No man is truly awake today who has not developed a supra-national horizon to his thinking. No church is anything more than a pathetic pietistic backwater unless it is first and fundamentally and all the time a world missionary church.
James Stewart

AFFECTIONS

AFFECTIONS

AFFECTIONS, The

  1. Should be supremely set upon God # De 6:3 Mr 12:30
  2. SHOULD BE SET 2a) Upon the commandments of God

    # Ps 19:8-10 119:20,97,103,167

2b) Upon the house and worship of God # 1Ch 29:3 Ps 26:8 27:4 84:1,2 2c) Upon the people of God # Ps 16:3 Ro 12:10 2Co 7:13-15 1Th 2:8 2d) Upon heavenly things # Col 3:1,2 3) Should be zealously engaged for God # Ps 69:9 119:139 Ga 4:18 4) Christ claims the first place in # Mt 10:37 Lu 14:26 5) Enkindled by communion with Christ # Lu 24:32 6) Blessedness of making God the object of # Ps 91:14 7) Should not grow cold # Ps 106:12,13 Mt 24:12 Ga 4:15 Re 2:4 8) Of saints, supremely set on God # Ps 42:1 73:25 119:10 9) Of the wicked, not sincerely set on God # Isa 58:1,2 Eze 33:31,32 Lu 8:13 10) Carnal affections should be mortified # Ro 8:13 13:14 1Co 9:27 Col 3:5 1Th 4:5 11) Carnal affections crucified in saints # Ro 6:6 Ga 5:24 12) False teachers seek to captivate # Ga 1:10 4:17 2Ti 3:6 2Pe 2:3,18 Re 2:14,20 13) Of the wicked, are unnatural and perverted # Ro 1:31 2Ti 3:3 2Pe 2:10