Thus says the Lord: "Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.
But they said, 'We will not walk in it.'" --Jeremiah 6:16

 

27 April, 2007   comments: (0) Postmodernism   Make Your Heart Conform To The Truth    Quoting William Gurnall . . . Likeness is the ground of love. A carnal heart cannot like truth because it does not resemble truth. How is it possible then, for an earthly heart to love pure heavenly truth? It's sad when men's understanding clash with their affections, when judgment and will are so unequally yoked. Truth in the conscience scolding lust in the heart. Like a quarreling couple they may live together for a while but the discontent will soon expel truth as Ahasuerus did Vashti, and espouse principles which will not cross his heart in it's bent for sin. This has parted many men from truth in these licentious days - they can not sin in peace and keep sound judgment at the same time. But if the power of truth as transformed you into it's own likeness by the renewing of your mind, and made you bear fruit like itself, you will never separate yourself from it. Before this could happen you would have to part with the new nature, which the Spirit of God has formed in you. But now there is a new union between you and truth - or between you and Christ - which can never be broken. A mighty power goes a long way with wedlock, two persons who have barely known each other can leave friends and parents to enjoy each other after their affections have been knit by love and their persons made one by marriage. But an even mightier power accompanies the joining between the soul and Christ, the soul and truth. This is the same person who, before conversion, would not have given a penny for Christ or His truth; yet now, knit to Christ by a secret work of the Spirit, he can leave the whole world behind for oneness with Him. A persecutor once taunted a martyr by asking him if he did not love his wife and children too much to die. "Yes", answered the Christian, "I love them so dearly that I would not part with any of them for all that is the Duke of Brunswick - whose subject he was - is worth; but for Christ's sake and His truth, farewell to them all!" From:  The Christian in Complete Armour, (year 1665)   Posted by: Jim B.   Link: http://www.oldtruth.com/blog.cfm/id.2.pid.657   Be the first to post a comment about this article        Home  |   About  |  Videos   |  Calvinism