Paul’s Guidelines to the Corinthian Church for Being Watchful

Knowing that our heats are deceitful by nature (Jeremiah 17:9), we should be especially watchful that they do not turn our liberty into license.  How then can we watch in this area of Christian freedom?  Paul gave some specific guidelines to the Corinthian believers who were asserting their freedom in Christ (I Corinthians 6:12; 10:23-24) [...]

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The Evil Ways of Little Sins

Greater sins do sooner startle the soul, and awaken and rouse up the soul to repentance, than lesser sins do.  Little sins often slide into the soul and breed, and work secretly and indiscernibly in the soul, till they come to be so strong, as to trample upon the soul and to cut the throat [...]

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What Diligence and Watchfulness We Should Have!

When we realize a constant enemy of the soul abides within us, what diligence and watchfulness we should have!  How woeful is the sloth and negligence then of so many who live blind and asleep to this reality of sin.  There is an exceeding efficacy and power in the indwelling sin of believers, for it [...]

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These Little Things, Avoided, Adds up to Much

The avoidance of little evils, little sins, little inconsistencies, little weaknesses, little follies, little indiscretions and imprudences, little foibles, little indulgences of self and of the flesh, little acts of indolence or indecision or slovenliness or cowardice, little equivocations or aberrations from high integrity, little touches of shabbiness and meanness, …little indifferences to the feelings [...]

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We Need to Study Ourselves

Each of us is exposed to a number of temptations.  We should study both ourselves and our situations to identify those areas where we are, or may be, especially vulnerable, then determine how we can best guard against them. – Bridges, Jerry; The Disciplined of Grace:God’s Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness; [...]

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The Evil Desire Within

The evil desire within us constantly searches for occasions to express itself.  It is like a radar system whose antenna is constantly scanning the environment for temptations to which it can respond. – Bridges, Jerry; The Disciplined of Grace:God’s Role and Our Role in the Pursuit of Holiness; NavPress; Colorado Springs; copyright 1994; p. 204

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No Iceberg Infested Sea Was More Dangerous than our Society Today

Over time the world tends to wear down our resistance to sin.  Values and practices that were at one time recognized as sinful become acceptable to us simply because our otherwise nice, decent neighbors hold those values.  No iceberg infested sea was ever more dangerous than the society in which we live every day.  It [...]

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We Need to Know

The Bible speaks of three different sources of temptation: the world, the flesh and the Devil.  Although references to and warnings about each are scattered throughout the New Testament, the one passage of Scripture that gathers all three together into on succinct statement is Ephesians 2:1-3.  This passage actually speaks of our subjection to the [...]

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It Is Forgiveness that Sets a Man Working for God

It is forgiveness that sets a man working for God.  He does not work in order to be forgiven, but because he has been forgiven, and the consciousness of his sin being pardoned makes him long more for its entire removal than ever he did before. An unforgiven man cannot work.  He has not the [...]

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Here Then Is Where the Deceit of Sin Intervenes

Here then is where the deceit of sin intervenes.  It separates the doctrine of grace from its purpose.  It persuades us to dwell upon the notion of grace and diverts our attention from the influence that grace gives to achieve its proper application in holy lives.  From the doctrine of assured pardon of sin, it [...]

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