Matthew Hagen:  

Matthew is from Hot Springs, Arkansas. He is single. His schools include Fountain Lake High School. He later attended Logos Institute (koine), National Park Community College (Graphic Design, Photography/Digital Media, PHOTOSHOP CS6). He works(ed) at Grace Community Church, IDD Company. Matthew's interests include Evangelism, Street preaching, Sola scriptura. Music he likes includes Jeremy Camp, Fernando Ortega, Keith and Kristyn Getty. Books he likes include English Standard Version, New American Standard Bible, Recovering Biblical Manhood and Womanhood. TV shows he likes include Way of the Master. One of Matthew's favorite quotes is:"...the favorite quotes section of your facebook turned out to be a veritable treasure-trove of wisdom and truth; I’ve never seen such an epistle of well selected spiritual insights on facebook before." - Lone Wolf, (Jonathan) "A slave has a very, very simple life. He really does. A slave doesn't have to worry about anything except doing his Master's will, and the Master has to worry about doing everything else. Lord, do you want me to go to college, or do you want me to go to Afghanistan and preach for three weeks til they kill me?" - Paul Washer, "Family Life" "If you poll 30 people who have the same hermeneutic and they all have a different outcome of interpretation, then there is something wrong with the hermeneutic. A correct hermeneutic produces the same interpretation result every time. I am convinced of that...that a true hermeneutic is confirmed by it's consistent byproduct. There shouldn't be any window for the imaginations of men to be inserted into the text, anywhere." - Matthew Hagen, 5/15/2013 "Men will talk in this way, they will say, 'I don't spend a quantity of time with my family, but I spend a quality time with my family.' That is not true. It's good psychological jargon I suppose, but it's not true. I'll give you an example: our relationship with the Lord. Every time I pray I don't have an Isaiah 6 experience. I don't have something absolutely astounding occurring, or that special sense every time I pray of a visitation from the Lord. Those quality times, they come forth out of a quantity of time, and I'll think you'll find that in every relationship. That quality time comes out of a quantity of time. Now automatically when I say something like this people will say, 'Well, I have to work and, and there's church...' yes, all that is true. Don't cut that out. Cut out all the other stuff. Especially television and things that distract you. We are given relationships in order to participate in them." - Paul Washer "If indeed Christ provided a propitiation and expiation for all human beings...then, clearly, all persons would be saved." - R. C. Sproul "God will give you a wife many times that will be weak, and even fail you in the areas where you most want her to be strong. Why? How can you ever learn to practice unconditional love if you are married to someone who meets all the conditions? How? How can you ever learn to practice grace if you are married to someone who has no need of it? How can you ever learn to practice mercy if the person closest to you never fails? You want to be like Christ. And the same thing applies to our dear sisters. You married a man who is a disappointment, has been a disappointment if he is not now. Maybe you even had a romantic view of what marriage would be like and you found out that, no, he could not meet all your needs. Because he had no riches and glory except those borrowed. You found out that Christ had to be the one, and not a man. You see, God gave you a man to teach you something. God knows you. God knew exactly what you needed. God knew exactly what had to happen." - Paul Washer, "Want a lifetime marriage?" "You know I find so many people who wanna be teachers in the church, but they don't want to teach their own children. If you do not teach your own children you do not qualify to be a teacher in the church. You simply don't. You're disobedient." - Paul Washer "I fully believed I knew that I knew before, but truly I didn't know." - Matthew Hagen "You do not know the monster that is laying at your door! You don't know how many people just like you this world has eaten to pieces! Men of best intention with greater moral fiber than you now possess. It's going to take more than just intention for you to be used of God...it's going to take a heavenly vision! Its going to take a magnificent view of what God has done for you in Jesus Christ - that's what you need! Then, all the vain things that charm you most - you will gladly sacrifice them!" - Paul Washer, "The Depth of the Gospel - Part 1" "It's pathetic. Some are so lactose dependent in spiritual things they will not accept any attempt to grow deeper....Their shallow milk dependency is a sin. It's not just without excuse, it's not just pathetic, it's a sin before God. It ought to be repented of." - Jeff Noblit, "The Milky Way" "Don't ever let your familiarity with the bible