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Do Right Though The Heavens Fall

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August 5, 2011

DO RIGHT THOUGH THE HEAVENS FALL

The following statement by Charles Haddon Spurgeon is from The Forgotten Spurgeon by Iain Murray:

“Ah, my dear brethren! there are many that are deceived by this method of reasoning. They remain where their conscience tells them they ought not to be, because, they say, they are more useful than they would be if they went `without the camp.’ This is doing evil that good may come, and can never be tolerated by an enlightened conscience. If an act of sin would increase my usefulness tenfold, I have no right to do it; and if an act of righteousness would appear likely to destroy all my apparent usefulness, I am yet to do it. It is yours and mine to do the right though the heavens fall, and follow the command of Christ whatever the consequences may be. ‘That is strong meat,’ do you say? Be strong men, then, and feed thereon … For right is right, since God is God/ And right the day must win/ To doubt would be disloyalty/ To falter would be sin.”

C.H. Spurgeon

Charles H. Spurgeon

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Things God Has Taught Me by A.W. Tozer

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August 5, 2011

The following article is excerpted from the Friday Church Notes from www.wayoflife.org.

Tozer

Aiden Wilson Tozer (April 21, 1897 – May 12, 1963)

Tozer’s “Things God Has Taught Me”

The following are from the late A.W. Tozer’s list of important things God had taught him. These truths need to be proclaimed in the Bible-believing churches today more than ever. “

(1) The whole life of the faithful should be one of repentance.

(2) Repentance is void if it does not produce mortification of the flesh (outward, visible repentance).

(3) To be forgiven, sin must be forsaken.

(4) There is no Saviourhood without Lordship.

(5) The methods of the Spirit and the methods of men are diametrically opposed. Churches are using men’s methods.

(6) Christ saved us to make us worshippers, not workers. Worship first, then work.

(7) Christians violate the Scriptures in relation to their neighbours, the world, and the flesh without compunction or repentance. We have become careless of the commandments of Christ and the simple truths of God’s Word. Obey the Bible!

(8) Meekness, modesty, and humility endear a man to God.

(9) We can’t cure our spiritual malady by more activity. When a diseased Christianity becomes evangelistic it merely enlarges the area of infection.”

 

 


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Rules of Holy Living by Adonirum Judson

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June 24, 2011

Rules of Holy Living

by Adoniram Judson

Rules adopted on Sunday, April 4, 1819, the era of commencing public ministrations among the Burmans; revised and re-adopted on Saturday, December 9, 1820, and on Wednesday, April 25, 1821.

1. Be diligent in secret prayer, every morning and evening.

2. Never spend a moment in mere idleness.

3. Restrain natural appetites within the bounds of temperance and purity. “Keep thyself pure.”

4. Suppress every emotion of anger and ill will.

5. Undertake nothing from motives of ambition, or love of fame.

6. Never do that which, at the moment, appears to be displeasing to God.

7. Seek opportunities of making some sacrifice for the good of others, especially of believers, provided the sacrifice is not inconsistent with some duty.

8. Endeavor to rejoice in every loss and suffering incurred for Christ’s sake and the gospel’s, remembering that though, like death, they are not to be wilfully incurred, yet, like death, they are great gain.

Re-adopted the above rules, particularly the 4th, on Sunday, August 31, 1823.

Re-adopted the above rules, particularly the 1st, on Sunday, October 29, 1826, and adopted the following minor rules:

1. Rise with the sun.

2. Read a certain portion of Burman every day, Sundays excepted.

3. Have the Scriptures and some devotional book in constant reading.

4. Read no book in English that has not a devotional tendency.

5. Suppress every unclean thought and look.

Revised and re-adopted all the above rules, particularly the second of the first class, on Sunday, March 11, 1827.

God grant me grace to keep the above rules, and ever live to His glory, for Jesus Christ’s sake.

A. JUDSON.

 

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