Battle for God's Truth

Self-Examination - Asahel Nettleton #Sermon 2 Corinthians 13:5 Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that #Jesus #Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Living on the #Word - Charles #Spurgeon #Sermon Matthew 4:4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’ Deuteronomy 8:3 He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord.

The Contradiction of God and Satan - Oswald Chambers "Now is the judgment of this world: now shall the prince of this world be cast out. And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. This he said, signifying what death he should die." (John 12:31-33)

#Love Your Neighbor - #CharlesSpurgeon #Sermon Matthew 19:19 'honor your father and mother,’ and ‘love your neighbor as yourself.’ Matthew 22:37 Jesus replied: “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’"

Four Marks of a Man Being Given Over By God - Puritan John Bunyan Sermon Romans 1:28 And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; 29 Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers

The Dangers of an Unconverted #Ministry - Gilbert Tennent This is the famous Nottingham #sermon that Tennant preached that caused a lot of controversy, nothing is held back. Mark 6:34 And #Jesus , when He came out, saw a great multitude and was moved with compassion for them, because they were like sheep not having a shepherd...

The #Christian #Family ! - John #Bunyan #Sermon Ephesians 5:22 Wives, submit yourselves to your own husbands as you do to the Lord. 23 For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. 24 Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. 25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

The ultimate purpose of salvation; the chief end of man; to #worship God; wrong ideas of worship; the danger of intellectualism; the 'beautiful service' and the psychological treatment; confusing religion with true worship and praise of God. The Chief End of Man - Martyn Lloyd-Jones #Sermon John 4:13 Jesus answered, “Everyone who drinks this water will be thirsty again, 14 but whoever drinks the water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water I give them will become in them a spring of water welling up to eternal life.”

The Discipline of the Lord! - #CharlesSpurgeon #Sermon #Psalm 94:12-15 12 Blessed is the one you discipline, Lord,     the one you teach from your law; 13 you grant them relief from days of trouble,     till a pit is dug for the wicked. 14 For the Lord will not reject his people;     he will never forsake his inheritance. 15 Judgment will again be founded on righteousness,     and all the upright in heart will follow it.

Iain Murray #Sermon - How Should We See #Death Revelation 14:13 And I heard a voice from #heaven saying, “Write this: Blessed are the dead who die in the Lord from now on.” “Blessed indeed,” says the Spirit, “that they may rest from their labors, for their deeds follow them!”

#Scripture 's Transforming Power - Dr. Joel Beeke #Sermon #Psalm 19:7 The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul: the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. 8 The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart: the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes. 9 The fear of the Lord is clean, enduring for ever: the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether. Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

He who Holds the Pruning-knife - J. R. #Miller John 15:15 "I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes so that it will be even more fruitful. #Christianity #devotional

The #Power of the #HolySpirit ! - #CharlesSpurgeon Sermon Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.

Why We Should #LoveOneAnother - Dr. Joel Beeke #Sermon 1 John 4:7 Beloved, let us #love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. 8 He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love. 9 In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10 Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we ought also to love one another. 12 No man hath seen #God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

The Torments of #Hell - #Puritan Thomas Boston Matthew 25:41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels #Psalm 139:8 If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.

How one can know that one is a child of God; reaction to sin; led by the Spirit of God; periods of desertion; delight in the doctrines. The #ChildrenOfGod - Martyn Lloyd-Jones #Sermon John 1:12 Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of #God — 13 children born not of natural descent, nor of human decision or a husband’s will, but born of God.

Christ's #Love to His Spouse! - Charles #Spurgeon #Sermon Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as #Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her John 10:11 I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Like Fire and Like a Hammer - Charles #Spurgeon #Sermon Jeremiah 23:29 “Is not my word like fire,” declares the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces? 30 “Therefore,” declares the Lord, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words supposedly from me. 31 Yes,” declares the Lord, “I am against the prophets who wag their own tongues and yet declare, ‘The Lord declares.’ 32 Indeed, I am against those who prophesy false dreams,” declares the Lord. “They tell them and lead my people astray with their reckless lies, yet I did not send or appoint them. They do not benefit these people in the least,” declares the Lord. 34 If a #prophet or a priest or anyone else claims, ‘This is a message from the Lord,’ I will punish them and their household.

An Earnest Exhortation to #NewEngland - #Puritan Increase Mather "God who sometimes said unto Jerusalem, be instructed lest my Soul depart from thee, and thou become desolate, a Land not inhabited, doth by his solemn Judgements in like manner call from #Heaven upon New-England, saying, be thou instructed, lest I depart from thee, and thou become desolate without an English Inhabitant. Wherefore we are to be exhorted (and Oh that we might be persuaded) since we have been brought into such a bleeding state, to make a right improvement of this dreadful Dispensation. O let not the Lord complain of New-England as sometimes of Israel, My People know not the Judgement of the Lord."

