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God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)

Works are an evidence of true faith. Graces are not dead, useless habits; they will have some effects and operations when they are weakest and in their infancy… This is the evidence by which we must judge, and this is the evidence by which Christ will judge… Works are not a ground of confidence, but an evidence; not the foundations of faith, but the encouragements of assurance. Comfort may be increased by the sight of good works, but it is not built upon them; they are seeds of hope, not props of confidence; sweet evidences of election, not causes; happy presages and beginnings of glory; in short, they can manifest an interest, but not merit it.
Thomas Manton

I have this day solemnly renewed my baptismal covenant and self-dedication, which I renewed when I was received into the communion of the church. I have been before God; and have given myself, all that I am and have to God, so that I am not in any respect my own: I can challenge no right in myself, I can challenge no right in this understanding, this will, these affections that are in me; neither have I any right to this body, or any of its members: no right to this tongue, these hands, nor feet: no right to these senses, these eyes, these ears, this smell or taste. I have given myself clear away, and have not retained anything as my own. I have been to God this morning, and told Him that I gave myself wholly to Him. I have given every power to Him; so that for the future I will challenge no right in myself, in any respect.
Jonathan Edwards

    • Month: October 2018

    300 NT Outlines

    XCII. The Night Cometh.

    JOHN ix. 4. “I must work the works of Him that sent Me, while it is day: the night cometh when no man can work.” LIKE other sayings of Jesus, this utterance is, in one sense, solely appropriate to Himself,…

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    300 NT Outlines

    XCI. The Absolute Sinlessness of Christ.

    JOHN viii. 46. “Which of you convinceth Me of sin.” IT has sometimes been inferred from the context of these words, that “sin” here means intellectual rather than moral failure. But the word here translated “sin” means moral failure throughout…

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