means self-sacrifice (in redeeming them through Christ) and self-disclosure (in providing them theological knowledge). — Vincent Cheung

in our spiritually dead condition, it is impossible to have the positive spiritual disposition required to have faith in Christ. — Vincent Cheung

out of this mass of sinful humanity, he would call and draw out his chosen ones, removing them from the kingdom of darkness and placing them into the kingdom of his Son (Colossians 1:13). — Vincent Cheung

it is clear that divine sovereignty and human freedom contradict each other.[16] If God controls everything, including man's thoughts, then man is not free from God. If man is free from God in any sense or to any degree, then God does not control everything. — Vincent Cheung

Many Christians have succumbed to the anti-intellectual spirit of the world, — Vincent Cheung

The Bible does not teach both divine sovereignty and human freedom, but it teaches both divine sovereignty and human responsibility. — Vincent Cheung

the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear" (2 Timothy 4:3). — Vincent Cheung

God has not left us defenseless against the devil's strategies of deception. If Satan's weapon of attack is intellectual deception, then our defense and counterattack consist in truth. — Vincent Cheung