#JohnNewton - #Walking with #Jesus

#Puritan William Bridge / Video #Playlist #Christianity

God's desire to manifest the power of His wrath; 'fitted to destruction'; God's reasons for tolerating evil; longsuffering manifested; desire and will distinguished man rendered inexcusable; wrath made more striking. God's #Wrath - Martyn #Lloyd-Jones #Sermon #Romans 9:19 One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use? 22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— 24 even us, whom he also called, not only

The #Backslider Restored - Cottage #Lectures on #Pilgrim'sProgress - Charles Overton "Genuine penitents, for the most part, have far more difficulty in applying the promises of the gospel to their own case. They perceive, indeed, that a cold heart and a warm promise may be brought near to each other by the word ; but they know, they feel that they cannot unite, and the cheerful blaze of hope and love be experienced within, until faith is given from above, and the promise is applied by a hand Divine."

#Puritan Richard Sibbes on Entertaining the #HolySpirit - Dr. Joel Beeke

A. W. #Tozer #Sermon - Faithful in #Truth and #Love Hebrews 6:9 But, beloved, we are confident of better things concerning you, yes, things that accompany salvation, though we speak in this manner. 10 For God is not unjust to forget your work and labor of love which you have shown toward His name, in that you have ministered to the saints, and do minister. 11 And we desire that each one of you show the same diligence to the full assurance of hope until the end

#Affliction Sanctified: #Glory Follows Afflictions As Spring Follows The Winter - Richard Sibbes "Whatsoever is good for God’s children they shall have it, for all is theirs to further them to #heaven ; therefore, if poverty be good, they shall have it; if disgrace be good, they shall have it; if crosses be good, they shall have them; if misery be good, they shall have it; for all is ours, to serve for our greatest good."

#Temptations to Turn Back - Cottage #Lectures on #Pilgrim'sProgress - Charles Overton "Learn, dear brethren, from all this, first of all, the necessity of decision. How did Christian prevail over the arguments of Obstinate and Pliable when they came upon him, resolved to bring him back to the City of Destruction ? By what means was he enabled to send one of them back ashamed, and to induce the other to change his resolution, and to profess the faith which he came to oppose ? It was by a bold, firm, and unyielding maintenance of the great truths which he had learned from his book, and which he had felt in his heart."

The Awakened #Pilgrim : Cottage Lectures - Charles Overton In 1847 appeared the first part, and in 1849 the second part, of the most popular of his works: ‘Cottage Lectures on #JohnBunyan ’s “Pilgrim’s Progress” practically explained.’ These publications were very favourably received by the #evangelical party, both in England and America.

The absurdity of questioning God; the scriptural basis for Paul's rebuke; the difference between creating; and shaping fallen humanity; our responsibility for sin; the inconsistency of Paul's opponents; contingency; determinism and #Christian certainty. #Holy God, Fallen Man - #MartynLloyd-Jones #Sermon Romans 9:19 One of you will say to me: “Then why does God still blame us? For who is able to resist his will?” 20 But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? “Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, ‘Why did you make me like this?’” 21 Does not the potter have the right to make out of the same lump of clay some pottery for special purposes and some for common use? 22 What if God, although choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction? 23 What if he did this to make the riches of his glory known to the objects of his mercy, whom he prepared in advance for glory— 24 even u

For #God So Loved The World - #JohnCalvin / Commentary on #John3:16 John 3:16 "For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life."

Free Will: A Slave - Charles #Spurgeon #Sermon John 5:40 And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.

Seeking this experience; Biblical warrant; the manner of seeking; warnings and directions; encouragements to seek; from saints of the past. Seeking the #Spirit - Martyn Lloyd-Jones #Sermon #Romans 8:16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God’s children.

Of Meditating on the Future Life - John #Calvin / Institutes of the #Christian #Religion Titus 2:13 looking for the blessed hope and glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ

No Reason to be Discouraged due to Remaining #Sin – #Puritan William Bridge – 1648 A Lifting Up of the Downcast, “Why Art Thou Cast Down Oh My Soul?” Though remaining sin causes grief and humiliation, we are not to despair because of it. #Psalm 42:11 Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

Types of assurance; #baptism and fullness; the danger of self-persuasion; a profound experience; agonizing; tarrying and laying-on of hands rejected; longing and #praying . #Spirit Baptism and Fullness - Martyn Lloyd-Jones Sermon Romans 8:15 The Spirit you received does not make you slaves, so that you live in fear again; rather, the Spirit you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, “Abba, Father.”

Charles #Spurgeon #Devotional : Faith's Checkbook - It Will Not Be Long James 5:8 Be ye also patient; stablish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord draweth nigh.

Forsaking Our First Love! - Charles #Spurgeon #Sermon #Revelation 2:4 Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first.