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Saturday, June 9, 2012

Elijah’s appeal to the undecided



Elijah’s appeal to the undecided

“How long halt ye between two opinions? If the Lord be God, follow him: if Baal, then follow him.” 



Suggested Further Reading:


I insist that it is your bounden duty, if you believe in God, simply because he is God, to serve him and obey him. I do not tell you it is for your advantage—it may be, I believe it is—but that I put aside from the question; I demand of you that you follow God, if you believe him to be God.

If you do not think he is God; if you really think that the devil is God, then follow him; his pretended godhead shall be your plea, and you shall be consistent; but if God be God, if he made you, I demand that you serve him; if it is he who puts the breath into your nostrils, I demand that you obey him.

 If God be really worthy of worship, and you really think so, I demand that you either follow him, or else deny that he is God at all. Now, professor, if thou sayest that Christ’s gospel is the only gospel, if thou believest in the divinity of the gospel, and puttest thy trust in Christ, I demand of thee to follow out the gospel, not merely because it will be to thy advantage, but because the gospel is divine.
If his gospel be true, and thou believest it to be true, it is thy duty to carry it out.
 If thou makest a profession of being a child of God, if thou art a believer, and thinkest and believest religion is the best, the service of God most desirable, I do not come to plead with thee because of any advantage thou wouldst get by being holy; it is on this ground that I put it, that the Lord is God; and if he be God, it is thy business to serve him.

For meditation: 

Four things God will not accept—hypocrisy (Luke 6:46),
half-heartedness (Luke 9:59-62),
double-mindedness (James 1:6-8)
and lukewarmness (Revelation 3:15,16).

Sermon no. 134==31 May (1857)

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PRAYER

Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those
that I care deeply for, who are reading this
right now. 
Show them a new revelation of Your love and power.
Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment.
Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy.. 
Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace.
Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. 
Bless their homes, families, finances, their 
goings and their comings. 
Amen. 
          
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Friday, June 8, 2012

A present religion



A present religion




“Beloved, now are we the sons of God.” 1 John 3:2


Suggested Further Reading: Hebrews 13:1-8


We need not talk of walking righteously, and soberly, in the world to come—

“There all is pure, and all is clear, There all is joy and love.”
There will be no duty to discharge between the tradesmen and the customers, between the debtor and the creditor, between the father and the child, between the husband and the wife, in heaven, for all these relationships will have passed away. 


Religion must be intended for this life; the duties of it cannot be practised, unless they are practised here. But besides these, there are other duties devolving upon the Christian. Though it is every man’s duty to be honest and sober, the Christian has another code of law. 


It is the Christian’s duty to love his enemies, to be at peace with all men, to forgive as he hopes to be forgiven; it is his duty not to resist evil, when smitten on the one cheek to turn the other also; it is his duty to give to him that asketh of him, and from him that would borrow of him not to turn away—he is to be a liberal soul, devising liberal things. 


It is the Christian’s duty to visit his Master’s children when they are sick, so that it may be said to him at last, “I was sick, and naked, and in prison, and ye visited me, and ministered to my necessities.” 


Now, if religion be not a thing for this world, I ask you how it is possible to perform its duties at all? There are no poor in heaven whom we can comfort and visit; there are no enemies in heaven whom we can graciously forgive; and there are not injuries inflicted, or wrongs endured, which we can bear with patience. 


Religion must have been intended in the very first place for this world, it must have been meant that now we should be the sons of God.
For meditation:
 Faith in Christ is the qualification for a place in heaven; work for Christ is the qualification for rewards in heaven in addition to a place in heaven

 (Matthew 10:40-42).

Sermon no. 196...30 May (1858)


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The purpose of these pages is to share the precious word of God,
 without acquiring any monetary reward. 
God gave me the salvation for free, 
so I share the gospel of his word the same 
way ..

 ( NO ADVERTISEMENTS ) ... 


  Blessings to all of You 

 rejoice in the sublime and infallible word of God 

♥♥♥ 

PRAYER

Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those
that I care deeply for, who are reading this
right now. 
Show them a new revelation of Your love and power.
Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment.
Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy.. 
Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace.
Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. 
Bless their homes, families, finances, their 
goings and their comings. 
Amen. 
          
"HAVE A BLESSED DAY FULL OF PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS"


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Thursday, June 7, 2012

A troubled prayer

A troubled prayer

‘Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.’


Suggested Further Reading:


A Christian counts sorrow lighter in the scale than sin; he can bear that his troubles should continue, but he cannot endure the burden of his guilt, or the weight of his transgressions. 

Here are two guests come to my door; both of them ask to have a lodging with me. The one is called Affliction; he has a very grave voice, and a very heavy hand, and he looks at me with fierce eyes. 

The other is called Sin , and he is very soft-spoken, and very fair, and his words are softer than butter. Let me scan their faces, let me examine them as to their character; I must not be deceived by appearances. 

I will ask my two friends who would lodge with me, to open their hands. When my friend Affliction, with some little difficulty, opens his hand, I find that, rough as it is, he carries a jewel inside it, and that he meant to leave that jewel at my house. 

But as for my soft-spoken friend Sin, when I force him to show me what it is that is hidden in his sleeve, I find that it is a dagger with which he would have stabbed me. 

What shall I do, then, if I am wise? Why, I should be very glad if they would both be good enough to go and stop somewhere else, but if I must entertain one of the two, I would shut my door in the face of smooth-spoken Sin, and say to the rougher and uglier visitor, Affliction, ‘Come and stop with me, for maybe God has sent you as a messenger of mercy to my soul.’ 

Look upon mine affliction and my pain, and forgive all my sin.’ 

We must be more express and explicit about sin than we are about trouble.




For meditation: 


Anything has got to be better than sin; the Christian is not short of alternatives to prefer (Psalm 84:10;Matthew 18:8–9Ephesians 4:285:4,11Hebrews 11:25). Are these your sentiments or would you rather hold on to your sin (John 3:19), regardless of what it has done to you (Romans 7:11) and what it will do to you (Romans 6:23)?






Sermon no. 741--- (No date of Sermon)



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The purpose of these pages is to share the precious word of God,
 without acquiring any monetary reward. 
God gave me the salvation for free, 
so I share the gospel of his word the same 
way ..

 ( NO ADVERTISEMENTS ) ... 


  Blessings to all of You 

 rejoice in the sublime and infallible word of God 

♥♥♥ 

PRAYER

Father, I ask You to bless my friends, relatives and those
that I care deeply for, who are reading this
right now. 
Show them a new revelation of Your love and power.
Holy Spirit, I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment.
Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy.. 
Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace.
Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. 
Bless their homes, families, finances, their 
goings and their comings. 
Amen. 
          
"HAVE A BLESSED DAY FULL OF PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS"


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