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“Not For Me”
“Without money, and without price!” Such are the terms on which God presents eternal life to sinners. Wonderful message of love! Yet also amazing is how few will take it on these terms. The following incident will illustrate what I say. As it belongs to the day of the horse-drawn cart, needless t ...
A Sober Mind Considers
Let us see what it is that we press upon you when we exhort you to be sober-minded. And I shall keep to the original word used in my text, and the various meanings of it. It is the same word that is used to set forth the third part of our Christian duty, and is put first o ...
BIBLE QUIZ
Dear Boys and Girls,Now that the summer months are again behind us, you are again busy with your studies at school, but also at catechism classes. I understand that for some of you catechism is a part of your school day, but for others it is held in church at some other time of the week. B ...
A Sober Mind is Temperate and Self-Denying
You must be temperate and self-denying, and not indulgent of your appetites. This is one of the lessons that the aged men must learn; and some think it properly signifies a moderate use of meat and drink, to save our mind from being clouded, and our wisdom from being corrupted, that is, our heart ...
A Sober Mind is Gentle
You must be mild and gentle, and not indulgent of your passions. The word here used signifies moderation, such a soundness of mind as is opposed to frenzy and violence. We have need of sobriety to restrain and repress not only our inordinate appetites towards those things that are pleasing to sen ...
Be Sober-Minded Because of Future Judgment
You must shortly go to judgment. With the consideration of this, Solomon endeavors to make his young man sober who is for walking in the way of his heart and in the sight of his eyes; “Know thou, that for all these things, God will bring thee into judgment.” And thou that makest a jest of everyth ...
Concluding Applications on Sober-Mindedness (1)
You see now what is expected from you that are young, and how justly it is expected, you see both from the Word of God; and now, shall I entreat you to make use of what I have said, to make it useful to yourselves, that this discourse may not be lost upon you?First, ...
A Sober Mind is Chaste
You must be chaste and reserved, and not wanton and impure. When it is here made the particular duty of young men, this meaning of the word must certainly be taken in, for the “lusts of the flesh which are manifest: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, and lasciviousness” (Gal. 5:19), are particul ...
A Sober Mind is Serious
You must be grave and serious, and not frothy and vain. This meaning we commonly give to the word here used. He that is serious, we call a sober man; and I put this as the last of the ingredients of this sober-mindedness because it will have a very great influence upon all the rest; we would gain ...
Be Sober Minded Because it is Reasonable
You are all reasonable creatures, and therefore ought to be sober-minded. Consider how noble and excellent that rank of beings is that you are of — how far advanced above that of the beasts — and, consequently, how unjust you are both to God and to yourselves, if by inconsideration, or the indulg ...
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