A caution to the presumptuous

A caution to the presumptuous

“Let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.” 1 Corinthians 10:12

Suggested Further Reading:

 Hebrews 10:19-25

These strong men sometimes will not use the means of grace, and therefore they fall. 

There are some persons here, who rarely attend a place of worship; they do not profess to be religious; but I am sure they would be astonished if I were to tell them, that I know some professedly religious people who are accepted in some churches as being true children of God, who yet make it a habit of stopping away from the house of God, because they conceive they are so advanced that they do not want it. 

You smile at such a thing as that. They boast such deep experience within; they have a volume of sweet sermons at home, and they will stop and read them; they need not go to the house of God, for they are fat and flourishing. They conceit themselves that they have received food enough seven years ago to last them the next ten years. 

They imagine that old food will feed their souls now. These are your presumptuous men. They are not to be found at the Lord’s table, eating the body and drinking the blood of Christ, in the holy emblems of bread and wine. 

You do not see them in their closets; you do not find them searching the Scriptures with holy curiosity. They think they stand—they shall never be moved; they fancy that means are intended for weaker Christians; and leaving those means, they fall. 

They will not have the shoe to put upon the foot, and therefore the flint cuts them; they will not put on the armour, and therefore the enemy wounds them—sometimes well-nigh unto death. In this deep quagmire of neglect of the means, many a proud professor has been smothered.

For meditation: 

Thomas was absent to his cost (John 20:24,25). Can you always give your “apologies for absence” to the Lord and to your fellow-members with a clear conscience?

Sermon no. 22-12 May (Preached 13 May 1855)

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Father, I ask

You to bless my friends, relatives and those

that I care deeply for, who are reading this

right now. Show them a new revelation of Your

love and power. Holy Spirit, I ask You to

minister to their spirit at this very moment.

Where there is pain, give them Your peace and

mercy.. 

Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace.

 Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. 

Bless their homes, families, finances, their 

goings and their comings. 

Amen.

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A lesson from the great panic

‘The removing of those things that are shaken, as of things that are made, that those things which cannot be shaken may remain.’ 

Hebrews 12:27

Suggested Further Reading: 2 Peter 3:1–13

It is a most popular error that the world stands still, and is fixed and immovable. This has been scouted as an astronomical theory, but as a matter of practical principle it still reigns in men’s minds. Galileo said, ‘No, the world is not a fixed body, it moves;’ Peter had long before declared that all these things should be dissolved; at last men believed the astronomer, but they still doubt the apostle, or at least forget his doctrine. 


Though it is clear as noonday in Scripture and in experience that stability is not to be found beneath the moon, yet men are for ever building upon earth’s quicksand as if it were substantial rock, and heaping up its dust, as though it would not all be blown away. 


‘This is the substance,’ cries the miser, as he clutches his bags of gold; ‘heaven and hell are myths to me.’ ‘This is the main chance,’ whispers the merchant, as he pushes vigorously his commercial speculations; ‘as for spiritual things they are for mere dreamers and sentimentalists. Cash is the true treasure.’ 


Ah, sirs, you base your statements upon a foundation of falsehood. This world is as certainly a mere revolving ball as to human life as it is astronomically; and hopes founded thereon will as surely come to nought as will card houses in a storm. Here we have no abiding city, and it is in vain to attempt to build one. 


This world is not the rock beneath our feet which it seems to be; it is no better than those green, but treacherous, soft, and bottomless bogs, which swallow up unwary travellers. We talk of terra firma as if there could be such a thing as solid earth; never was adjective more thoroughly misused, for ‘the world passeth away’ and the fashion thereof.


For meditation: 


Spurgeon’s sermons on 13 May 1866 (see also tomorrow’s reading) were occasioned by an unexpected commercial panic over the previous two days. We should not rest our hopes on earthly possessions for this life (Haggai 1:5–6; Matthew 6:19; 1 Timothy 6:17), let alone for the life to come (Luke 12:15–21; 16:19–23; James 5:1–3).

Sermon no. 690 -13 May (1866)

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Reflection and inspiration from the "Prince of Preachers," Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Copyright Statement, This resource was produced before 1923 and therefore is considered 
in the "Public Domain".

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PRAYER

Father, I ask

You to bless my friends, relatives and those

that I care deeply for, who are reading this

right now. Show them a new revelation of Your

love and power. Holy Spirit, I ask You to

minister to their spirit at this very moment.

Where there is pain, give them Your peace and

mercy.. Where there is self-doubt, release a

renewed confidence through Your grace. Where

there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs.

Bless their homes, families, finances, their

goings and their comings.

