1. Welcome to Baptist Board, a friendly forum to discuss the Baptist Faith in a friendly surrounding.

    Your voice is missing! You will need to register to get access to all the features that our community has to offer.

    We hope to see you as a part of our community soon and God Bless!

2Ti 3:5 KJV - .....: from such turn away.

Discussion in 'Evangelism, Missions & Witnessing' started by Wesley Briggman, Aug 20, 2019.

Top Posters
  1. Wesley Briggman

    Wesley Briggman Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    Dec 31, 2017
    Messages:
    1,312
    Likes Received:
    391
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Charles H. Spurgeon
    August 20, 2019

    Evening Reading


    And they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall. —Nehemiah 3:8

    Cities well fortified have broad walls, and so had Jerusalem in her glory. The New Jerusalem must, in like manner, be surrounded and preserved by a broad wall of nonconformity to the world, and separation from its customs and spirit. The tendency of these days break down the holy barrier, and make the distinction between the church and the world merely nominal. Professors are no longer strict and Puritanical, questionable literature is read on all hands, frivolous pastimes are currently indulged, and a general laxity threatens to deprive the Lord's peculiar people of those sacred singularities which separate them from sinners. It will be an ill day for the church and the world when the proposed amalgamation shall be complete, and the sons of God and the daughters of men shall be as one: then shall another deluge of wrath be ushered in. Beloved reader, be it your aim in heart, in word, in dress, in action to maintain the broad wall, remembering that the friendship of this world is enmity against God.

    The broad wall afforded a pleasant place of resort for the inhabitants of Jerusalem, from which they could command prospects of the surrounding country. This reminds us of the Lord's exceeding broad commandments, in which we walk at liberty in communion with Jesus, overlooking the scenes of earth, and looking out towards the glories of heaven. Separated from the world, and denying ourselves all ungodliness and fleshly lusts, we are nevertheless not in prison, nor restricted within narrow bounds; nay, we walk at liberty, because we keep His precepts. Come, reader, this evening walk with God in His statutes. As friend met friend upon the city wall, so meet thou thy God in the way of holy prayer and meditation. The bulwarks of salvation thou hast a right to traverse, for thou art a freeman of the royal burgh, a citizen of the metropolis of the universe.

    This has been brought to you by the following ministries: Blue Letter Bible
     
    #1 Wesley Briggman, Aug 20, 2019
    • Like Like x 2
  2. Just_Ahead

    Just_Ahead Active Member

    Joined:
    Sep 1, 2018
    Messages:
    442
    Likes Received:
    153
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Lately, I have been studying the O.T. book of Lamentations.

    All the splendor has vanished
    from Daughter Zion.
    Her leaders are like stags
    that find no pasture;
    they stumble away exhausted
    before the hunter.
    (Lamentations 1:6; CSB)    ​

    Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by?
    Is there any pain like mine,
    which was dealt out to me,
    which the Lord made me suffer
    on the day of his burning anger?
    (Lamentations 1:12; CSB)    ​

    After 2500 years the LORD still continues to warn.
     
    #2 Just_Ahead, Sep 5, 2019
    Last edited: Sep 5, 2019
  3. HankD

    HankD Well-Known Member
    Site Supporter

    Joined:
    May 14, 2001
    Messages:
    26,977
    Likes Received:
    2,537
    Faith:
    Baptist
    Going on 50 years ago I took to studying the book of Lamentations.
    Because of conviction of sin, I had fallen into "the Slough of Despond" and no one could help me.

    Though this book is from the anguish of the soul it helped knowing that others had been there including Jesus.

    2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.

    Also the Psalms helped and in particular Psalm 88:
    1 O LORD God of my salvation, I have cried day and night before thee:
    2 Let my prayer come before thee: incline thine ear unto my cry;
    3 For my soul is full of troubles: and my life draweth nigh unto the grave.
    4 I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:
    5 Free among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, whom thou rememberest no more: and they are cut off from thy hand.
    6 Thou hast laid me in the lowest pit, in darkness, in the deeps.
    7 Thy wrath lieth hard upon me, and thou hast afflicted me with all thy waves. Selah.
    8 Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me; thou hast made me an abomination unto them: I am shut up, and I cannot come forth.
    9 Mine eye mourneth by reason of affliction: LORD, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched out my hands unto thee.
    10 Wilt thou shew wonders to the dead? shall the dead arise and praise thee? Selah.
    11 Shall thy lovingkindness be declared in the grave? or thy faithfulness in destruction?
    12 Shall thy wonders be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?
    13 But unto thee have I cried, O LORD; and in the morning shall my prayer prevent thee.
    14 LORD, why castest thou off my soul? why hidest thou thy face from me?
    15 I am afflicted and ready to die from my youth up: while I suffer thy terrors I am distracted.
    16 Thy fierce wrath goeth over me; thy terrors have cut me off.
    17 They came round about me daily like water; they compassed me about together.
    18 Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.

    I believe this is actually Jesus speaking as He cried out to the Father

    Matthew 27:46 And about the ninth hour Jesus cried with a loud voice, saying, Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

    The wonderful and glorious answer to verse Psalm 88:10 is YES! (The SELAH means - think about it!).

    Again

    2 Corinthians 5:21 For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
     
    #3 HankD, Sep 5, 2019
    Last edited: Sep 5, 2019
    • Like Like x 1
(You must log in or sign up to post here.)
Loading...