We Love God!

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

When we are tempted and seek to know and love God, and like Moses long to see His glory, and out of that occupation of our minds have no further love for that previous temptation, we have experienced something of the reality of the very highest form of freedom from sin. It is one thing to love sin and to force ourselves to quit it; it is another thing to hate sin because love for God is so gripping that the sin no longer appeals. The latter is repentance; the former is reform. It is repentance that God requires. Repentance is “a change of mind.” To love and yet quit it is not the same as hating it and quitting it. Your supposed victory over a sin may be simple displacement. You may love one sin so much (such as your pride) that you will curtail another more embarrassing sin which you also love. This may look spiritual, but there is nothing of God in it. Natural men do it every day.
Jim Elliff

HERBS

HERBS

HERBS, &c

  1. Called the green herbs # 2Ki 19:26
  2. GOD 2a) Created

    # Ge 1:11,12 2:5

2b) Causes to grow # Job 38:27 Ps 104:14 3) Each kind of, contains its own seed # Ge 1:11,12 4) Given as food to man # Ge 1:28,29 9:3 5) FOUND IN 5a) The fields # Jer 12:4 5b) The mountains # Pr 27:25 5c) The marshes # Job 8:11 5d) The deserts # Job 24:5 Jer 17:6 6) Cultivated in gardens # De 11:10 1Ki 21:2 7) Cultivated for food # Pr 15:17 Heb 6:7 8) Require rain dew # De 32:2 Job 38:26,27 9) Mode of watering, alluded to # De 11:10 10) MENTIONED IN SCRIPTURE 10a) Aloe # So 4:14 10b) Anise # Mt 23:23 10c) Barley # Ex 9:31 2Sa 14:30 10d) Beans # 2Sa 17:28 10e) Bulrushes # Ex 2:3 Isa 58:5 10f) Calamus # So 4:14 10g) Cummin # Isa 28:27 Mt 23:23 10h) Cucumber # Nu 11:5 Isa 1:8 10i) Fitches # Isa 28:25,27 10j) Flag # Ex 2:3 Job 8:11 10k) Flax # Ex 9:31 10l) Garlic # Nu 11:5 10m) Gourds # 2Ki 4:39 10n) Grass # Nu 22:4 10o) Heath # Jer 17:6 48:6 10p) Hyssop # Ex 12:22 1Ki 4:33 10q) Leeks # Nu 11:5 10r) Lentiles # Ge 25:34 10s) Mandrakes # Ge 30:14 So 7:13 10t) Mallows # Job 30:4 10u) Millet # Eze 4:9 10v) Melon # Nu 11:5 10w) Mint # Mt 23:23 10x) Myrrh # So 4:14 10y) Onions # Nu 11:5 10z) Reeds # Job 40:21 Isa 19:6 10A) Rushes # Job 8:11 10B) Rye # Ex 9:32 10C) Saffron # So 4:14 10D) Spikenard # So 4:14 10E) Tares or Darnel # Mt 13:30 10F) Wheat # Ex 9:32 Jer 12:13 11) Bitter, used at passover # Ex 12:8 Nu 9:11 12) Poisonous, not fit for man’s use # 2Ki 4:39,40 13) DESTROYED BY 13a) Hail and lightning # Ex 9:22-25 13b) Locusts, &c # Ex 10:12,15 Ps 105:34,35 13c) Drought # Isa 42:15 13d) Tithable among the Jews # Lu 11:42 14) Were sometimes used instead of animal food by weak saints # Ro 14:2 15) ILLUSTRATIVE 15a) Of the wicked # 2Ki 19:26 Ps 37:2 15b) (Dew on,) of grace given to saints # Isa 18:4