Puritan Richard Sibbes on Entertaining the Holy Spirit - Dr. Joel Beeke
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- Puritan Richard Sibbes on Entertaining the Holy Spirit - Dr. Joel Beeke
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Excerpt from Meet the Puritans
by Dr. Joel Beeke and Randall J. Pederson
Richard Sibbes was born in 1577 at Tostock, Suffolk, in the Puritan county of old England. He was baptized in the parish church in Thurston, and went to school there. As a child, he loved books. His father, Paul Sibbes, a hardworking wheelwright and, according to Zachary Catlin, a contemporary biographer of Sibbes, was "a good, sound-hearted Christian," but became irritated with his son's interest in books. He tried to cure his son of book-buying by offering him wheelwright tools, but the boy was not dissuaded. With the support of others, Sibbes was admitted to St. John's College in Cambridge at the age of eighteen. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1599, a fellowship in 1601, and a Master of Arts degree in 1602. In 1603, he was converted under the preaching of Paul Baynes, whom Sibbes called his "father in the gospel." Baynes, remembered most for his commentary on Ephesians, succeeded William Perkins at the Church of St. Andrews in Cambridge.
Sibbes was ordained to the ministry in the Church of England in Norwich in 1608. He was chosen as one of the college preachers in 1609 and earned a Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1610. From 1611 to 1616, he served as lecturer at Holy Trinity Church, Cambridge. His preaching awakened Cambridge from the spiritual indifference into which it had fallen after the death of Perkins. A gallery had to be built to accommodate visitors in the church.
Sibbes came to London in 1617 as a lecturer for Gray's Inn, the largest of the four great Inns of Court, which still remains one of the most important centers in England for the study and practice of law. In 1626, he also became master of St. Catharine's College, Cambridge. Under his leadership, the college regained some of its former prestige. It graduated several men who would one day serve prominently at the Westminster Assembly: John Arrowsmith, William Spurstowe, and William Strong. Soon after his appointment, Sibbes received the Doctor of Divinity degree at Cambridge. He became known as "the heavenly Doctor," due to his godly preaching and heavenly manner of life. Izaac Walton wrote of Sibbes: Of this blest man, let this just praise be given: Heaven was in him, before he was in heaven.
In 1633, King Charles I offered Sibbes the charge of Holy Trinity, Cambridge. Sibbes continued to serve as preacher at Gray's Inn, master of St. Catharine's Hall, and vicar of Holy Trinity until his death in 1635.
Sibbes never married, but he established an astonishing network of friendships that included godly ministers, noted lawyers, and parliamentary leaders of the early Stuart era. "Godly friends are walking sermons," he said. He wrote at least thirteen introductions to the writings of his Puritan colleagues.
Sibbes was a gentle man who avoided the controversies of his day as much as possible. "Fractions breed fractions," he insisted. His battles with Archbishop Laud, Roman Catholics, and Arminians were exceptions. He also remained close friends with many pastors and leaders who wanted more radical reform than he did for the Church of England.
Sibbes was an inspiration to many. He influenced Anglicanism, Presbyterianism, and Independency, the three dominant parties of the church in England at that time. He was a pastor of pastors, and lived a life of moderation. "Where most holiness is, there is most moderation, where it may be without prejudice of piety to God and the good of others," he wrote.
Sibbes's last sermons, preached a week before his death, were on John 14:2, "In my Father's house are many mansions.... I go to prepare a place for you." When asked in his final days how his soul was faring, Sibbes replied, "I should do God much wrong if I should not say, very well." Sibbes began his will and testament, dictated on July 4, 1635, the day before his death, with "I commend and bequeath my soul into the hands of my gracious Savior, who hath redeemed it with his most precious blood, and appears now in heaven to receive it." William Gouge preached Sibbes's funeral sermon.
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"The Holy Spirit is the Leader and Enabler of our souls. Every day we should be able to say, I don't know what I would do without You (the Holy Spirit)." We must enterain the Holy Spirit by recognizing that we can do nothing without Him. Yesterday I had an experience that I was able to say, Holy Spirit, I don't know what I would have done without You. I am loving and appreciating the Holy Spirit and the love of God through Jesus Christ at a different level. Truely God is revealing Himself to me in ways I never experienced Him before. And I should add that this is in the midst of serious spiritual warfare. His love and presence is so real that I had to say, Lord, if this is where I have to be to experience Your love and peace then keep me here, because I don't want to lose it..I want more of You. Thank you Christian Sermons for making the Word of God spoken by saints of God available. Blessings to everyone on staff.
