“For as by nature we are inclined to evil, we have need of various helps to retain us in the fear of God. Unless our faith be now and then raised up, it will lie prostrate: unless it be warmed, it will be frozen; unless it be roused, it will grow torpid. He would have us then to stimulate one another by mutual exhortations, so that Satan may not creep into our hearts, and by his fallacies draw us away from God.
-John Calvin, from his commentary on Hebrews, p.88
The Need for Mutual Exhortations
Faith, Not a Blind Reliance”
“Faith is not a blind reliance on the Word of God, but an intelligent persuasion of it’s veracity, wisdom and beauty.”
AW Pink, from his Hebrews comm. P.654
Purchased by Christ
‘Every grace implanted in the Christian’s soul was purchased by the obedience and blood of Christ, and are living evidences of the worth of them.”
-A.W.Pink, from his Hebrews Comm. p.575
Dangerous and Fatal
“To indulge the flesh is dangerous; To persist in the course of self-gratification is highly dangerous; And to remain therein unto the end, would be fatal.”
A.W.Pink,from his Hebrews Comm. p.612
Want or Weakness
“It is through want or weakness of faith that we cannot put the word of promise and works of Providence in a harmonious way together”.
-Jeremiah Burroughs, from his Faith, p.xviii
The Mediator’s Desire
“Never did famished mortal so crave food to satisfy hunger, as did the God-Man Mediator to perform the Father’s pleasure”.
A.W.Pink, From his Hebrews Comm. p.560
Confession of Sin
“Confession of sin is as necessary under the New Covenant as under the Old, but with an entirely different end in view; It is not as a part of the compensation for the guilt of it nor as a means of pacifying the conscience so that we may still go on in sin; but to fill us with self-abasement, to induce greater watchfulness against sin, to glorify God for the mercy available, and to obtain a sense of His pardon in our own souls”.
A.W.Pink, from his Hebrews Commentary, p.535
Truth and Error
“When we cease to value Truth, we are already in the atmosphere of error.”
-Charles Bridges, from his commentary on Ecclesiates, p.307
Not One Sigh
“If I had to contribute so much as one sigh to my salvation, I would go to hell”.
- Hanko, from “Justified Unto Liberty”, p.170
Spiritual Wealth
“Never expect spiritual wealth, while indulging carnal sloth”.
From Charles Bridges’ commentary on Ecclesiastes, p.256
False Religion
“All false religion is but a choice of other things for men to place their trust in with a neglect of Christ, and all superstition, instances of it, be they great or small”.
-John Owen
The Time of Testing
Providence so arranges human affairs that everything in life is a test of character”.
W. Plummer, Jehovah Jireh, p.89
Sweet Meditation
Meditation is a holy exercise of the mind; whereby we
bring the truths of God to remembrance—and seriously
ponder upon them and apply them to ourselves. It is a
work which cannot be done in a crowd. A Christian must
retire from the world, to have serious thinking upon God.
It is not a few transient thoughts that are quickly gone;
but a fixing and staying of the mind upon heavenly
objects.
-Thomas Watson
The Believer’s Assurance
The assurance of the believer rests upon the unchanging veracity of God”
-A.W.Pink , Hebrews Comm. p.353
The Glory of Heaven
“The glory of Heaven consists in the full manifestation of divine wisdom,goodness, grace,and holiness – of all the properties of the nature of God in Christ. In the clear perception and constant contemplation hereof consists no small part of eternal blessedness”.
-John Owen, Works, vol 1. p.244
What Faith Does…
“Faith makes invisible things visible, absent things present, and things that are very far off to be very near to the soul”.
- Thomas Brooks
To the Very End of Our Journey
“To the last moment of our fight of faith, to the very end of our journey, the child of God, while trusting and rejoicing, walks in Godly fear”.
AW Pink, From his Hebrews Commentary, p.194
The Fear of God vs. The Fear of Demons
“Concering God Himself, we are to fear Him with such a reverent awe of His holy majesty as will make us careful to please Him in all things and fearful of offending Him. This is ever accompanied by a fearsome distrust of ourselves. The fear of God which is evil in a Christian is that servile bondage which produces a distrustful attitude, kills affection for Him, regards Him as a hateful tyrant. This is the fear of demons”.
-A.W.Pink, Hebrews Comm. p.193
Cleave to Christ
“What we particularly need to daily exhort one another about is to cleave fast to Christ, lest something else supplant Him in our affections. The whole trend of our sinful natures is to depart from the living God, to grasp at the shadows and miss the substance”.
A.W. Pink, From his Hebrews Commentary, p.182
