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Who you are is more important than what you say. Bottom line: The quality of your own spiritual life is of greatest importance to your child’s spiritual development. This was one of the most important insights of the Puritans on the subject of the family. Here is what two of them wrote: “Precept without patterns will do little good; you must lead [children] to Christ by examples as well as counsel; you must set yourselves first, and speak by lives as well as words; you must live religion as well as talk religion” (Eleazar Mather). “Be sure to set good example before your children… Other methods of instruction probably will not do much good, if you don’t teach them by a godly example. Don’t think your children will mind the good rules you give them if you act contrary to those rules yourselves… If your counsels are good, and your examples evil, your children will be more like to be hurt by the latter, than benefited by the former” (Benjamin Wadsworth). Larger Quote: (Kent and Barbara Hughes).
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Our natural prejudgment of reality is against God. To receive the truth of God requires that our “anti” bias be changed. The key work of the Holy Spirit in regeneration is not giving new knowledge to the brain but changing the disposition of the heart. Before the Spirit turns that heart of stone into a heart of flesh, we have no desire for the things of God. We may desire the blessings that only God can give us, but we have no affection for the things of God. At the moment of regeneration, the eyes of the heart are opened somewhat, but this is just the beginning. The whole Christian life involves an unfolding and enlarging of the heart’s openness to the things of God.
R.C. Sproul

Bible – Read the Español – (Spanish Modern) Jonás Chapter 2:1-10 Online.

Index: Español – (Spanish Modern)

 

Jonás 2

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2:1 Y desde el vientre del pez oró Jonás a Jehovah su Dios.

2:2 Y dijo: “Desde mi angustia invoqué a Jehovah, y él me respondió. Clamé desde el vientre del Seol, y tú escuchaste mi voz.

2:3 Me arrojaste a lo profundo, en el corazón de los mares, y me rodeó la corriente: Todas tus ondas y tus olas han pasado sobre mí.

2:4 Yo dije: Expulsado soy de delante de tus ojos; pero aún he de ver tu santo templo.

2:5 Las aguas me han envuelto hasta la garganta; me rodeó el abismo. Las algas se enredaron en mi cabeza.

2:6 Descendí a la base de las montañas. La tierra echó sus cerrojos tras de mí para siempre. Pero tú hiciste subir mi vida de la fosa, ¡oh Jehovah, Dios mío!

2:7 Cuando mi alma desfallecía dentro de mí, me acordé de Jehovah; y mi oración llegó hasta ti, a tu santo templo.

2:8 Los que veneran las vanidades ilusorias abandonan su lealtad.

2:9 Pero yo te ofreceré sacrificio con voz de alabanza. Lo que prometí haciendo votos, lo cumpliré. ¡La salvación pertenece a Jehovah!”

2:10 Entonces Jehovah habló al pez, y éste vomitó a Jonás en tierra.