by John Owen – March 21st, 2019 Chapter 12 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Meditations upon God 1). Objection: Moses was under the Law You will say that Moses was under the Law when God veiled Himself in darkness and His mind(86) in types(87) and clouds and dark institutions. Under the glorious shining of the gospel— which has … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – March 19th, 2019 Chapter 12 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Meditations upon God 8. Exercise Yourself to Meditate upon God The eighth preparatory direction for the mortification of sin is: Use and exercise yourself to such meditations as may serve to fill you at all times with self-abasement and thoughts of your own vileness. … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – March 19th, 2019 Chapter 11 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Five Others (Continued) 6. Watch against Sin’s Advantages The sixth direction for mortification is: Consider what occasions, what advantages, your distemper has taken to exert and put forth itself and watch against them all. This is one part of that duty which our … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
Source God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first, to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.” Acts 3:26 (ESV) Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary REFLECTIONS What a sweet thought is it to my soul, that to all the crippled faculties of my fallen nature; the name of Jesus … More Raised up his Servant
March 19, 2019by: J. Alasdair Groves There are many reasons and excuses for losing one’s temper. Some are related to conditions like PTSD but as the author notes “Ultimately then, a lost temper is just anger that’s been put in charge without checks or balances.” -Mike Losing your temper is a lot like losing your car … More Help! I Keep Losing My Temper
by John Owen – March 18th, 2019 Chapter 11 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Five Others (Continued) c. Bringing the body into subjection For the mortification of any distemper so rooted in the nature of a man, unto all other ways and means already named (or further to be insisted on), there is one expedient peculiarly suit-ed: … More by John Owen – March 18th, 2019
by John Owen – March 17th, 2019 Chapter 11 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Five Others (Continued) 4. Constantly Long for Deliverance My fourth direction for the mortification of sin is: Being thus affected with your sin, in the next place get a constant longing and breathing after deliverance from the power of it. Suffer not your … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – March 15th, 2019 Chapter 11 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Five Others (Continued) 3. Load Your Conscience with the Guilt of Sin (continued) A; 2). Guilt from gospel light Bring your lust to the gospel, not for relief, but for further conviction of its guilt. Look on Him Whom you have pierced and … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
For it became him, for whom are all things, and by whom are all things, in bringing many sons unto glory, to make the captain of their salvation perfect through sufferings. Hebrews 2:10 (KJV) Whom does your eternity rest upon? Yourself or some long dead and returned to dust figure from history? Modern culture would … More Captain of their salvation
by John Owen – March 15th, 2019 Chapter 11 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Five Others 3. Load Your Conscience with the Guilt of Sin This is my third direction for the mortification of sin: Load your conscience with the guilt of it. Not only consider that it has guilt but load your conscience with the guilt of … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
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