Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org
Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org Christian Theology - Media Sabda Org
Consider how great the blessing is which you enjoy! What would a damned soul give for the privilege of sitting five minutes in your place, to hear Jesus preached, with the same possibility of being saved? Do not divide the word with your neighbour; hear for yourself. Share your clothes, money, bread, &c., with him, but do not divide the word preached. Consider, this may be the last sermon you shall ever be permitted to hear. That your being blessed does not consist in your remembering heads, divisions, &c., but in feeling the divine influence. After the sermon is over, get as speedily home as you can, and spend a few moments on your knees in private prayer. Meditate on what you have heard. Pray for your preachers, that God may fill them with the unction of his Spirit. And, when you read the Holy Scriptures, consider that it is God's word which you read, and that his faithfulness is pledged to fulfil both its promises and threatenings. Read the whole Bible, and read it in order; two chapters in the Old Testament, and one in the New, daily, if you can possibly spare time. Think that the eye of God is upon you while you are reading; and remember that the word is not sent to particular persons, as if by name; and do not think you have no part in it, because you are not named there. It is not thus sent: it is addressed to particular characters; to saints, sinners, the worldly minded, the proud, &c. Therefore, examine your own state, and see to which of these characters you belong, and then apply the word spoken to the character in question to yourself; for it is as surely
spoken to you as if your name were found printed in the Bible, and placed there by divine inspiration itself. When you meet with a threatening, and know, from your own state, that this awful word is spoken against you, stop, and implore God, for the sake of the sufferings and death of his Son, to pardon the sin that exposes you to the punishment threatened. When you meet with a promise made to the penitent, tempted, afflicted, &c., having found out your own case, stop, and implore God to fulfil that promise. Should you find, on examination, that the threatening has been averted by your having turned to God; that the promise has been fulfilled through your faith in Christ; stop here also, and return God thanks. Thus you will constantly find matter, in reading the book of God, to excite repentance, to exercise faith, to produce confidence and consolation, and to beget gratitude; and gratitude will never fail to beget obedience. It is always useful to read a portion of the Scriptures before prayer, whether performed in the family or in the closet. Keep the eye of your mind steadily fixed upon Him who is the end of the law, and the sum of the gospel. Let the Scriptures, therefore, lead you to that Holy Spirit by which they were inspired; let that Spirit lead you to Jesus Christ, who has ransomed you by his death. And let this Christ lead you to the Father, that he may adopt you into the family of heaven; and thus, being taught of him, justified by his blood, and sanctified by his Spirit, you shall be saved with all the power of an endless life.
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spoken to you as if your name were found printed in the Bible, and placed<br />
there by divine inspiration itself.<br />
When you meet with a threatening, and know, from your own state,<br />
that this awful word is spoken against you, stop, and implore God, for the<br />
sake of the sufferings and death of his Son, to pardon the sin that exposes<br />
you to the punishment threatened. When you meet with a promise made<br />
to the penitent, tempted, afflicted, &c., having found out your own case,<br />
stop, and implore God to fulfil that promise.<br />
Should you find, on examination, that the threatening has been averted<br />
by your having turned to God; that the promise has been fulfilled through<br />
your faith in Christ; stop here also, and return God thanks. Thus you will<br />
constantly find matter, in reading the book of God, to excite repentance,<br />
to exercise faith, to produce confidence and consolation, and to beget<br />
gratitude; and gratitude will never fail to beget obedience.<br />
It is always useful to read a portion of the Scriptures before prayer,<br />
whether performed in the family or in the closet.<br />
Keep the eye of your mind steadily fixed upon Him who is the end of<br />
the law, and the sum of the gospel.<br />
Let the Scriptures, therefore, lead you to that Holy Spirit by which they<br />
were inspired; let that Spirit lead you to Jesus Christ, who has ransomed<br />
you by his death. And let this Christ lead you to the Father, that he may<br />
adopt you into the family of heaven; and thus, being taught of him,<br />
justified by his blood, and sanctified by his Spirit, you shall be saved with<br />
all the power of an endless life.
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