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fear makes people impatient while waiting for God's time and method of deliverance. It discourages the soul and drives it into the next temptation's snare.
John Flavel
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To fear man is natural; to fear God is wholly supernatural.Triumphing over Sinful Fear, 20
To the extent that our souls are empty of faith, they are filled with fear. We read of people who have died by no other cause than their fear. But we never read of anyone, once brought to life by faith, dying because of fear.Triumphing over Sinful Fear, 35
Our immoderate love of life and its comforts and conveniences is another cause of sinful fear in times of danger. If we loved our lives less, we would fear and tremble less.Triumphing over Sinful Fear, 42
Fear consults with flesh and blood, while faith engages with God to supply strength to endure the siege.Triumphing over Sinful Fear, 53
There are many in hell, who would be glad to change conditions with you, as bad as you think yours to be.
Upon their king's death, it was the Persians' custom (I am not saying it was laudable) to grant everyone liberty for five days to do whatever they wanted. The unbridled lust was so great that it made the people long and pray for the installment of their next king. In this way it endeared government to them. Blessed be God for law and government, for using them to curb people's raging lusts, and thereby procuring rest and comfort for us in the world!Triumphing over Sinful Fear, 22-23
a trembling life destroys the spiritual comforts that flow from God's promises. It also destroys our experience of the promises - the sweetest pleasures we have in this world.
Truth must be spoken, though the greatest on earth be offended.Drink Deeply: Meditations from the Fountain of Life
If we fear God, we dare not ignore what He commands. If His fear is exalted in our hearts, it will enable us to obey Him in duties accompanied with deep self-denial.Triumphing over Sinful Fear, 20
Look to it, my dear friends, that none of you be found Christless at your appearance before him. Those that continue Christless now, will be left speechless then. God forbid that you that have heard so much of Christ, and you that have professed so much of Christ, should at last fall into a worse condition than those that never heard the name of Christ.
A young ungrounded Christian, when he sees all the fundamental truths, and sees good evidence and reasons of them, perhaps may be yet ignorant of the right order and place of every truth. It is a rare thing to have young professors to understand the necessary truths methodically: and this is a very great defect: for a great part of the usefulness and excellency of particular truths consisteth in the respect they have to one another. This therefore will be a very considerable part of your confirmation, and growth in your understandings, to see the body of the Christian doctrine, as it were, at one view, as the several parts of it are united in one perfect frame; and to know what aspect one point has upon another, and which are their due places. There is a great difference betwixt the sight of the several parts of a clock or watch, as they are disjointed and scattered abroad, and the seeing of them conjointed, and in use and motion. To see here a pin and there a wheel, and not know how to set them all together, nor ever see them in their due places, will give but little satisfaction. It is the frame and design of holy doctrine that must be known, and every part should be discerned as it has its particular use to that design, and as it is connected with the other parts.
If we were to understand how dear we are to God, our relation to Him, our value in His eyes, and how He protects us by His faithful promises and gracious presence, we would not tremble at every appearance of danger.
The Scriptures teach us the best way of living, the noblest way of suffering and the most comfortable way of dying.
It is a reproach and dishonor to Christ to fill our heads with distracting cares and fears when we have so wise a Head to consult and work for us.Triumphing Over Sinful Fear, 106
In their pride, our enemies are apt to overrate their power. Sadly, we are apt to overrate it in our fear.Triumphing Over Sinful Fear, 105
Oh, give the Lord no rest until your hearts are at rest by the assurance of His love for you and the pardon of your sins!Triumphing Over Sinful Fear, 98
The way to calm our thoughts is to commit everything to God.
Fear naturally produces cowardice in people - a poor, low spirit that faints and yields upon every slight assault.Triumphing over Sinful Fear, 54
Sinful fear arises from unbelief - an unworthy distrust of God. This occurs when we fail to rely upon the security of God's promise; in order words, when we refuse to trust in God's protection.Triumphing over Sinful Fear, 12
Providence is wiser than you, and you may be confident it has suited all things better to your eternal good than you could do had you been left to your own option.
There is also a lawful contempt of death. We freely grant it, that in two cases a believer may contemn it. First, when it is propounded to them in a temptation on purpose to scare them from Christ and duty, then they should slight it as in Revelation 12:11. They loved not their lives to the death. Secondly, when the natural evil of death is set in competition with the enjoyment of God in glory, then a believer should despise it, as Christ is said to do (Heb. 12:2), though His was a shameful death. But upon all other accounts and considerations, it is the height of stupidity and security to despise it.
A grave with Christ is a comfortable place.
Oh then let not believers stand in fear of the grave. He that hath one foot in heaven need not fear to put the other into the grave.
If there certainly be such an eternal state into which souls pass immediately after death, how great a change then doth death make upon every man and woman! Oh, what a serious thing is it to die! It is your passage out of the swift river of time into the boundless and bottomless ocean of eternity. You that now converse with sensible objects, with men and women like yourselves, enter then into the world of spirits. You that now see the continual revolutions of days and nights, passing away one after another, will then be fixed in a perpetual now. Oh, what a serious thing is death!
Conscience is the seat of guilt. It is like a burning glass, so it contracts the beams of the threatenings, twists them together, and reflects them on the soul until it smoke, scorch, and flame.
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