**Come to Christ as Mary Magdalene did!**
(Jonathan Edwards)
"There was a woman who was a notorious sinner in that city.
When she learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's
home, she took an alabaster jar of perfume and knelt at His
feet behind Him. She was crying and began to wash His feet
with her tears and dry them with her hair. Then she kissed
His feet over and over again, anointing them constantly
with the perfume." (Luke 7:37-38)
When you engage in the duty of prayer, or come to the Lord's
supper, or attend any other duty of divine worship--come to
Christ as Mary Magdalene did! Come, and cast yourself at
His feet, and kiss them, and pour forth upon Him the sweet
perfumed ointment of divine love, out of a pure and broken
heart, as she poured the precious perfume out of her pure
broken alabaster jar!
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The less you think of yourselves — the more will you esteem Christ!
(Thomas Guthrie)
I wish you to think little, very little of yourselves. Why?
Because the less you think of yourselves — the more will you esteem Christ.
Because the humbler you are in your own eyes — the higher you will stand in God's eyes.
The guest, who, coming modestly in, takes the lowest place at the table — is called up to the seat of honor.
None are so sure to lie in Jesus' bosom — as those who have been lying lowest at Jesus' feet.
Hence, brought by grace to see sin's vileness, and to feel its exceeding evil . . .
the holiest men — have always been the humblest,
the strongest men — have always felt the weakest in themselves,
the best men — have always thought the worst of themselves.
David, the man after God's own heart, said, "I was as a beast before You!"
Job, the most remarkable character of his own or any age for piety and uprightness, said, as he shrank from his own image, "I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes!"
And Paul, though the greatest of all the apostles, much too great as well as honest, to fish for compliments and depreciate himself that others might praise him — spoke of himself not as the least, but as less than the least, of all saints.
The tree grows best skyward, which grows most downward. Just so, the lower the saint grows in humility — the higher he grows in holiness. The soaring corresponds to the sinking.
The humble man's heartfelt prayer shall be, "O my God, I am ashamed, and blush to lift up my face to You! I am glad to enter Heaven at the back of the wicked Manasseh, or the immoral woman, or the thief of the cross. God be merciful to me a sinner!"
(Jonathan Edwards)
"There was a woman who was a notorious sinner in that city.
When she learned that Jesus was eating at the Pharisee's
home, she took an alabaster jar of perfume and knelt at His
feet behind Him. She was crying and began to wash His feet
with her tears and dry them with her hair. Then she kissed
His feet over and over again, anointing them constantly
with the perfume." (Luke 7:37-38)
When you engage in the duty of prayer, or come to the Lord's
supper, or attend any other duty of divine worship--come to
Christ as Mary Magdalene did! Come, and cast yourself at
His feet, and kiss them, and pour forth upon Him the sweet
perfumed ointment of divine love, out of a pure and broken
heart, as she poured the precious perfume out of her pure
broken alabaster jar!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
The less you think of yourselves — the more will you esteem Christ!
(Thomas Guthrie)
I wish you to think little, very little of yourselves. Why?
Because the less you think of yourselves — the more will you esteem Christ.
Because the humbler you are in your own eyes — the higher you will stand in God's eyes.
The guest, who, coming modestly in, takes the lowest place at the table — is called up to the seat of honor.
None are so sure to lie in Jesus' bosom — as those who have been lying lowest at Jesus' feet.
Hence, brought by grace to see sin's vileness, and to feel its exceeding evil . . .
the holiest men — have always been the humblest,
the strongest men — have always felt the weakest in themselves,
the best men — have always thought the worst of themselves.
David, the man after God's own heart, said, "I was as a beast before You!"
Job, the most remarkable character of his own or any age for piety and uprightness, said, as he shrank from his own image, "I abhor myself and repent in dust and ashes!"
And Paul, though the greatest of all the apostles, much too great as well as honest, to fish for compliments and depreciate himself that others might praise him — spoke of himself not as the least, but as less than the least, of all saints.
The tree grows best skyward, which grows most downward. Just so, the lower the saint grows in humility — the higher he grows in holiness. The soaring corresponds to the sinking.
The humble man's heartfelt prayer shall be, "O my God, I am ashamed, and blush to lift up my face to You! I am glad to enter Heaven at the back of the wicked Manasseh, or the immoral woman, or the thief of the cross. God be merciful to me a sinner!"
SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF SALVATION BY GRACE ALONE
First Corinthians 15:1-11
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