{"id":7383,"date":"2026-11-10T09:27:42","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T09:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7383"},"modified":"2026-11-10T09:27:42","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T09:27:42","slug":"thus-says-the-lord","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/?p=7383","title":{"rendered":"Thus Says the Lord!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thus Says the Lord!<\/strong>
The following is from Spurgeon\u2019s sermon,
\u201cThus Saith the Lord\u201d   No. 591.  Ezekiel 11:5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThus says the Lord\u201d is the only authority in God\u2019s Church.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The faintest whisper of Jehovah\u2019s voice should fill us with
solemn awe, and command the deepest obedience of our souls.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brethren, how careful should we be that we do not set up in
God\u2019s church anything in opposition to his Word, that we do
not permit the teachings of a creature to usurp the honour due
to the Lord alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThus says antiquity.\u201d
\u201cThus says authority.\u201d
\u201cThus says learning.\u201d
\u201cThus says experience.\u201d
   -these are but idol-gods which defile the church of God!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be it yours and mine as bold warriors to dash them in pieces
without mercy, seeing that they usurp the place of the Word of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThus says the Lord,\u201d \u2013 this is the motto of our standard;
the war-cry of our spiritual conflict; the sword with which
we hope yet to smite through the loins of the mighty who
rise up against God\u2019s truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThus says the Lord God.\u201d This is the trowel, and this the
hammer of God\u2019s builders; this the trumpet of his watchmen
and the sword of his warriors.
Woe to the man who comes in any other name!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If we, or an angel from heaven, shall preach unto you anything but
a \u201cThus says the Lord,\u201d no matter what our character or standing,
give no heed to us, but cleave unto the truth as it is in Jesus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To the law and to the testimony, if we speak not according
to this word, it is because there is no light in us. (Isaiah 8:20)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That test which we demand to be exercised upon others we
cheerfully consent to be exercised upon ourselves, praying
that we may have grace to forsake our errors as we would
have other men forsake theirs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We will listen to the opinions of great men with the respect
which they deserve as men, but having so done, we deny that
we have anything to do with these men as authorities in the
Church of God, for there nothing has any authority, but
\u201cThus says the Lord of hosts.\u201d
Yes, if you shall bring us the concurrent consent of all tradition-
if you shall quote precedents venerable with fifteen, sixteen, or
seventeen centuries of antiquity, we burn the whole as so much
worthless lumber, unless you put your finger upon the passage
of Holy Writ which warrants the matter to be of God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To the true Church of God the only question is this, is there
\u201cThus says the Lord\u201d for it? And if divine authority be not
forthcoming, faithful men thrust forth the intruder as the cunning
craftiness of men.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let us use much of Scripture, much of the pure silver
of sacred revelation, and no human alloy.
\u201cWhat is the chaff to the wheat, says the Lord?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many sorrows shall be to those who dare to dash themselves
against the thick bosses of Jehovah\u2019s buckler by opposing his
\u201cThus says the Lord.\u201d Upon whomsoever this stone shall fall
it shall grind him to powder, and whosoever shall fall upon it shall
be broken to his own lasting damage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

O! my brethren, I would that we trembled and stood more in awe
of God\u2019s Word. I fear that many treat the things of God as
though they were merely matters of opinion, but remember that
opinion cannot govern in God\u2019s house.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

God\u2019s Word, not man\u2019s opinion, claims your allegiance.
O for a stern integrity that will hold the Word and will never
  depart from it, come what may.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thus Says the Lord!The following is from Spurgeon\u2019s sermon,\u201cThus Saith the Lord\u201d   No. 591.  Ezekiel 11:5. \u201cThus says the Lord\u201d is the only authority in God\u2019s Church. The faintest whisper of Jehovah\u2019s voice should fill us withsolemn awe, and command the deepest obedience of our souls. Brethren, how careful should we be that we do […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c-h-spurgeon","category-false-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7384,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7383\/revisions\/7384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.shoalhavengospelchurch.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}