An insatiable desire has been implanted in us by divine grace, which urges us to:--. Don't wonder, don't wonder if you have discomforts here. Though you may think it a very ordinary thing to obey God in all things, you will find that a man had need to set his face like a flint in order to keep the right road; and the only way in which he will be able to hold on his way will be by having faith in God. When the creature streams are dry, go to this eternal fountain, and you will find it ever springing up. II. The faith of God's elect continues and abides. Dark is my path; I cannot see my Lord; I cannot enjoy his presence; sometimes I am like one that is banished from him; but I desire his blessing, I desire his presence; and, though to desire may be but a little thing, let me say a good desire is more than nature ever grew: grace has given it. Ah! I turned to the good father and remarked that I was not quite sure about the truth of the last remark, for I believed he would love him if he were ever so bad. Doubtless he was the frequent subject of sarcastic remark. He knew whom he believed, and was persuaded that he had a favour towards him. it may even happen that she that lieth in your bosom does not yet know the Lord. Every truth is essential. We have many opportunities to return. Opportunities to return, as long as you are in this body, will be with you. Still, he never does discountenance them, and he proves that he is not ashamed of them, for he calls himself their God. Whatever may be the precepts of the law, or of the gospel, they are pure and holy altogether. (1). He had a considerable property in flocks and herds, and probably had the ancestral dwelling house in which to reside. Then would she have the beginning of life over again in her last days, which will be made her best days. And then, as though the greatest victory should be recorded last, we have faith entering the lists with sin, holding a tournament with iniquity, and coming off more than a conqueror. After that fashion faith overcomes temptation. The question of many will be, did it pay? Woman! We Christians are to be equally distinct, not in meats, and drinks, and garments, and holy days, but as to spirituality of mind and holiness of life. "Prepare to meet thy God" was the motto you started with. Some say it is a land of confusion and of the shadow of death. Abraham was called, and he obeyed. Some are permitted to sink a long way down in sin; and when God begins with them, they have a desperate ascent even to reach common morality; what must the conflict be before they attain to spirituality and holiness? Look at the miser. I fear some of you will miss eternal life, for you trifle about it! _Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. "Whither away?" He had to leave behind him those who were exceeding dear to him. Abraham was prepared for instant obedience to any command from God; his journey was appointed, and he went. You may be diligent in secret prayer, and perhaps the devil may have been asleep till you begin to pray, and when you are most fervent then will he also become most rampant. I sigh to think of many that appeared to be very earnest Christians when they were struggling for bread, who have become very dull and cold now that they have grown rich and increased in goods. Dear friend, have you this kind of faith? If a man has been sunk down in black waters full of filth, a thousand fathoms deep, and if he has been long imprisoned in dark caves where no light has come, what a wondrous power would that be which should raise him to the sunlight! 3 By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of things which are visible. Opportunities to return--let me say just this much more about them--are often furnished by the example of others. He suffered the Egyptians to pursue, and overtake, and threaten to divide the spoil; and he allowed them in their pride to go down after Israel into the depths of the sea. Do not come down a stop or two as to holiness, nor seek a lower platform upon which to meet more cordially an ungodly world. When you get nearest to God, Satan will sometimes seem to get nearer to you. This book was released on 2014-07-31 with total page 287 pages. Thus we have Abraham before us; may the Holy Spirit make us like him. The gospel has about it a divine authority, and is not to be trilled with. The world has been trying all manner of processes to reform men: there is but one thing that ever will reform them, and that is, faith in the preached gospel. He looks to that iron safe to be quite sure that it is well secured--he cannot forget his dear gold. 3 By faith we understand that the worlds were prepared by the word of God, so that what is seen was made from things that are not visible. This I shall illustrate from the whole of the verse. Matchless condescension this! Ah! I am sure it has been so with you. But you can do nothing aright for others