Spiritual Depression: Its Causes and Cure by David Martyn Lloyd-Jones

Author:David Martyn Lloyd-Jones [Lloyd-Jones, David Martyn]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, pdf
Tags: Christian Life, Congregational Churches, Happiness, Religious Aspects, Christianity, Sermons, Joy, Sermons; English, Religion, Inspirational, Christian, Spirituality
ISBN: 9780802813879
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Publisher: Eerdmans
Published: 1965-06-30T22:00:00+00:00

How wrong it is to be in a spirit of bondage and of fear. ‘Child of Heaven, shouldn’t thou repine?’ Never! ‘Think what Spirit dwells within thee, what a Father’s smile is thine, what a Savior died to win thee, Child of Heaven, shouldn’t thou repine ?’ That verse of that hymn is a good exposition of these three verses. Lay hold of it, appropriate it, practice it. Do not worry about what you feel. The truth about you is glorious. If you are in Christ, rise to it ‘o’er sin and fear and care’. Take your full salvation and triumph and prevail.

FALSE TEACHING

Where is then the blessedness ye spoke of ? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me. Galatians 4:15

I CALL your attention to that question addressed by the Apostle to the members of the churches in Galatia in order that we may consider together another cause of spiritual depression, or unhappiness in the Christian life. The whole of the Epistle to the Galatians really deals with this one question. These Galatians had listened to the preaching of the gospel by the Apostle Paul. They had been typical Gentile pagans. They were outside God, they had no knowledge whatsoever of Him or of His Son, or of the great Christian salvation, but the Apostle Paul had come and preached to them and they had received the message of the gospel with great joy. He describes, even in detail, their joy when they had first met him, and when he had first preached to them. It is quite clear that the Apostle, when he was among them, was not well physically. There can be very little doubt but that he was suffering from some sort of eye trouble, because he reminds them that when he was with them they would have plucked out their own eyes and given them to him if that could have helped him. One gathers that this painful inflammatory condition of his eyes was offensive and unpleasant to look at. There was nothing pre-possessing about the appearance of the Apostle. As he reminds the church at Corinth his presence was ‘weak’. He did not have, what is called today, a commanding presence. He was a very ordinary man to look at without the additional disfiguration caused by this eye trouble. But, as he reminds them here, they were not offended in him in any way. He says ‘my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not’, indeed they had received him ‘as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus’, and they had rejoiced in this wonderful salvation. But they were no longer like that, they had become unhappy and he is constrained to ask them, ‘Where is then the blessedness ye spoke of’. They had become unhappy in them-selves and they had almost turned against the Apostle. Their condition was one which was so depressed that

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