When we truly come to understand the freedom that comes through slavery to Jesus Christ we will earnestly begin to mortify the flesh and do all that we can to bring our Master glory. A few years ago a friend gave me a copy Henry Scougal’s book, The Life of God in the Soul of [...]
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Yesterday I quoted Thomas Manton who said, “Jesus Christ is the cabinet in which God’s jewels are kept. If we want to stand, we must get out of ourselves and into Christ, in whom alone there is safety.” That reminded me of a quote from Samuel Rutherford, ”Put the beauty of ten thousand worlds of [...]
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For the last two days I’ve written about our being a slave of Jesus. Today I was reminded of why we would gladly bow the knee to Jesus as our Master. In my study for next week I came across the following quote from Thomas Manton, “Jesus Christ is the cabinet in which God’s jewels [...]
Read the rest of this entry »Aug 15, Slaves of God
Yesterday I preached on the first line of Jude 1, “Jude a servant of Jesus Christ and brother of James.” I showed that the word servant should be translated as slaves and worked through the meaning of our being slaves of Jesus. Before I could complete the sermon I simply ran out of time and [...]
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