Bible Dictionary: Love to God: God Tries the Sincerity of

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Torrey's Topical Textbook

Deuteronomy 13:3
You shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proves you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Torrey's Topical Textbook

Library

All Joy in all Trials
... He is apt to murmur against God under it: that is a ... entices no man to do evil; but
yet He tries the sincerity ... Is there any love that has not at times been so ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 29 1883/all joy in all trials.htm

His Name --The Mighty God
... believe that he searches your hearts, and tries your reins ... finding him full of sympathy,
and full of love. ... louder than words, called him the mighty God, for you ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 5 1859/his namethe mighty god.htm

Tenth Chapter
... shamefaced, humble, and patient resignation, and how Christ tries her beforehand ...
to each other, and binds them together with divine love; yea, God doth bind ...
/.../the history and life of the reverend doctor john tauler/tenth chapter.htm

Jacob Boehme's "Way of Salvation"
... is still only a follower of "Cain" who tries to cover ... to own will in the Life and
Virtue of Love.". ... of his own inward direct appreciation of God's revelation of ...
/.../chapter xi jacob boehmes way.htm

How a Man's Conduct Comes Home to Him
... He neglected prayer, and when he tries to pray he ... Lord has loved him with an everlasting
love; "there is ... Son is his Savior, the Spirit of God dwells within ...
/.../spurgeon/sermons on proverbs/how a mans conduct comes.htm

Zacchaeus
... and how difficult the path of him who tries to return ... very first response of Zacchaeus
to the love of Christ ... the character of a holy, just, and merciful God. ...
//christianbookshelf.org/white/the desire of ages/chapter 61 zacchaeus.htm

The Throne of Grace
... The man who, despite the teaching of Scripture, tries to pray without a Saviour ... no
higher, it can be no greater, for it is written "God is love," which is ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/the throne of grace.htm

A More Particular view of the Several Branches of the Christian ...
... Jesus Christ," (1:Cor.1:2) whom if you truly love, you will also love all those ... I
adore thee as the God who searches the hearts and tries the reins of ...
/.../the rise and progress of religion in the soul/chapter xiv a more particular.htm

The Hold Fast
... He who tries to learn of Jesus himself, taking the very words from the Lord's own
lips ... I mean that you will not only read of the love of God, but you will ...
//christianbookshelf.org/spurgeon/sermons on proverbs/the hold fast.htm

Household Salvation
... be some glaring fact to cast doubt upon the candidate's sincerity. ... to you, could
not you, fathers, who love the Lord ... The church of God tries to take care of you ...
/.../spurgeon/spurgeons sermons volume 17 1871/household salvation.htm