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Victory Through Despair - 2
June 05, 2022
| By: Jonathan Brickley |
Category: Sermons |
Location: El Dorado
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Jonathan puts a bookend on Drew's word, reminding us that a garment of PRAISE replaces a heavy spirit (Isaiah 61). He reads an excerpt from Madame Guyon warning us against indulging dark, despairing thoughts - which she describes as "a dangerous and refined" temptation from the enemy. When the attack is the fiercest, the victory is often nearest!
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Notes
I entreat you, give no place to despondency. This is a dangerous temptation—a refined, not a gross temptation of the adversary. Melancholy contracts and withers the heart, and renders it unfit to receive the impressions of grace. It magnifies and gives a false coloring to objects, and thus renders your burdens too heavy to bear. God’s designs regarding you, and His methods of bringing about these designs, are infinitely wise. —Madame Guyon
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