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<b><span style="color: white;"><span class="dquo" style="border: 0px; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“</span>Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you” (<a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="James 4.7b–8a" data-version="esv" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/James%204.7b%E2%80%938a" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">James 4:7b–8a</a>).</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: white;">Regrettably, in much of the world today it is difficult to observe any difference between those who call themselves Christians and those making no such claim at all. Different surveys show that many church members have become double-minded, professing faith in Christ while embracing the lifestyle of this fallen world.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: white;">Being double-minded was also indicative of the original audience to whom James wrote his epistle. In 1:6–8, James warned his audience against coming before the Lord in a double-minded manner. This audience needed this warning because of its reluctance to be doers of the Word (v. 22), shown by exalting the rich (2:1–7) and misusing the tongue (3:1–12), which indicated that they might be Christians in name only, lacking true faith (2:14–26).</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: white;">Yet, this audience was not without hope. Some, if not all, were true “brothers” (1:19; 2:1; 3:1) and could once again receive the wisdom and grace of God that ensures perseverance (1:2–4; 3:13–18; 4:6). Today’s passage tells how this is done. The first step is to submit to God and to resist the devil (4:7). Until Christ returns to consummate the kingdom, the devil has the power to lure God’s people away from submission to Jesus’ rule. Therefore, we must stand daily against the enemy and eagerly embrace God’s rule over our lives.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: white;">Such submission demonstrates the humility that we must possess if we are to receive the grace that restores us (v. 6). Moreover, this humility also requires repentance and cleansing. We must draw near to God, purifying our hearts and cleansing our hands (v. 8) by turning from our inward and outward sins and asking God to cleanse us.</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: white;">Verse 8 does not tell us that we initiate our relationship with God. In fact, God must come to us first (<a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="John 6.44" data-version="esv" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/John%206.44" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">John 6:44</a>). Yet His regenerative work in our hearts is demonstrated as we draw near to Him. On this point, John Calvin says, “if anyone concludes from this passage, that the first part of the work belongs to us, and that afterwards the grace of God follows, the Apostle meant no such thing; for though we ought to do this, yet it does not immediately follow that we can. … The very thing he [the Holy Spirit] bids us to do, he himself fulfills in us.”</span></b></div>
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<b><span style="color: white;">All Christians can find at least one area in their lives in which they have sought to follow their own understanding instead of the standards of the Lord. God has promised to forgive us for this behavior if we would but draw near to Him. Go before the Lord today in the confidence we have to enter His presence, asking for His forgiveness (<a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Heb. 10.19–22" data-version="esv" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Heb.%2010.19%E2%80%9322" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; font-size: 13.63636302947998px; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Heb. 10:19–22</a>). Find a friend who will hold you accountable for going before God in prayer and who can help you resist the devil.</span></b></div>
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kshirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425876484304704912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898277185335714994.post-24855513887979058992013-09-17T09:22:00.001-07:002013-09-17T09:22:14.415-07:00We Preach Christ<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Wonderful clear teaching on definite atonement...Steve Lawson<br />
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This is a M. Lloyd-Jones message about confidence in prayer...very encouraging.</div>
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kshirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425876484304704912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898277185335714994.post-18571868858159836942013-05-15T09:35:00.001-07:002013-05-15T09:35:49.547-07:00Pray and Be Alone With God - Paul Washer<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="270" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/aFKQaxcR9XU" width="480"></iframe>kshirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425876484304704912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898277185335714994.post-13961637387511809752013-05-15T09:31:00.001-07:002013-05-15T09:31:27.233-07:00John Macarthur, David Wilkerson, Paul Washer, Carter Conlon, Leonard rav...<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/4x27Ynmg7tc" width="459"></iframe>kshirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425876484304704912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898277185335714994.post-83542813506850936142013-05-15T08:49:00.001-07:002013-05-15T08:49:09.970-07:00END TIMES - John Macarthur, David wilkerson, Carter Conlon, Derek prince<iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="344" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/JBkEFyQfjzo" width="459"></iframe>kshirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425876484304704912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898277185335714994.post-31115550195115997442013-05-10T07:34:00.003-07:002013-05-10T08:01:08.223-07:00Jesus Is The Way...<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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For those who have had difficulty in believing that Jesus is God...God the Son...and believing in the Trinity I pray for you: <br />
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Turn stony hearts to flesh...give them the faith that saves...regenerate them by Your Spirit...salvation belongs to God and you are mighty to save.<br />
