https://open.spotify.com/episode/0BqATq67yXCDZJAQS1H43B?si=42-AYdyvT_ml_XBrWcudZA With Owen’s first two directions for mortifying sin covered by the previous two chapters, our present chapter continues with not one but five more directions to follow (3-7). Direction 3, as alluded to last week, is to “load thy conscience with the guilt of it. Not only consider that it hath a guilt, but …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kkbe-v-GvBE&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=13 Again he began to teach beside the sea. And a very large crowd gathered about him, so that he got into a boat and sat in it on the sea, and the whole crowd was beside the sea on the land. And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching …
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“A totalitarian state,” writes Rod Dreher, “is one that aspires to nothing less than defining and controlling reality. Truth is whatever the rulers decide it is” (pp. 7-8). He notes that this should not be confused with an authoritarian state, which “is mere dictatorship” (7). Totalitarian states are driven by ideologies under which reality itself …
https://open.spotify.com/episode/1cXwD6J5Nj7T0RclQnKJWR?si=0W08Es0tRbG_s2VYi0bKPg Having established the first direction for mortifying sin in the previous chapter, Owen now moves on to discuss the second direction: “Get a clear and abiding sense upon thy mind and conscience, first, of the guilt, secondly, of the danger, thirdly, of the evil, of that sin wherewith thou art perplexed” (99). The chapter …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfcZ4Sm3NgA&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=12 Then he went home, and the crowd gathered again, so that they could not even eat. And when his family heard it, they went out to seize him, for they were saying, “He is out of his mind.” And the scribes who came down from Jerusalem were saying, “He is possessed by Beelzebul,” and …
But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was angry. And he prayed to the LORD and said, “O LORD, is not this what I said when I was yet in my country? …for I knew that you are a gracious God and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, and relenting from disaster. …
https://open.spotify.com/episode/225OK8G5eWCB7vXpizqsRH?si=RcxjSYX9RuqaA47BD4ZslA Having explained mortification and given principles and general rules to mortifying sin, Owen now begins in this chapter to give specific directions for killing sin. Chapter 9 is devoted entirely to the first direction, which is that we must consider a few dangerous symptoms of sin in order to see if it is particularly …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZBxKbfpJrI&list=PLpjdHYmZ6tSRJS2ATXIsDMpYtrY0WUXyS&index=11 Jesus withdrew with his disciples to the sea, and a great crowd followed, from Galilee and Judea and Jerusalem and Idumea and from beyond the Jordan and from around Tyre and Sidon. When the great crowd heard all that he was doing, they came to him. And he told his disciples to have a …
Continue reading The Great Crowd & the Twelve Apostles | Mark 3:7-19
In our study of what the Bible has to say about pride and humility (presented quite purposely on “pride month"), we arrive at the third of three interrelated texts. Proverbs 3:34, of course, is the core since it is cited by both James and Peter, and it defined the sharp dichotomy between the proud and …
Continue reading Humility, Anxiety, & the Devil | 1 Peter 5:5
https://open.spotify.com/episode/2RCJStiGHUoOCQZ1df7FAL?si=VEMEfu67T4GAbuPPgtDHkQ In this chapter, Owen discusses the second general rule for mortifying sin: “Without sincerity and diligence in the universality of obedience, there is no mortification of any one perplexing lust to be obtained” (81). In other words, if we are not striving to obey Christ with every aspect of our lives, we will never …
