Random Quotes & Articles to Provide Food for Thought
John 17:1-10
I want to speak to you for a few minutes tonight about ETERNAL LIFE. My text is found in verses 2 & 3 of the passage I just read: “…that he should give eternal life to as many as thou hast given him. And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.”
These words are part of what is sometimes called the High Priestly Prayer of the Lord Jesus Christ. The prayer forms the concluding part of what we call the upper room chapters of John’s Gospel—chapters 13 through 17. Here we find Jesus at the end of His earthly ministry, on the eve of His crucifixion. He is giving some parting instructions and words of encouragement to His disciples.
To begin with, He washes the disciples feet and then inaugurates the Lord’s supper. Then He goes on to talk about the many mansions in Heaven, the vine and the branches, the persecution that they can expect from the world, and He also talks to them about the Comforter—the Holy Spirit—whom He will send once He has gone.
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Psalm 51:1-13
This is one of David’s penitential Psalms—a Psalm of repentance or godly sorrow. You recall that he had committed adultery with Bathsheba and then ordered the destruction of her husband, Uriah. Some time later, Nathan the prophet confronted David about his sin, and this Psalm was the result.
I want to talk for a few moments tonight on this subject of repentance or godly sorrow.
What is godly sorrow?
Godly sorrow is sorrow for sin combined with a deep concern for God’s glory.
Godly sorrow results when the Holy Spirit sends conviction to our hearts, and the realization dawns upon us, as it did upon David, that our sin is an affront to God’s holiness and His holy law.
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This is one of my favorite passages in the entire Bible. The Apostle Paul is talking here about reconciliation. Reconciliation of course has to do with RELATIONSHIPS. If two people have a falling out and don’t talk to each other and don’t see each other, then the relationship is ENDED. There is hostility. There is estrangement. And so in order for these two to come together again, and for peace to be restored and hostilities to cease, there has to be a RECONCILIATION.
Now the Bible teaches us that there is hostility between God and man. There is a severed relationship. Why? Because SIN has come in and separated man from God. Sin is disobedience to God’s commands; and the Bible teaches us that man has rebelled, he has disobeyed, he has sinned. And so there is hostility between God and man. The relationship that once existed between God and man has been broken by man’s sin and disobedience. On man’s side there is unbelief and sin and fear; on God’s side there is wrath. God is holy, and because He is holy, His wrath is extended to mankind. In Romans 1:18 Paul says that “the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men.” Read the rest of this entry »