Is lukewarmness and indifferency a suitable temper with respect to a future state of happiness or misery? Is it a suitable temper with respect to a happiness far exceeding the utmost bounds of our present thoughts and wishes; a happiness equal to the largest capacities of our souls in their most improved and perfect state; a happiness beyond the gr…

The sentiments of righteous resentment and moral reprobation are the great supports intended by God for the rectitude, nobleness, and independence of the soul. But when injuries are enormous, and often repeated, there is a terrible danger lest the very frequency and violence of the impressions made upon this moral susceptibility shall blunt it. Fam…

This new spiritual sense, and the new dispositions that attend it, are no new faculties, but are new principles of nature. I use the word principles for want of a word of a more determinate signification. By a principle of nature in this place, I mean that foundation which is laid in nature, either old or new, for any particular manner or kind of e…

Jesus is already on His way: He says, "I come quickly": He rides posthaste toward us. He says, "I will come": and none can prevent His coming, or put it back for a quarter of an hour. He specially says, "I will come to you"; and so He will. His coming is specially to and for His own people. This is meant to be their present comfort while they mourn…

Today we examine the duties required by the 6th commandment.Af Thomas Sullivan

as anger hurts the soul by blinding reason, so also it doesmacerate and vex it by inflaming it with fury; for what greater torment can be imagined, then to have the mind distracted upon the rack of rage? As therefore we would account him a mad man, who with his own hands should set his house on fire and consume it: so be alike mad is he to bethough…

The salvation of His own people was another potent means of making Egypt know that the God of Israel was Jehovah, the living and true God. No Israelite died by any one of the ten plagues. None of the chosen seed were drowned in the Red Sea. Even so, the salvation of the elect and the sure glorification of all true believers will make the most obsti…

The sanctity of human life resides in the fact that man was made in the divine image. This sanctity underlies the prohibition of murder, and it validates and necessitates capital punishment for the crime of murder. A close relation exists between the law of God, as it pertains to the preservation and taking of life, and the redemptive provisions of…

There is a safe and sure criterion by which the Christian may gauge his inward impulses, and ascertain whether they proceed from his own restless spirit, an evil spirit, or the Spirit of God. That criterion is the written Word of God, and by it all must be measured. The Holy Spirit never prompts anyone to act contrary to the Scriptures. How could H…

Our text -The Spirit helps our infirmity, takes its place as one of these encouragements to steadfast constancy, endurance, in the Christian life — to what we call to-day "perseverance." The "weakness," "infirmity," to which it refers is to be taken, therefore, in the broadest sense. No doubt its primary reference may be to the remnant of indwellin…

What a strong consolation for us is found in this gracious assurance — poor, weak children of men as we are! To our frightened ears the text may come at first as with the solemnity of a warning: "As many as are led by the Spirit of God, these and these only are sons of God." Is there not a declaration here that we are not God's children unless we a…

Af Rev. William Bridge

"My grace is sufficient for you." It is now sufficient. You are buffeted by this evil spirit, but My grace is sufficient for your present need.Paul, you have been beaten with rods, stoned, shipwrecked, and in perils often—and in all these My grace has been sufficient; and now I tell you this present trouble, though it is somewhat different in shape…

I have a much greater sense of my universal, exceeding dependence on God's grace and strength, of late, than I used formerly to have; and have experienced more of an abhorrence of my own righteousness. And yet I am greatly afflicted with a proud and self-righteous spirit, much more sensibly than I used to be formerly. I see that serpent rising and …

Chapter 5 of Jonathan Edwards's Faithful Narrative of the Surprising Work of God in the Conversion of Many Hundred Souls in Northampton. 1734Af Jonathan Edwards

Reformation and desolation, or, A sermon tending to the discovery of the symptoms of a people to whom God will by no means be reconciled preached to the Honorable House of Commons at their late solemn fast, December. 22, 1641Af Stephen Marshall

It is a part and duty of spiritual wisdom, as also an evidence of a due reverence of God, to take notice of extraordinary occurrences in the dispensations of his providence; for they are instructive warnings, and of great importance in his government of the world. In them the "voice of the Lord crieth unto the city, and the man of wisdom shall see …

Af John Owen

So many succumb to Satan's efforts to disturb their peace and destroy their assurance through not knowing how to meet his attacks, and through forgetting that Scripture is very far from representing the earthly lives of God's children as flawless and perfect. As a general rule it is the best thing to acknowledge the truth of Satan's charges when he…

Af Jonathan Edwards

What is meant in the doctrine by immediate revelation. By immediate6 revelation is meant God's making known some truth by immediate suggestion of it to the mind, without its being made known by sense or reason, or by any former revelation. 'Tis God that makes known all truth to men: [he] is the fountain of all light and knowledge, of those things t…

The Lord Jesus Christ knew well; he knew how desperately wicked and deceitful men's hearts were; he knew very well how many would go to hell even by the very gates of heaven, how many would climb up even to the door, and go so near as to knock at it, and yet after all be dismissed with a "verily I know you not." The Lord, therefore, plainly tells u…

Human Nature in its Fourfold State: Nature is blind, and therefore venturesome; it sets men a-going immediately to God without Christ; to rush into his presence, and put their petitions in his hand, without being introduced by the secretary of heaven, or putting their requests into his hand. So fixed is this disposition in the unrenewed heart, that…

Commentary on 1st Peter - Robert Leighton - 1611-1684Af Robert Leighton

The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and the perfection of glory in the world to come will only intensify its exercise. 'Perfect love casts out fear' (I John 4: 18) but it is the fear of torment, not that of reverence and adoration.Af John Murray

