Battle for God's Truth

Christian and Faithful at Vanity Fair: Puritan #JohnBunyan's #Pilgrim’sProgress Lecture In this lesson the conversation is continued between Faithful and Christian. Faithful recounts his interaction with Adam the First, Moses, Discontent, and then they both encounter Talkative. It includes an introduction to Jonathan Edwards on The Religious Affections, what are NOT signs that a person has holy affections.

A Call to Separation - #A.W.Pink / #ChristianAudioBooks "Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness? What harmony is there between Christ and the Devil? What does a believer have in common with an unbeliever? What agreement is there between the temple of God and idols?" 2 Corinthians  6:14 -16 Arthur Walkington Pink (1886-1952) evangelist and Biblical scholar

Sudden Conversions Are Often False - Puritan #JonathanEdwardsAudioSermons / #ParableoftheSower Matthew 13:3 Then He spoke many things to them in parables, saying: “Behold, a sower went out to sow. 4 And as he sowed, some seed fell by the wayside; and the birds came and devoured them. 5 Some fell on stony places, where they did not have much earth; and they immediately sprang up because they had no depth of earth. 6 But when the sun was up they were scorched, and because they had no root they withered away. 7 And some fell among thorns, and the thorns sprang up and choked them. 8 But others fell on good ground and yielded a crop: some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty. 9 He who has ears to hear, let him hear!”

Special Thanksgiving to the Father - #CharlesSpurgeonSermons Colossians 1:12 Giving thanks unto the Father, which hath made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light: 13 Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son #ThanksgivingSermons

Obstacles to #Soul Winning - #CharlesSpurgeonSermons Matthew 13:58 Now He did not do many mighty works there because of their unbelief.

Vegetating in Selfishness? - #OctaviusWinslow Philippians 1:21 For to me, to live is Christ and to die is gain. Romans 12:1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship.

Jesus Washing His Disciples' Feet! - #CharlesSpurgeonSermons John 13:6 He came to Simon Peter, who said to him, “Lord, are you going to wash my feet?”

"The war caused many Christians to focus on Bible prophecy and a preoccupation with the end times. Many felt that God's judgment had finally fallen on the godless nations of the world, and Britain was included."   #OswaldChambers - Living Aggressively for Christ ( #ChristianDevotional )  Hebrews  4:12  For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

If, and a Triple Promise - #CharlesSpurgeonDevotional : Faith's Checkbook 2 Chronicles 7:14 If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

What of my House? - #CharlesSpurgeonDevotional : #Faith'sCheckbook Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

My Will or God's Will? - #JRmiller / #ChristianDevotionals Matthew 6:11 Give us today our daily bread. Matthew 26:39 Going a little farther, he fell with his face to the ground and prayed, “My Father, if it is possible, may this cup be taken from me. Yet not as I will, but as you will.”

The meaning of 'knowledge'; its importance; the dangerous tendency to discount precise knowledge; niceness is not grace; the Jews' ignorance of the righteousness demanded by God. Knowledge of the #Truth - Dr. #MartynLloyd-Jones #Sermons Romans 10:3 Since they did not know the righteousness of God and sought to establish their own, they did not submit to God’s righteousness.

The Relationship of #Marriage - #CharlesSpurgeonSermons Jeremiah 3:14 “Return, faithless people,” declares the Lord, “for I am your husband. I will choose you—one from a town and two from a clan—and bring you to Zion." Ephesians 5:25 Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her

Lifting Up of the Downcast During #Spiritual Desertion – #Puritan William Bridge – 1648 #Psalm42 :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. "I do not only want the assurance of God’s love, and of mine own salvation; but I have wanted assurance this two, this four, this six, this eight, this ten years: and I have continued so long doubting in unbelief, and my heart is so hardened with it, that I am afraid I shall never be healed or saved. Oh, I have sat under such and such precious gospel means, and if ever I should have had assurance of God’s love, I should have had it before this. I have sat under many a comfortable sermon, and under the gospel preached many years, and yet have no assurance of my salvation; surely if the Lord would ever have bestowed assurance upon me, I should have had it ere this: but still unbelieving, and still do I want assu

#Apostasy from the #Holiness of the #Gospel - #PuritanJohnOwen / #ChristianAudioBooks “The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of devils.” (1 Timothy 4:1) Unacquaintedness with the true nature of evangelical repentance is another cause {why saints lack in gospel holiness}. This is that grace which comfortably carrieth the souls of believers through all their failings, infirmities, and sins; nor are they able to live to God one day without the constant exercise of it. They find it as necessary unto the continuance of spiritual life as faith itself. It is not only a means of our entrance into, but it belongs essentially unto, our gospel state and our continuance therein. Hereunto belongs that continual humble self-abasement, from a sense of the majesty and holiness of God, with the disproportion of the best of our duties unto his will, which believers live and walk in continually; and he

