Monthly archives: June, 2019

The Mind

June 28, 2019 jakin7

The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace, because the sinful mind is hostile to God.

It does not submit to God’s law, nor can it do so.  Romans 8: 6,7

“Walking with God implies that the prevailing power of the enmity of a person’s heart be taken away by the blessed Spirit of God.

Perhaps it may seem a hard saying to some, but our own experience daily proves, what the Scriptures in many places assert, that the carnal mind,

the mind of the unconverted natural man,

and even the mind of the regenerate, so far as any part of him remains unrenewed, is enmity,…

Our first parents contracted it when they fell from God by eating the forbidden fruit…and the same enmity rules and prevails in every man that is naturally engendered of the offspring of Adam…”

George Whitefield (1714-1770)

Excerpt from George Whitefield Daily Readings
Edited by Randall J. Pederson P.1

 

Pharaoh said, “Who is the Lord, that I should obey him and let Israel go? I do not know the Lord and I will not let Israel go.”  Exodus 5:2

Understanding

June 14, 2019 jakin7

They who “lean to their own understanding”…

who care more to be learned than to be holy;

 

 

who value the tree of knowledge

more than the tree of life;

who desire “meat for their lust,” rather than manna for their souls.

Such, indeed, make difficulties for themselves. The “voice out of the whirlwind” rebukes them, as “darkening counsel by words without knowledge.” (Job 38:1,2.)

Scripture difficulties belong not to the Book itself, but to man’s blind and corrupt heart.The carnal man cannot understand it, any more than the blind can see the noon-day light of the sun.

But ‘it is easy to all that have a desire to it, and which are not blinded by the prince of this world.’ The “babes” are taught of God.  (Matthew 11:25).

He not only unfolds the truth, but opens their hearts to receive it. There will be, indeed, great depths.

from Proverbs by Charles Bridges (1794 -1869) Excerpt from Proverbs Chapter 8 P.73,74

The Fear Of God

June 13, 2019 jakin7

The fear of God is a many-faceted jewel of Biblical truth.

One of those facets is seen in the Book of Proverbs in the simple sentence:

“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Proverbs. 9:10).

The beginning of new life in Christ is the beginning of the fear of the Lord (Ps.130:4).

The beginning of the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Pro.1:7). 

The beginning of wisdom is the beginning of a life lived in harmony with all of God’s cause-and-effect systems: natural, physical, social, and moral-especially moral.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

There are only two kinds of people in this world: those who live in willing harmony with God’s moral law and those who live in willing rejection of God’s moral law.

The first kind are considered the Wise.

The other kind are called “fools” (Ps.14:1).

             from The Fear of God a forgotten doctrine p.3   Arnold L. Frank (1931-2015)