Deliverance!
"Thou
hast delivered my soul from death."
-PSALM
56:13 [KJV]
You
may have been delivered from death, as much as David was, but not so
fully in the assurance of the deliverance. God may have quickened
your soul into life divine; He
may have communicated His
grace to your heart, and yet you have many doubts and fears whether
it be a real work of grace upon your soul. It is not every child of
God who has been delivered from death by regenerating grace who can
use the words with the confidence expressed here: "Thou
hast delivered my soul from death."
But
I will shew you when he can. When God is pleased to bless him with a
sense of His
pardoning love; when Jesus is revealed to his heart, and manifested
with power to his soul; when the blood of sprinkling is applied to
purge his conscience from guilt, filth, and dead works, to serve the
living God; when the Spirit of adoption is given, and he is enabled
to cry, "Abba,
Father;"
when he can "read his title clear to mansions in the skies"
by the witness of the Holy Ghost in his breast that he is a child of
God; when he feels the presence of God, and a sweet flowing forth of
love and affection to his heavenly Father,—at such favoured seasons
as these, he can say in the sweet confidence of faith, "Thou
hast delivered my soul from death."
-Gospel
report by preacher J.C.
Philpot (1802-1869 A.D.)
March
6th, EARS FROM HARVESTED SHEAVES
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