Quote 4138
Your rock doth not ebb and flow, but your sea.
Samuel Rutherford
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Christians care about all suffering, especially eternal suffering. Else they have a defective heart or a flameless hell.(Lasaunne conference)
The pain of our shattered plans is for the purpose of scattered grace. Suffering and the Sovereignty of God(106)
Those who know true joy in the midst of suffering are those who recognize that, in this life, our suffering is never as great or as serious as our sins. Humility: True Greatness (Chapter 11)
As sure as God puts His children in the furnace he will be in the furnace with them.
Do you wonder about the trials in your life? Well let me just let you know the purpose of them is to cut away everything in your life, so that Jesus does become your life, and it's worth it.
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
Look rather at God's end in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.
There are no lessons so useful as those learned in the school of affliction.
Believe God's word and power more than you believe your own feelings and experiences. Your Rock is Christ, and it is not the Rock which ebbs and flows, but your sea.
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord.
Sickness, and losses, and crosses, and anxieties, and disappointments seem absolutely needful to keep us humble, watchful, and spiritual minded. Holiness (Chapter 6)
Grace is not educed or extracted out of the potency of any created nature. Grace is born in heaven, and came from the inmost of the heart of Christ; it hath neither seed nor parent on earth, therefore the Lord challengeth it as his own
It is an abasement of Christ, that he who gives such a ransom to justice for free-grace, should wait for a penny from sinners; that sinners must bid and buy, and engage him to give, and Christ say, you must give me more, I must sell, not give grace for nothing. Your penny-worths cannot roll about that everlasting wheel of free-grace, the decree of election, or bow or break Christ's free heart to save you, rather than another.https://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
I covered (saith Christ) thy nakedness. O what a garment of glory is the imputed righteousness of Christ! Bring forth the best robe, and put on him. This is the white raiment that clothed the shame of our nakedness.https://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
The manner of grace's working on saints is gracious, and so essentially free; as is evident in our first drawing to Christ, when many sins are forgiven, and so the soul loves much; and the sweetest burden in heaven, or out of heaven, is a burden of the love of Christhttps://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
there lies and flows such a sea and ocean of infinite love about the heart, and in the bowels of Jesus Christ, as would over-save, and out-love infinite world of sinnershttps://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
But for the ground, reason and cause on Christ's part of drawing, it is free-grace, and only free-grace; https://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
Men have a sort of satisfaction in their natural condition: a whole man desires no physician. A dead man hath some negative content to lie in grave; he can have no acts of sorrow for want of life. (2.) We do not put forth any stirring of life or desire toward that which is naturally above us: a child in the belly hath no acts toward a crown or a kingdom in this life, because desires are bottomed and founded on nature; as an ape, or a horse, hath no desire to be a man.https://www.monergism.com/christ-dying-and-drawing-sinners-himself-ebook
We believe that repentance and mortification involve a real, personal turning from sin—a weakening of the lusts of the old nature, a dying to the pleasures of sin, and a growing desire for heavenly things. This flows from union with Christ in His death and resurrection, apprehended by faith.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
The Law commands us to love God with all our heart. That law required Abraham to offer his son, and Judah to return from exile— not because those acts were written in specific commandments, but because love for God requires obedience to whatever He commands. In this way, we are bound to obey God the Redeemer as well as God the Lawgiverhttps://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
pardoned sin is still sin. Sorrow for having pierced Christ is the Gospel groaning of the dove. This is godly sorrow.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Grace is not lawless. True grace is: Active and obedient, Thankful and holy, Eager to honor the Lawgiver, Concerned for the glory of the gospel, Joyful and bold in Christ, Yet tender and reverent, as if there were no gospel— And free and fearless, as if there were no curse.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Our obedience is not a means of earning righteousness, but a response to grace, flowing from the Spirit.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
Antinomians go too far by claiming that believers are now released from all obligation to obey—as if any call to duty were legalism.https://www.monergism.com/modest-survey-secrets-antinomianism-ebook
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