by John Owen – February 11th, 2019 http://www.ChapelLibrary.org • chapel@mountzion.org Chapter 5 “WHAT MORTIFICATION IS NOT” Continued 5. Not to Conquer Sin Occasionally b. When in some affliction In a time of some judgment, calamity, or pressing affliction, the heart is taken up with thoughts and contrivances of flying from the present … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – February 10th, 2019 www.ChapelLibrary.org • chapel@mountzion.org Chapter 5“WHAT MORTIFICATION IS NOT”Continued 5. Not to Conquer Sin Occasionally Occasional conquests of sin do not amount to a mortifying of it. There are two occasions or seasons wherein a man who is contending with any sin may seem to himself to have mortified it. … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – February 9th, 2019 www.ChapelLibrary.org • chapel@mountzion.org Chapter 5 “WHAT MORTIFICATION IS NOT” Continued 4. Not to Divert a Sin A sin is not mortified when it is only diverted. Simon Magus(42) for a season left his sorceries; but his covetousness and ambition, which had set him on his work, remained still, … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – February 8th, 2019 http://www.ChapelLibrary.org • chapel@mountzion.org Chapter 5 “WHAT MORTIFICATION IS NOT” Continued 3. Not to Improve a Quiet Nature The mortification of sin consists not in the improvement(41) of a quiet, sedate nature. Some men have an advantage by their natural constitution so far as that they are not … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
I am not sure where we got this idea that God needs our help in order to communicate with us. He is God, read the Book (Bible) He had no issue communicating His will to anyone He chooses throughout the pages of biblical history, so what changed? If the same God who spoke the universe into … More The Lord’s Voice of Authority
by John Owen – February 7th, 2019 http://www.ChapelLibrary.org • chapel@mountzion.org Chapter 5 “WHAT MORTIFICATION IS NOT” Continued 2.Not to Conceal a Sin I think I do not need to say it is not the dissimulation(40) of a sin. When a man on some out-ward respects forsakes the practice of any sin, men perhaps may look on … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – February 6th, 2019 chapel@mountzion.org • http://www.ChapelLibrary.org Chapter 5 “WHAT MORTIFICATION IS NOT” Continued 2. Not to Utterly Destroy Sin To mortify a sin is not utterly to kill, root it out, and destroy it, so that it has no more hold at all nor residence in our hearts. It is true … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
I find this data very disturbing. Jesus in the Great Commission Matthew 28:1-20 makes it clear that evangelism is not an optional thing for the chosen in Christ. He commands us to “Go therefore and make disciples” I do not see how one can call themselves “Christian” and be against “Christ.” – Mike Sharing one’s faith—evangelizing—is a core practice … More Almost Half of Practicing Christian Millennials Say Evangelism Is Wrong
by John Owen – February 5th, 2019 chapel@mountzion.org • http://www.ChapelLibrary.org Chapter 5 “WHAT MORTIFICATION IS NOT” Continued In answer to this important inquiry, I shall do these things: I. Show what it is to mortify any sin, and that both negatively and positively, that we be not mistaken in the foundation.(37) II. Give general directions … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
From: https://reformedbooksonline.com/contra-socialism-communism-etc/ Article: Rutherford, Samuel – Question 16: “Whether or not a Despotical and Masterly Dominion of Men and Things Agree to the King Because he is the King” in Lex Rex 1646 Replace the word ‘king’ with ‘civil magistrate’ and this chapter is a masterly delineation of how Socialism (and many political ideas close thereto, rampant in the … More Contra Socialism, Communism, etc.
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