Another loved quote from Richard Sibbes: "You may know who lives in a house by observing who goes in and when they come out." Similarly, we will know if the Holy Spirit dwells in us by observing the kind of speech that comes from our lips, the things we do, our attitudes, the relationships we establish, and how we spend our time. Heavenly Father, as we learn and practise to entertain the Holy Spirit, let the manifestation of the fruit of our lives be the evidence that the Holy Spirit is the Permanent Resident of our souls. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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I love Sibbes analogy of us allowing our lives to be as a musical instrument - the keys of a piano in total surrender to the fingers of a professional and skilled musician, who fine tunes the keys and makes beautiful music before an audience.
"Let us lay ourselves open to the touch of the Holy Spirit through the Word so that when the Spirit has ruling sway in our lives, He fine tunes our souls much like a musical instrument and then He plays out our lives as a piano concerto before our God." Richard Sibbes. The Holy Spirit will have the keys of our lives when we surrender to Him. And we will see the evidence in our transformed lives. Father God, thank You for the indwelling Holy Spirit. Please help us to surrender totally to His leading and to Your will. May You be pleasantly entertained by the sounds from the fine-tuned keys of our lives. In Jesus' name. Amen
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I enjoyed this so much. God bless from South Africa
We entertain the Holy Spirit by running to Him, as our Comforter. He is the Comforter of our souls. He wants us to know Him as Comforter. We entertain and honor the Spirit in our troubles, when we run to Him, and with confidence that He will carryout His assignment, ask Him to draw near to us and quite our troubled souls. The Spirit is Almighty, and He alone is able to go above our distresses and our struggles, and deliver our souls out of the perplexities and confusions of life. Heavenly Father, please help us to not entertain a disquited spirit. May we, instead, entertain the Spirit of Comfort and cry out to Him and trust Him to give us peace in the midst of our storms, even as He reminds us of Your promises. Thank You Lord Jesus for not leaving us comfortless. Amen.
We entertain the Holy Spirit by seeing Him as the Sealer of our souls.
1. Just as a letter is placed in an envelope and is sealed for protection and even confidentiality, so the Father seals us with the Holy Spirit making us safe and secure in Him - we are in a place where no demon can harm us. As I mentioned confidentiality, I'm remembering that the things that God does through the least likely person's are usually confidential, while the Holy Spirit is working in them and preparing them for His use. And then in the fulness of time the content of the letter ( ie. the power of the Holy Spirit and the Word of God written on our hearts) is revealed to the recipients (to angels, to demons, and to men - 1Cor 4:9).
2. As an item is stamped with a company's seal to show ownership, so the Father stamps us with the Holy Spirit to declare that we are His. And He is ours. We are His authentic property; and He is our authentic Owner.
3. There is a continuous sealing in the graces of the Spirit. We are stamped with the Gift of Christ.
4. The sealing of the Holy Spirit helps in our sanctification.
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Mr. Sibbes said we entertain the Holy Spirit by Not grieving Him. We fail to entertain Holy Spirit when we leave from following His directions, which leads to life, to following the directions of an enemy and a tyrant, which leads to death.
Those Christians who say they have been walking with the Lord for a long time, and have the most knowledge and the most spiritual opportunities, but don't walk in them, grieve the Holy Spirit the most.
-When we walk in pride, envy, greed, carnal sins, we grieve the Holy Spirit.
-When we take the offices of the Holy Spirit and try to carry them out by ourselves we grieve Him.
-When we use the Holy Spirit services but fail to communicate with Him and celebrate the relationship, we grieve Him. Sibbes says our relationship with the Holy Spirit is like a bad marriage, where the husband receives the services of his wife but never communicate with her or celebrate therelationship.
-The Holy Spirit must be an integral part of every area of our lives and our church.
Father, please forgives us for the times we have grieved the Holy Spirit. Forgive us O Lord for the times we rejected Him and acted independent of Him. Forgive us for the times we used Him to satisfy our own selfish ambitions. I pray that hereafter, we will entertain the Holy Spirit by communicating with Him about everything, by depending on Him forv everything, by appreciating Him, and by celebrating our relationship with Him. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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I listened to this to learn about the holy spirit its been almost ten minutes with one pastor praising another. im not thumbs downing this but i just want more from start to finish
Hi Monique, greetings to you in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. I pray you and your family are doing well. I hear your concern about the beginning of this sermon by Puritan Richard Sibbes. I realize your response was 4 years ago, but just in case you didn't get around to listening to the end, I summarized some of his points in a number of comments a few days ago. Well, if you didn't get to listen to the end I hope it helps - the sermon helped me greatly. God bless you richly. I don't know you, but you are in my prayers. Blessings to you my sister.