Amen. 

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Joseph and his brethren

‘Joseph said …, I am Joseph; … And his brethren … were troubled at his presence. And Joseph said …, Come near to me … And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt. Now therefore be not grieved … that ye sold me hither: for God did send me before you to preserve life.’ Genesis 45:3–5

Suggested Further Reading: 

James 4:1–10

Every time you prefer the pleasures of this world to the joys of heaven, you spit in the face of Christ; every time when to gain in your business, you do an unrighteous thing, you are like Judas selling him for thirty pieces of silver; every time you make a false profession of religion, you give him a traitor’s kiss; every word you have spoken against him, every hard thought you have had of him, has helped to complete your complicity with the great crowd which gathered around the cross of Calvary, to mock and jeer the Lord of life and glory.

 Now, if there be any sin which will make a man deeply penitent, I think that this sin when it is really brought home to the conscience will affect us. To slay him who did me no hurt, the holy and the harmless One! To assist in hounding to the tree the man who scattered blessings with both his hands, and who had no thought, nor care, nor love, save for those who hated him. 

To pierce the hands that touched the leper, and that broke the bread, and multiplied the fishes! To fasten to the accursed wood the feet which had often carried his weary body upon painful journeys of mercy! This is base indeed, but when I think he loved me, and gave himself for me, that he chose me , before the stars were made, and that I, when he came to me in the gospel, should have rejected and despised, and even mocked at him, this is intensely, infinitely cruel. Jesus, thou dost forgive me, but I can never forgive myself for such a sin as this.

For meditation:

Consider the effect of Christ’s crucifixion upon those who mourn their guilt in it (Zechariah 12:10; 13:1; Acts 2:36–37). Are you washed from your sin by his blood (Revelation 1:5) or does your guilt wash off you like water off a duck’s back (Acts 4:10,18; 5:30, 40)? Many will regret it when it is too late (Revelation 1:7).

Sermon no. 449
11 May (1862)

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Reflection and inspiration from the "Prince of Preachers," Charles Haddon Spurgeon. Copyright Statement, This resource was produced before 1923 and therefore is considered 
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PRAYER

Father, I ask

You to bless my friends, relatives and those

that I care deeply for, who are reading this

right now. Show them a new revelation of Your

love and power. Holy Spirit, I ask You to

minister to their spirit at this very moment.

Where there is pain, give them Your peace and

mercy.. Where there is self-doubt, release a

renewed confidence through Your grace. Where

there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs.

Bless their homes, families, finances, their

goings and their comings.

Amen. 

"HAVE A BLESSED DAY FULL OF PEACE, LOVE AND HAPPINESS"
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The tree is known by its fruit.

Saving faith appropriates the finished work of the Lord Jesus, and so saves by itself alone, for we are justified by faith without works; but the faith which is without works cannot bring salvation to any man. We are saved by faith without works, but not by a faith that is without works, for the real faith that saves the soul works by love and purifies the character.

If you can cheat across the counter, your hope of heaven is a cheat too; though you can pray as prettily as anybody, and practice acts of outward piety as well as any other hypocrite, you are deceived if you expect to be right at last. If as a servant you are lazy, lying, and loitering, or if as a master you are hard, tyrannical, and unchristianlike towards your men, your fruit shows that you are a tree of Satan’s own orchard, and bear apples which will suit his tooth.

If you can practice tricks of trade, and if you can lie — and how many do lie every day about their neighbors or about their goods — you may talk about being justified by faith as you like, but all liars will have their portion in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone, and amongst the biggest liars you will be, for you are guilty of the lie of saying, “I am a Christian,” whereas you are not. A false profession is one of the worst of lies, since it brings the utmost dishonor upon Christ and his people.

The fruit of the righteous is righteousness: the fig tree will not bring forth thorns, neither shall we gather grapes from thistles. The tree is known by its fruit, and if we cannot judge men’s hearts, and must not try to do so, we can judge their lives, and I pray God we may all be ready to judge our own lives and see if we are bringing forth righteous fruit, for if not, ye are not righteous men. 

From a sermon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon entitled "The Soul-Winner," delivered January 20, 1876

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in the "Public Domain".

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PRAYER

Father, I ask

You to bless my friends, relatives and those

that I care deeply for, who are reading this

right now. Show them a new revelation of Your

love and power. Holy Spirit, I ask You to

minister to their spirit at this very moment.

Where there is pain, give them Your peace and

mercy.. Where there is self-doubt, release a

renewed confidence through Your grace. Where

there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs.

Bless their homes, families, finances, their

goings and their comings.

Amen. 

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