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Statements of CH Spurgeon
I heard the quote, "Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself. Be sure of that" and it gave me a new appetite for statements that leave no room for the flesh to glory.
Honestly, some of Surgeon's stuff makes me scratch my head. I have to re-read it slower out loud and I'm still left scratching my head. But when the Holy Spirit points out something - my soul receives a good punch in the side and I am awakened from my spiritual daydreaming.
It's like a splash of cold water on your face on a hot summer day.
Spirit-inspired thoughts are refreshing and recharging to your soul.
May the Lord bless you as you read these quotes. |
| Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you are not saved yourself. Be sure of
that. |
| When a man who professes to be converted says that he goes into the world and into sin for pleasure, it is as if an angel went to hell for enjoyment. |
| Is sin so luscious that you will burn in hell forever for it? |
| There is no water so deep but fish will swim in it, no pond so foul but frogs will live in it, no mire so filthy but swine will wallow in it, and no sin so damnable but man will commit it. |
| A mouse was caught by its tail in a trap the other day, and the poor creature went on eating the cheese. Many men are doing the same. They know that they are guilty, and they dread their punishment, but they go on nibbling at their beloved sins. |
| Do not begin to teach others until the Lord has taught you. |
| The sins of disciples of Christ are a thousand times worse than the sins of unbelievers, because they sin against a gospel of love, a covenant of mercy, against a sweet experience and against precious promises. |
| When the Lord makes us feel that we are poor, undeserving creatures, we do not mind taking the lowest room, or doing the meanest work, for we feel that as long as we are out of hell and have a hope of heaven, the meanest service is an honor to us. We are glad enough to where God would have us be, seeing Christ has loved us and given himself for us. |
| When a man gives himself up to a deceitful heart he gets to be a destroyer of others. Not content with being lost themselves, they become the servants of Satan to destroy others. A man catcher sets traps to catch men, aiming to pervert, to corrupt, to mislead, to be guile. Such fiends in human form have surely reached the last stage of corruption when they not only sin themselves, but are the creators of sin in others. |
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about you and me that is unreal God hates, and hates it
more in his own people than anywhere else. |
| Great minds love the simple gospel of God, for they find rest in it from all the worry and the weariness of questions and of doubt. |
| The life of the Christian should be a magnet to draw people to Christ. |
| Sin and hell are married unless repentance proclaims the divorce. |
| I would rather go to heaven doubting all the way, than be lost through self-confidence. |
| The holier a man becomes, the more he mourns over the unholiness which remains in him. |
| The preacher who neglects to pray much must be very careless about his ministry. He cannot have comprehended his calling. He cannot have computed the value of a soul, or estimated the meaning of eternity. |
| When the book of God's purposes shall be all unfolded in actual history there will be found no blots, mistakes and blunders there. He knows the end from the beginning and his purposes shall be fulfilled in every jot and tittle, and in nothing shall the glory of God be marred. Though Satan may be laughing now, and every now and then the men of the world may boast against the people of God, it shall not be so in the close of the affair. |
| Let us not act as if we expected to remain in these lowlands forever. It is a dreadful thing to see men who profess to be Christians unwilling to die. |
| We occupy a house, which is evidently not our own, and therefore there must be some rent to pay. The rent that God asks of his tenants is that they should praise him as long as they live. |
| Real conversion by the Holy Spirit is as distinct and radical a change as though an old man were placed in a mill and ground young again. |
| Why should I disbelieve my God? How dare I doubt him who cannot lie? How can I mistrust the faithful promiser who has added to his promise his oath, and over and above his promise and his oath has given his own blood as a seal? |
| We must get rid of the icicles that hang about our lips. We must ask the Lord to thaw the ice caves of our soul and to make our hearts like a furnace of fire heated seven times hotter. If our hearts do not burn within us, we may well question whether Jesus is with us. Those who are neither cold nor hot he has threatened to spew out of his mouth. How can we expect his favor if we fall into a condition so obnoxious to him? |
| The more we pray, the more we shall want to pray. The more we pray, the more we can pray. The more we pray, the more we shall pray. He who prays little will pray less, but he who prays much will pray more. And he who prays more, will desire to pray more abundantly. |
| As weeds multiply in the soil, so do sins spring up in our hearts. |
| Ten minutes praying is better than a year's murmuring. |
| All the water in the sea will not hurt the vessel one thousandth part as much as that which comes into it. Are you God's servant or not? If you are, how can your heart be cold? |
| Do not spare yourself and become self-satisfied; but on the other hand, do not slander yourself and sink into despondency. Your own opinion of your state is not worth much; ask the Lord to search you. |
| Live by the day-aye, by the hour. Put no trust in frames and feelings. Care more for a grain of faith than a ton of excitement. Trust in God alone, and lean not on the needs of human help. Be not surprised when friends fail you; it is a failing world. Never count on immutability in man. |
We are not called to proclaim philosophy and metaphysics, but the simple gospel.
