Although its separate components, Charles Spurgeon's A Puritan Catechism, Robert McCheyne's Daily Bread, and the 1689 London Baptist Confession will remain available as free e-books on our SermonAudio site, A Puritan Family Devotional is now available as a paperback book. CLICK HERE or on the book cover above to purchase the 84-page book for only $7.77 from CreateSpace.com. For more information, you can also check out A Puritan Family Devotional weblog by CLICKING HERE.
Monday, July 13, 2009
Family Devotional (in Print)
Although its separate components, Charles Spurgeon's A Puritan Catechism, Robert McCheyne's Daily Bread, and the 1689 London Baptist Confession will remain available as free e-books on our SermonAudio site, A Puritan Family Devotional is now available as a paperback book. CLICK HERE or on the book cover above to purchase the 84-page book for only $7.77 from CreateSpace.com. For more information, you can also check out A Puritan Family Devotional weblog by CLICKING HERE.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Sweating
“His Seed shall endure for ever, and His throne as the sun before Me” (Psalms 89:35).
When I sweat so profusely in Alabama, my flesh wants to complain. Yet, by God’s grace He is increasing my faith to rejoice in the truth that God’s sovereignty is so absolute that He has given us the sun to govern the day; and here in Alabama, the Lord has given His sunlight so abundantly that when I sweat, I am reminded just how abundant His grace is.
He promised that the Christ, the “Seed” of David shall endure forever. Jesus Christ is risen and ascended to the right hand of the Father. He certainly lives forever more; and His throne will shine before God more brightly, more gloriously, and with more intensity than the sun shines before Him; and that means, most certainly, brighter and with more intensity than the sun shines here in Anniston, Alabama.
Then, I respond with even more joy, when I consider the shining of the sun, the majesty of Jesus Christ’s sovereign reign upon His throne, and that by His free and sufficient grace, I am also called the “seed” of God, as it is written, “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God” (1 John 3:9).
Then I also tremble under the immensity of that truth that the very Seed God promised David in this 89th Psalm, remains in me! Jesus Christ is in me, and therefore, I do not want to live in habitual sin: I do not want to commit sin; I must not commit it; I cannot commit sin; for to do so would dishonor my Lord who has redeemed me and bring me sorrow upon sorrow. But alas, I quite often do sin, betraying that I have not yet attained, nor have already apprehended; yet, as the apostle, I do still press toward the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Now, I rejoice, whatever the weather brings because of God’s sovereign grace; yet, I sorrow when I sin and fail to recall that He is King, He is Lord, and He is sovereign over all.
July 2
R. M. McCeyne’s DAILY BREAD portions:
MORNING:
Joshua 4 (family); Isaiah 64 (secret)
EVENING:
Psalms 129-131 (family); Matthew 12 (secret)
C. H. Spurgeon’s A PURITAN CATECHISM:
Q75. What is Baptism?
A75. Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ, to be to the person baptized a sign of his fellowship with him, in His death, and burial, and resurrection, of his being engrafted into Him, of remission of sins, and of his giving up himself to God through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life. Matt 28:19; Rom 6:3; Col 2:12; Gal 3:27; Mk 1:4; Acts 22:16; Rom 6:4, 5
Q76. To whom is Baptism to be administered?
A76. Baptism is to be administered to all those who actually profess repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and to none other. Acts 2:38, Matt 3:6; Mk 16:16; Acts 8:12, 36-37; 10:47-48
Q77. Are infants of such as are professing to be baptized?
A77. The infants of such as are professing believers are not to be baptized, because there is neither command nor example in the Holy Scriptures for their Baptism. Ex 23:13; Prov 30:6
Q78. How is baptism rightly administered?
A78. Baptism is rightly administered by immersion, or dipping the whole body of the person in water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, according to Christ’s institution, and the practice of the apostles, and not by sprinkling or pouring of water, or dipping some part of the body, after the tradition of men. Matt 3:16; John 3:23; Matt 28:19-20;; John 4:1, 2; Acts 8:38, 39
When I sweat so profusely in Alabama, my flesh wants to complain. Yet, by God’s grace He is increasing my faith to rejoice in the truth that God’s sovereignty is so absolute that He has given us the sun to govern the day; and here in Alabama, the Lord has given His sunlight so abundantly that when I sweat, I am reminded just how abundant His grace is.
He promised that the Christ, the “Seed” of David shall endure forever. Jesus Christ is risen and ascended to the right hand of the Father. He certainly lives forever more; and His throne will shine before God more brightly, more gloriously, and with more intensity than the sun shines before Him; and that means, most certainly, brighter and with more intensity than the sun shines here in Anniston, Alabama.
Then, I respond with even more joy, when I consider the shining of the sun, the majesty of Jesus Christ’s sovereign reign upon His throne, and that by His free and sufficient grace, I am also called the “seed” of God, as it is written, “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for His seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God” (1 John 3:9).
Then I also tremble under the immensity of that truth that the very Seed God promised David in this 89th Psalm, remains in me! Jesus Christ is in me, and therefore, I do not want to live in habitual sin: I do not want to commit sin; I must not commit it; I cannot commit sin; for to do so would dishonor my Lord who has redeemed me and bring me sorrow upon sorrow. But alas, I quite often do sin, betraying that I have not yet attained, nor have already apprehended; yet, as the apostle, I do still press toward the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Now, I rejoice, whatever the weather brings because of God’s sovereign grace; yet, I sorrow when I sin and fail to recall that He is King, He is Lord, and He is sovereign over all.
July 2
R. M. McCeyne’s DAILY BREAD portions:
MORNING:
Joshua 4 (family); Isaiah 64 (secret)
EVENING:
Psalms 129-131 (family); Matthew 12 (secret)
C. H. Spurgeon’s A PURITAN CATECHISM:
Q75. What is Baptism?
A75. Baptism is an ordinance of the New Testament, instituted by Jesus Christ, to be to the person baptized a sign of his fellowship with him, in His death, and burial, and resurrection, of his being engrafted into Him, of remission of sins, and of his giving up himself to God through Jesus Christ, to live and walk in newness of life. Matt 28:19; Rom 6:3; Col 2:12; Gal 3:27; Mk 1:4; Acts 22:16; Rom 6:4, 5
Q76. To whom is Baptism to be administered?
A76. Baptism is to be administered to all those who actually profess repentance towards God, and faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, and to none other. Acts 2:38, Matt 3:6; Mk 16:16; Acts 8:12, 36-37; 10:47-48
Q77. Are infants of such as are professing to be baptized?
A77. The infants of such as are professing believers are not to be baptized, because there is neither command nor example in the Holy Scriptures for their Baptism. Ex 23:13; Prov 30:6
Q78. How is baptism rightly administered?
A78. Baptism is rightly administered by immersion, or dipping the whole body of the person in water, in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, according to Christ’s institution, and the practice of the apostles, and not by sprinkling or pouring of water, or dipping some part of the body, after the tradition of men. Matt 3:16; John 3:23; Matt 28:19-20;; John 4:1, 2; Acts 8:38, 39
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