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Grace Brings Transformation (2)
May 22nd, 2024
As for those who find themselves to be ‘old men' still, who have lived, and still live, in corruption, they must not think they have any benefit by the gospel. If they do, they deceive themselves. Fo...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Grace Brings Transformation (1)
May 21st, 2024
How can we know for certain that we see God in Christ and the glory of God in the gospel? Does this sight have a transforming power in you, to make you like the image of Christ? If it does not, it is...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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The Best Subject for Contemplation
May 20th, 2024
Of all contemplations under heaven, there is no contemplation so sweet and powerful as to see God in Christ and Christ first abased for us, and to see ourselves abased in Christ, and crucified in Chr...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Two Conformities (2)
May 19th, 2024
The reasons for this change are from Christ. By knowing Christ, we know the cursed state to be absent from him and see the glorious benefits by Christ’s redemption and glorification. These are set be...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Two Conformities (1)
May 18th, 2024
There are two conformities of exceeding comfort to us, and we must meditate on both. (1) Christ's conformity to us. He was transfigured into our likeness. In love to us he became man. He took man's n...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Changed into Christ's Likeness (2)
May 17th, 2024
Also, the image of God in the second Adam is more durable. All excellencies and grace are more firmly set on Christ than they ever were upon Adam. They are set upon him with such a character and stam...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Changed into Christ's Likeness (1)
May 16th, 2024
The pattern to which we are changed is the image of Christ. It is a true rule that the first in every kind is the measure—the idea and pattern—of all the rest. Now Christ is the first, for he is the ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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We Must Be Changed (5)
May 15th, 2024
(5) Finally, whenever God calls and dignifies, he also qualifies. Princes cannot qualify those they raise, but God, whom he advances to glory, he fits and qualifies for glory. Where he bestows his me...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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We Must Be Changed (4)
May 14th, 2024
(4) Actions correspond to powers and abilities, and no holy action can come from an unchanged ability. A change in the souls faculties must precede a change in life and conduct. In nature we live, an...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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We Must Be Changed (3)
May 13th, 2024
(3) The soul that truly desires mercy and favour always desires power against sin. Pardon and power go together, both in God's gift and in the desire of a Christian's soul. There is no Christian soul...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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We Must Be Changed (2)
May 12th, 2024
(2) We all expect glory in heaven. But how can we reach that unless we are made fit for it? The church is the fitting place for glory. We enter into heaven in the church here. We are hewn and squared...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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We Must Be Changed (1)
May 11th, 2024
We must be changed from the state in which we are, as Christ tells Nicodemus (John 3:7), and such a change as a new birth. We must be all new, just as a bell that has even one crack must be newly mou...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Looking at Jesus
May 10th, 2024
That we may be changed into the likeness of Christ, let us fix our meditations upon him, and we will find a change, though we do not know how it happens. As those who are in the sun for work or play ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Looking at the Cross
May 9th, 2024
What things in Christ's death especially reveal themselves to us? Three things: wonderful love, that he died for us; wonderful hatred, that he would die for sin; and wonderful holiness and love of gr...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Identifying with Christ's Death and Resurrection
May 8th, 2024
How are we changed into the likeness of Christ? When we believe in Christ, we are planted into the likeness of his death and his resurrection. This is somewhat mystical, yet it is taught in the Scrip...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Consider Christ So As to Become Like Him (5)
May 7th, 2024
It is good upon all occasions, every day, to think, 'What would my blessed Saviour say if he were here? What did he do in similar cases when he was upon earth? I must be led by the Spirit of Christ, ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Consider Christ So As to Become Like Him (4)
May 6th, 2024
So, you have a taste of Christ's behaviour to his friends, to his enemies, to Satan. And as for hypocrites he says, 'Woe to them' (Matt. 23:13). He hated them above all the proud Pharisees. I might s...  Read More
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Consider Christ So As to Become Like Him (3)
May 5th, 2024
How did he behave toward his enemies? Did he call for fire from heaven when they wronged him? He shed tears for those who would shed his blood: 'O Jerusalem, Jerusalem' (Matt. 23:37), who afterward c...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Consider Christ So As to Become Like Him (2)
May 4th, 2024
He would not ‘quench the smoking flax, nor break the bruised reed' (Matt. 12:20), so gentle and sweet a Saviour have we. He loved and responded to those who sought him out, as when the rich young man...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Consider Christ So As to Become Like Him (1)
May 3rd, 2024
If it is so that we are changed into the image of the second Adam, Jesus Christ, then let us labour every day more and more to study Christ, so that by beholding him we may be transformed into his li...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Unity in the People of God
May 2nd, 2024
In Moses’ time, he went alone onto the mount and saw God. But now it is ‘we all' (2 Cor. 3:18), that is Jews and Gentiles, wherever the gospel is preached. You see that the church is enlarged by the ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Beholding God's Glory
May 1st, 2024
How can we make the eye of our souls fit to behold the glory of God? We must fix the eye of the soul; fix our meditation upon the glory of God and the excellency of Christ. A moving, roving eye sees ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Spiritual Sight (2)
April 30th, 2024
Knowledge and faith are compared to seeing and beholding, for these reasons: (1) Sight is the noblest and most glorious sense. It is also the quickest, for in a moment sight apprehends its object in ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Spiritual Sight (1)
April 29th, 2024
God puts a spiritual eye by his Spirit into all true believers, by which they behold his excellent glory. This glorious gift was given so that God may have the glory, and we the comfort. There must b...  Read More
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