Sublime

Rebirth begins with repentance: it begins with a return to Identity in God’s Word, Spirit, and Mission.

each Sunday we feel bad, beg for forgiveness, and start the brutal dance of failure all over again. And if we do that long enough, we settle into this “form of godliness” that has no real power. When we deny our humanity and try to become more clean, or more pure, or more sanctified, we end up on the wrong end of that word. The word instead becomes

Remedy (4). The fourth remedy against this device of Satan is solemnly to consider, That if the work of repentance were such an easy work as Satan would make it to be, then certainly so many would not lie roaring and crying out of wrath and eternal ruin under the horrors and terrors of conscience, for not repenting!