Amen bro.. Walter,
Well did Paul say, /"But we have this treasure in earthen vessels,
that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us." (2Cor
4:7/) THere is no greater blessing to the preacher or the hearer than
to have CHRIST alone exalted. It is indeed a foretaste of that which
John saw in his vision, /"The four and twenty elders fall down before
him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and
ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, Thou art worthy,
O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all
things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." (Rev 4:10-11)
"And he came and took the book out of the right hand of him that sat
upon the throne. And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and
four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of
them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of
saints. And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the
book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast
redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and
people, and nation; And hast made us unto our God kings and priests: and
we shall reign on the earth. And I beheld, and I heard the voice of many
angels round about the throne and the beasts and the elders: and the
number of them was ten thousand times ten thousand, and thousands of
thousands; Saying with a loud voice, Worthy is the Lamb that was slain
to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and
glory, and blessing. And every creature which is in heaven, and on the
earth, and under the earth, and such as are in the sea, and all that are
in them, heard I saying, Blessing, and honour, and glory, and power, be
unto him that sitteth upon the throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and
ever. And the four beasts said, Amen. And the four and twenty elders
fell down and worshipped him that liveth for ever and ever." (Rev
5:7-14/) Blessed be the LAMB that was slain.
Blessings, mike
On 3/30/2021 9:36 AM, Walter Pendleton (Redacted sender
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God gives some of His sent messengers great ability to express the truth with great words of felt experience, even outside of, but always in subjection to, divine inspiration. Our brother Robert H was one of those men. And yet the problem is with me. For even the least able of Christ’s sent ministers (please suffer me to put it thus) who preach God’s truth, when they preach THE truth, their words are as powerful as when Christ said, Let there be light! I say that because to preach the scripture is to preach Christ the Word. Oh that I had an ear, an eye and a heart to see Christ every time He is preached - preached most ably or otherwise - when Christ is preached the Father has great delight. Walter P.
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On Mar 30, 2021, at 7:16 AM, Soraya Reis <sbreis50@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
So very true, Brother Mike.
Thanks.
Blessings,
Soraya
Em seg, 29 de mar de 2021 22:42, mike mcinnis <ratmotor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ratmotor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> escreveu:
Greetings sis Reis, et al;
Once again mr. Hawker "nails it" in his exposition of this
verse. Paul, in describing himself to the Romans, in reality
describes all of those who are awakened by the SPIRIT of GOD to
see the holiness of the law and the depravity of their own
heart. Religious men presume that they can overcome their sins
by their effort and dedication. Yet that man who has been
exercised to discern good and evil is made painfully aware that
in this flesh dwells no good thing. That mind which is renewed
by the work of the SPIRIT, daily longs to glorify GOD yet is made
to acknowlege that apart from HIS righteousness he has none. HE
is our DELIVERER and we live solely because HE lives.
Blessings, mike
On 3/29/2021 5:00 PM, Soraya Reis wrote:
*"So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with
the flesh the law of sin." Romans 7:25 *
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*Is this thy language, my soul? Hast thou learnt with Paul, with
Job, with Isaiah, and all the faithful gone before, to loathe
thyself in thine own sight? Dost thou groan, being burthened
with a body of sin which drags down the soul? Pause over this
view of human nature. In the first place - think, my soul, what
humbling thoughts such a state of corruption ought to induce.
Though the mind be regenerated, though with the mind the
believer serves the law of God, delights in the law of God,
loves the law, and would make it the subject of devout
meditation all the day; yet such is the body of sin, the flesh
with its affections, and appetites, and desires, that it draws
away the attention, imperiously, puts in its claims, and rises
up in rebellion continually. *
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*And are the souls of God's children thus exercised, thus
afflicted, in the struggles between the different motions of
grace and corrnption from day to day? Yes, such is the state,
such the uniform experience of God's people in all ages. Paul
thus complains, though he had been so highly sanctified. Perhaps
there never was a child of God brought into a closer and more
intimate communion with God. He had been caught up to the third
heaven, and heard unspeakable words. He had laboured more than
all the apostles. He had been converted by a miracle from
heaven, and by the immediate call of the Lord Jesus personally
to him. But yet this highly favoured servant of the Lord, this
blessed apostle, who was continually flying on the wings of zeal
and love in the service of his Master, even he, with his flesh,
he-tells us, served the law of sin: nay, he felt and discovered
"a law of sin in his members, warring against the law of his
mind, and bringing him into captivity to the law of sin which
was in his members;" and under a deep distress of soul he cried
out - "Oh wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the
body of this death!" *
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*Is it so, then, my soul, with thee also! Dost thou discover the
same in thy experience? Dost thou feel the rebellions of sin
rising up within thee? Dost thou detect thine heart, wandering
even in the moment of solemn exercises; and, in short, thine own
body, the worst and greatest enemy thou hast to contend with? Oh
then, learn from hence, what humbling views oughtest thou to
have of thyself, and to lay low in the dust in consequence
thereof before God. When thou hast duly contemplated this state
of fallen nature, let thy next improvement of this subject be to
endear the Lord Jesus to thee, my soul, more and more; to fly
out of thyself, to fly to Jesus, to take refuge in him and his
great salvation; from even thyself, with all that body of sin
and death, under which thou thus continually groanest; and to
derive here from a daily and hourly conviction, yet more strong
and unanswerably conclusive, that nothing but the blood of Jesus
can cleanse, nothing but the righteousness of Jesus can save and
justify a sinner. Say as Paul did, when from the bottom of his
heart that soul-piercing question arose," Who shall deliver me
from the body of this death? I thank God, through Jesus Christ
our Lord." *
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*Robert Hawker (1753-1827) *
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