Man's fall, his need of a new birth, forgiveness through atonement, and salvation as the result of faith, these are our battle-ax and weapons of war. |
| We know our Shepherd from all others. We know him from a statue covered with his clothes. We know the living Christ, for we have come into living contact with him, and we cannot be deceived anymore than Jesus Christ himself can be deceived about the Father. We know him by union with him and by communion with him. We know him by love; we know him by trusting him. And we know him also by a deep sympathy with him, for what Christ desires to do, we also long to do. Nothing makes us so glad as that Jesus Christ is a Savior. |
| I would rather lay my soul asoak in half a dozen verses all day long than I would, as it were, rinse my hands in several chapters. Oh, to bathe in a text of Scripture and to let it be sucked up into your very soul til it saturates your heart. The man who has read many books it not always a learned man, but he is a strong man who has read three or four books over and over til he has mastered them. Set your heart upon God's Word! It is the only way to know it thoroughly; let your whole nature be plunged into it as cloth into a dye. Try to follow the Lord fully, even though it should cause the revision of cherished sentiments, or even the alteration of your denomination connections. |
| Nobody ever outgrows Scripture; the book widens and depends with our years. |
| It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards. |
| I believe a very large majority of churchgoers are merely unthinking, slumbering worshipers of an unknown God. |
| Get men converted, and a thousand foolish ideas are destroyed. |
| This change is radical-it gives us new natures, it makes us love what we hated and hate what we loved, it sets us in a new road; it makes our habits different, it makes our thoughts different, it makes us different in private, and different in public. |
| There is not a spider hanging on the wall that doesn't have an errand; there is not a weed growing in the corner of the church lot hat doesn't have a purpose; there is not a single insect fluttering in the breeze that does not accomplish some divine decree. And I will never believe that God created any man, especially any Christian man, to be a blank, and to be a nothing. |
| By perseverance the snail reached the ark. |
| A man says to me, "Can you explain the seven trumpets of the Revelation?" No, but I can blow one in your ear, and warn you to escape from the wrath to come. |
| Evangelical repentance is repentance of sin as sin: not of this sin nor of that, but of the whole mass. We repent of the sin of our nature as well as the sin of our practice. We bemoan sin within us and without us. We repent of sin itself as being an insult to God. Anything short of this is a mere surface repentance, and not a repentance which reaches to the bottom of the mischief. Repentance of the evil act, and not of the evil heart, is like men pumping water out of a leaky vessel, but forgetting to stop the leak. Some would dam up the stream, but leave the fountain still flowing; they would remove the eruption from the skin, but leave the disease in the flesh. |
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The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul.
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-Psalm 19:7 |
Here
is what Spurgeon, Wesley, Moody, Finney, Whitfield, Luther,
Newton, and A.B. Earle have to say about God's Law (the 10
Commandments):
| Spurgeon-
"Lower the Law, and you dim the light by which man perceives his guilt. This is a very serious loss to the sinner, rather than a gain; for it lessens the likelihood of his conviction and conversion...I say you have deprived the gospel of its ablest auxiliary [most powerful weapon] when you have set aside the Law. You have taken away from it the schoolmaster that is to bring men to Christ...they will never accept grace till they tremble before a just and holy Law. Therefore the Law serves a most necessary and blessed purpose and it must not be removed from it's place."
"When the sinner sees the awful consequences of breaking the Law of God - that he cannot escape the certainty of judgment - he will see his need to put on the Lord Jesus Christ. When we preach future punishment by the Law, the sinner comes to Christ solely to flee from "the wrath to come."
"My brethren, we must not cease to declare the law, its demands, its
threatenings, and the sinner's multiplied breaches of it." |
| Martin Luther-
"The first duty of the gospel preacher is to declare God's law and show the nature of sin."
"Satan, the god of all dissention, stirs up daily new sects. And last of all, which I should never have foreseen or once suspected, he has raised up a sect such as teach that the Ten Commandments ought to be taken out of the church, and that men should not be terrified by the Law, but gently exhorted by preaching the grace of Christ."
"The first duty of the Gospel preacher is to declare God's Law and show the nature of sin, because it will act as a schoolmaster and bring him to everlasting life which is in Jesus Christ." |
| George Whitfield- "That is the reason (not using God's law) we have so many mushroom converts." |
| John Newton- "the correct understanding of the harmony between law and grace is to preserve oneself from being entangled by errors on the right hand and on the left." |
| Charles Finney- "Evermore, the law must prepare the way for the gospel ….to overlook this in instructing souls is almost certain to result in false hope, the introduction of a false standard of Christian experience, and to fill the church with false converts." |
| A.B. Earle- "I have found by long experience that the severest threatenings of the law of God have a prominent place in leading men to Christ. They must see themselves lost before they will cry for mercy. They'll not escape danger until they see it." |
John Wesley- "Before I preach love, mercy and grace, I must preach sin, Law and judgment."
"Preach 90 percent Law and 10 percent grace." |
| John
Wycliffe- "The highest service to which a man may attain on earth is to preach the Law of God." |
| D.L. Moody- "God being a perfect God, had to give a perfect Law, and the Law was given not to save men, but to measure them." |
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