by John Owen – March 25th, 2019 Chapter 13 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Speak No Peace 9. Speak No Peace until God Speaks Peace The ninth and last preparatory direction for mortification of sin is: In case God disquiets your heart about the guilt of its distempers, either in respect of sin’s root and indwelling, or in … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
SOURCE Then Abram believed in (affirmed, trusted in, relied on, remained steadfast to¹) the Lord; and He counted (credited) it to himas righteousness (doing right in regard to God and man). – – GEN 15:6 (AMP) ¹ For Christians, this is one of the key verses in all the Old Testament. Abram responded to God’s latest … More The Importance of Faith
by John Owen – March 24th, 2019 Chapter 12 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Meditations upon God (Continued) a). Objection: Christ reveals Himself to believers (continued) 2). Comparatively, that knowledge which we have of God by the revelation of Jesus Christ in the gospel is exceeding eminent and glorious. It is so in comparison of any knowledge … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
by John Owen – March 23rd, 2019 Chapter 12 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Meditations upon God 2). The way whereby we should know God We know little of God, because it is faith alone by which we know Him here. I shall not now discourse about the remaining impressions on the hearts of all men by … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
Question: “How is eternity in hell a fair punishment for sin?” Answer: Many people are uncomfortable, to say the least, with the idea of an eternal hell. This discomfort, though, is often the result of an incomplete understanding of three things: the nature of God, the nature of man, and the nature of sin. As fallen, … More Is hell fair?
Why Hell Still Belongs in a Christian Worldview by: John Stonestreet & G. Shane Morris If you think of American Christianity as a pendulum, we’re currently at the opposite extreme from the First Great Awakening. When Jonathan Edwards preached his famous sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” ¹ he compared human beings with spiders, … More BreakPoint: A Lack of Judgment?
6 Let the one who is taught the word share all his good things with the teacher. 7 Don’t be deceived: God is not mocked. For whatever a person sows he will also reap, 8 because the one who sows to his flesh will reap destruction from the flesh, but the one who sows to the Spirit will reap eternal life from the … More Do you A Sow?
by John Owen – March 22nd, 2019 Chapter 12 PREPARATORY DIRECTIONS Meditations upon God d. Our unacquaintance with our end The apostle tells us in 1 John 3:2 that we know not what we ourselves shall be, what we shall find ourselves in the end. Much less will it enter into our hearts to conceive … More Daily Devotional – Mortification of Sin
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
SOURCE This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all. 1 John 1:5 (KJV) I do not know about you but when I was a young child I did not like the darkness very much. It hid … More God is light
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