The three brief video excerpts in this post are of the ‘world’ and the ‘flesh.’ These have been taken from a 27-minute video at Christian Library, YouTube. The video was a reading from Still Waters Revival Books, at http://puritandownloads.com
Before each video is noted it’s length and one or more valuable statements from that video by Watson:
This is the longest excerpt, 3 minutes 50 seconds:
Watson made a dozen or so points, but the one I thought was most significant was the following: The world promises to satisfy our desires, but only increases them.
The following 2 minute 35 second excerpt is about how Satan uses the world to hinder believers:
His most significant example involved a story of a king who was trying to escape the Roman army and distracted them by spreading a lot of silver and gold in their path, he succeeded; Satan does the same with believers, which Watson illustrated:
This last excerpt, 2 minutes and 34 seconds, is about how the flesh is a traitor. He used two passages of scripture to explain how it loves pleasure more than running the Christian race:
A biblical description of the flesh pleasuring itself:
Amos 6:4 “Woe to those who lie on beds of ivory and stretch themselves out on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock and calves from the midst of the stall,
5 who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David invent for themselves instruments of music, 6 who drink wine in bowls and anoint themselves with the finest oils, but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph! [Substitute, ‘the church’ for Joseph]
A biblical description of the consequences of pleasuring self instead of denying it:
Luke 16:19 “There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 And at his gate was laid a poor man named Lazarus, covered with sores, 21 who desired to be fed with what fell from the rich man’s table… 22 The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and in Hades, being in torment….
Heaven Taken By Storm Thomas Watson
Link to 27-minute video of excerpts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1TXTPoG1Ws&list=LL&index=9
Sermons of Thomas Watson
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He was educated at Emmanuel College, Cambridge,where he was noted for remarkably intense study. In 1646 he commenced a sixteen-year pastorate at St. Stephen’s, Walbrook. He showed strong Presbyterian views during the civil war, with, however, an attachment to the king, and in 1651 he was imprisoned briefly with some other ministers for his share in Christopher Love’s plot to recall Charles II of England. He was released on 30 June 1652, and was formally reinstated as vicar of St. Stephen’s Walbrook. He obtained great fame and popularity as a preacher until the Restoration, when he was ejected for Nonconformity. Notwithstanding the rigor of the acts against dissenters, Watson continued to exercise his ministry privately as he found opportunity. Upon the Declaration of Indulgence in 1672 he obtained a licence to preach at the great hall in Crosby House. After preaching there for several years, his health gave way, and he retired to Barnston, Essex, where he died suddenly while praying in secret. He was buried on 28 July 1686.
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