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Affections Rightly Placed
August 15th, 2024
A great light being near a little one, draws away and obscures the flame of the other. So it is when the affections are taken up higher to their fit object; they die unto all earthly things, while th...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Kingdom Violence (7)
August 14th, 2024
Consider Paul for an instance. He was as earnest when he was a Christian as before he was a Christian. He was never more eager after shedding of the blood of Christians and breathing out slaughter ag...  Read More
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Kingdom Violence (6)
August 13th, 2024
We see then the disposition of true disciples, they are violent in respect of heavenly things. Those that are not earnest in the cause of religion, when the state of things requires it, they have no ...  Read More
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Kingdom Violence (5)
August 12th, 2024
There is a blessed violence that will stand under judgment. A man must not be violent and wise in the things of this world; much less after filthy pleasures. Instead, a man 'must become a fool' (1 Co...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Kingdom Violence (4)
August 11th, 2024
Compare your efforts toward the good things of heaven with your efforts toward the things of the world. If there is a hope of being preferred, the doors of great men are sure to suffer violence from ...  Read More
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Kingdom Violence (3)
August 10th, 2024
(7) The excellency of something demands violence. It is appropriate that excellent things should have answerable affections. It is the kingdom of heaven, what affection is answerable but a violent, s...  Read More
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Kingdom Violence (2)
August 9th, 2024
(3) There is opposition from the world. On one side there are the snares and delights of the world, to quench the delight in the good things of the Spirit. On the other side are fears, terrors, and s...  Read More
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Kingdom Violence (1)
August 8th, 2024
Those that intend to enter the kingdom must strive to enter; and when they are in, they must keep it with violence. This violence is necessary for all who desire to enter the kingdom of heaven, for t...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Questions About the Spiritual Life in Christ (2)
August 7th, 2024
Does a Christian perpetually grow? Not at all times, in all parts. Trees we know, in wintertime, grow in the root. Christians do not grow always in all graces, but only in some one radical grace, as ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Questions About the Spiritual Life in Christ (1)
August 6th, 2024
Why are we not healed all at once and completely? What does it mean that we are still subject to these infirmities of ours? Some of Christ's works of healing are perfectly done all at once, but some ...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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The Sun of Righteousness Heals (2)
August 5th, 2024
By his Spirit he heals and enlightens our understanding, which by nature is dark, and so easily led astray to mistake light for darkness, and darkness for light. This he heals by his word, creating i...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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The Sun of Righteousness Heals (1)
August 4th, 2024
If Christ is the Sun of Righteousness, we should, when we are spiritually cold and numb, retreat to him, and know that he has exactly what we need. Are we dark? He is light. Are we sick? He can heal ...  Read More
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Invitation to Salvation
August 3rd, 2024
Let me speak a word to the many who yet have their choice to make, who have other lords and other gods to rule over them. Let them consider what a fearful state it is not to be able to say; 'God is m...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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How We Can Know That God Has Chosen Us
August 2nd, 2024
We can know that God has chosen us and called us effectually if we have grace to choose him for our God. When he bids us believe he gives an influence of power to be able to say, ‘I believe; Lord, he...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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In Trouble? Pray!
August 1st, 2024
Prayer is a product or branch of faith. God gives faith to make use of prayer. God will not give this great privilege without hearts to make use of it. As soon as Paul was a believer, presently after...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Assurance of Salvation (5)
July 31st, 2024
The assurance of salvation is wrought by the sealing of the Spirit and the sanctifying of us. Take heed we grieve not the Spirit of God. God's Spirit moves our hearts oftentimes in hearing the word, ...  Read More
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Assurance of Salvation (4)
July 30th, 2024
As for the assurance of salvation, we must do our part too, though it begins with God. He loves us first and embraces us first; and we must love in return and embrace in return. Lord, you must begin....  Read More
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Assurance of Salvation (3)
July 29th, 2024
That we may maintain our assurance of salvation, see the grounds of it. It is not in our perfection, for then the poor disciples, where had they been? Alas! They had dealt unfaithfully with Christ. Bu...  Read More
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Assurance of Salvation (2)
July 28th, 2024
(2) Likewise, we may know those who belong to God by our sympathy and antipathy—our sympathy with them that be good, and antipathy to that which is wicked. There is a love of that which is good. So g...  Read More
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Assurance of Salvation (1)
July 27th, 2024
Knowing you are a true believer: (1) Those that belong to God, the Spirit of God witnesses to them that they are sons. There will be some intimations, and insinuations, and hints, though the Spirit o...  Read More
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Inner Comfort
July 26th, 2024
Beloved, what cannot we expect from God, who is now our God! What he is, what he is able to do, what he has, all is ours. The wise merchant in the gospel sold all for the field wherein the treasure w...  Read More
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One with God
July 25th, 2024
Who gives us a being to be Christians, to have a new nature, but God? Who maintains and preserves that being but God? And who keeps and preserves us until we are changed into a glorious being in heav...  Read More
by Richard Sibbes
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Is God Our God?
July 24th, 2024
What is it for us to make God our God? It is this: to set up God a throne in our hearts; to give him a sovereignty over all things in the world, that we may say in truth of heart, God is our joy, God...  Read More
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God Is Our God
July 23rd, 2024
I beseech you, do not lose the comfort of it, that in Christ, God is our God. Perhaps we cannot say, great houses are ours, or friends are ours, or inheritances ours. That is no matter. We can say, t...  Read More
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