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HOW TO DEAL WITH THOSE WHO WISH TO PUT OFF A DECISION UNTIL SOME OTHER TIME Oftentimes when you have swept away every difficulty, and the way of salvation is made as clear as day, still the inquirer is not ready to decide then and there. He wishes to put off a decision until some future time. There ... Read More

"Wherefore (as the Holy Ghost saith, To day if ye will hear his voice, "Harden not your hearts, as in the provocation, in the day of temptation in the wilderness: "When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years. "Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do ... Read More

y the mercy of God I have been a believer in the Lord Jesus Christ since my early youth. Over the years of my earthly pilgrimage I have known what it is like to climb great spiritual mountains and how it feels to fall into chasms of blackness. I have had long seasons of great Christian joy and inten... Read More

What shall we do to get our heart into this mourning frame? Do two things. Take heed of those things which will stop these channels of mourning; put yourselves upon the use of all means that will help forward holy mourning. Take heed of those things which will stop the current of tears. There are ni... Read More

'And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.' Matt 6: 13. This petition consists of two parts. First, Deprecatory, Lead us not into temptation.' Secondly, Petitionary, But deliver us from evil.' I. Lead us not into temptation.' Does God lead into temptation? God tempts no man to sin. ... Read More

If the Lord Wills Francis Bourdillon, 1864 James 4:13-16. "Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a city, spend a year there, buy and sell, and make a profit"; whereas you do not know what will happen tomorrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor that appears for... Read More

The Preciousness of Time! Jonathan Edwards "Redeeming the time." Ephesians 5:16 OUTLINE SECTION 1. Why time is precious. 1. Because a happy or miserable eternity depends on the good or ill improvement of it. 2. Time is very short, which is another thing that renders it very precious. 3. Time ought t... Read More

Redeeming the Time! Jonathan Edwards , 1734 "Redeeming the time." Ephesians 5:16 Christians should not only study to improve the opportunities they enjoy, for their own advantage, as those who would make a good bargain; but also labor to reclaim others from their evil courses; that so God might defe... Read More

Human Life a Vapor! Edward Griffin, 1807 "Why, you do not even know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? You are a vapor that appears for a little while and then vanishes!" James 4:14 This moral reflection was introduced by the apostle to reprove those calculations and forms of speech which... Read More

Man Is Born to Trouble! George Mylne, 1871 Yes, "man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward" — the one is as inevitable as the other (Job 5:7), and why? The saying is correct, we may be sure, seeing whose Word it is that says it. "Affliction," it tells us, "comes not forth of the dust, neither... Read More