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Walking Humbly With God
In this collection of sermons the Puritan John Owen explains Micah 6:8, what it is to walk humbly with God.
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72 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 6, 2016
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John Owen
1,351 books410 followersJohn Owen was an English theologian and "was without doubt not only the greatest theologian of the English Puritan movement but also one of the greatest European Reformed theologians of his day, and quite possibly possessed the finest theological mind that England ever produced" ("Owen, John", in Biographical Dictionary of Evangelicals, p. 494)
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January 29, 2017
A short collection of thoughts about what it means to walk humbly with God and why it is an important duty for believers. Owen writes with relentless logic, a clear gospel message, and convicting application.
Some of my favorite passages:
"Do we cry to the Lord out of the depths? or is the end of our obedience to keep ourselves out of such a condition? I am afraid many amongst us, could we, or themselves, by any means dive into the depths of their hearts, would be found to yield their obedience unto God merely on the account of keeping them out of the condition which they must be brought unto before they can yield any acceptable obedience to him."
"Every man must make a venture for his future state and condition. The question only is, upon what he shall venture it? Our own obedience is at hand, and promises fairly to give assistance and help: for a man, therefore, wholly to cast it aside upon the naked promise of God to receive him in Christ, is a thing that the heart of man must be humbled unto. There is nothing in a man that will not dispute against this captivity of itself: innumerable proud reasonings and imaginations are set up against it; and when the mind and discursive, notional part of the soul is overpowered with the truth, yet the practical principle of the will and the affections will exceedingly tumultuate against it. But this is the law of God’s grace, which must be submitted unto, if we will walk with him;—the most holy, wise, and zealous, who have yielded the most constant obedience unto God,—whose good works and godly conversation have shone as lights in the world,—must cast down all these crowns at the foot of Jesus, renounce all for him, and the righteousness that he hath wrought out for us. All must be sold for the pearl;—all parted with for Christ. In the strictest course of exactest obedience in us, we are to look for a righteousness wholly without us."
"Walking is a constant progress. He that is walking towards a place that he hath in his eye may stumble sometimes, yea, perhaps, and fall also; but yet, whilst his design and endeavour lies towards the place aimed at,—whilst he lies not still when he falls, but gets up again and presses forward,—he is still, from the chief aim of his acting, said to walk that way. But now, let this man sit down, or lie down in the way, you cannot say he is walking; much less can you say that he is walking that way, if he walk quite contrary."
Some of my favorite passages:
"Do we cry to the Lord out of the depths? or is the end of our obedience to keep ourselves out of such a condition? I am afraid many amongst us, could we, or themselves, by any means dive into the depths of their hearts, would be found to yield their obedience unto God merely on the account of keeping them out of the condition which they must be brought unto before they can yield any acceptable obedience to him."
"Every man must make a venture for his future state and condition. The question only is, upon what he shall venture it? Our own obedience is at hand, and promises fairly to give assistance and help: for a man, therefore, wholly to cast it aside upon the naked promise of God to receive him in Christ, is a thing that the heart of man must be humbled unto. There is nothing in a man that will not dispute against this captivity of itself: innumerable proud reasonings and imaginations are set up against it; and when the mind and discursive, notional part of the soul is overpowered with the truth, yet the practical principle of the will and the affections will exceedingly tumultuate against it. But this is the law of God’s grace, which must be submitted unto, if we will walk with him;—the most holy, wise, and zealous, who have yielded the most constant obedience unto God,—whose good works and godly conversation have shone as lights in the world,—must cast down all these crowns at the foot of Jesus, renounce all for him, and the righteousness that he hath wrought out for us. All must be sold for the pearl;—all parted with for Christ. In the strictest course of exactest obedience in us, we are to look for a righteousness wholly without us."
"Walking is a constant progress. He that is walking towards a place that he hath in his eye may stumble sometimes, yea, perhaps, and fall also; but yet, whilst his design and endeavour lies towards the place aimed at,—whilst he lies not still when he falls, but gets up again and presses forward,—he is still, from the chief aim of his acting, said to walk that way. But now, let this man sit down, or lie down in the way, you cannot say he is walking; much less can you say that he is walking that way, if he walk quite contrary."
September 6, 2016
Deep and penetrating book.
Excellent study of what truly being humble and walking with God looks like. Owens understands how important this topic is to salvation as well.
Excellent study of what truly being humble and walking with God looks like. Owens understands how important this topic is to salvation as well.
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