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What is His Wisdom

06 Saturday Jun 2015

Posted by memoirandremains in Bibliology

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Bibliology, ignorance, R.C. Chapman, Reading, Sayings, Scripture, Wisdom

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Spread the Bible before the Lord; ask Him to teach you what [is] your ignorance and what [is] His wisdom.

R.C. Chapman, Sayings

Paul Baynes, Brief Directions Unto a Godly Life, Chapter Twenty-One

27 Tuesday May 2014

Posted by memoirandremains in Biblical Counseling, Discipleship, Paul Baynes

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1 Corinthians 3:18 and 4:1, 1 Corinthians 4:8, 1 Samuel 24:7, 2 Corinthians 4:17, 2 Corinthians 9:10, anger, Biblical Counseling, Brief Directions Onto a Godly Life, Ephesians 3:19, Faith, Hebrews 12:1, ignorance, James 1:3, Job 16:33, Joshua 1:9, Matthew 10:28, Paul Bayne, Paul Baynes, Philippians 1:28, Pride, Proverbs 18:12, Psalm 119:12, Psalm 30:5, Puritan, Revelation 3:17, Romans 3:17, Sloth, worldliness

The previous post in this series may be found here: https://memoirandremains.wordpress.com/2014/05/22/paul-baynes-brief-directions-unto-a-godly-life-chapter-twenty/

CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: UNMORTIFIED AFFECTIONS HINDER GODLINESS

The second kind of general hinderances are the unmortified affections wherewith believers are oppressed. Concerning which in general, it will be profitable for everyone to mark what he is most encumbered and most easily overcome by, and by what occasions he is readiest  drawn to them; that he may the more diligently and wisely labor to prevail against them.

Harmful Affections

Fear and Its Remedy

In particular, one kind is fear and doubt of preserving by means of affliction. This does easily take all the weak ones; therefore the Scripture forewarns of it.  Matthew 10:28, Philippians 1:28, Job 16:33. This, if it does prevail, cannot but enfeeble utterly the powers of their minds; and so withhold the instruments of the body practicing well any kind of duty.

The remedy of it must be sought for in Scripture. Psalm 30:5, 2 Corinthians 4:17, Hebrews 12:1, 2 Corinthians 9:10, James 1:3.

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Anne Bradstreet, Meditations.3

29 Tuesday Apr 2014

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Age, Anne Bradstreet, ignorance, Learning, Meditations, Middle Age, Old Age, sorrow, Youth

Youth is the time of getting,

middle age of improving,

 and old age of spending;

a negligent youth is usually attended by

an ignorant middle

and both by an empty old age.

He that hath nothing to feed on but vanity and lies

must needs lie down in a bed of sorrow.

Ecclesiates Comparison and Contrast.13

15 Thursday Mar 2012

Posted by memoirandremains in 2 Corinthians, Biblical Counseling, Ecclesiastes

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2 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Biblical Counseling, Ecclesiastes, Faith, frustration, ignorance, Sight, William Barrick

We cannot know. Ecclesiastes looks squarely at the reality of life:

16 When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on earth, how neither day nor night do one’s eyes see sleep,
17 then I saw all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. However much man may toil in seeking, he will not find it out. Even though a wise man claims to know, he cannot find it out.

Eccl. 8:16-17.

This is reality. Yet “the message of Ecclesiastes seems to be that the wise individual will learn how to accept such realities and live happily in the knowledge that there is someone who really does comprehend the reasons for the apparent inequities and who sovereignly controls life’s enigmatic twists and turns.” William Barrick, Ecclesiastes.

Thus in courage we can walk by sight:

4 For while we are still in this tent, we groan, being burdened-not that we would be unclothed, but that we would be further clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.
5 He who has prepared us for this very thing is God, who has given us the Spirit as a guarantee.
6 So we are always of good courage. We know that while we are at home in the body we are away from the Lord,
7 for we walk by faith, not by sight.
8 Yes, we are of good courage, and we would rather be away from the body and at home with the Lord.
9 So whether we are at home or away, we make it our aim to please him.

2 Cor. 5:4-9

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