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Cast Down? Diagnosing Spiritual Discouragement (2)
September 17th, 2024
(3) What Satan cannot do himself by immediate suggestions, he then labours to work by his instruments; as those in the psalm who cry, 'Down with him, down with him, even to the ground' (Psa. 137:7). ... Read More
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Cast Down? Diagnosing Spiritual Discouragement (1)
September 16th, 2024
Causes of spiritual discouragement. (1) God himself sometimes withdraws the beams of his countenance from his children, whereupon the soul of even the strongest Christian is disquieted. The child of ... Read More
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Confront Your Soul and Remember God's Mercy
September 15th, 2024
What if our condition is so dark that we cannot read in ourselves any evidence of grace? Here look up to God's infinite mercy in Christ, as we did at our conversion, when we found no goodness in ours... Read More
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The Return of Christ (2)
September 14th, 2024
Christ will appear in glory as certainly as he appeared in his first coming; and we will appear with him in glory. Why should we doubt it? Has not that which is even greater been already done? Has no... Read More
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The Return of Christ (1)
September 13th, 2024
‘When Christ who is your life appears.' There are two appearings. His first appearing was to work our salvation; his second will be to accomplish and finish what he has begun to work. His first appea... Read More
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Jesus Is Each Stage of Our Salvation (2)
September 12th, 2024
After he has acquitted us by his all-sufficient satisfaction, being God and man, and has given us his Spirit, there is another life, the life of comfort, which is the life of our life, in peace of co... Read More
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Jesus Is Each Stage of Our Salvation (1)
September 11th, 2024
How is Christ our life? Christ is in every way the cause of the life of grace and glory. Not only the cause, but the root and spring as well. We have spiritual life from Christ and in Christ. We have... Read More
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Evidence of Loving Christ
September 10th, 2024
Let us labour to kindle in our hearts an affection for Christ. We may judge our love by our esteem. (1) How do we value Christ? What place should he have in our hearts? If he be the chief of ten thou... Read More
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Christ Is Altogether Lovely
September 9th, 2024
Was he lovely when he was nailed on the cross, hung between two thieves, when he wore a crown of thorns, whipped, when he sweat water and blood? Oh! yes; then he was most lovely of all to us, by how ... Read More
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Christ's Presence: Felt and Not Felt
September 8th, 2024
There is a double presence of Christ: felt and not felt. Christ's felt presence is when he is graciously present and is also pleased to let us know, which is a heaven upon earth. My soul is in paradi... Read More
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The Christian's Two Natures
September 7th, 2024
We should have a double eye: one eye to see that which is amiss in us, our own imperfections, thereby to carry ourselves in a perpetual humility. Another eye of faith, to see what we have in Christ, ... Read More
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The Conscience and the Trinity
September 6th, 2024
Besides his Spirit, God has planted in us a conscience to call upon us, to be his vicar; a little god in us to do his office, to call upon us, direct us, check and condemn us, which in great mercy he... Read More
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Ministers and Ministry
September 5th, 2024
There is a knocking that Christ uses in the church, his ministerial knocking. When he was here in the days of his flesh, he was a preacher and prophet himself, and now that he is ascended into heaven... Read More
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The Awake Christian Is Prepared
September 4th, 2024
Consider the excellence of an awake Christian. When he is in his right temper, he is a prepared person, fit for all assaults. He is impregnable. Satan has nothing to do with him, for he, as it is sai... Read More
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Preserving Spiritual Wakefulness (4)
September 3rd, 2024
(6) In the last place it is a thing of no small consequence, that we keep company with wakeful and faithful Christians, such as neither sleep themselves nor do willingly allow any to sleep that are n... Read More
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Preserving Spiritual Wakefulness (3)
September 2nd, 2024
(5) Labour to preserve the soul in the fear of God because fear is a waking affection, yea, one of the most wakeful. Naturally we are more moved with dangers than stirred with hopes. Preserve the fea... Read More
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Preserving Spiritual Wakefulness (2)
