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The Greek word for grounded is a metaphor which alludes to a building that has the foundation well laid. So Christians should be grounded in the essential points of religion, and have their foundation well laid.
To preach and not to catechise is to build without foundation.
Glorifying God has respect to all the persons in the Trinity; it respects God the Father who gave us life; God the Son, who lost his life for us; and God the Holy Ghost, who produces a new life in us; we must bring glory to the whole Trinity.
The glory we give God is nothing else but our lifting up his name in the world, and magnifying him in the eyes of others.
Glorifying God consists in four things: 1: Appreciation, 2. Adoration, 3. Affection, 4. Subjection.
To glorify God is to set God highest in our thoughts, and to have a ve...
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Divine worship must be such as God himself has appointed, else it is offering strange fire.
If God was so exact and curious about the place of worship, how exact will he be about the matter of his worship! Surely here everything must be according to the pattern prescribed in his word.
A good Christian is like the sun, which not only sends forth heat, but goes its circuit round the world. Thus, he who glorifies God, has not only his affections heated with love to God, but he goes his circuit too; he moves vigorously in the sphere of obedience.
We aim at God's glory, when we are content that God's will should take place, though it may cross ours.
We aim at God's glory when we are content to be outshined by others in gifts and esteem, so that his glory may be increased.
Confession glorifies God, because it clears him; it acknowledges that he is holy and righteous, whatever he does.
We must not be like the fig tree in the gospel, which had nothing but leaves, but like the pomecitron, that is continually either mellowing or blossoming, and is never without fruit. It is not profession, but fruit that glorifies God.
Faith sanctifies our works, and works testify our faith;
God has given every man a talent; and when a man does not hide it in a napkin, but improves it for God, he lives to God.
Three wishes Paul had, and they were all about Christ; that he might be found in Christ, be with Christ, and magnify Christ.
[9] We glorify God by walking cheerfully. It brings glory to God, when the world sees a Christian has that within him that can make him cheerful in the worst times; that can enable him, with the nightingale, to sing with a thorn at his breast. The people of God have ground for cheerfulness. They are justified and adopted, and this creates inward peace; it makes music within, whatever storms are without. 2 Cor 1:1. I Thess 1:1. If we consider what Christ has wrought for us by his blood, and wrought in us by his Spirit, it is a ground of great cheerfulness, and this cheerfulness glorifies God.
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Zeal is a mixed affection, a compound of love and anger; it carries forth our love to God, and our anger against sin in an intense degree. Zeal is impatient of God's dishonour; a Christian fired with zeal, takes a dishonour done to God worse than an injury done to himself.
We buy and sell to the glory of God, when we observe that golden maxim, 'To do to others as we would have them do to us;' so that when we sell our commodities, we do not sell our consciences also.
We glorify God, when we have an eye to God in all our civil and natural actions, and do nothing that may reflect any blemish on religion.
We glorify God by labouring to draw others to God; by seeking to convert others, and so make them instruments of glorifying God. We should be both diamonds and loadstones; diamonds for the lustre of grace, and loadstones for attractive virtue in drawing others to Christ. Gal 4:19. 'My little children, of whom I travail,' It is a great way of glorifying God, when we break open the devil's prison, and turn men from the power of Satan to God.
Many pray, 'Let this cup pass away,' but few, 'Thy will be done.'
We glorify God, when we give God the glory of all that we do.
As Joab, when he fought against Rabbah, sent for King David, that he might carry away the crown of the victory, 2 Sam 12:28, so a Christian, when he has gotten power over any corruption or temptation, sends for Christ, that he may carry away the crown of the victory.
As the silkworm, when she weaves her curious work, hides herself under the silk, and is not seen; so when we have done anything praiseworthy, we must hide ourselves under the veil of humility, and transfer the glory of all we have done to God.
Epiphanius says, 'That the looseness of some Christians in his time made many of the heathens shun their company, and would not be drawn to hear their sermons.'
Though the main work of religion lies in the heart, yet our light must so shine that others may behold it.
The safety of a building is the foundation, but the glory of it is in the frontispiece; so the beauty of...
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It is not enough for you to say, that you have not dishonoured God, you have not lived in gross sin; but what good have you done? what glory have you brought to God? It is not enough for the servant of the vineyard that he does no hurt in the vineyard, that he does not break the trees, or destroy the hedges; if he does not do service in the vineyard, he loses his pay; so, if you do not good in your place, do not glorify God, you will lose your pay, you will miss of salvation. Oh, think of this, all you that live unserviceable! Christ cursed the barren fig tree.
Lust first bewitches with pleasure, and then comes the fatal dart.
Our enjoyment will be in the perfection of holiness, in seeing the pure face of Christ, in feeling the love of God, in conversing with heavenly spirits; which will be proper for the soul, and infinitely exceed all carnal voluptuous delights.
To behold God's glory, there is glory revealed to us; but, to partake of his glory, there is glory revealed in us. As the sponge sucks in the wine, so shall we suck in glory.
If anything can make us rise off our bed of sloth, and serve God with all our might, it should be this, the hope of our near enjoyment of God for ever.
The devil and his agents have been blowing at Scripture light, but could never blow it out; a clear sign that it was lighted from heaven.
What fools are they, who, for a drop of pleasure, drink a sea of wrath!
The real belief of a Deity gives life to all religious worship; the more we believe the truth and infiniteness of God the more holy and angelic we are in our lives.
It is little comfort to know there is a God, unless he be ours.
To be able to say, God is mine, is more than to have all mines of gold and silver.
He is God, and has a sovereignty over us; therefore, as we received life from him, so we must receive a law from him, and submit to his will in all things. This is to kiss him with a kiss of loyalty, and it is to glorify him as God.
Were it not a foolish thing to bow down to the king's picture, when the king is present? So it is to worship God's image, when God himself is present.
Repentance is not in the outward severities used to the body, as penance, fasting, and chastising the body, but it consists in the sacrifice of a broken heart.
[The divine nature does not intermix with created matter, nor is contaminated by its impurities].
In heaven we shall see God clearly, but not fully, for he is infinite; he will communicate himself to us, according to the bigness of our vessel, but not the immenseness of his nature. Adore then where you cannot fathom.