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kshirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425876484304704912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898277185335714994.post-73906255487246829932013-04-11T08:06:00.002-07:002013-04-11T08:11:56.526-07:00Close Fellowship<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><i>Truly, whatever else we do not know, we know the LORD. This day is this promise true in our experience, and it is not a little one. The least believer among us knows God in Christ Jesus. Not as fully as we desire; but yet truly and really we know the LORD. We not only know doctrines about Him, but we know Him. He is our Father and our Friend. We are acquainted with Him personally. We can say, "My LORD, and my God." We are on terms of close fellowship with God, and many a happy season do we spend in His holy company. We are no more strangers to our God, but the secret of the LORD is with us.<br /><br />This is more than nature could have taught us. Flesh and blood has not revealed God to us. Christ Jesus had made known the Father to our hearts. If, then, the LORD has made us know Himself, is not this the fountain of all saving knowledge? To know God is eternal life. So soon as we come to acquaintance with God we have the evidence of being quickened into newness of life. O my soul, rejoice in this knowledge, and bless thy God all this day!</i></span></div>
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kshirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425876484304704912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898277185335714994.post-38516961775760074142013-04-02T03:53:00.000-07:002013-04-02T03:53:37.030-07:00Be Not Afraid<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The LORD would have His chosen display discrimination so that they may see that the desolation of the wicked is not a real calamity to the universe. Sin alone is evil; the punishment which follows thereupon is as a preserving salt to keep society from putrefying. We should be far more shocked at the sin which deserves hell than at the hell which comes out of sin.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #ffe599; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, too, should the LORD's people exhibit great quietness of spirit. Satan and his serpent seed are full of all subtlety; but those who walk with God shall not be taken in their deceitful snares. Go on, believer in Jesus, and let the LORD be thy confidence.</span><br />
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Here is a wonderful teaching from a series by Steve Lawson. He clearly explains what regeneration means, what eternal life means...what the eternal security of the believer means.<br />
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">by <a href="http://www.ligonier.org/learn/teachers/jonathan-dodson/" rel="author" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jonathan Dodson</a></span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In today’s culture, we are more pragmatic than reflective. Obsessed with knowing what works and how it works, we strive to repeat the formula. We are less concerned with why things work. Discipleship is no exception. Many have traded in the why for the how, motivation for the best practice. This is disconcerting. The reason for this is that practice can take us only so far. When hardship hits, practice needs motivation to continue.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">What motivates you to follow Jesus? If this question isn’t one you continually ponder and answer, you will walk away from Jesus rather than after Him.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Given our culture’s pragmatic bent, the modern discipleship mantra is “make disciples who make disciples.” This mantra is pragmatic and reproductive. Is pragmatic reproduction Jesus’ chief concern? When He came proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, did He give an inspiring message and then move to three action points on how to make disciples? Certainly, He did model, instruct, and send (Luke 9–10). The kingdom of God is embedded with reproductive <span class="caps" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">DNA</span> (reflected in some of Jesus’ agricultural parables). But the kingdom of God is also slow and deep. It stretches across arduous lifespans and into the depths of the human heart. The reign of Christ penetrates our <span class="caps" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">DNA</span>, continually motivating us.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Instead of focusing His training on the how, Jesus relentlessly got to the why. This is why so many of His sayings are unnerving. As a master teacher, He provoked reflection, not just action:</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">As they were going along the road, someone said to him, “I will follow you wherever you go.” And Jesus said to him, “Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.” (<a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Luke 9.57–58" data-version="esv" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Luke%209.57%E2%80%9358" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Luke 9:57–58</a>)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Yet another said, “I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home.” Jesus said to him, “No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God.” (vv. 62–63)</span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Jesus forces us to reflect on our motives for following Him. If we live for comfort and ease, we won’t give up our beds, money, and entertainment to follow Him. If idyllic community is what motivates our decisions, we won’t give up close friends and family members. Jesus is clear. If we want to be His disciples, we must be motivated by something greater than comfort and community. His kingdom must motivate us, and the kingdom comes with a cost.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">True disciples will consider and embrace the cost over and over again. They will endure because, in finding the kingdom, they have found a King worthy of their sacrifice. Searching for the why of their existence, they discover a pearl of great price. Disciples motivated by pragmatism alone may consider the cost and embrace the cause of making disciples who make disciples, but when push comes to shove, they will walk away from Jesus, not after Him. We need more than the hows of fulfilling the Great Commission to get us through the adversity of seeking first the kingdom of God.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When Jesus gave His mountaintop commission, He loaded it with kingdom motivation. The main directive to make disciples is preceded by the image of a risen, radiant king, rippling with power and authority, in heaven and on earth (<a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Dan. 7.9–14" data-version="esv" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Dan.%207.9%E2%80%9314" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Dan. 7:9–14</a>; <a class="lbsBibleRef" data-reference="Matt. 28.17" data-version="esv" href="http://biblia.com/bible/esv/Matt.