A few thoughts from Quito convention

• If God has given us a place in His Kingdom, it's for the benefit of the Kingdom as a whole.

• God has set perfection as our goal, and we don't ever want to be satisfied with anything less.

• We glorify God just by letting His Spirit work.

• Jesus taught us to serve others but to please God.  If we serve others in order to please men, there is no recompense from God in it.

• The revelation that God gives goes much further than simply understanding; it's a life.

• Saul of Tarsus was so sure of himself under the law that he thought he had the right to persecute others unto death.  Jesus had the truth, was the truth, and He never persecuted anyone.

• Paul realized that he had received a revelation from God but at the same time knew that it had to be in line with the revelation that God had given to others.

• There is abundance.  It just depends on how much we want to be filled.

• The things that David learned in the desert - playing music, using the sling, identifying and fighting the enemy - were of great use to him in his future.  He didn't practice those things because he knew he would need the skills later; he did them because that's what he needed in that day.  As a result, they served him well when later needs arose in the kingdom as well. 

• Someone once asked a shepherd who had risked his life to save a lamb, "You put your life in danger for $2.50?" (the monetary value of the lamb)  The shepherd responded, "No, I put my life in danger because I'm a shepherd, and there was a lamb that needed help."

• We'll never be able to conquer a giant if we're not first willing to put our life on the line to rescue a lamb.

• We must gain the victory in secret.

• David committed grave errors, but in them, he is an example to us of how we should respond to our own sin.

• It's not the magnitude of our sin that could cause us to lose our salvation but rather our attitude regarding our sin.

• There is no excuse for our sin!

• Partial obedience yields no fruit.  Bearing fruit requires constancy.

• There are many people who want eternal life but who can't see beyond the death that's necessary to obtain it.

• Upon what altar are we offering our lives?

• If I love Christ, I will love His appearing.
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• We don't need people to sympathize with us; we need people to encourage us to die and to keep going forward.

• God's not looking for organization, but He does want order.

• We cannot win spiritual battles with carnal weapons (intelligence, human strength, etc.)

• Serving is not just something that we do with our hands.

• Jesus never let Himself be robbed.  He recognized the value of what was His in the Kingdom of God.