Saturday, June 28, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
The Conquering Word
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Keeping the Heart [Chapter 1] by John Flavel
“KEEP THY HEART WITH ALL DILIGENCE, FOR OUT OF IT
ARE THE ISSUES OF LIFE.”—Proverbs 4:23.
THE heart of man is his worst part before it is regenerated, and the best afterward; it is the seat of principles, and the fountain of actions. The eye of God is, and the eye of the Christian ought to be, principally fixed upon it.
The greatest difficulty in conversion, is to win the heart to God; and the greatest difficulty after conversion, is to keep the heart with God. Here lies the very force and stress of religion; here is that which makes the way to life a narrow way, and the gate of heaven a strait gate. Direction and help in this great work are the scope of the text: wherein we have,
Keeping the Heart [Chapter 1] by John Flavel
M'Cheyne - Electing Love
John 15:16. "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you that ye should go and bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain."
This is a very humbling, and at the same time, a very blessed word to the true disciple. It was very humbling to the disciples to be told that they had not chosen Christ. Your wants were so many, your hearts were so hard, that ye have not chosen me. And yet it was exceedingly comforting to the disciples to be told that he had chosen them: "Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you." This showed them that his love was first with them — that he had a love for them when they were dead. And then he showed them that it was love that would make them holy: "Ye have; not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit, and that your fruit should remain."
M'Cheyne - Electing Love
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Spiritual Pride
HT Grace Gems
A tumor and swelling in the mind(Thomas Brooks,
"The Unsearchable Riches of Christ")
The Lord Almighty has done it to destroy your pride and show His contempt for all human greatness." Isaiah 23:9Pride is the original and root of most of those notorious vices which are to be found among men. Of all sins, pride is most dangerous to the souls of men. Pride is . . . a gilded misery, a secret poison, a hidden plague. Pride is . . . the conceiver of deceit, the mother of hypocrisy, the parent of envy, the moth of holiness, the blinder of hearts, the turner of medicines into maladies.Of all sins, spiritual pride is most dangerous, and must be most resisted. Spiritual pride is the lifting up of the mind against God; it is a tumor and swelling in the mind, and lies in despising and slighting of God--and in the lifting up of a man's self, by reason of birth, breeding, wealth, honor, place, relations, abilities or graces--and in the despising of others.Spiritual pride is a white devil, a gilded poison--by which God is robbed of his honor, and a man's own soul of his comfort and peace.Pride is a sure forerunner of a fall. "Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty mind before a fall." Herod fell from a throne of gold--to a bed of dust. Nebuchadnezzar fell from a mighty king--to be a beast. Adam fell from innocence--to mortality. The angels fell from heaven--to hell; from felicity--to misery."The day is coming when your pride will be brought low and the Lord alone will be exalted. In that day the Lord Almighty will punish the proud, bringing them down to the dust!" Isaiah 2:11-12 "The Lord detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished!" Proverbs 16:5
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