Help me to do Thy will, to take my stand, and say, 'As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.'" As if David should say: Thou promised me help of Thy free favour, help me then in this my danger. (2)In sacred biographies. "Thy Spirit is good" we may well exclaim, when we think both of His terrible acts, and of the might of those acts of mercy which have made Him renowned and revered to every believer. Further, I WANT TO CALL TO YOUR MIND HIS SEVERAL OFFICES, for these are proofs that He is good. In special cases, where much wisdom and judgment were required, the Holy Ghost was the Author of these good things. so said the Prophet Jeremiah, concerning the many refuges of lies behind which so many of his countrymen were thinking that they would find shelter. In such guise He sat upon the heads of the disciples. The subject was boring. from what quarter does He reach to us? The psalmist betakes himself to prayer because he knows that of himself he cannot bring his will into this attitude of harmonious submission. 2. What God hath done, God can do. As the modeller will take a piece of wax into his hand, and by warmth and manipulation make it soft and pliable, so Jesus Christ, if we let Him, will take our hard hearts into His hands, and by gentle, loving, subtle touches, will shape them into the pattern of His own perfect beauty, and will mould all their vagrant inclinations and aberrant distortions into "one immortal feature of loveliness and perfection.". )Thy Spirit is good.The good SpiritThomas Spurgeon. He is spoken of as the Spirit of promise. This Spirit is good because He is the Spirit of God, He is God Himself. (Thomas Spurgeon. Minister: Dekker, P Preached: Thursday Evening, November 27, 2014 Place Preached: Hope Strict Baptist Church, Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada Teach me to do thy will; for thou art my God: thy spirit is good; lead me into the land of uprightness. (3)In every line of the Bible. He is spoken of as the Spirit of promise. He is gracious and gentle.3. The Holy Spirit may be compared to dew-cheering, beautifying, fertilizing. First, by this that he desireth God to teach him to do His will, because He was his God, we learn that it is not in our own arbitrament or choice to do God's will, but His special grace, who preventeth us by His favour, and becometh our God, and after frameth us to do His will and obey Him. There is a reason for expecting it. He is spoken of as a fire. He is gracious and gentle.3. By whom has He been sent forth to dwell amidst the Church, and in God's people's hearts? Faber. "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." It calls for action, not passivity. For you children, just think back to last week. If He be our God, where is His love and obedience? No one but God can teach us His will.3. : — "Thy will be done" is not a prayer of resignation only. It was the Holy Ghost who led the children of Israel in the wilderness. (Thomas Spurgeon. Help me to do Thy will, to take my stand, and say, 'As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.'" I. Is what we have planned to do to-day just what we think is the will of God?(F. 2. In this semblance He lighted upon Jesus. "And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness." 1. Symson.An argument to move God to teach him, because He is his God, and doth trust in none but in Him. Spurgeon. : — "Thy will be done" is not a prayer of resignation only. True, it destroys, but it destroys only what we are better rid of Dead wood, broken branches, withered leaves, these He sweeps away as with a bosom. Now, Christ is good. Is He not a good Spirit, then? Get into the draught of that wind, I beseech you, it is a trade wind that wafts us to our desired haven. DEFICIENCY ACKNOWLEDGED. Whence is the Spirit? Psalm 143:10 The foundations of the religious character which was to be perfected in the mind of Christ were laid in faith in God and in the recognition of the supremacy of the moral law. If He be our God, where is His love and obedience? Get into the draught of that wind, I beseech you, it is a trade wind that wafts us to our desired haven. But then God gives us back our tests. In the first half (1-6), David lays out his problem to the Lord, crying out to Him to hear and answer. What God hath done, God can do. His very enemies declared that they could discover no sort of fault in Him.3.
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