Author	Thread: "Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" (Matt. 11:29�30).
dljrn04 View Profile History	"Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" (Matt. 11:29�30). Posted : 13 Nov, 2011 04:59 AM "Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven" (Matt. 5:3). What will set out, in their strongest light, the motives that urge you to cultivate this poverty of spirit? Is it not enough that this is the spiritual state on which the LORD God himself looks with an eye of exclusive, holy, and ineffable delight? "But this is the one to whom I will look"�splendid gifts, brilliant attainments, costly sacrifices, are nothing to me�"but this is the one to whom I will look: he who is poor and contrite in spirit and trembles at my Word" (Isa. 66:2). To this I would add, if you value your safe, happy, and holy walk, then seek poverty of spirit. If you prize the manifestations of God's presence�the "kisses of his mouth," whose "love is better than wine" (Song 1:2) , then seek it. If you yearn for the teaching, guiding, and comforting influence of the Holy Spirit, then seek it. If you would be "the fragrance of the knowledge of Christ to God everywhere" (2 Cor. 4:14�16), then seek it. If you long to pray with more fervor, unction, and power, then seek it. If you want to labor with more zeal, devotedness, and success, then seek it. By all that is dear, by all that is precious, by all that is holy, by your own happiness, by the honor of Christ, by the glory of God, by the hope of heaven, seek to be found among those who are poor and contrite in spirit, who, with filial, holy love, tremble at God's Word, whom Jesus has pronounced blessed here, and fitted for glory hereafter. And though in approaching the Great High Priest, you have no splendid and costly intellectual offerings to present, yet with the royal penitent you can say, " 'For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it; you will not be pleased with a burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise' (Ps. 51:16�17). This, Lord, is all that I have to bring you." Avoid an imitation humility. True humility does not consist in denying the work of the Holy Spirit in your heart, in under-rating the grace of God in your soul, in standing afar off from your heavenly Father, and in walking at a distance from Christ, always doubting the efficacy of his blood, the freeness of his salvation, the willingness of his heart, and the greatness of his power to save. Oh no! That is not the humility that God delights to look at, but is a false, a counterfeit humility, obnoxious in his sight. But to "draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith" (Heb. 10:22), in lowly dependence upon his blood and righteousness�to accept salvation as the gift of his grace; to believe the promise because he has spoken it; gratefully and humbly to acknowledge your calling, your adoption, and your acceptance; and to live in the holy, transforming influence of this exalted state, giving to the Triune God all the praise and glory�this is the humility which is most pleasing to God, and this is the true product of the Holy Spirit. by Octavius Winslow, 1856 (edited for today's reader by Larry E. Wilson, 2010) Come, ye sinners, poor and wretched, weak and wounded, sick and sore; Jesus ready stands to save you, full of pity joined with pow'r: he is able, he is able, he is able, he is willing; doubt no more. Come, ye needy, come and welcome, God's free bounty glorify; true belief and true repentance, ev'ry grace that brings you nigh, without money, without money, without money, come to Jesus Christ and buy. Come, ye weary, heavy laden, bruised and broken by the fall; if you tarry till you're better, you will never come at all: not the righteous, not the righteous, not the righteous, sinners Jesus came to call. Let not conscience make you linger, nor of fitness fondly dream; all the fitness he requireth is to feel your need of him; this he gives you, this he gives you, this he gives you; 'tis the Spirit's rising beam. Lo! th'incarnate God, ascended, pleads the merit of his blood; venture on him, venture wholly, let no other trust intrude: none but Jesus, none but Jesus, none but Jesus can do helpless sinners good. (Joseph Hart, 1759, alt.) Post Reply
View Profile History	"Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" (Matt. 11:29�30). Posted : 13 Nov, 2011 06:11 AM Very honorable to the God of this world. Post Reply
View Profile History	"Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" (Matt. 11:29�30). Posted : 13 Nov, 2011 09:34 AM Excellent post Donna! It is amazing that the Word is written, "Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled," but men do not see the unconditional promise in "FOR THEY SHALL BE FILLED!" It the real gospel, were the insipid, weak, powerless gospel such as PJ proclaims, the most the Lord Jesus would have been able to say, was, ""for they might get a meal"! Notice that it states that the hunger and thirst shall be satiated! Praise God, you have the Word of God to rely upon, and the unction of the Holy Spirit as that "blessed assurance," and "foretaste of glory divine!" Shake the dust off your feet, lil sister, when it comes to this serial complainer. He thinks that he will be heard through his dry and lifeless commentary. Your reliance, I know that I do not have to tell you, comes from your already having tasted of the goodness and Integrity of the Lord. Grace and peace be unto you, awm Post Reply
View Profile History	"Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" (Matt. 11:29�30). Posted : 13 Nov, 2011 10:22 AM Wiseman, Phillip does not believe your unbelief anymore that he does Calvinism and thier is no rightousness proclaimed in this post, it is unrightousness, I have been filled with all the fullness of The god head for years, but of course you say it is not God. Post Reply
dljrn04 View Profile History	"Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" (Matt. 11:29�30). Posted : 13 Nov, 2011 10:29 AM Amen wise man. As Pastor Morris said this morning in worship God should be our all in all. It is so sad to my heart these people as pj who are so consumed with themselves they delude themselves into thinking that they are saved because they made a choice, they prayed "the sinners prayer". The devil is the master of delusion, and has deluded many into thinking they are saved. Pastor Morris also stated this morning do we really know God, not the god with a lower case g, but know and believe the God of the bible.We are called to work out our own salvation. I do pray for all those who are caught in the delusions of satan in these mega churches and all those churches that preach a false gospel. Oh that people could see their sin and seek after the righteous Jesus Christ the one who paid it all. Post Reply
elishabroadway View Profile History	"Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" (Matt. 11:29�30). Posted : 13 Nov, 2011 11:28 AM @Donna you say Jesus paid it all, but from what you say and believe he didnt his blood was only good enough for part of the world oh how you talk in 2 different voices, if you believe in an all mighty God then why is it so hard to believe that Jesus could have paid for the sins of the world? not part of the word cause that is not what it says it says the world, that is a big problem, but of corse you believe when he said world he meant people from all over the world, how sad Post Reply
View Profile History	"Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" (Matt. 11:29�30). Posted : 13 Nov, 2011 11:47 AM Elisha it is pride that dishonours the lord, saying that is not what it means, and then the reverse is also practicecd their meaning is put to the word. In otherwords some times it is taking away from the word of God and other times it is adding to the word of God. Post Reply
dljrn04 View Profile History	"Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" (Matt. 11:29�30). Posted : 13 Nov, 2011 12:29 PM the real difference between false gospel and God's gospel is he (God) makes the rules in his gospel. Post Reply
elishabroadway View Profile History	"Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light" (Matt. 11:29�30). Posted : 13 Nov, 2011 12:53 PM Thats right Donna exactly what I was saying. God said world, men are saying that means part of the world, but thats not what it says. Post Reply