Yesterday I shared Baxter’s thoughts on the return of Jesus and today I’d like for you to consider the opposing views of that return. Baxter takes us to the view of those who are lost and then to those who are saved. “’Then shall all the tribes of the earth morn.’ To think and speak [...]
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I’m sorry I missed yesterday, but I do want to come back to Richard Baxter and his book The Saints’ Everlasting Rest. In the book he develops a view of what life will be like when we are brought into glory. He says, O fellow Christians, what a day will that be, when we, who [...]
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In The Saints’ Everlasting Rest Richard Baxter speaks of our worship in heaven, but he also speaks of the rest you and I will have from temptation. Maybe I’m the only one who struggles with temptation, but I’ve found it to be a day-by-day-by-day-by-day struggle that never seems to let up. One of the great [...]
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I’ve been reading Richard Baxter’s The Saints’ Everlasting Rest and have found Baxter’s thoughts on heaven to be riveting. I’m reading it on my I-pad so it will be hard to give you the page number, but as I share his thoughts on heaven this week I hope they will comfort you as much as [...]
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