Overcoming Spiritual Depression Through Grace and Truth

"We are considering together this all important theme to all of us who are Christians and in the Christian Life the theme that we have described Under The Heading of spiritual depression. God's people are constantly subject and prone to this and there is nothing that therefore should engage our attention more closely or more urgently than this condition." [00:01:01]

"Therefore I say it is not an unfair deduction to say that what accounts for the fact that the masses are outside is the condition of those who are inside. So often we give the impression that we are dejected and depressed. Indeed many would almost give the impression that to become a Christian means that you're face to face with lots of problems which never worried you before." [00:02:27]

"The moment we become Christian we become subjected to the most subtle and Powerful onslaughts of the one who is described in the Bible as the prince of the power of the air, that the one that now ruleth in the children of Disobedience, the God of this world, Satan, the devil." [00:04:04]

"The thing therefore to do is to prepare ourselves for the himm and for the attacks and the way to do that is to study the scriptures. Here we are told all about it, we are given an insight into his methods. We are not ignorant of his devices, says the Apostle Paul again to these Corinthians." [00:05:28]

"Now we've looked at this from various aspects and last Sunday morning we were looking at it in this way that so many are depressed because they will keep on looking back into their past life and especially to some sin of which they once were guilty. Not sins in general, not sin in general, but some one particular sin that has often crippled many people." [00:07:07]

"Now I want to continue that theme in a sense. I want again to consider with you the case of others who are crippled in the present by Looking Back To The Past, not this time to some particular sin, but rather to the fact that they spent so much time in that condition and were so late in coming into the kingdom." [00:07:47]

"While it is perfectly right for such people to regret the fact that they've been so slow in this respect, it's quite right to regret it, but it is quite wrong to be miserable about it. You can't very well look back across your past life without seeing things that you regret. That's perfectly all right." [00:10:20]

"The Christian Life is a very finely Balanced Life. That's one of its most attractive features. It's often been compared to a man walking on a knife edge. You can fall here or there. It's a condition which involves a certain type of tension, a true tension, a good tension, a right tension, not of the tension that involves strain." [00:11:02]

"To be miserable thus in the present because of some failure in the past is a sheer waste of time and a waste of energy. That's all I mean. Now I say that's common sense. The past cannot be recalled. You can do absolutely nothing about it. Here you are in the present, you've become a Christian." [00:14:31]

"Never again look back at it, never think of it. If you do, it's the devil who's defeated you beyond any question. Vain useless regrets must be dismissed as irrational and idiotic. But oh, how many are victims of that. They sit down and they go back over it and go over all the details again." [00:16:37]

"What matters first of all, you might dear friend if you're a Christian, what matters first of all is not what you once were but what you are. Doesn't it sound ridiculous? It's so perfectly obvious, it's almost childish. I said that what matters not what you once were but what you are." [00:27:00]

"In God's kingdom, it is not the length of service but the heart's attitude that matters. His grace is sufficient to restore lost years, offering hope and redemption to all, regardless of when they come to faith. The grace of God is sufficient to restore the years that the locusts have eaten." [00:37:50]