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J.C. Ryle is calling us today to a call to boldness. The type of boldness, I think, which believes in what we are calling for, and that God is listening, and that He will answer. More than those things, or on top of those things, is the boldness that calls us to know the word and pray as we have seen what God Himself has revealed to us.
Ryle wisely says:
"I commend to you the importance of boldness in prayer. There is an unseemly familiarity in some men's prayers which I cannot praise. But there is such a thing as a holy boldness, which is exceedingly to be desired. I mean such boldness as that of Moses, when he pleads with God not to destroy Israel "Wherefore," says he, "should the Egyptians speak and say, For mischief did he bring them out, to slay them in the mountains? Turn from thy fierce anger" (Exod. 32:12). I mean such boldness as that of Joshua, when the children of Israel were defeated before men of Ai: "What," says he, "wilt thou do unto thy great name?" (Josh. 7:9). This is the boldness for which Luther was remarkable. "One who heard him praying said, "What a spirit, what a confidence was in his very expressions. With such a reverence he sued, as one begging of God, and yet with such hope and assurance, as if he spoke with a loving father or friend." This is the boldness which distinguished Bruce, a great Scotch divine of the seventeenth century. His prayers were said to be "like bolts shot up into heaven."
We prove our serious boldness when we pray. Our love, forgiveness, and patience are the flavor of God's love, forgiveness, and patience.
Once we stop trifling in communion with Father, Son, and Holy God, we will also pray, Make me know Thee better and better, Sweet Jesus, rejoicing in Thy presence. Psalm 16:11
"What a man is on his knees before God, that he is and nothing more."
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Season 005
Episode 113