without faith in God for yourself and them. HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK" 174, 655, 658. Believe in Christ, and thou, like Rahab, shalt not perish with the disobedient, but even thou shalt be saved. Indeed there is, unless faith is strong; and then the bullets turn to pellets, and the stones are soft as sponges. There must be determination, thought, care, attention; and faith must work with all these to produce obedience to the will of the Lord. This true Jerusalem blade was long annealed before it gained its marvellous edge and matchless temper. And what know I of the journey? It was a long martyrdom. C. H. Spurgeon at the Music Hall, Royal Surrey Gardens. Yes, but you would not, though; you know better than that, for you do not, as it is, give all, no, nor yet half, nor yet the thousandth part. "he hath prepared for them"--"them." how often will our imagination paint sin in very glowing colors, and, though we loathe sin and loathe ourselves for thinking of it, yet how many a man might say, "had it not been for divine grace, where should I have been?--for my feet had almost gone, my steps had well nigh slipped." You will never be able to cut down this huge upas tree except with the axe of Christ's atoning sacrifice. So the first important thing to see . But," said he, wishing to improve the occasion, "have you ever heard of the key of heaven?" It is a long time to wait; but what would you do with a hundred added on to it? I would to God that we had more men to-day who would maintain truth at all hazards. Amen. Sir, you speak falsely; you do not believe in Christ. And O! The bearish man grumbled, "Mind your own business." And I know that come prosperity or come adversity, come sickness or come wealth, come foe, come friend, come popularity, or come contempt, his purpose shall be worked out, and that purpose shall be pure, unmingled good to every blood-bought heir of mercy on whom his heart is set. How can he own them? and, secondly, what was there peculiar in Abraham's conduct? It is a great thing to be desirous. "Yes." Viewed as they are, they are such a rabble in many respects that it is marvellous he is not ashamed of them; and yet he never is; and to prove that he is not ashamed of them we have this fact, that he calls himself their God, "I will be your God," and he oftentimes seems to speak of it as a very joyful thing to his own heart. Grace has given it. Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter if thou hast no faith. The Lord give us back those whose examples can be safely copied in all things, even though they be decried as being "rigid" or "too precise"! If I should never again have the pleasure of speaking for my Lord upon the face of this earth, I should like to deliver, as my last confession of faith, this testimony--that nothing but faith can save this nineteenth century; nothing but faith can save old England: nothing but faith can save the present unbelieving church: nothing but firm faith in the grand old doctrines of grace, and in the ever-living and unchanging God can bring back to the church again a full tide of prosperity, and make her to be the deliverer of the nations for Christ: nothing but faith in the Lord Jesus can save you or me. If, as a decided believer, he takes his stand, and if he is firm and steadfast for his God, he will make a man, and his after years will be bright and useful; but if he begins to give way a little, and if he tries to trim his sail to the wind, he will never attain to a holy character. We shall have to speak about his fear being "moved by fear"; we shall also remember his obedience, for he "prepared an ark to the saving of his house." I don't know how else it is you make your religion square with itself, and be at all consistent. That faith is a dead faith, a corrupt faith, which lives in sin that grace may abound. Even bad men will obey God when they think fit; but good men will obey when they know not what to think of it. Hebrews 11:8 . In the better land you shall find the rest which you never can find here, and need not wish to find, for the land is polluted; let us away from it. Men come not to their perfect stature except by years of growth. Oh, that God would give to every preacher of righteousness this full reward himself and his house! I remember one who was very foul-mouthed, and used oaths habitually. Have you not been obliged to say, after you have had all that the world could give you, "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity"? They may call him a brother. But is it so with all of you? Episode 117 - Matthew Chapter 18 with commentary by Charles Spurgeon and the Ave Maria Immaculata. Our lease of mortal life is fast running out. It is a good key, but you have broken it." there hath no sorrow befallen thee but what thy noble ancestors have celebrated in cheery tones, and set to music in cheerful strains. An insatiable desire has been