Daniel T. Bourdeau - The Eternal Gospel Church

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you may help them, and more easily avoid the ways of sin. Let it form images of holy men and women spoken of in the Bible -- especially of Jesus, the great example. Follow him from the manger to the cross. Behold him as he goes from place to place on his mission of love, suffering from weariness, hunger and thirst, from persecution and the temptations of Satan. Listen to the rich instructions that fall from his lips. See him weep over sinners. See him pray all night alone. Witness his agony in the garden, and the abuses that he receives as he is tried by his enemies. View him stretched between the heavens and the earth, with his hands and feet pierced, and the crown of thorns mutilating his sacred head. See the precious blood flow freely from his hands and feet. See it fall from his sacred head. Hear him pray for his enemies, and cry as he bears the sins of the whole world, "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" Follow him from earth to the heavenly sanctuary, where he pleads the merits of his blood in behalf of his people, and where his great mediatorial work will soon wind up preparatory to his coming to earth. p. 28, Para. 1, [HOLINESS]. Behold him coming in glory and majesty in the clouds of heaven, with all the holy angels. Witness the events connected with his coming. Picture in your minds the rich and glorious reward of the just, and the awful punishment of the unjust. And all these scenes will have a tendency to strengthen your faith, and encourage you to love the Lord, and imitate his virtues, to shun the ways of sin, and walk in the path of holiness. p. 28, Para. 2, [HOLINESS]. Will. p. 29, Para. 1, [HOLINESS]. The will is the faculty of choosing or determining. This faculty is the main-spring of the mind. It holds the operations of the mind and the motions of the body at its command. In this respect, it is to the rest of the faculties what a king is to his subjects. A king says to his subjects, Do this, and they obey him; and the will controls, to a great degree, the thoughts and actions of men. How necessary, then, it is for this faculty to be sanctified. p. 29, Para. 2, [HOLINESS]. Men do not choose and determine without causes. There are always motives which lead men to choose and decide to act. These motives are either just or unjust, reasonable or unreasonable. The decisions of a sanctified will are based
on just and reasonable motives, on reason, sound judgment, and the word of God. p. 29, Para. 3, [HOLINESS]. In the language of another, "Commendable decision implies two things -- a knowledge of what is truth and duty, and a fixed determination to conform to them in practice without a compromise." The mind should first be enlightened. It should first analyze what is held out as truth, and then judge and decide, choose or refuse. p. 29, Para. 4, [HOLINESS]. When Joshua had refreshed the minds of the Israelites on God's dealings with them, and called in exercise their reason and judgment, he said, "Choose ye this day whom ye will serve," Josh. xxiv, 15. Said the Lord to his backslidden people, "Come now and let us reason together. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land; but if ye refuse and rebel, ye shall be devoured by the sword." Isa. i, 18-20. Jesus and Paul instructed their hearers, reasoning with them from the Scriptures, and then called upon them to judge and decide with regard to the truth. Matt. xii, 24-30; John vii, viii; Acts xvii, 2; xviii, 4, 19; xxiv, 25, etc. Reason and judgment are not laid aside in the Scriptures; on the contrary, they are made use of and appealed to, that men may be persuaded to choose the truth. p. 29, Para. 5, [HOLINESS]. But too often, alas! reason, judgment, and the word of God are neglected, and the will is used in deciding against the truth. A. has a strong will, but decides against certain Bible doctrines before he has carefully examined them, and thus shuts the truth out of his mind. If he goes where the present truth is preached, he decides in his own mind what he will believe and what he will not believe, before he really understands what is to be presented. If he decides to read what is held out as truth, he determines before hand to believe only what agrees with his ideas of right, and makes his opinions the rule with which to compare what others say. And if he finally sees his unreasonable and injudicious course, how difficult it is for him to alter his decision, especially if he has a proud heart. But it is wiser to revoke an unsanctified decision than to abide by it, that it may appear that we are firm and unchangeable. p. 30, Para. 1, [HOLINESS].
Page 1 and 2: Daniel T. Bourdeau: 1835-1905 p. 1,
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"There are some who place great dep
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examination. We are too apt to leav
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judge sitting on a criminal case. I
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of God become holy. p. 101, Para. 4
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From certain texts of Scripture we
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etc. In the previous chapter we are
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understood that there are condition
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you are overcoming. p. 112, Para. 1
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put forth in fighting, and the exer
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est of Scripture is but a commentar
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not commit adultery. Do not kill."
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make us love. It takes love to keep
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we have to perform to obtain help f
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is within thy gates: for in six day
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Again, they performed actual labor
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This is a species of our own work,
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abroad. p. 136, Para. 3, [HOLINESS]
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necessary that we should spend a po
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the seal of God. Again, the words s
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