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“ Summary, Part 3 (final) ” 9. RETAIN GOOD THOUGHTS OF GOD NO MATTER HOW HE ORDERS YOUR LIFE. PS 73:1. When we complain to God, we're acting like we know our lives better than He does. If we had our way, we'd end up in hell.
10. MAKE LOVE FOR GOD THE CHIEF MOTIVE FOR ALL YOU DO. Love moves both God and man. 1 JN 4:10, 19. Love is the greatest commandment of all. The world's love is neither holy in its motive nor wholesome in its effect because its chief motives are not love for God. Love is outward, just as God saves us out of love for us. We naturally love ourselves, but the First Commandment tells us to love God. Self-love is primary, inclusive and intensive, but it is owed to God. Pastor Abedini is in prison for showing Biblical love. We cannot love with God's infinity, but we can love with His completeness.
1. Meditate on how unlovely you are by your sin, and therefore on how undeserving you are of God's love.
2. Think often on the costliness of God's love in saving you from your sin.
3. Give much consideration to how you may tangibly demonstrate love for God even in the ordinary activities of life.
4. Confess a sin, specific attitudes and actions that fail to demonstrate love to God as your primary motive.
5. Revel in God's forgiving grace as a fresh incentive to love Him and live for Him.
Ian Migala (4/15/2013)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 2 ” 7. LOOK FIRST TO CHRIST RATHER THAN COUNTING ON PARDONING GRACE. Otherwise it's like making a road trip without first checking the gas tank. Paul warned that sin shouldn't abound so that grace may abound. It's one thing to fall into temptation, but it's quite another to plan sin with the thought of repentance later. There was no sacrifice for willful sin under the old covenant. We must not look to our own grace, but to that of Christ (hymn: "I Need Thee Every Hour").
8. IN EVERYTHING, MAINTAIN A HUMBLE ESTIMATION OF YOURSELF. A good conscience is a lowly conscience. "Pride is the shirt of the soul: the first thing we put on, and the last thing we take off." But what do we have that we haven't received? Humility is thwarted by self-righteousness, grumbling, contentiousness, self-deception, among other things. To be humble is to be sensitive to our graces. Agur manifests the Christian spirit in PR 30. Christ, the only blameless one to ever walk the earth, was also the most humble.
Ian Migala (4/15/2013)
from Minneapolis, Minnesota
“ Summary, Part 1 ” Source text: Acts 24:16
Based on Samuel Annesley's sermons at Cripplegate.
The CARE of the good conscience.
Review:
1. Account no sin to be small
2. Repent immediately of every known sin
3. Consciously live as under the eye of a jealous God
4. Frequently and candidly examine your heart and life
5. Adopt the habit of prayer, especially secret prayer
Five more characteristics
6. TREAT ALL OF LIFE AS SACRED WITHOUT SPECIAL COMPARTMENTS. We're Christians all the time, everywhere we go. The Christian knows who he is and Whose he is. 1 COR 6:19-20 tells us that we are not our own, but the Spirit's temple. The idea that the soul is spiritual and the body is secular is pagan. The Christian knows that he no longer lives for himself, but for God (2 COR 5:15). He consciously lives under the Lordship of Christ (ROM 14:7-9, PS 101:2). If you’re a Sunday-only Christian, you’re no Christian at all. A Christian with a good conscience does not play games with God. Christ is the Lord of our thoughts, entertainment, labor, home life, everything.
