God: "I looked for someone to take a stand for me, and stand in the gap" (Ezekiel 22:30)
The signs of a flesh-pleaser or sensualist are these:
1. When a man in his desire to please his appetite, does not do it with a view to a higher end, that is to say to the preparing himself for the service of God; but does it only for the delight itself.
2. When he looks more eagerly and industriously after the prosperity of his body than of his soul.
3. When he will not refrain from his pleasures, when God forbids them, or when they hurt his soul, or when the necessities of his soul call him away from them.
4. When the pleasures of his flesh exceed his delights in God, and His holy word and ways, and the expectations of endless pleasure. When he had rather be at a play, or feast, or other entertainment, or getting good bargains or profits in the world, than to live in the life of faith and love, which would be a holy and heavenly way of living.
5. When men set their minds to scheme and study to make provision for the pleasures of the flesh; and this is first and sweetest in their thoughts.
6. When they had rather talk, or hear, or read of fleshly pleasures, than of spiritual and heavenly delights.
7. When they love the company of merry sensualists, better than the communion of saints, in which they may be exercised in the praises of their Maker.
8. When they consider that the best place to live and work is where they have the pleasure of the flesh. They would rather be where they have things easy, and lack nothing for the body, rather than where they have far better help and provision for the soul, though the flesh be pinched for it.
9. When he will be more eager to spend money to please his flesh than to please God.
10. When he will believe or like no doctrine but “easy-believism,” and hate mortification as too strict “legalism.” By these, and similar signs, sensuality may easily be known; indeed, by the main bent of the life.
Richard Baxter
Cornflake Cookies
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CATEGORY
CUISINE
TAG
YIELD
Eggs, Dairy
Canadian
Cookies
1
Servings
INGREDIENTS
1
c
Butter, room temperature
1
c
White sugar
1
Egg, lightly beaten
1
ts
Vanilla
1 1/2
c
All-purpose flour
1
ts
Cream of tartar
1/2
ts
Salt
1
ts
Baking soda
5
c
Crushed corn flakes
INSTRUCTIONS
Cream butter. Add sugar, egg, vanilla; mix well. Stir in flour, cream of
tartar, salt, baking soda. Add corn flakes. Drop by spoonfuls 2 inches
apart on an ungreased cookie sheet. Bake 10 minutes at 325F. Source: The
Canadian Heritage Cookbook ch.
Posted to MM-Recipes Digest V3 #298
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 00:17:20 -0500
From: Cindy J Hartlin <[email protected]>
A Message from our Provider:
“Our hopelessness and our helplessness are no barrier to (God’s) work. Indeed our utter incapacity is often the prop He delights to use for His next act… We are facing one of the principles of Yahweh’s modus operandi. When His people are without strength, without resources, without hope, without human gimmicks – then He loves to stretch forth His hand from heaven. Once we see where God often begins we will understand how we may be encouraged. #Ralph Davis”
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