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Suffering Sin

Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.

Truth Error

As the loving mother rejoices to be the fountain of nourishment to the babe which clings to her warm bosom, so the Christian father delights to convey, even by reverent reading, "the sincere milk of the word" (1 Peter 2:2). He has found it good to his own soul; he rejoices in an appointed means of conveying it to his offspring.

A Theology of the Family

J.W. Alexander

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Here then is the design of prayer: not that God's will may be altered, but that it may be accomplished in His own good time and way. It is because God has promised certain things that we can ask for them with the full assurance of faith.

Prayer God's Sovereignty

How many a young man, never called of God, has been pressed into the ministry by well-meaning friends who had more zeal than knowledge. None may rightly count upon the divine blessing in the service of Christ unless he has been expressly set apart thereto by the Holy Spirit (Ac 13:2)

Gleanings from Elisha (18)

Calling

Everything about God is great, vast, incomparable. He never forgets, never fails, never falters, never forfeits His word.

Knowing God

The way of family worship is a good old way, no new thing, but the ancient usage of the saints.

Commentary Gen 12:6

Matthew Henry

the very manner of their publication plainly showed that God Himself assigned to the Decalogue peculiar importance. The Ten Commandments were uttered by God in an audible voice, with the fearful adjuncts of clouds and darkness, thunders and lightnings and the sound of a trumpet, and they were the only parts of Divine Revelation so spoken—none of the ceremonial or civil precepts were thus distinguished. Those Ten Words, and they alone, were written by the finger of God upon tables of stone, and they alone were deposited in the holy ark for safekeeping. Thus, in the unique honor conferred upon the Decalogue, we may perceive its paramount importance in the divine government.

False theology makes God's foreknowledge of our believing the cause of His election to salvation; whereas, God's election is the cause, and our believing in Christ is the effect

Foreknowledge Election

A family without prayer is like a house without a roof, open and exposed to all the storms of heaven.

Thomas Brooks

the perpetuity of the Law appears in God's writing it in the hearts of His people at their new birth ( Jeremiah 31:33; Ezekiel 36:26,27).

the character of God Himself must change before the Law (the rule of His government) can be revoked.

Salvation is a free gift, but an empty hand must receive it, and not a hand which still tightly grasps the world.

Salvation

Lead Family Worship with a firm, fatherly hand and a soft, penitent heart: Even when you're bone-weary after a day's work, pray for strength to carry out your fatherly duty. Remember that Christ Jesus went to the cross for you bone-weary and exhausted but never shrunk from His mission. As you deny yourself, you will see how He strengthens you during Family Worship, so that by the time you finish, your exhaustion is overcome.

Theology of the Family, 96

Joel Beeke

If Scripture teaches the imputation of sin, we should not stumble when we find it affirming the imputation of righteousness.

Original Sin Imputation

An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of all sin, was never invented by any of Adam's fallen descendants!

Existence of God

we would say to any young man who is seriously contemplating entering the ministry, Abandon such a prospect at once if you are not prepared to be treated with contempt and made 'as the filth of the world, the off-scouring of all things'

The Life of Elijah (chap 30)

Calling

The wrath of God is as much a divine perfection as is His faithfulness, power, or mercy

Wrath

If God be the founder, the owner, the governor, and benefactor of families; if such little societies be of His appointment and do both need and receive daily mercies from Him, it is but fit He should be worshiped and owned every day in particular families. Before the giving of the law to Moses, how was God worshiped but in families? Family worship was the first kind of social worship.

John Shower

True, the Christian is not under the Law as a Covenant of Works nor as a ministration of condemnation, but he is under it as a rule of life and a means of sanctification.

the people were commanded to spend two days in preparing themselves, by a ceremonial cleansing from all external pollution, before they were ready to stand in the presence of God ( Exodus 19:10,11). This teaches us that serious preparation of heart and mind must be made before we come to wait before God in His ordinances and receive a word at His mouth

Ten Commandments

Set up and maintain the private worship of God in your family.

William Perkins

The reason why God blessed the seventh day was not because it was the seventh, but because "in it he had rested."

Sabbath The Lord's Day

Why, then, did He "rest," and why is it recorded on the top of the second page of Holy Writ? Surely, there can be only one answer: as an example for man!

Sabbath The Lord's Day

We must remember that the Christian belongs to the spiritual realm as well as the natural, and so he has spiritual as well as natural foes; hence he needs spiritual strength as well as physical.