September 1st, 2024
(3) Labour for an abundance of the Spirit of God. What makes men sleepy, and drowsy? The want of the Spirit. We are dull, and overladen with gross passions, whereby the strength sinks and fails. Chri... Read More
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Preserving Spiritual Wakefulness (1)
August 31st, 2024
To preserve the soul, especially in these drowsy times: (1) Propose to our souls, wakeful considerations. What causes our sleep but want of matters of more serious observation? None will sleep when a... Read More
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Heart and Actions
August 30th, 2024
A Christian is what his heart and inward man is. Grace is at the centre, and from there it goes to the circumference. Let the church value herself by the disposition and temper of her heart. To evalu... Read More
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God's Love Never Fails and the Eternal Security of the Saints
August 29th, 2024
Let us magnify the goodness of God that God's children never totally fall from grace. Though they sleep, yet their heart is awake. The prophet Isaiah, speaking of the church and children of God said ... Read More
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The Conscience
August 28th, 2024
The heart is often taken for the conscience in Scripture. A good conscience, called a merry heart, is 'a continual feast' (Prov. 15:15). Now, the conscience of God's children is never so sleepy, but ... Read More
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The Heart
August 27th, 2024
The word heart includes the whole soul, for the understanding is the heart, 'an understanding heart' (Job 38:36). To ‘lay things up in our hearts' (Luke 2:51) is memory; and to cleave in heart is to ... Read More
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Avoiding Spiritual Sleepiness (2)
August 26th, 2024
(4) Sleepiness is an odious temper to God. For, does he not deserve cheerful service at our hands? Does not his greatness require that our senses be all waking? Does not his mercy deserve, that our l... Read More
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Avoiding Spiritual Sleepiness (1)
August 25th, 2024
Motives against sleepiness: (1) Consider the danger of a sleepy state. The devil labours all he can to cast men into this temper, which he must do before he can make him fall into any gross sin. The ... Read More
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January
One Thing (1)One Thing (2)Our Thoughts and Desires Reveal Who We AreThe Christian's Desire for God's House (1)The Christian's Desire for God's House (2)What the Soul Was Made ForGod Makes the Heart TenderMaintaining a Tender Heart (1)Maintaining a Tender Heart (2)Maintaining a Tender Heart (3)Maintaining a Tender Heart (4)Test to See if Your Heart is TenderHow to Recover a Tender HeartBenefits of a Tender HeartKings Must Humble Themselves Before GodHow to Humble Ourselves (1)How to Humble Ourselves (2)How to Humble Ourselves (3)Proneness to PrideHumilityTrue versus False Humility (1)True versus False Humility (2)True versus False Humility (3)Both Outward Devotion and Inward AffectionWeeping for the ChurchWeeping and Rejoicing Mixed (1)Weeping and Rejoicing Mixed (2)God Hears Our Prayers--His PartWhen It Seems God Doesn't HearThe Privilege of PrayerGod Hears Our Prayers--Our Part
February
Death Is a Gathering (1)Death Is a Gathering (2)The Righteous Preserve their NationGod's Righteous JudgmentThe Importance of Knowing God Loves Me (1)The Importance of Knowing God Loves Me (2)Abundance Is Not an Accurate Sign of God's LoveRun to GodChristian UnityChrist In Us (1)Christ In Us (2)Christ In Us (3)Christ In Us (4)Christ In Us (5)Christ the Servant: the MediatorThe Bruised Reed and the Smoking Flax (1)The Bruised Reed and the Smoking Flax (2)The Bruised Reed and the Smoking Flax (3)The Bruised Reed and the Smoking Flax (4)God Knows Our FrameLittle at First (1)Little at First (2)Sometimes Tender, Sometimes Tough (1)Sometimes Tender, Sometimes Tough (2)Avoiding Unnecessary RulesThe Weaker BrotherExtend Grace to One AnotherThe Covenant of GraceThe Light of God Compared to Fire (1)
March
The Light of God Compared to Fire (2)The Light of God Compared to Fire (3)Temptation (1)Temptation (2)The Source of DiscouragementsResponding to Christ's KindnessVictory in Spiritual BattlesHis Power Not OursCourage Until the End (1)Courage Until the End (2)Our Hearts—God's TempleSin in God's PeopleSigns of God's Impending Judgment (1)Signs of God's Impending Judgment (2)Signs of God's Impending Judgment (3)Preventing God's Judgment on Our Nation (1)Preventing God's Judgment on Our Nation (2)The Ugliness of Sin (1)The Ugliness of Sin (2)Far but NearChrist's Dying Words of ComfortThe Wrong of Excessive SorrowSteps to Bring Comfort to our Hearts (1)Steps to Bring Comfort to our Hearts (2)Steps to Bring Comfort to our Hearts (3)When We Feel Our Faith Is Weak (1)When We Feel Our Faith Is Weak (2)When We Feel Our Faith Is Weak (3)Christ and the Holy SpiritChrist Is the Heart and Power of the Scriptures (1)Christ Is the Heart and Power of the Scriptures (2)