“The only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth!” John 1:14 (Charles Spurgeon) Believer, you can bear your testimony that Christ is the only begotten of the Father.You can say, “He is truly divine. He has done that for me, which none but a God could do!He has . . . subdued my stubborn will, melted […]
If a lobster loses its claw in a fight (Charles Spurgeon) “I will give you a new heart, and put a new spirit in you. I will remove your heart of stone, and give you a heart of flesh!” Ezekiel 36:26 What a wonder it is, that a man could ever have a new heart! You know that if a […]
A golden master-key! (Charles Spurgeon) “And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, which worshipped God, heard us: whose heart the Lord opened, that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul.” Acts 16:14 God’s saving grace will not be baffled. He frequently begins with the silver key of a mother’s […]
Eternal love!-Spurgeon’s sermon, “Good Cheer for Christmas” Every child of God is the object of eternal love–love without beginning and without end.This is one of the fat things full of marrow. Is it so, that I, a believer in Jesus, unworthy as I am,am the object of the eternal love of God? What transport lies in […]
THE WORK OF THE SPIRITSpurgeon, “Gleanings Among the Sheaves” Let us ever remember that Christ on the cross isof no value to us, apart from the Holy Spirit in us. In vain that blood is flowing, unless the finger of the Spiritapplies the blood to our conscience; in vain is that garmentof righteousness wrought out, […]
The most delightful doctrine!by SpurgeonI am sure there is no more delightful doctrine to aChristian, than that of CHRIST’S ABSOLUTE SOVEREIGNTY! I am glad there is no such thing as ‘chance’,that nothing is left to itself,but that Christ everywhere has sway. If I thought that there was a devil in hell that Christ did notgovern, I […]
The secret of Spurgeon’s preaching…“I take my text and make a bee-line to the cross.” Jesus is The Truth.We believe in Him– not merely in His words. He is the Doctor and the Doctrine,the Revealer and the Revelation,the Illuminator and the Light of Men. He is exalted in every word of truth,because he is its […]
The most delightful doctrine!by SpurgeonI am sure there is no more delightful doctrine to aChristian, than that of CHRIST’S ABSOLUTE SOVEREIGNTY! I am glad there is no such thing as ‘chance’,that nothing is left to itself,but that Christ everywhere has sway. If I thought that there was a devil in hell that Christ did notgovern, I […]
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity Ps 119:37 Dear friends, do not gaze upon any sin . . . for looking breeds longing, and longing begets lusting, and lusting brings sinning! Keep your eyes right — and you may keep your heart right. If that first woman had not looked upon the forbidden tree and seen “that the tree was good for food, and that […]
Who cares for pebbles — when jewels glitter before him? (Charles Spurgeon, “Flowers from a Puritan’s Garden” 1883) “To rule a kingdom, is a nobler matter than to play with marbles.” What, then, is the folly of the worldling’s choice, when he prefers to be contending among men for earthly toys — instead of seeking […]