implanted in us by divine grace which urges us to--. Dear brethren, cultivate these desires more and more. Hence faith is the essential point of holiness. He taught us to pray, "Lead us not into temptation," but at the same time he does lead us there, and intends to do it; and this is for the proving of our faith to see whether it be true faith or not. And Jacob, one of the patriarchs, was driven to go down into the land, but he could not stay there; he was always unrestful, till at last he stole a march upon Laban and came back into the proper life--the life which he had chosen, the life which God had commanded him, the life of a pilgrim and a stranger in the land of promise. You see, then, they had many opportunities to have returned, to have settled comfortably, and tilled the ground as their fathers did before them; but they continued to follow the uncomfortable shifting life of wanderers of the weary foot, who dwelt in tents, who own no foot of land--they were aliens in the country which God had given them by promise. You dare not move in opposition to your brethren and sisters in the circle in which you move; and therefore you involve yourselves in difficulties. But this man was one day met by a friend, who said to him, "Where is your wife?" She became after that a woman eminent for piety walking in the fear of God. It begins with one triumph of faith, and then proceeds to others. Or do you put out your thinking to be done for you, like your washing? "But," says one, "I know if I were to try to speak to any of my neighbors, I should break down." The king will send his armies against that wicked city and destroy it, and if you are citizens of it you will lose all you have--you will lose your souls, you will lose yourselves. how often will our imagination paint sin in very glowing colours, and though we loathe the sin and loathe ourselves for thinking of it, yet how many a man might say, "Had it not been for divine grace, my feet had almost gone, my steps had well-nigh slipped." And if there be not one mentioned in Scripture, which is the history of some thousand years, it is not likely that in the other two thousand years of the world's history there would have been one, when there was not one during the first four thousand. Trust in the precious blood: that is the great sin-killer. They say, "The man was born too late; he is behind the age; he fights for a worn-out creed; he is out of place in a world of progress," What then? This is the sweetest support in the presence of a threatened operation. I shall first have an exposition of what is faith; secondly, I shall have an argument , that without faith it is impossible to be saved; and thirdly, I shall ask a question Have you that faith which pleases God? Hence, it is not relaxed in the time of temptation, nor destroyed in the hour of losses and sufferings. Whenever you feel a prompting to do a good thing do not ask anybody whether you should do it or not; no one ever repents of doing good. He sees in him a dignity and a glory assimilated to his own. "Without faith it is impossible to please God." There was a little boy at the corner of the table, and his father asked him, "Why does your father love you, John?" Let no one run away, when I shall have expounded the first point, and miss the rest, for you can not apprehend the whole power of her faith unless you remember each of those particulars I am about to mention. Faith in God made the cripple at the temple gate stand, and walk, and leap, and praise God; and even so does faith make our sin-crippled manhood obey the will of the Lord with exultation. "He hath prepared a city." Not now do they gather in the great amphitheater, where sits the emperor in state, with all the proud citizens of Rome in the nearer gallery, tier on tier, and the multitude up yonder, gazing with their cruel eyes into the vast arena below. God add his blessing to this discourse, and give a blessing to your souls, for Jesus Christ' sake. Hebrews 1:1, 2. The Abrahams of to-day will not go out from their kindred; they will put up with anything sooner than risk their livelihoods. You heroic man who, yesterday, when the house was burning, climbed the creaking stair-case, and, almost suffocated by the smoke, entered an upper chamber, snatched a babe from its bed and a woman from the window, bore them both down in his arms, and saved them at the peril of his own life, he can tell you what a great thing it is to save a fellow-creature. Your mother is dying, and one thing which makes her death-bed bitter is, that you scoff God and hate Christ. Biblical Commentary (Bible Study) Hebrews 11:1-3, 8-16 EXEGESIS: THE CONTEXT: Hebrews 11 is the great faith chapter of the Bible, first defining faith (v. 1) and then using well-known Hebrew people to show faith in action. Tones, and one thing which makes her death-bed bitter is, unless is! 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