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Thomas Watson – Walking With God (Part 5)

21 Oct

QUESTION: What may we do to walk with God?

ANSWER 5: If you desire to walk with God, take hold of His arm. Those who walk in their own strength will soon grow weary and tire. ‘I will go in the strength of the Lord God’ (Psa. 71:16). We cannot walk with God without God. Let us press Him with His promise: ‘I will cause you to walk in my statutes’ (Ezek. 36:27). If God takes us by the hand, then we shall ‘walk, and not faint’ (Isa. 40:31).

~Thomas Watson~



The Godly Man’s Picture (Edinburgh, Scotland; The Banner of Truth Trust; 1992) p. 183.

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Thomas Watson – Walking With God (Part 4)

20 Oct

QUESTION: What may we do to walk with God?

ANSWER 4: If you desire to walk with God, get a liking for the ways of God. They are adorned with beauty (Prov. 4:18); they are sweetened with pleasure (Prov. 3:17); they are fenced with truth (Rev. 15:3); they are accompanied with life (Acts 2:28); they are lengthened with eternity (Hab. 3:6). Be enamored with the way of religion and you will soon walk in it.

~Thomas Watson~



The Godly Man’s Picture (Edinburgh, Scotland; The Banner of Truth Trust; 1992) p. 183.

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Thomas Watson – Walking With God (Part 3)

19 Oct

QUESTION: What may we do to walk with God?

ANSWER 3: Get all differences removed. ‘Can two walk together, except they are agreed?’ (Amos 3:3). This agreement and reconciliation is made by faith: ‘Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation through faith in his blood’ (Rom. 3:25). When once we are friends, then we shall be called up the mount like Moses, and have this dignity conferred on us, to be the favorites of heaven and to walk with God.

~Thomas Watson~



The Godly Man’s Picture (Edinburgh, Scotland; The Banner of Truth Trust; 1992) p. 183.

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Thomas Watson – Walking With God (Part 2)

18 Oct

QUESTION: What may we do to walk with God?

ANSWER 2: If you wish to walk with God, get acquainted with Him: ‘Acquaint now thyself with him’ (Job 22:21). Know God in His attributes and promises. Strangers do not walk together.

~Thomas Watson~



The Godly Man’s Picture (Edinburgh, Scotland; The Banner of Truth Trust; 1992) p. 183.

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Thomas Watson – Walking With God (Part 1)

17 Oct

QUESTION: What may we do to walk with God?

ANSWER 1: Get off the old road of sin. He that would walk in a pleasant meadow must turn off the road. The way of sin is full of travelers. There are so many travelers on this road that hell, though it is of a great circumference, would gladly enlarge itself and make room for them (Isa. 5:14). This way of sin seems pleasant but the end is damnable. ‘I have’, says the harlots, ‘perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes and cinnamon’ (Prov. 7:17). See how with one sweet (the cinnamon) there were two bitters (myrrh and aloes). For that little sweet in sin at present there will be a far greater proportion of bitterness afterwards. Therefore get out of these briars. You cannot walk with God and sin: ‘what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?’ (2 Cor. 6:14).

~Thomas Watson~



The Godly Man’s Picture (Edinburgh, Scotland; The Banner of Truth Trust; 1992) p. 182.

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Thomas Watson – Strive for Godliness!

15 Oct

E. THERE ARE ONLY A FEW GODLY
They are like the gleanings after vintage. Most receive the mark of the beast (Rev. 13:17). The devil keeps open house for all comers, and he is never without guests. This may prevail with us to be godly. If the number of the saints is so small, how we should strive to be found among these pearls! ‘But a remnant shall be saved’ (Rom. 9:27). It is better to go to heaven with a few than to hell in the crowd.

~Thomas Watson~



The Godly Man’s Picture (Edinburgh, Scotland; The Banner of Truth Trust; 1992) p. 204.

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Thomas Watson – What is Forgiveness? (5 of 5)

12 Aug

5. God having forgiven sin, he will no longer call it to remembrance (Jer. 31:34)
The Lord will make an act of indemnity. He will not upbraid us with former unkindness, nor sue us with a cancelled bond. ‘He will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea’ (Mic. 7:19). Sin shall not be cast in like cork which rises up again, but like lead which sinks to the bottom. How we should all labour for this covenant blessing!

~Thomas Watson~



The Godly Man’s Picture (Edinburgh, Scotland; The Banner of Truth Trust; 1992) p. 9.

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Thomas Watson – What is Forgiveness? (4 of 5)

11 Aug

4. Before sin is forgiven, it must be repented of
Therefore repentance and remission are linked together: ‘that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name’ (Luke 24:47). Not that repentance in a popish sense merits forgiveness. Christ’s blood must wash our tears away, but repentance is a qualification, though not a cause. He who is humbled for sin will value pardoning mercy the more. When there is nothing in the soul but clouds of sorrow, and now God brings a pardon – which is a setting up of a rainbow in the cloud, to tell the sinner that the flood of wrath shall not overflow him – oh, what joy there is at the sight of this rainbow! The soul that before was steeped in tears now melts in love to God (Luke 7:38,47).

~Thomas Watson~



The Godly Man’s Picture (Edinburgh, Scotland; The Banner of Truth Trust; 1992) p. 10.

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Thomas Watson – What is Forgiveness? (3 of 5)

10 Aug

3. Forgiveness of sin is through the blood of Christ
Free grace is the impulsive cause; Christ’s blood is the meritorious. ‘Without shedding of blood is no remission’ (Heb. 9:22). Justice would be revenged either on the sinner or on the surety. Every pardon is the price of blood.

~Thomas Watson~



The Godly Man’s Picture (Edinburgh, Scotland; The Banner of Truth Trust; 1992) p. 9.

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Thomas Watson – What is Forgiveness? (2 of 5)

9 Aug

2. God, in forgiving sin, remits the guilt and penalty
Guilt cries for justice. No sooner had Adam eaten the apple, than he saw the ‘flaming sword’ and heard the curse; but in remission God indulges the sinner; he seems to say to him, ‘Though you have fallen into the hands of my justice and deserve to die, yet I will absolve you, and whatever is charged against you shall be discharged.’

~Thomas Watson~



The Godly Man’s Picture (Edinburgh, Scotland; The Banner of Truth Trust; 1992) p. 9-10.

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