Mark 11

We must divorce those sins which bring in pleasure and profit. 3. Forgiving of injuries (Mark 11:25). These truths men are prejudiced at; they can rather want forgiveness from God than they can forgive others.

Cicero. But we learn better things out of the oracles of Scripture (Mark 11:25): when you stand praying, forgive (Matthew 5:44; Colossians 3:13). If a man have a quarrel against any, even as Christ forgave you, so also do you.

Therefore it is an especially important point of prayer, to be persuaded, that God to whom prayer is made, not only can, but also will grant his request. Mark 11:24. Whatever you desire when you pray, believe that you shall have it, and it shall be done to you. Here we see two t…

In every petition there must be two things: a desire of the things we ask, and a particular faith whereby we believe, that the thing we ask shall be given to us. So Christ says (Mark 11:24): Whatever you desire when you pray, believe that you shall have it, and it shall be given…

That which we are to ask of God in prayer, we must believe it shall be given us, as we ask it: but in prayer we are to ask the pardon of our own sins, and the merit of Christ's righteousness for ourselves: therefore we must believe the same particularly. The proposition is a rul…

But why speak I of these? Behold one greater than any of them — the Son of God himself, who is the heir of all things and by whom the worlds were made — yet sometimes would have been glad of anything, having nothing to eat (Mark 11:12): 'And on the next day, when they had come f…

There will I accept them (Ezekiel 20:40). And it was a profaning of the Temple to use it for civil employments, being consecrated and appropriated by God to holy uses: and therefore Christ would not suffer them to buy or sell, or to carry vessels through it (Mark 11:15, 16). But…

Therefore, it is an especial point of prayer, to be persuaded, that God to whom prayer is made, not only can, but also will grant his request. Mark 11:24: Whatever you desire when you pray, believe that you shall have it, and it shall be done to you. Here we see two things requi…

This is one, and a principal part of the meaning of it; he speaks of such a kind of wavering faith, as whereby a man is [illegible] a heart, and a heart; he has a mind to draw near to Christ, and to become a servant of Christ, and yet with all a mind to be hankering after some s…

That is something that this unction does, it works in all our hearts to pray according to God's will, and to pray in the name of Christ, and so satisfies us. Secondly, this Spirit of God that we receive from the holy one, it is also a spirit of faith, that inwardly persuades us…

15. But if you shall not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses. Mark 11:25-26 25. And when you shall stand praying, forgive, if you have anything against any one, that your Father also, who is in heaven, may forgive you your trespasses.

“Es tres-hauts lieux;” — “in the very high places.” Mark 11:1-10 1. And as they approach Jerusalem, at Bethphage and Bethany, near the mountain of Olives, he sends two of his disciples.

you shall receive. Mark 11:11-24 11. And the Lord entered

And he saith to them, Neither do I tell you by what authority I do these things. Mark 11:27-33 27. And they come again to Jerusalem; and while he was walking in the temple, the chief priests, and scribes, and elders, come to him.

22. Jesus said to him, I say not to you seven times, but until seventy times seven. Mark 11:25. And when you stand praying, forgive, if you have ought against any, that your Father which is also in Heaven may forgive you your trespasses. v. 26. And if you do not forgive, neither…

If we would come with boldnesse into the holy place, it must be by the new and living way, which Christ has prepared for us, through the vaile, that is, his flesh. 5. In prayer we must have faith, wherby we believe, that the thing we aske shall be done unto us: Mark. 11. 24. wha…

If any man lacke wisdom let him aske of God—but let him aske in faith, and wauer not: for the wauering minded man shall receive nothing of God: therefore saith Christ, whatsoever ye desire in prayer, believe that ye shall have it, and it shall be done unto you. Mark. 11. 24. IV.

The argument which our Savior uses against profaners of the Temple, he takes from the use to which it was with solemnity consecrated (Matthew 21:13). And as the prophet Jeremiah forbids the carrying of burdens on the Sabbath, because that was a sanctified day: so because the Tem…

Mark 5:36: [illegible], Only believe. Mark 11:26: [illegible], But if you forgive not, etc. — with multitudes more, which are all conditional particles inserted in the grants of benefits. (2.) Having shown what the nature of a condition is, I shall, I hope, make it plain to you,…

The second branch of meekness is in forgiving of injuries. Mark 11:25: And when you stand praying, forgive — as if Christ said, It is to little purpose to pray unless you forgive. A meek spirit is a forgiving spirit.

Then they asked the shepherds what that should mean. So they told them, that that man was the son of one Mr. Great-grace, of whom you read in the first part of the records of the Pilgrim's Progress; and he is set there to teach pilgrims how to believe down, or to tumble out of t…

The places are: Mark 10:30; Luke 18:30; John 9:32; Ephesians 2:7; 3:9; Colossians 1:26; Hebrews 6:5. The places are as follows: Matthew 6:13; 21:19; Mark 11:14; Luke 1:33, 55; John 4:14; 6:51, 58; 8:35, twice, 51, 52; 10:28; 11:26; 12:34; 13:8; 14:16; Acts 15:18; Romans 1:25; 9:…

Now to believe in Christ, is to put our confidence in him: and we can put no confidence in him, unless we be first assured that he with his benefits is ours. And whatever we ask in prayer, we are commanded to believe that it shall be given to us (Mark 11:24). Now above all thing…

A second ground is taken from the necessity that lies upon us, for the performance of sundry Christian duties daily, without which they cannot be done. As first, we are daily to pray for pardon of sin (Matthew 6:11-12; Mark 11:2, 4). And if every day we are to pray for pardon of…

If you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother has ought against you, leave there your offering and go your way, first be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift (Matthew 5:23). When you shall stand and pray, forgive, if you have a…

Is not this a plain and clear sentence, as it promises to him that believes, so it denies to him that believes not, that he shall neither obtain that which he desires, nor anything better. And to stir up this same faith, Christ himself said (Mark 11): therefore I say to you, wha…

And this proceeds from the spirit of God, which stirs up groanings in the heart, which a man oftentimes cannot express. Fourthly, when he makes his request, he doubts not, but by faith he believes that God will grant his requests, which he makes according to his word (Mark 11:24…