Battle for God's Truth

#Biography of William Cowper (Institutionalised for #Insanity)

The Comer's Conflict with Satan - Charles #Spurgeon #Sermon Luke 9:42 And as he was yet a coming, the devil threw him down, and tare him. And #Jesus rebuked the unclean spirit, and healed the child, and delivered him again to his father.

The relevance and topicality of the #Bible; the terrible danger of being deceived; today's sins are the same as in Corinth; the deceptions of 'modern' morality: no absolute standards; the fallacy that you can have morality without godliness; the 'ethic' without the 'doctrine'; clean hands and clean hearts required by God; a moral/spiritual cleansing. The Unrighteous Shall not Inherit - Martyn Lloyd Jones Sermon 1 Corinthians 6:9 Or do you not know that wrongdoers will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor men who have sex with men 10 nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord #Jesus #Christ and by the Spirit of our God.

John Owen - Doctrine of Conversion, not Repentance, for the Unregenerate (Audio Reading with Text) Matthew 3:10 The axe is now laid to the root of the tree...

David Brainerd - Letters of David Brainerd "I have been just a dying now for more than a week; and all around me have thought me so. I have had clear views of eternity; … oh, what anguish is raised in my mind, to think of an eternity for those who are Christless, for those who are mistaken, and who bring their false hopes to the grave with them! The sight was so dreadful I could by no means bear it: my thoughts recoiled, and I said, (under a more affecting sense than ever before,) “Who can dwell with everlasting burnings?” Oh, methought, could I now see my friends, that I might warn them to see to it, that they lay their foundation for eternity sure." David Brainerd (April 20, 1718--October 9, 1747) was an American #missionary to the Native Americans who had a particularly fruitful #ministry among the Delaware Indians of New Jersey. During his short life he was beset by many difficulties. As a result, his biography has become a source of inspiration and encouragement to ...

Election and Holiness - Charles #Spurgeon #Sermon Deuteronomy 10:14 Behold, the #heaven and the heaven of heavens is the Lord's thy God, the earth also, with all that therein is. 15 Only the #Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day. 16 Circumcise therefore the foreskin of your heart, and be no more stiffnecked.

Anger of itself is not sinful; a right kind of anger; moral indignation; sin is disappearing; bad temper and irritability condemned by Scripture; a wrong kind of temper; lack of control gives the devil his greatest opportunity; renewed in the image of #God ; forgiveness the mark of the #Christian . Sinful and Righteous #Anger - Martyn Lloyd Jones #Sermon Ephesians 4:20 That, however, is not the way of life you learned 21 when you heard about Christ and were taught in him in accordance with the truth that is in Jesus. 22 You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; 23 to be made new in the attitude of your minds; 24 and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.