Archive for May, 2006

This Lord’s Day:

Josh May 7th, 2006

Blessings to all of God’s people this Lord’s Day!

Assembling in our various churches may we seek the unity for which Christ Jesus prayed in seventeenth chapter of John’s gospel:

20 “I do not ask for these only, but also for those who will believe in me through their word, 21 that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me. 22 The glory that you have given me I have given to them, that they may be one even as we are one, 23 I in them and you in me, that they may become perfectly one, so that the world may know that you sent me and loved them even as you loved me.

O, Thank the Lord for His Word effecting the salvation of God in the hearts of men! Surely His Word strengthens the weak, while weakening the “strong”! Gives guidance to the strays, while making the “sure” to stumble! Lays low the haughty, while lifting up the humble! Debases man, while exalting God! Makes wise men of the simple, while making foolish the scholar’s “wisdom”! Blessed be the man who keeps God’s statutes!

May we all, this Lord’s Day, remember the kindness of God our Savior, Who has seen fit to redeem a people for Himself…namely, us. Let us worship Him in spirit and truth, remembering that even our worship, unless robed in the righteousness of Christ, is a stench in the nostrils of God, but because of His obedience, our worship is a welcomed aroma to His divine faculties!

Praise Him, Ye His saints! Praise the God Who redeemed You with His own blood!

Amen and Amen!

On Slothfulness and Negligence

Josh May 2nd, 2006

A quote from William Guthrie’s “The Christian’s Great Interest”

The third thing which hindereth in many the knowledge of an interest in Christ is, A spirit of sloth and careless negligence. They complain that they known not whether they be in Christ or not; but as few take pains to be in Him, so few take pains to try if they be in Him. It i s a work and business which cannot be done sleeping: ‘Examine yourselves whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves: know ye not your own selves.’ [ 2Cor 13:5] The several words used here, namely Examine, prove, know-intimate that there is a labour in it: Diligence must be used to make our ‘calling and election sure.’ [2 Peter 1:10]It is a business above flesh and blood: the holy ‘anointing which teacheth all things,’ must make us’know the things freely given to us of God.’ [1 John 2:27] Shall the Lord impart a business of so great concernment, and not so much as ‘be inquired after to do it for men?’ [Ezek 36:37] Be shamed, you who spend so much time in reading of romances, in adorning your persons, in hawking and hunting, in consulting the law concerning your outward state in the world, and it may be in worse things than these; Be ashamed, you that spend so little time in the search of this, whether ye be an heir of glory or not? whether you be in the way that leadeth to heaven, or that way which will land you in darkness for ever? You who judge this below you, and unworthy of your pains, any part or minute of your time, it is probable, in God’s account, you have judged yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, so that you shall have no lot with God’s people in this manner.

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