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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
by Richard Sibbes
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Spiritual Sleepiness
August 24th, 2024
Signs of a spiritually sleepy state: (1) We know that sleep is creeping upon us, by comparing our present condition with our former, when we were in a more wakeful frame and the graces of God's Spiri...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Rejoicing in the Graces of Others
August 23rd, 2024
What a happy condition when God's glory, the church's comfort and strength, and our own joy, meet. We ought to take notice of the works of God in creation and providence, when we see plants, stars, a...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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God Loves Our Changed Lives (2)
August 22nd, 2024
If it is so that God accepts the performances and graces, especially the prayers of his children, let it be an argument to encourage us to be much in all holy duties. It would deaden the heart of any...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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God Loves Our Changed Lives (1)
August 21st, 2024
God accepts the graces of his children, and delights in them. (1) Because they are the fruit that comes from his children, his spouse, his friend. Love of the person wins acceptance of that which is ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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With Christ's Help Pursue Multiplication (2)
August 20th, 2024
(3) That where once God begins, he goes on, and delights to add encouragement to encouragement, and does not only give them a stock of grace at the beginning, but also helps them to trade in grace. ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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With Christ's Help Pursue Multiplication (1)
August 19th, 2024
Good things lie in us dead and bound up, unless the Spirit brings them out. There are gracious good things in the church, but they want further spreading, from this we may observe: (1) We need not on...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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With Christ's Help Pursue Fruitfulness
August 18th, 2024
If the church is a separated portion, then we should walk as people of a separated condition from the world. To ensure this we must be subject to his pruning and dressing. It is so far from being an ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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God's Wind on the Church (2)
August 17th, 2024
In spiritual things there is a chain of causes and effects: prayer comes from faith (Rom. 10:14); faith from the hearing of the word; hearing from a preacher, by whom God by his Spirit blows upon the...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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God's Wind on the Church (1)
August 16th, 2024
(1) We see here that Christ sends forth his Spirit, with command to all means, under the name of 'north and south wind,’ to farther the fruitfulness of his church. What winds are to the garden, that ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Affections Rightly Placed
August 15th, 2024
A great light being near a little one, draws away and obscures the flame of the other. So it is when the affections are taken up higher to their fit object; they die unto all earthly things, while th...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Kingdom Violence (7)
August 14th, 2024
Consider Paul for an instance. He was as earnest when he was a Christian as before he was a Christian. He was never more eager after shedding of the blood of Christians and breathing out slaughter ag...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Kingdom Violence (6)
August 13th, 2024
We see then the disposition of true disciples, they are violent in respect of heavenly things. Those that are not earnest in the cause of religion, when the state of things requires it, they have no ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Kingdom Violence (5)
August 12th, 2024
There is a blessed violence that will stand under judgment. A man must not be violent and wise in the things of this world; much less after filthy pleasures. Instead, a man 'must become a fool' (1 Co...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Kingdom Violence (4)
August 11th, 2024
Compare your efforts toward the good things of heaven with your efforts toward the things of the world. If there is a hope of being preferred, the doors of great men are sure to suffer violence from ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Kingdom Violence (3)
August 10th, 2024
(7) The excellency of something demands violence. It is appropriate that excellent things should have answerable affections. It is the kingdom of heaven, what affection is answerable but a violent, s...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Kingdom Violence (2)
August 9th, 2024
(3) There is opposition from the world. On one side there are the snares and delights of the world, to quench the delight in the good things of the Spirit. On the other side are fears, terrors, and s...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Kingdom Violence (1)
August 8th, 2024
Those that intend to enter the kingdom must strive to enter; and when they are in, they must keep it with violence. This violence is necessary for all who desire to enter the kingdom of heaven, for t...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Questions About the Spiritual Life in Christ (2)
August 7th, 2024
Does a Christian perpetually grow? Not at all times, in all parts. Trees we know, in wintertime, grow in the root. Christians do not grow always in all graces, but only in some one radical grace, as ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Questions About the Spiritual Life in Christ (1)
August 6th, 2024
Why are we not healed all at once and completely? What does it mean that we are still subject to these infirmities of ours? Some of Christ's works of healing are perfectly done all at once, but some ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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The Sun of Righteousness Heals (2)
August 5th, 2024
By his Spirit he heals and enlightens our understanding, which by nature is dark, and so easily led astray to mistake light for darkness, and darkness for light. This he heals by his word, creating i...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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The Sun of Righteousness Heals (1)
August 4th, 2024
If Christ is the Sun of Righteousness, we should, when we are spiritually cold and numb, retreat to him, and know that he has exactly what we need. Are we dark? He is light. Are we sick? He can heal ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Invitation to Salvation
August 3rd, 2024
Let me speak a word to the many who yet have their choice to make, who have other lords and other gods to rule over them. Let them consider what a fearful state it is not to be able to say; 'God is m...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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How We Can Know That God Has Chosen Us
August 2nd, 2024
We can know that God has chosen us and called us effectually if we have grace to choose him for our God. When he bids us believe he gives an influence of power to be able to say, ‘I believe; Lord, he...  Read More
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