walk by faith, not by sight sermon

Now it cannot be said that this is m itself desirable. (1) Were you to act upon the same principles in the common affairs of life as you do in matters of religion, it would be simply impossible for you to subsist in the world. Now it is just that mercenary instinct which God wants to destroy in us. But do you suppose that you cease to serve and glorify God, when you depart from earth? Yea, the apostle speaks of the Holy Ghost as a pledge of the incorruptible inheritance (2 Corinthians 1:22; 2 Corinthians 5:5; Romans 8:23). H. Thus it ought to be. A CONSCIOUSNESS THAT HIS DEATH WOULD NOT ENDANGER THE INTERESTS OF BEING.1. If there be not another world to live for, I must say that this life is not worthy of a man. All men naturally walk by sight. It is right —(1) When it is because you are conscious of your daily sins and want to be rid of them. for retirement. Their grand question is, "What shall we eat, what shall we drink, wherewithal shall we be clothed?" The sun shines on the evil and on the good, the rain falls alike on the just and unjust, and there are many things besides death of which it is true that there is one event to all. Popular science, which teaches that matter is everything, that all thoughts about the invisible are idle and superstitious. But yet does it not sometimes amount to this, "Father, if the cup cannot pass from me, let me pass away from it"? Is not faith the fountain of the new life, and is it not a certain confidence of what is hoped for, a firm conviction of what is not seen? (2) Delightful. If you put faith in your dreams, or in anything you thought you saw, or in a voice you thought you heard, or in texts of Scripture coming to your mind — if you put faith in anything else but Christ — I do not care how good it may be or how bad it may be — you must mind, for such a faith as that will give way. "There is but a step between me and death." What a contradiction, then, to say that we hope for the presence of the Lord when we had rather that He would delay His coming! What wonder, then, that he thought it good rather to be "absent from the body," which he found so painful and insecure a home, and to be "at home with the Lord" at whose right hand are pleasures for evermore!4. To apprehend His presence is the one great aim of the souls that love Him, and He is ever near. In this view the words import the three things following. Jesus Himself has supplied the test, "That which is born of the flesh is flesh, that which is born of the spirit is spirit."1. It is more useful. The Victory of Walking by Faith (v.18-28). Walking by sight is a very childish thing. Look at He who walks by faith can walk in the sunlight as well as you can, but he can walk in the dark as you cannot, for his light is still shining upon him.6. The world was never meant to fill a believer's soul. The man that rushes into danger is not courageous, but reckless.2. To conclude — We may see from this subject the duty of all who profess the Christian religion, or have the Word of God among their hands. But here he distinctly affirms an opposite conviction.1. Spurgeon. THE INFLUENCE WHICH THIS ANTICIPATION EXERCISES.1. (2) It believes things that, upon the principles of unenlightened reason, are incredible. appearances. We get cowardly and distrustful of God. You may have a very strong faith in everything else but Christ, and yet perish. 2 Corinthians 4. this feeling deepens, and phrases that express it occur in almost every verse. (3) A love to the children of God, and a delight in their society, are essential to the Christian character. Now, since the world thinks itself wise and the Christian a fool for acting contrary to the world's proverb that "A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush," let us just see wherein the wisdom of this matter is, and wherein it is not.1. (2) It believes things that, upon the principles of unenlightened reason, are incredible. And therefore you must grant that it is possible it may be true.3. This also is the life of heaven. Who then could be well pleased to be absent from the body? It is called a walk.1. If there is any analogy between the relation of the body on earth to the spirit that inhabits it, and that of Christ to him who dwells in Him, then it may be that, as the flesh, so the Christ transmits to the spirit impressions from the outside world, and affords a means of action upon that world. See the sin and folly of too much attachment to sensible enjoyments. G. Green, D. D.)Desire to be present with ChristH. How are believers absent from the Lord, when He dwelleth in them, as in His temple, and there is a close union between Him and them? Pentecostal Sermons and Bible Studiesby Pastor Jim Feeney, Ph.D. But Christianity has never taught us to forget the duties and privileges of earth. Christ answers him by enumerating the wonders which He has accomplished; but He finishes with those sublime words, "The poor have the gospel preached to them." ever really needed. Introduction. But here he distinctly affirms an opposite conviction.1. How will your desires be It is stated that Kepler, when lying on his death-bed, and being asked by a friend whether he suffered not cruelly to be obliged to die without seeing his discoveries appreciated, answered, "My friend, God has waited five thousand years till one of His creatures discovered the admirable laws which He has given to the stars; why should I, then, not wait till justice is done to me? Let us look at death as he looked at death, as the flight of the spirit into the presence of its Lord. Lord: 26 In the fear of the LORD one has strong confidence, and Four things here when he is instructed by the Word of God. From the principles of our nature. "Whilst we dwell in the body," says the apostle, "we are absent from the Lord" as in a foreign land; "for," adds the apostle as his ground, "we walk by faith, and not by sight." Sight goes a warfare at its own charges, and is defeated. "5. "Wherefore we labour," etc. My spirit is unseen. Kollock, D. D.I. Christ claims us. And yet he who waited for the consolation of Israel was second to none of them. It is wrong —(1) When the Christian has grown worldly. "Blessed are they that have not seen and yet have believed." Mark  More lasting.II. (a) He had a hope of the immortality to be revealed. "Even so, Amen; come, Lord Jesus."II. (3) When the greatest danger is seen to lie in the way of duty, and when sense and reason assure us that the danger cannot be avoided unless the duty is postponed, the Christian, depending upon the promise of God, despises the danger; and, that he may not be wanting in the performance of his duty, rushes into the jaws of a seen destruction.3. For the same reason the body is called a tent or tabernacle in the first verse. He found fruits on the shores of Europe, cast up by the Atlantic waves, which he knew must have grown in lands beyond. The true tone of the Christian character is a brave, undismayed way of looking at life with all its possibilities, and at the distant prospect or the near approach of death.

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