Difference between revisions of "Man's religion & God's religion"
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|[[Then they cried]]<br> | |[[Then they cried]]<br> | ||
[[O what painful work it is!]]<br> | [[O what painful work it is!]]<br> | ||
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Accepted!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Blundering & stumbling on in darkness]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[When you are in the wilderness]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[O what crowds of pitiable objects]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Trouble, sorrow & affliction]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[From a burning hell—to a blissful heaven!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Our own wisdom, righteousness & strength]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Oh! Sweet grace, blessed grace!]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[Dying]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Which is better?]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[There must be continual trials]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Personal, spiritual, experimental knowledge]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Help from the sanctuary]]<br> |
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− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[Holy wrestling]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[A disciple of Jesus]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Sovereign, supreme disposal]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[You must not love one of these glittering baubles]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[One unmingled scene of happiness & pleasure]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[The rod was dipped in love]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The best teacher]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Buried in the grave of carnality & worldliness]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[A solitary drop of this holy anointing oil]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Practical atheists]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[Dead in sin]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Continual salvation]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The fatal mistake of thousands]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The great secret of vital godliness]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[If the devil ever feels joy]]<br> |
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− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[Fear not!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The desire of our soul]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[O Self! Self!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[That dear, idolized creature]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Unquenched and unquenchable!]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[Crawl like a serpent, roar like a lion]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[If you want to see what sin really is]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Hard-hearted, cold-blooded, wise-headed]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Our sanctuary]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Poor, miserable, paltry works of a polluted worm!]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[Mere toys & baubles]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Heavenly dew]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Coming up from the wilderness]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[When we gaze upon the lifeless corpse]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[There, on the other side, is my solitary soul]]<br> |
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− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[Even your own relatives think you are almost insane]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Straight paths]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Have nothing to do with them]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The foulest filth under the cleanest cloak]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Familiarity with sacred things]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[Pride, self-conceit & self-exaltation]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[What? Will He forgive us all sins?]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[This sacred anointing]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[What makes the children of God so strange?]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[With His stripes we are healed]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[Strangle & suffocate it!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[They shall never perish!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[All things!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Without a spot or wrinkle or any other blemish!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Bitten by this serpent's tooth]]<br> |
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− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[The sin of pride]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[They need a mighty God]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The Lord sometimes flogs His children home!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Talk like an angel—and live like a devil]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[This idol-making, idol-loving world]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[Many hard lessons]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Were we left wholly in its hands!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Romantic dreams of pleasure & earthly joy?]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The love of the truth]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[These lovers of ours]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[It is in these storms]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The incredible greatness of His power]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[His secret power & influence]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[All iniquity]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[If your flesh had its full swing]]<br> |
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− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[A coward's castle]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Some beloved idol?]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[That monstrous creature within us!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The soul's natural element]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Godly sorrow]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[But our coward flesh shrinks from them!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The filthy holes & puddles in which it grovels]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The Lord's secret power in our souls]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[God's house]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[When the Holy Spirit preaches the gospel]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[We get entangled with some idol]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The sins & slips of the saints]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Experimental knowledge]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Friend, can you understand my riddle?]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[My greatest enemy?]]<br> |
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− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[There are many plans in a man's heart]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[All are more or less deeply infected with it]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Ministers are often desirous]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Super-abounding grace]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Job's religion]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[The way in which the Spirit of God works]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The world is passing away]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Weary]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Oh, how religious he once used to be!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[It is a creature of many lives!]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[The believer's chief troubles]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[A religion that satisfies thousands]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Down they sink to the bottom!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Who can come out of the battle alive?]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[God's mercy]]<br> |
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− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[A flowery path?]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Toys & playthings of the religious baby-house]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[But oh, the struggle! Oh, the conflict!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[A snake, a monkey, an onion, a bit of rag]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The mother & mistress of all the sins]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[I needed no monkish rules then]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The strong man sinks down into a babe!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Save me, and I shall be saved!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Crush its viper head with the heel of our boot!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[What a battlefield is the heart]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[How can he travel through this waste-howling wilderness?]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[If God left us for a single hour]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[A worldly spirit will ever peep out]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Enticing words of man's wisdom]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[A peculiar, indescribable, invincible power]]<br> |
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− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[The deep things of God]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The religionists of the day]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[My leanness, my leanness!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Those poor stupid people!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[We were not always a set of poor mopes]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[You were secretly lifted up with pride]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[To walk after the flesh]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[The very thought is appalling!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[I will give you rest]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[That which is highly esteemed among men]]<br> |
− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[Invincibly & irresistibly drawn]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Woman's chief besetting sins]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Not your own!]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[Do you seek great things for yourself?]]<br> |
− | [[]]<br> | + | [[We would not be such muck-worms!]]<br> |
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− | |[[]]<br> | + | |[[Tender mercies]]<br> |
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Revision as of 00:23, 7 December 2012
"That no flesh should glory in His presence." 1 Cor. 1:29
Man's religion is to build up the creature. God's religion is to throw the creature down in the dust of self-abasement, and to glorify Christ.