%2028.17" style="border: 0px; cursor: pointer; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">Matt. 28:17</a>). He is strong enough to depose nations and glorious enough to summon their worship. We are sent under this aegis. We are not sent in the authority of our own experience but in the authority of His lordship. Our story isn’t sufficient to “make a disciple,” but His story is. Why do we go? To baptize into His name, not ours. Making disciples of all nations is no personal cause; it is the redemptive agenda of God Himself. Our motivation, then, arises from being submerged in the grace of God, not from having others align with our way of doing things.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">How do we continue to make disciples when wading neck deep in sin? We have to remember that the success of our mission requires not only the authority of the King but also the mercy of the Messiah. He is the Disciple who succeeds where we fail, in perfect obedience to God. We extend mercy from His mercies that are new every day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But what if the mission field is too hard? Behold, He is with us always, even to the end of the age. We depend not only on the past obedience of the Faithful Disciple, but also on the present presence of the risen Lord. We make disciples in the authority of Jesus, submerged in the grace of Jesus, enduring in the mercy of Jesus, with the forever promise of the presence of King Jesus. Disciples need to recover a singular motivation to endure all the cost—the infinite sufficiency and splendor of our Lord.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #eeeeee; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Why do we follow Jesus? Because of who He is. If we have Jesus, we have more than enough to make disciples.</span></div>
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<b>Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised,</b></div>
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We, the creatures of God, simply cannot completely understand the power and Being of God. We can have true understanding of Him, know Him in Spirit and Truth, but never have total, complete understanding.</div>
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He is God and we are not...we can grow in the grace and knowledge of God....forever...He has no beginning and He has no end. Glory!</div>
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<b>The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth.</b></div>
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<span style="color: #f1c232;"><b>How unsearchable are His judgments and how inscrutable His ways.</b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">IM: For particular reasons, the majority of my reading in 2010 was in the works of John MacArthur and Archibald Brown (I hope to see published this year The Forgotten Brown, Spurgeon’s Successor).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">IM: Strength: a growing worldwide unity in doctrinal Christianity. Weakness: self-dependence, man-centeredness, and corresponding poverty in prayer and fellowship with God.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">TT: When Banner of Truth Publishing opened it s doors, there were not a lot of Reformed publishers, and many old Reformed books were long out of print. Tell us a little bit about those early days.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">IM: For a long time in Britain, books f rom the older Christian heritage were in no demand on the secondhand market, and publishers commonly regarded them as virtually unsalable. With a few important exceptions (for example, Calvin’s Institutes and Ryle’s Holiness), new reprint s in the Reformed tradition only circulated in the UK from the few U.S. publishers promoting such books around 1950. Behind the change that began in Britain was the praying of an older generation and the preaching of Martyn Lloyd-Jones. His ministry at Westminster Chapel aroused hunger for different Christian literature and got a new generation reading. The Banner of Truth Trust, started at Westminster Chapel in 1957, was one of the new agencies which appeared at that period.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">IM: I am too close to it to judge. Certainly, its publications proved to other publishers that there was a readership for books that came from an ethos considerably different from that of contemporary evangelicalism. I believe the Banner books have also played a part in renewing the recognition that church history is thrilling, and that the most valuable commentaries on Scripture are not the technical and academic ones.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">A priority in the Banner’s publishing vision was to help raise another generation of preachers.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">The part that Calvinistic literature has played in helping churches from Brazil to Korea has also been noteworthy.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">IM: My book Revival and Revivalism traces evangelical preaching in America in the formative years from the 1750s to 1857. On the basis of such promises as that of Christ to be with us “always,” preachers believed that there would always be an ongoing work of grace in the churches. At some periods, however, the ingathering was large and sudden, and the name revival came into use, being understood as an exceptional work of the Spirit of God.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">But in the nineteenth century, a school of thought developed that believed revivals could be permanent if only the churches were faithful and used the right methods. The argument was that just as one individual is converted by accepting Christ, why cannot numbers be induced to accept Him at the same time? According to this thinking, “revivals” occur in proportion to human effort. The mistake was to ignore that regeneration (a change of nature) is the true cause of conversion, and it is not within the ability of speaker or hearer to determine when anyone passes from death to life (Eph. 2:8). The church is to preach Christ, but He determines the increase (Acts 13:48; 1 Cor. 3:6). It was when this truth was ignored that methods to achieve “conversions” multiplied and “revivalism” was born. The controversy that followed was not between those for or against evangelism; it was about what evangel ism real ly means, as John MacArthur has shown so clearly in his books The Gospel According to Jesus and The Gospel According to the Apostles. Men of outstanding stature opposed the new teaching when it entered in the nineteenth century, and their biographies are among the best in Christian literature.