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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.
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
Truth must be spoken, though the greatest on earth be offended.Drink Deeply: Meditations from the Fountain of Life
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
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.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.
Christ died for our preferment; He suffered that we might reign. He hung on the cross that we might sit on the throne; His crucifixion is our coronation.
He suffered everything that was required to repair and make up the glory of God. Better you and I and all the world should perish than God should be damaged in His glory. It is a truth, and I hope God will bring all our hearts to say, Christ hath suffered to make up that. The obedience that was in the sufferings of Christ brought more glory unto God than the disobedience of Adam, who was the original of the apostacy of the whole creation from God, brought dishonor unto Him. That which seemed to reflect great dishonor upon God was that all His creatures should as one man fall off by apostacy from Him. God will have His honor repaired, and it is done by the obedience of Christ much more.
A heart ascendant is the best evidence of your interest in Christ's ascension.
Christ's sitting down at God's right hand in heaven notes the advancement of Christ's human nature to the highest honor, even to be the object of adoration to angels and men. For it is properly His human nature that is the subject of all this honor and advancement, and being advanced to the right hand of Majesty, it is become an object of worship and adoration. Not simply as it is flesh and blood, but as it is personally united to the second person and enthroned in the supreme glory of heaven. Oh, here is the mystery, that flesh and blood should ever be advanced to the highest throne of Majesty, and being there installed in that glory, we may now direct our worship to him as God man. Fountain of Life, 420
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