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The Fatherhood of God (3)
July 20th, 2024
The word father is a word of relation. It binds God to us and us to God. We are to honour him as our Father. This one word is sufficient to express our duty to a father: reverence; for it includes a ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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The Fatherhood of God (2)
July 19th, 2024
What we may expect from God being a father: (2) Father, a name of comfort. It is the speech of a natural man, 'A little punishment is enough from a father.' 'He knows whereof we are made; he remember...  Read More
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The Fatherhood of God (1)
July 18th, 2024
What we may expect from God being a father: (1) We may expect whatever a child may expect from a father. God takes not upon him empty names. He says he will be a father, not only called a father. Fat...  Read More
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Christ Our Advocate
July 17th, 2024
This may comfort us in the consideration of all our sins: for sin past, and for corruption present, and sin that we may commit in the time to come. For anything that is past, if we confess our sins t...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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A Present Application of Christ's Ascension
July 16th, 2024
What we may expect from God being a father: (1) We may expect whatever a child may expect from a father. God takes not upon him empty names. He says he will be a father, not only called a father. Fat...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Christ's Work of Intercession
July 15th, 2024
He is there to plead our cause. He is there as our surety to appear for us, and not only so, but as a counsellor to plead for us; and not only so, but one of us, as if a brother should plead for a br...  Read More
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The Advantage of the Spirit
July 14th, 2024
He ascended to leave his Spirit, that he might send the Comforter. He went away himself, who was the great Comforter while he was below. But Christ ascended to heaven that they might have comfort thr...  Read More
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God's Love Never Changes
July 13th, 2024
Beloved, let us not lose the comfort of the constancy and immutability of God's love. Let us conceive that all the sweet links of salvation are held strong on God's part, not on ours; the firmness is...  Read More
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Christ Calls Us Brothers and Sisters
July 12th, 2024
How can it be that we are considered Christ's brothers? Christ is the first-born of many brethren (Rom. 8:29). He is the Son of God by nature; and all others are his brothers and sisters by grace and...  Read More
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Mary Proclaims the Resurrection
July 11th, 2024
Jesus said to Mary, 'Go to my brethren.’ I have another work for you to do, ‘Touch me not.’ You clasp about me as if you had nothing to do. There is another work to do that pleases me better: to comf...  Read More
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Beware of Spiritual Apathy
July 10th, 2024
Take heed of such a temper of soul, as cares not whether we find Christ or no. Oh take heed of that! If we will seek him, seek him as Mary did on that first resurrection morning. She sought him early...  Read More
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Why Does Christ Hide Himself at Times?
July 8th, 2024
Why does Christ conceal himself at times? Four reasons why: (1) To see whether we can live by faith, or whether we be altogether addicted to sense, as the world is, who live altogether by sense and n...  Read More
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The Ministry of Angels
July 8th, 2024
As Mary wept at the tomb of Jesus, she stooped down and looked into the sepulchre, and there saw two angels in white: a colour of glory, purity, and joy, because it was a time of joy. They were one a...  Read More
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Start Now to Die Well
July 7th, 2024
In this moment let us provide for eternity. Out of eternity before, and eternity after, issues this little spot of time to do good in. Let us sow to the Spirit, count all time lost which we either do...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Life is Sacrifice
July 6th, 2024
A Christian is a consecrated person and he is not his own. He is a sacrifice as soon as he is a Christian. He belongs to Christ (2 Cor. 8:5). (1) Beloved, that we had the spirit of Paul, and the Spir...  Read More
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Worthy Leaders
July 5th, 2024
The lives of worthy leaders, especially officials and ministers, are very needful for the church of God. The reason is because God often conveys good to people by the means of worthy leaders. If we c...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Paul's Strait
July 4th, 2024
Will a man leave the prison when he knows he will be carried to execution? Oh, no; he had rather be in the dungeon still. So for those with guilt on the soul and no assurance of salvation; they would...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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A Good Conscience
July 3rd, 2024
Paul laboured to keep a good conscience in all things. 'Herein I exercise myself, to have a good conscience towards God and men' (Acts 24:16). It is easy for a man to desire to depart, who has his co...  Read More
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The Best for Last
July 2nd, 2024
We see that God reserves the best for the last. God's last works are his best works. The new heaven and the new earth are the best; the second wine that Christ created himself was the best; spiritual...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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The Fear of Death
July 1st, 2024
May a good Christian fear death? I answer, 'No,’ so far as a Christian is led with the Spirit of God and is truly spiritual; for the Spirit carries us upward. But as far as we are earthly and carnal,...  Read More
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Death Is the Suburbs of Heaven
June 30th, 2024
Heaven is not heaven without Christ. It is better to be in any place with Christ than to be in heaven itself without him. Paul loved to see Christ, to embrace him, and enjoy him that had done so much...  Read More
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Paul's Desire to Depart
June 29th, 2024
I desire to depart. There must be a parting and a departing; there must be a parting in this world with all outward excellencies, from the sweet enjoyment of the creatures; there must be a departing ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Choices and Desires
June 28th, 2024
Paul's soul was as a ship, between two winds, tossed up and down, and as iron between two loadstones, drawn first one way, then another; the one loadstone was his own good, to be in heaven; the other...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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The Death of the Righteous
June 27th, 2024
The soul continues after death. In Numbers 23:10, Balaam wishes to die the death of the righteous, not for anything excellent in their deaths, but regarding the existence and continuance of their sou...  Read More
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