Tag Archives: Isaiah
A Common Accusation by Abusers to Victims: “You Cannot Keep Friends”
For he grew up before him like a young plant, and like a root out of dry ground; he had no form or majesty that we should look at him, and no beauty that we should desire him. He was despised and rejected by men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief; and as …
They…weave a spider’s web — Charles H Spurgeon
See the spider’s web, and behold in it a most suggestive picture of the hypocrite’s religion. It is meant to catch his prey: the spider fattens himself on flies, and the Pharisee has his reward. Foolish persons are easily entrapped by the loud professions of pretenders, and even the more judicious cannot always escape. Philip …
Wise as Serpents: Grace is Not for Everyone (Part 21 of sermon series)
This morning I want to show you that God’s grace is not to be extended to everyone. I do not speak of His common grace, the kind of favor He exercises when He sends rain on the wicked and provides them with food. I am speaking of the saving grace that comes to us in Christ …
Wise as Serpents: The Church’s Other Mission Field (Part 19 of sermon series)
Really we just have one mission field; but this is an aspect of the Christian’s calling which is very important and sorely neglected. It is a mission field that evil detests. To the degree that evil is dominating — wicked unregenerate people parading as christians, parading as the church — this mission field will inevitably be ignored. And it turns …
Wise as Serpents: Calling Evil Good, and Good Evil (Part 18 of sermon series)
There is something in us that can make us very reluctant to call evil for what it is – evil. I understand this to some extent and so do you. We do not delight in concluding that someone we know, someone perhaps that we have loved and who we thought loved us, is in fact a child of the devil with malevolent intent …
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