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">IM: The reason church history is not always thrilling is that people do not read it around the flesh-and-blood figures of men and women whom God used to shape its course. Biographies raise the questions: Why were individuals so used? What made Mary Slessor or William Carey? What are the abiding spiritual lessons? Biographies show that doctrinal belief is not a secondary or theoretical thing; rather, it has vital consequence in the way Christians live. Weak doctrine produces weak lives. Those who “turn the world upside down” are always those “mighty in the Scriptures.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Scripture says, “Whoever walks with the wise becomes wise” (Prov. 13:20). God has given us enduring friendships with the wise of other generations through their books. “Next to the Holy Scriptures,” said A.W. Tozer, “the greatest aid to the life of faith may be Christian biographies.”</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">IM: I owe a great debt to many people. In my university years, there was no one who impressed me more as a Christian than Sarah Cochrane, a Salvation Army woman, who washed the floors in our college and had to live with a drunken husband. Among my greatest helpers were older men who led me to good books: F.J. Hobbs (a tailor) and S.M. Houghton (a schoolmaster). Later on, my generation had the privilege of knowing John Murray (who spent much of his life at Westminster Seminary, Philadelphia) and Martyn Lloyd-Jones. They were humble, godly leaders.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">We never know how our lives will touch others. For example, how few of the names of mothers are known to the world, but how different Christian history would have been had their hidden ministry not been exercised. And what Christian man can say how much he owes to his wife? For all Christians, the words are true: “Let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up” (Gal. 6:9).</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Iain H. Murray is cofounder of Banner of Truth Trust in Edinburgh, Scotland, and an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church of Australia. He is a prominent author and biographer, having written more than twenty books, including Heroes, The Forgotten Spurgeon, Jonathan Edwards: A New Biography, Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism, and Evangelicalism Divided: A Record of Crucial Change in the Years 1950 to 2000.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">DATE<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>August 1st, 2011</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">TOPICS<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Christianity and Culture</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">KEYWORDS<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Iain Murray, Interview, Revival</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Rev. Iain H. Murray is a co-founder of Banner of Truth Trust in Edinburgh, Scotland, and is minister emeritus of the Australian Presbyterian Church. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">Living for God: Calvin on the Spiritual Life</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">ALL RESOURCES BY IAIN MURRAY</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">The Spirit of Revival: Discovering the Wisdom of Jonathan Edwards</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">by Archie Parrish</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;"> Revival and Revivalism: The Making and Marring of American Evangelicalism 1750-1858</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;"> George Whitefield: The Life and Times of the Great Evangelist of the 18th Century Revival (Volume 1)</span><br />
<span style="color: #cccccc; font-size: large;">by Arnold Dallimore</span><br />
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kshirleyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14425876484304704912noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3898277185335714994.post-37481741539028338422013-01-10T21:43:00.002-08:002013-01-10T21:51:30.577-08:00Delighting in God's Law?<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">A</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">survey by George Gallup Jr. revealed a startling trend in our culture. According to Gallup</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">,</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> the evidence seems to indicate that there are no clear behavioral patterns that distinguish </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Christians </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">from non</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">-Christians</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> in our society. We all seem to be marching to the same drummer, looking to the shifting standards of contemporary culture for the basis of what is acceptable conduct. What everybody else is doing seems to be our only ethical norm.</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #cccccc; font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This pattern can emerge </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">only </span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">in a society or a church wherein the law of God is eclipsed. The very word <em style="border: 0px; display: inline; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">law</em> seems to have an unpleasant ring to it in our evangelical circles.</span><span style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div>
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Baptist had seen the whole land at his feet, had gathered a band of disciples,
and introduced the Messiah to the Jewish people, he found the crowds dwindling.
His disciples viewed with feelings of chagrin the transference of popular
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crowds, the hushed attention, the swift response, the power of speech, the
message, the deep repentance, the office of morning star heralding the
Dayspring from on high, had been the gift of God. He had nothing which he had
not received; he would have received nothing, except God had given it to him.
Whether these things went or came was a matter altogether beyond his control.
His part was to receive and use what God gave; and then return to Him, at His
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this the time of your prosperity? Crowds wait on your words; mighty movements
circle around you; glorious results follow on your plans! Do not be puffed up.
Boast not yourself. "Who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that
thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as
if thou hadst not received it?" Peace. If it is not due to your lethargy
or sloth that the crowds have ebbed away, and that the tide of conversions has
dropped below its former level, be at peace. These are things which the Holy
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