Have you found it challenging to grow in your faith? Do you find yourself stuck in patterns of sin or discouragement? This semester-long Sunday School class will offer you "Precious Remedies" to aid your growth in Christ by helping you identify the ways that Satan tempts, discourages, and lies to you. It will teach you to resist him with Gospel Centered solutions.
You can download the handout for each lesson by clicking the green title. You can also downlowd a summary of the principles Thomas Brooks used to understand and resist Satan an his devices. For that summary, click here.
Section 1: Satan's devices to draw the soul to sin (7 weeks)
Lesson 1: By presenting the bait and hiding the hook
Lesson 2: By painting sin with virtue's colors
Lesson 3: By the extenuating and lessening of sin
Lesson 4: By presenting God as one made up of all mercy
Lesson 5: By making the soul bold to venture upon occasions to sin
Lesson 6: By representing the outward mercies of wicked men
Lesson 7: By causing saints to compare themselves with those more wicked
Section 2: Satan's Devices to keep saints from holy duties (5 weeks)
Lesson 8: By presenting the world in such garb to ensnare the soul
Lesson 9: By presenting the dangers and sacrifices of duties
Lesson 10: By causing saints to draw false inferences from the work of Christ
Lesson 11: By casting in vain thoughts while the soul is seeking God
Lesson 12: By tempting Christians to rest in their performances
Section 3: Satan's devices to keep saints in sad, doubting, and questioning conditions (7 weeks)
Lesson 13: By causing saints to remember their sin more than their savior
Lesson 14: By causing saints to make false definitions of their graces
Lesson 15: By causing saints to make false inferences from cross actings of Providence
Lesson 16: By suggesting to saints that their state is not good due to their loss of comfort and joy
Lesson 17: By reminding saints of their frequent relapses into sin
Lesson 18: By suggesting preparations as necessary for coming to Christ