Ruler’s Sins the Cause of #NationalJudgments (1650) - #Puritan Patrick  Gillespie 2 Kings 23:26 Nevertheless the Lord did not turn from the fierceness of His great wrath, with which His anger was aroused against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked Him. From the Puritan Fast Day Sermons, preached after the death of Charles I. The subject is that the sins of previous monarchs may still be visited on a present generation though a godly ruler is in place. So in the case of the days of Josiah, because of Manasseh. In our own nation, the previous administration.

Beware of the #Religious Word Game - A. W. #TozerSermons Revelation 3:1 And unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.

The Co Heirs and Their Divine Inheritance - Charles #SpurgeonSermons #Romans 8:17 Now if we are children, then we are heirs—heirs of God and co-heirs with Christ, if indeed we share in his sufferings in order that we may also share in his glory.

#A.W.Pink on #Prayer - Gleanings from Paul ( #ReformedChristianaudio book excerpt with text) "In every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God" (Phil. 4:6)

The Genesis of the Great Life - #OswaldChambers (Inspirational #Christiandevotional ) John 6:29 Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.

Full Reliance on God - Charles #SpurgeonDevotional Faith's Checkbook Revelation 2:28 And I will give him the morning star.

#Puritan Thomas Watson's choice excerpts on #SIN (Christian #devotional) Romans 6:1 What shall we say, then? Shall we go on sinning so that grace may increase? 2 By no means! We are those who have died to sin; how can we live in it any longer? 3 Or don’t you know that all of us who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death? 4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.

Afflictions Appointed by our Loving Heavenly Father! - A. W. Pink ( #ChristianDevotional ) #Psalm 39:9 I was silent; I would not open my mouth, for you are the one who has done this. Hebrews 12:10 They disciplined us for a little while as they thought best; but God disciplines us for our good, in order that we may share in his holiness. 11 No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.

A Balm in #Gilead - J. C. Philpot #Sermon Jeremiah 46:11 “Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt; In vain you will use many medicines; You shall not be cured." From the sermon: “Now there are but few, comparatively speaking, who have any clear sight or any deep feeling of what sin really is; and the reason, for the most part, is because they have such a slight, shallow, superficial knowledge of who and what God is. But let them once see the purity of God by the eye of faith, let them once have a manifestation of His justice and holiness, majesty and greatness to their soul, and let them, seeing light in His light, have a corresponding sight and sense of the deep and desperate state in which they are as fallen children of a fallen parent, then will they no longer have slight, superficial feelings of the nature and evil of sin, but will so see and feel its hideous and damnable character as to make them cry out with Isaiah in the temple, 'Woe to me!

A Balm in #Gilead - J. C. Philpot #Sermon Jeremiah 46:11 “Go up to Gilead and take balm, O virgin, the daughter of Egypt; In vain you will use many medicines; You shall not be cured." From the sermon: “Now there are but few, comparatively speaking, who have any clear sight or any deep feeling of what sin really is; and the reason, for the most part, is because they have such a slight, shallow, superficial knowledge of who and what God is. But let them once see the purity of God by the eye of faith, let them once have a manifestation of His justice and holiness, majesty and greatness to their soul, and let them, seeing light in His light, have a corresponding sight and sense of the deep and desperate state in which they are as fallen children of a fallen parent, then will they no longer have slight, superficial feelings of the nature and evil of sin, but will so see and feel its hideous and damnable character as to make them cry out with Isaiah in the temple, 'Woe to me!

Citizenship In #Heaven - Charles #Spurgeon Sermons Philippians 3:20 For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ

#Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God - #ClassicAudioSermons by Puritan Theologian #JonathanEdwards  Deuteronomy 32:35 To me belongeth vengeance and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

Omniscience! - #CharlesSpurgeonSermons #Genesis 16:13 She gave this name to the Lord who spoke to her: “You are the God who sees me,” for she said, “I have now seen the One who sees me.”

#Prayer : I Will Pray with the Spirit & with Understanding Also - #Puritan #JohnBunyan 1 Corinthians 14:15 What am I to do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will pray with my mind also; I will sing praise with my spirit, but I will sing with my mind also.