I Am Not My Own

Charles Spurgeon:

I am asked sometimes to read an heretical book: well, if I believed my reading it would help its refutation, and might be an assistance to others in keeping them out of error, I might do it as a hard matter of duty, but I shall not do it unless I see some good will come from it. I am not going to drag my spirit through a ditch for the sake of having it washed afterwards, for it is not my own (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).

It may be that good medicine would restore me if I poisoned myself with putrid meat, but I am not going to try it: I dare not experiment on a mind which no longer belongs to me.

There is a mother and a child, and the child has a book to play with, and a blacklead pencil. It is making drawings and marks upon the book, and the mother takes no notice. It lays down one book and snatches another from the table, and at once the mother rises from her seat, and hurriedly takes the book away, saying: "No, my dear, you must not mark that, for it is not ours."

So with my mind, intellect, and spirit; if it belonged to me I might or might not play tomfool with it, and go to hear Socinians, Ritualists, Universalists, and such like preach, but as it is not my own, I will preserve it from such fooleries, and the pure word shall not be mingled with the errors of men.

The "Mark" of Truth

The mark of truth / the mark of a 'true' man or woman is God Exaltation at the expense of self-humiliation.

"I must decrease....He must increase"

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A Brief Thought

"Our Lord never lays down the conditions of discipleship as the conditions of salvation.....We are condemned to salvation through the cross of Jesus Christ. Discipleship has an option with it - "If any man...."

Oswald Chambers

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Men....Man UP!

My charge to you men of God, husbands & fathers:

Be strong, therefore, and show yourself a man. "Keep the charge of the LORD your God, to walk in His ways, to keep His statutes, His commandments, His ordinances, and His testimonies, according to what is written in the Law of Moses, that you may succeed in all that you do and wherever you turn, so that the LORD may carry out His promise which He spoke concerning me, saying, 'If your sons are careful of their way, to walk before Me in truth with all their heart and with all their soul, you shall not lack a man on the throne of Israel.' - 1 Kings 2:2-4

May He break us that we might be humbled before Him!
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Verse for Today

Proverbs 4:23-27

Watch over your heart with all diligence,
For from it flow the springs of life.
Put away from you a deceitful mouth
And put devious speech far from you.
Let your eyes look directly ahead
And let your gaze be fixed straight in front of you.
Watch the path of your feet
And all your ways will be established.
Do not turn to the right nor to the left;
Turn your foot from evil.

Great Sermon

If you have time, please watch/listen to this message. It will challenge and warm your soul.

http://t4g.org/2010/04/did-jesus-preach-pauls-gospel-session-vi-2/

By His Grace Alone!
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The ONLY Question That Matters

Now when Jesus came into the district of Caesarea Philippi, He was asking His disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" And they said, "Some say John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; but still others, Jeremiah, or one of the prophets."He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?" Simon Peter answered, "You are the Christ, the Son of the living God." And Jesus said to him, "Blessed are you, Simon Barjona, because flesh and blood did not reveal this to you, but My Father who is in heaven." -Matthew 16:13-17

Who do you say that Jesus is? The 'fruit' of you life will give evidence to your answer and your answer to that question will determine where you spend eternity.

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