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there is something far more dreadful than physical calamity and suffering, namely, moral delinquency and spiritual apostasy. Alas, that this is so rarely perceived today!The Life of Elijah. Chapel Library.
Almost all doctrinal error is really truth perverted. Truth wrongly divided. Truth disproportionately held and taught.
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.https://www.monergism.com/sovereignty-god-unabridged
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)
Everything about God is great, vast, incomparable. He never forgets, never fails, never falters, never forfeits His word.
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.https://www.monergism.com/ten-commandments-ebook-1
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).https://www.monergism.com/ten-commandments-ebook-1
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
the character of God Himself must change before the Law (the rule of His government) can be revoked. https://www.monergism.com/ten-commandments-ebook-1
Salvation is a free gift, but an empty hand must receive it, and not a hand which still tightly grasps the world.
One should entertain no notions about justification if he does not at the same time possess the principle of sanctification.
If Scripture teaches the imputation of sin, we should not stumble when we find it affirming the imputation of righteousness.
An ineffably holy God, who has the utmost abhorrence of all sin, was never invented by any of Adam's fallen descendants!
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)
The wrath of God is as much a divine perfection as is His faithfulness, power, or mercy
Justification and sanctification are inseparable concomitants. Indeed, they are not to be confounded, but withal they ought not to be severed. Distinguished they must be, divided they cannot; and therefore they are fitly called twins in the womb of free grace.
A believer is to do nothing for justification, only believe and be saved; though the law be a rule for everyone that believes to walk by, it is not for justification. But if you do not put a difference between justification wrought by the man Christ without and sanctification wrought by the Spirit of Christ within, teaching believers their duty to their God for His love in giving Christ, you are not able to divide the word aright; but contrariwise, you corrupt the word of God and cast stumbling blocks before the people and will certainly one day most deeply smart for your folly, except you repent.
Justification and sanctification are inseparable companions; distinguished they must be, but divided they can never be. Where sin is pardoned, the gift of sanctity is still conferred. It is weakness, it is wickedness, for a man to conclude that he is in an elected and justified state when he has nothing, when he has not the least thing to evidence himself to be in a sanctified state. Both justification and sanctification have had a necessary respect to the salvation of all those that shall go to heaven.
O sirs! The same Spirit that witnesses to a Christian in his justification can shine upon his graces and witness to him his sanctification as well as his justification, and without all controversy, it is as much the office of the Spirit to witness to a man his sanctification as it is to witness to him his justification (1 Cor. 2:12; 1 John 4:13–14).
Sanctification and justification are both of them benefits of the covenant of grace, and therefore to evidence the one by the other can be no turning aside to the covenant of works (Jer. 33:8–9; Heb. 8:10, 12). You may run and read in the covenant of grace that he that is justified is also sanctified, and he that is sanctified is also justified; and therefore, why may not he that knows himself to be really sanctified upon that very ground safely and boldly conclude that he is certainly justified.
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.https://www.monergism.com/ten-commandments-ebook-1
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
The reason why God blessed the seventh day was not because it was the seventh, but because "in it he had rested."
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!
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.
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