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The danger of forgetting God! (Charles Simeon) LISTEN to Audio! Download Audio“The wicked shall be turned into Hell, and all the nations that forget God!” Psalm 9:17 The words before us are a plain and unequivocal declaration from God Himself respecting the doom which awaits every impenitent sinner. May God impress our minds with a […]
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A holy antipathy against sin! (Thomas Watson, “Doctrine of Repentance”) LISTEN to audio! Download audioThere is no better sign of true repentance, than a holy antipathy against sin.Sound repentance begins in love to God, and ends in the hatred of sin.How may true hatred of sin be known?1. When a man’s HEART is set against sin. Not
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A great change! (Thomas Watson, “Until My Change Comes”) LISTEN to Audio! Download Audio“All the days of my appointed time will I wait until my change comes.” Job 14:14That is, I will wait until my death comes.Death, whenever it comes, makes a great change.Death will make a certain change; there is no avoiding it.“No one can live forever; all will
The house in which we must all abide at last! (Charles Simeon) LISTEN to Audio! Download Audio “I know that you will bring me down to death, and to the house appointed for all the living!” Job 30:23 “For all can see that wise men die; the foolish and the senseless alike perish and leave
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I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food! (Charles Simeon) LISTEN to Audio! “I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food!” Job 23:12 How much fuller a revelation of God’s mind do we possess, than did Job! Doubtless Job’s views, both of himself as a
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You are the one who has done this! (Charles Simeon) LISTEN to Audio! Download Audio “I was silent; I would not open my mouth, for You are the one who has done this!” Psalm 39:9 “For You, O God, have tried us; You refined us like silver.” Psalm 66:10 “Behold, I have refined you, but not
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[N.B. My bulk email server has been down for several days, hence I have not been able to send out the daily gems. Sorry, but there were so many of you who inquired, that I have not been able to give personal replies.] As proud and carnal as ever! (Thomas Watson, “A Divine Cordial” 1663)
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I would not live forever! (Charles Simeon) LISTEN to Audio! Download Audio “I loathe my life; I would not live forever!” Job 7:16 When afflictions render us weary of life, we show that we have forgotten the promise of Jehovah to make all things work together for our good. When we know that medicine is
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The hope of the hypocrite! (Charles Simeon) LISTEN to Audio! Download Audio “The hope of the hypocrite shall perish! What he trusts in is fragile; what he relies on is a spider’s web. He leans on his web, but it gives way; he clings to it, but it does not hold.” Job 8:13-15 Many professing
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The infinite distance between us and our holy Creator, Sustainer, and Redeemer (Charles Simeon) LISTEN to Audio! Download Audio “Can a mortal be more righteous than God? Can a man be more pure than his Maker? If God places no trust in His servants, if He charges His angels with error, how much more those
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