Today's Puritan Audio Devotional:

Grace Gems for SEPTEMBER 2004


The carnal man's trinity!

("Soul Idolatry" David Clarkson, 1621-1686)

"You can be sure that no immoral, impure, or greedy
person will inherit the Kingdom of Christ and of God.
For a such a person is really an idolater who worships
the things of this world." Ephesians 5:5

"For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh,
and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is
not of the Father, but is of the world." 1 John 2:16

Pleasures, and riches, and honors are the carnal
man's trinity. These are the three great idols of
worldly men, to which they prostrate their souls!

Idolatry is to give that honor and worship to 'the creature',
which is due to the Creator alone. When this worship is
communicated to other things, whatever they are, we
thereby make them idols, and commit idolatry. When the
mind is most taken up with an object, and the heart and
affections most set upon it, this is "soul worship"—and
this worship is due to God alone.

Now this worship due to God alone, is given . . .
by the savage heathen to their stick and stones;
by the papist to their angels, saints, and images;
by carnal men to their lusts.

There are two kinds of idolatry:
1. Open, external idolatry—when men, out of a religious
respect, bow to, or prostrate themselves before anything
besides the true God. This is the idolatry of the heathen,
and in part, the idolatry of papists.

2. Secret and soul idolatry—when the mind is set
on anything more than God; when anything is . . .
more valued than God,
more desired than God,
more sought than God,
more loved than God.

Hence, secret idolaters shall have no inheritance in
the Kingdom of God. Soul idolatry will exclude men
from heaven, as much as open idolatry!

He who serves his lusts is as incapable of entering
heaven, as he who worships idols of wood or stone!

"Therefore, my dearly beloved, flee from idolatry!"
1 Corinthians 10:14

The Way God Accept People

21 But now the righteousness of God apart from the law is revealed, being witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, 22 even the righteousness of God, through faith in Jesus Christ, to all and on all who believe. For there is no difference; 23 for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God, 24 being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, 25 whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed, 26 to demonstrate at the present time His righteousness, that He might be just and the justifier of the one who has faith in Jesus. 27 Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? Of works? No, but by the law of faith. 28 Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith apart from the deeds of the law. 29 Or is He the God of the Jews only? Is He not also the God of the Gentiles? Yes, of the Gentiles also, 30 since there is one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through faith. 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not! On the contrary, we establish the law.
Romans 3:21-31 NKJV

Evolution - A Cartoon Presentation

I know I am bringing a lot of evolution material. The reason is that the youth at church are asking why schools are shoving the subject of evolution through their throats. I believe that evolution is not science at all, because science tests and shows empirical evidence. In the other hand evolution (not science) tries to push the impossible to reality, like by chance we have 2 hands and 2 feet that all of the sudden are useful for our daily life and a brain that makes them work with the muscles and all the other the complex components of the body. Everything so organized, all working in harmony, how can that be not designed and created. You got to be kidding me. Quiz: Can an explosion all of the sudden turn to a house, a car, or anything useful? You will call me nuts and ignorant!

Con - "with" + Science - "knowledge" = With Knowledge

"Who show the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and between themselves their thoughts accusing or else excusing them)" -Romans 2:15/ (Conscience) Con - "with"; Science - "knowledge" - So them, with the Law written in our hearts and our conscience bearing witness, it can be said that we are sinning "with knowledge" that it is against God's Law. -LivingWaters.com

You can choose to believe that we are not sinners, but you cannot avoid reality.

If you are flying in an airplane 20,000 ft from ground you can choose not to believe in gravity, but you cannot avoid the reality of gravity. You cannot see it, taste it or touch it, it's invisible, but it's there. Sin is the same way, is invisible, but when we sin (gravity) our conscious (with knowledge of consequences) helps us to understand the danger of falling without a parachute. Jesus is our parachute. If we have to jump from 20,000 ft gravity will pull us to the ground, but if we have a parachute (Jesus) it will smoothly brings us safe to the ground ( Eternal life).

If you repent and trust in Jesus Christ sin will still be there, but you will be saved from that deadly fall which is Hell. If you do not believe in Hell then you can re-read the sentence about "cannot avoid reality". Remember, man discovered atoms' existence by doing research, if you want to discover the invisible you need to use your God given eyes, brain and heart to make that research work in your favor. We are at the 6th dispensation, a period of grace, your last chance to repent and trust in the savior. After that "The end..." -1 Corinthians 15:24-26.

The Begining of Sin

"Every sin starts with a lie. First, we listen to the lie. Second, we dwell on the lie. Third, we believe the lie. Finally, we act on the lie. Are you somewhere on this path? If so, the good news is that every lie can be countered by God’s Word. Listen to the truth of His Word today. Dwell on the truth, believe it, and... act on it."
From today’s “Seeking Him with Nancy Leigh DeMoss”

The Word of Truth

When the Word of God tells us that "the truth will set us free", meaning that it will show us the way out of darkness to the light in Jesus Christ. From being slaves of sin to be children of God, from captivity to freedom. From being cold hearted to a fruitful love of Christ that will give hope to the hopeless who need open arms from hearts of flesh. From a heavy laden to a restful and eternal salvation.

All this and more you can be sure you will find in the book that will never lie, a book you can trust. The only book you'll find no mistakes and the only book you can use a verse in different ways, even atheists uses the verses to try to contradict His very own Word, all have failed. The glory is to the most High.

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