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The Octavius Winslow Book Giveaway: The Precious Things of God

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I’m extremely happy to announce that the great folks at Reformation Heritage Books have agreed to donate several Winslow books for another book giveaway series!

During this series, we will be giving away four books in total. They are as follows:

The Precious Things of God 

The Fullness of Christ

Heaven Opened

Our God

Please take a moment and click through the above links to read a short review and summary of these titles.

Giveaway #1

The very first book on the list that we will be giving to someone will be The Precious Things of God.

This book has been a favorite of Winslow aficionados for many years and has only recently been re-published. This book is one of the top 5 Winslow books I personally recommend to people looking to get a start in reading him.

A short summary of this gem is as follows:

These pages address themselves pointedly and strongly to that essential principle of vital religion—the experimental. We really know as much of the gospel of Christ, and of the Christ of the gospel, as by the power of the Holy Ghost we have the experience of it in our souls….To apprehend, in some measure, the value, the glory, and the preciousness of the Lord Jesus, and, as a consequence, to esteem Him above all good, to reflect His image, to labor in His service—this is spiritual life.The author elucidates such “precious” things as Christ, faith, trials, God’s thoughts, divine promises, the blood of Christ, the anointing of the Holy Spirit, God’s children, God’s Word, prayer, Christ’s sympathy with our infirmities, and the death of the saints.

How To Enter

Step 1

Fill out this form.

Step 2

Post the following tweet into your Twitter status:

Stop in to win a free Octavius Winslow book from @RHB_Books and @WinslowQuotes http://wp.me/pIYMU-zC

or

click on the nifty Facebook button at the bottom of this post to post to your Facebook status.

If you would like to do both of these, please feel free. I would greatly appreciate it.

That’s it. You will then be entered to win.

If you do not have either a Twitter or Facebook account, no worries. Just fill out the form in Step 1. We’ll let you slide.

This giveaway is drawing on the honor system a bit, so I will have to trust that you will be tweeting or posting to your Facebook status. I’m sure you will not mind helping get the word out to others about free Winslow books! :)

Guidelines and Rules

This giveaway will last one week. A winner will be randomly drawn on Monday, June 13, 2011.

I will notify the winner via the email address given in the form that was filled out in Step 1, so please make sure your email address is filled out accurately.

The winner has 48 hours to respond back to me with a shipping address for their book. If that winner does not respond back to me in 48 hours, a runner up will be drawn and notified.

Once I receive your address, I will pass it along to Reformation Heritage Books and they will ship you the book directly from their warehouse.

Sound good? Great!

Thanks for entering and thanks again to Reformation Heritage Books for their generous donation!

See you in a week!

October 27

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“And all the churches shall know that I am he which searches the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.” Revelation 2:23

WHOSE prerogative is it to search the heart? who can fathom this fathomless sea of iniquity? who can follow it in all its serpentine windings? who can detect its deep subtlety?—who? “I, the Lord, search the heart: I try the reins.” A mere creature—such as the denier of Christ’s proper Deity would make Him—cannot know the heart. It is a perfection peculiar to God, and must in its own nature be incommunicable; for were it communicable to a creature, it could not be peculiar to God Himself. Were it possible, we say, that God should delegate the power and prerogative of searching the heart and trying the reins of the children of men to a mere created being, then it could with no propriety be said of Him, the He only searches the heart. And yet to Jesus does this attribute belong. Is not, then, the evidence of His Deity most conclusive? Who can resist it? From this attribute of Christ what blessedness flows to the believing soul!

It is at all times a consolation to him to remember that Jesus knows and searches the heart. Its iniquity He sees and subdues; for the promise is, “He will subdue our iniquities.” He detects some lurking evil, some latent corruption, and before it develops itself in the outward departure, the overt act, He checks and conquers it. “Cheering thought,” may the believer say, “that all my inbred evil, the hidden corruption of my heart, is known to my Savior God. Lord, I would not conceal a thought; but would cry, ‘search me, O God, and know my heart; try me, and know my thoughts; and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.’” He sees, too, His own gracious work in the soul. The little spiritual life that He has breathed there—the little grace that He has implanted there—the little spark of love that He has kindled there—the faint and feeble longings after Him—the inward strugglings with sin—the hungering and thirsting for holiness—the panting for divine conformity—all is known to Jesus. The Lord Jesus knows and recognizes His own work: the counterfeit He soon detects. The outward garb and the unhumbled spirit, the external profession and the unbroken heart, escape not His piercing glance. Man may be deceived—the Lord Jesus, never. We may not be able to discern between the righteous and the wicked—between nature and grace—between the outward profession and the inward reality; but Jesus knows what is genuine and what is base—what is the mere effect of an enlightened judgment and an alarmed conscience.

October 3

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“Now unto him that is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy, to the only wise God our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and ever. Amen.” Jude 24, 25

WHAT is the great evil of which the true saints of God most stand in jeopardy, and which their timid, fearful hearts most dread? Is it not secret and outward backsliding from God after conversion? Surely it is, as the experience of every honest, upright, God-fearing man will testify. It is his consolation, then, to know that Jesus is “able to keep him from falling.” This is the most overwhelming evil that stares the believer in the face. Some, but imperfectly taught in the word, are dreading awful apostasy from the faith here, and final condemnation from the presence of God hereafter—believing that though Christ has made full satisfaction for their sins to Divine justice, has cancelled the mighty debt, has imputed to them His righteousness, has blotted out their iniquities, has called, renewed, sanctified, and taken full possession of them by His Spirit, and has ascended up on high, to plead their cause with the Father—that yet, after all this stupendous exercise of power, and this matchless display of free grace, they may be left to utter apostasy from God, and be finally and eternally lost. If there is one doctrine more awful in it nature, distressing in its consequences, and directly opposed to the glory of God and the honor of Christ, than another, methinks it is this. Others, again, more clearly taught my the Spirit, are heard to say, “I believe in the stability of the covenant, in the unchangeableness of God’s love, and in the faithfulness of my heavenly Father; but I fear lest some day under some sharp temptation—some burst of indwelling sin, when the enemy shall come in as a flood—I shall fall, to the wounding of my peace, to the shame of my brethren, and to the dishonoring of Christ.” Dear believer, truly you would fall, were He to leave you to your own keeping for one moment; but Jesus is able to keep you from falling. Read the promises, believe them, rest upon them. A simple glance will present to the believer’s eye a threefold cord, by which he is kept from falling. In the first place, God the Father keeps him—”kept by the power of God;” the power that created and upholds the world keeps the believer. The eternal purpose, love, and grace of the Father keeps him: this is the first cord. Again, God the Son keeps him: “My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me; and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.” The covenant engagements, the perfect obedience, the atoning death of Immanuel, keep the believer: this is the second cord. Yet again, God the Holy Spirit keeps him: “When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord shall lift up a standard against him” (marg. shall put him to flight). The tender love, the covenant faithfulness, and the omnipotent power of the Eternal Spirit keep the believer: this is the third cord. And “a threefold cord is not quickly broken.” But with these promises of the triune God to keep His people from falling, He has wisely and graciously connected the diligent, prayerful use of all the means which He has appointed for this end.