Some Christians complain greatly of their state and condition, thinking that no one is as dead, dull, or ignorant as themselves. They do not know whether they have any spark of heavenly life left in them. Some of them make weak and faint endeavors for a recovery, which as like the attempts of a man in a dream who seems to use great effort without a…

Consider the state of our minds in glory. The faculties of our souls will then be made perfect (Heb 12:23),30 freed from all the bonds of flesh and its influence over us. Our souls will no longer be restrained in the powers of their operations. We will be perfectly purified from all tendencies toward instability and changeability.…

The condition of Israel is described in Isaiah, "Because of the iniquity of his unjust gain I was angry and struck him; I hid my face and was angry, and he went on backsliding in the way of his own heart" (Isa. 57:17). God had dealt with them about their lingering sinful desire in many ways—by affliction and desertion. But it survived all of his ef…

Our corruptions must be mortified or they will be raging and violent in the time of temptation, and like a torrent, sweep away all your convictions and resolutions. It is unmortified sin within that makes the heart like gunpowder; when the sparks of temptation fly about it (and they fall thick in a time of suffering), they but touch and explode.Fla…

When I issued the first volume of "Lectures to my Students" it was my intention to prepare another series as soon as time permitted, and I meant to include two addresses upon Commenting in the proposed selection. It struck me, however, that a better thing was possible. The two lectures might introduce the topic of exposition, and then a catalogue o…

On account of the difficulty of setting into the kingdom of God. There are innumerable difficulties in the way; such as few conquer: most of them that try have not resolution, courage, earnestness, and constancy enough; but they fail, give up, and perish. The difficulties are too many and too great for them that do not violently press forward.…

Interview from Feb 2022 by Bud Alheim, Fort Lauderdale, FLAf Thomas Sullivan

Indwelling sin works by sloth and negligence. It prevails in the soul to neglect the stirring up of continual thoughts about the things that so powerfully influence it to strict and fruitful obedience. If care be not taken—if diligence and watchfulness be not used, and all means that are appointed of God to keep a quick and living sense of them upo…

This was an interview that was done late in 2021 by Bud Alheim. It would change how I would record audiobooks. The reason is that he was using a very good mic with a pre-amp. His end of the interview was so much clearer audio that for the next few months I researched recording equipment and then settled on a Lewitt 440 Pure Mic, made in Austria, an…

Enmity exerts itself is opposition. Enmity will oppose and contend with what it is at enmity with. Things natural and moral work this way also: as light and darkness, heat and cold oppose each other, so do virtue and vice. So is it with sin and grace. The apostle says, "These are contrary the one to the other" (Gal 5:17)—that is, they are placed an…

Recording of the morning service. New Life Baptist Church, Hawesville, KYAf Thomas Sullivan

An association of ministers, between Northampton and Boston, seem of late to have applied themselves somewhat earnestly, to invent means for promoting religion. The following is a copy of something they have agreed upon for this end, as it was sent to me, by a minister that lives that way. "The sum and substance of the answers, given by the associa…

When giving directions on how to mortify sin, it is important to properly define it. Without this, the instructions are too abstract. As well, we examine two letters written from struggling saints. One to me in the last couple of years, one written in 1754 to the Pastor Samuel Pike and Samuel Hayward. Recorded in Cases of Conscience.…

Be always greatly abased for your remaining sin, and never think that you lie low enough for it; but yet be not discouraged or disheartened by itAf Jonathan Edwards

Must one know the day they were converted, or even approximate time before they can have assurance that they have been born again?Af Thomas Sullivan

Today we will start a new class using previously written notes. Expanded and enlarged. In a podcast format. The main sources are John Owen's Volumes 6 and 7.Af Thomas Sullivan

Indwelling sin manifests its power in the habitual declensions from zeal and holiness—from the frames, state, and condition of obedience and communion with God unto which they had attained—which are found in many believers. Promises of growth and improvement are many and precious, the means excellent and effective, the benefits great and unspeakabl…

Af Thomas Sullivan

If it be certain, that God is concerned, and does take care, how things proceed in the state of the world he has made, then he will he especially concerned how things proceed in the state of the world of mankind. Mankind are the principal part of the visible creation. They have understanding, are voluntary agents, and can produce works of their own…

This is an audio recording narration of PS 78Af Thomas Sullivan

Those who first fall under judgments are not always the worst that judgments shall fall upon; nor are the first judgments usually the most severe; -- so it is plain in these instances, And because we have instances of this nature amongst us, we should consider how to make a right judgment concerning them.…

The conclusion of the teaching on the Doctrine of Sin.Af A. W. Pink

It also requires to be pointed out that those men whose ministry was most owned and used of God during last century were those who followed in the steps of the Puritans. C. H. Spurgeon, Caesar Malan, Robert Murray MeCheyne, and the great leaders of the Scottish Free Church disruption, gave a prominent place to doctrinal instruction in all of their …

Proud people take great notice of opposition and injuries, and are prone to speak often about them with an air of bitterness or contempt. Christian humility, on the other hand, disposes a person to be more like his blessed Lord, who when reviled did not open His mouth but committed Himself in silence to Him who judges righteously.…

All cessation from some particular sin is not a mortification. A non-commission of a particular sin is not an evidence of the mortification of the root of it. Indeed, a man cannot commit all kinds of sin at a time, nor in many years; the commands of sin are contrary, and many masters commanding contrary things cannot be served at one and the same t…