From the Heart of Spurgeon

Readings for Sun 22–Sat 28 Mar: S 1907. “The Tender Mercy of our God” M 1908. Washed to Greater Foulness T 1909. *A Seasonable Exhortation* W 1910. The Heart of the Gospel Th 1911. Hideous Discovery F 1912. The Holy Road Sa 1913. Confidence and Concern #readingSpurgeon #Spurgeon

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If you are reading only one sermon next week, our selection is #1916, “The Great Sin of Doing Nothing.” You can find the relevant podcasts at podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fro… or any similar provider.

Readings for Sun 29 Mar–Sat 04 Apr: S 1914. Secret Drawings Graciously Explained M 1915. The Ever-living Priest T 1916. *The Great Sin of Doing Nothing* W 1917. In Christ No Condemnation Th 1918. The Abiding of the Spirit the Glory of the Church F 1919. The Very Bold Prophecy Sa 1920. Believers as Blessed as the Blessed Virgin #readingSpurgeon #Spurgeon

How are we to keep the faith? There is only one way. It is of little use trying to guard the gospel by writing it down in a trust-deed; it is of small service to ask men to subscribe to a creed: we must go to work in a more effectual way. How is the gospel to be guarded? “By the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us.” If, my dear brothers and sisters, the Holy Spirit dwells in you, and you obey his monitions, and are moulded by his influences, and exhibit the result of his work in the holiness of your lives, then the faith will be kept. A holy people are the true body-guard of the gospel. A living people, in whom the Holy Ghost is the soul of their soul, and the spirit of their spirit, are alone able to keep the truth living and influential in the world. Let the power of the gospel be missing where it may, it must be present where the Holy Ghost abides; for he makes the word of God to be a living and incorruptible seed, which liveth and abideth for ever. God send us, more and more, the Holy Ghost! May he be in us as rivers of living water! Oh for his heavenly presence in this day of blasphemy and rebuke! Amen. #Spurgeon #s1913

I believe that the moralities, the liberties, and peradventure the very existence of a nation depend upon the proclamation of the gospel in its midst. Have you not noticed that where the gospel has been given up, and various forms of infidelity have ruled, foul pollution has also boiled up from below! The very idea of morality seems to have departed from some men by whom belief in God has been rejected. The Lord save us from the general spread of this mischief! #Spurgeon #s1913

The eternal verities revealed within this Book, and grasped by the hand of our inner life—these are everything to us; therefore we shall stand by them even to the last with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus. #Spurgeon #s1913

Brethren, do not change your posture nor shift your position. Stand fast on immutable truth, trusting and loving your Lord. Hold the old faith, and hold it in the old fashion too. #Spurgeon #s1913

You gentlemen who say, “Surely you will not stick out for a word,” are, after all, neither so innocent nor so liberal as you appear to be. Brethren, it is not a word they would amend, but a truth they would efface. #Spurgeon #s1913

The Lord liveth, and the gospel liveth too. #Spurgeon #s1913

Though truth were dead and buried, it would rise again. The day is not far distant when the old, old gospel shall again command the scholarship of the age, and shall direct the thoughts of men. Even if it were not so, it would be a small matter; for it signifies little except to themselves what men think, since God is true, and with truth there is power. The fight is not over yet; the brunt of the battle is yet to come. They dreamed that the old gospel was dead more than a hundred years ago, but they digged its grave too soon. #Spurgeon #s1913

Worldliness is growing over the church, she is mossed with it. The visible church is honeycombed through and through with a baptized infidelity. Unholy living is following upon unbelieving thinking. #Spurgeon #s1913

At the present moment, it seems as if parts of the church had almost forgotten the gospel of the grace of God. We hear on all hands “another gospel, which is not another; but there be some that trouble you, and would pervert the gospel of Christ.” #Spurgeon #s1913

Can you doubt the Lord’s ability? Have we not believed in his Godhead, and in the almighty power with which the Father hath girt him as the God-man, the Mediator, now that he has gone up into his everlasting reward? If these be facts, how can it be difficult to trust such a one? Trust my soul with Christ! Why, if I had all your souls within my body, I could trust them all to him; and if every sin that man has done, in thought, and word, and deed, since worlds were made, or time began, could meet upon my one guilty head—I dare say it—the precious blood of Jesus could wash them all away. #Spurgeon #s1913

If you have committed yourself to the care of the Lord Jesus Christ, I cannot listen to those miserable “ifs” and “buts”: they are unreasonable and irrelevant. I blow them away as so much chaff. If Jesus is able to save, and you are trusting him, there is no room for distrust. #Spurgeon #s1913

Let us hope that no believer here has any doubt about the power of Christ; if he has, the doubt is most absurd. He that goes to the sea for salt water cannot rationally fear that he will be forced to come back with an empty bucket. He that lifteth up his face to the sun can have no doubt but that his features will be bright with the light. So he that turneth to Christ may be persuaded that there is no lack of sufficiency or ability in him. #Spurgeon #s1913

Dear heart, if thou hast given thyself to Christ, Christ has given himself to thee: do not doubt his readiness to receive thee I If thou art leaning upon the Beloved, he is willing to be leaned upon, and he will never fail thee. If in very truth his word is thy trust, the Lord will never run back from his promise. Hath he not said it, and will he not do it? Take this for granted. Receive it as an acknowledged principle which none may question. #Spurgeon #s1913

Beloved, I trust we know as much of Jesus as leads us to a living faith in our living Lord. #Spurgeon #s1913

Where is there any comfort or stimulus except in truth assuredly believed? To doubt is to be downcast and feeble: only in solemn assurance is there courage and strength. #Spurgeon #s1913