breed contempt in your heart." - Nathan Busenitz "People come to me all the time and they say, 'I have a new relationship with God!' And I say, 'Well, do you have a new relationship with sin? Because if you don't have a new relationship with sin, you don't have a new relationship with God." - Paul Washer "Outside of Christ and apart from the grace of God that comes through His death you would be so vile and so loathsome before all the holy hosts of Heaven that the last thing you would hear when you took your first step into Hell on judgement day would be all of creation standing on it's feet and applauding God because He has rid the earth of you. [silence] And yet Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law, taking that curse in our place and bearing it. How can you not be a prisoner of His love? How can you not willingly throw yourself to Him and say, "If it be so! If He has redeemed me from such an extraordinary mess, how can I not think of Him, serve Him, and lament when I do not?" - Paul Washer, "The Depth of the Gospel - Part 1" "Young man one time said, 'On the day of judgment, I'll stand before God and I'll reckon with Him.' I said, 'Young man, you will melt before God like a tiny wax figurine before a blast furnace!'" - Paul Washer, "The Depth of the Gospel - Part 1" ‎"Learn to bear and forbear patiently and meekly with the infirmities of Christian brethren. There is a time in our Christian life when we want to set everybody right, and make everything square. But we begin to find after a time that we cannot set our own selves right, nor make our own spirit and conduct square with the word of truth. This conviction, forced increasingly upon us, makes us less keen to see the mote and more willing to take out the beam; less desirous to condemn others, more willing to condemn ourselves; less sure of the sins of our friends, more certain of our own." - J.C. Philpot (1802-1869) "The blackest midnight cannot put out the smallest candle." - Dr. John Fullerton MacArthur, Jr., "The Word Made Flesh" (1983) "If I want to be your friend, then I need to treat you like I treat my friends from the very first time we meet each other. If I ever treat you like my enemy, then I can only blame myself if you become my enemy." - Matthew Cole Hagen "Truly, self-sacrificing obedience results from true, complete submission to the Lord. We must surrender ALL to Christ! If we hold anything back - one possession, one thought, one moment, one memory, one person, one dream, one lust, one lie, one ounce of self-will; then that is not surrendering ALL. I pray we all surrender ALL to Him! That supernatural ability to trust Him entirely, and believe that He is truly real, and that the Bible is really true, is the result of the God-given gift of faith. That faith moves us into obedience to the Word, and a perspective of the Bible, and the divine truths within it, that we never had previously. God breaks the overwhelming strength of sin in our lives, and we are given the chance to overcome sin because the Holy Spirit is within us, giving us power we never had before. We are reborn, and we endure til the end towards our Savior, Jesus Christ." - Matthew Cole Hagen "As Christians, we must seek always to advance Christ's cause through truth joined by love and self-sacrifice, not through violence." —Robert Godfrey "Faith is the evidence of divine adoption." - John Calvin "Again, how can it be possible that God should give his Son, himself, his all—and yet deny me any good thing? Will not he who is to crown me with glory above—strengthen me with grace below? Will he not bless me with peace of mind—who is to be my peace forever? Triumph, O my faith! all things are Christ's, and Christ is God's! And God, Christ, and all things, are yours! Time is his, and in it I have my years numbered! The air is his, and in it I breathe! The world is his—and on it I dwell; its fullness is his—and I am fed! Grace is his—and in it I stand! Faith is his gift—and by it I overcome the world! Tribulations are from him—and in them I glory! Perfection is his—and towards it I press! Death is his—and by it I arrive at home! Heaven is his—and there is my mansion! Eternity is his, and there is my treasure and glory forevermore!" - James Meikle "And God, in order to gain glory, never is able to bypass justice. And that's why in the world you could say, "Well God if you really want everybody to like you, why don't you just clean the place up? Why don't you eliminate the trouble? Why don't you stop the war? Why don't you solve all the problems?" And God is saying, "Yeah, that's fine for you to say, but I can't because My justice demands that I reattribute sin. The wages of sin is what? Death, and it has to be paid. So God is saying to the Christian, "You could sure help a lot, if you just make sure your life isn't reproached." God said to Israel, through Paul, in Romans, "Because of you My name is blasphemed among the Gentiles." That's sad, and it can even happen in ...Expand for more