Males Chosen – Fallen Angels Rejected – Charles Spurgeon Sermon
“A PROMISE from God could very instructively be in comparison with a examine payable to order. It’s given to the believer with the view of bestowing upon him some good factor. It isn’t meant that he ought to learn it over comfortably, after which have achieved with it. No, he’s to deal with the promise as a actuality, as a person treats a examine.
He’s to take the promise, and endorse it together with his personal identify by personally receiving it as true. He’s by religion to just accept it as his personal. He units to his seal that God is true, and true as to this specific phrase of promise. He goes additional, and believes that he has the blessing in having the certain promise of it and subsequently he places his identify to it to testify to the receipt of the blessing.
This achieved, he should believingly current the promise to the LORD, as a person presents a examine on the counter of the Financial institution. He should plead it by prayer, anticipating to have it fulfilled. If he has come to Heaven’s financial institution on the proper date, he’ll obtain the promised quantity without delay. If the date ought to occur to be additional on, he should patiently wait until its arrival; however in the meantime he could rely the promise as cash, for the Financial institution is certain to pay when the due time arrives.
Some fail to position the endorsement of religion upon the examine, and they also get nothing; and others are slack in presenting it, and these additionally obtain nothing. This isn’t the fault of the promise, however of those that don’t act with it in a commonsense, business-like method.
God has given no pledge which He won’t redeem, and inspired no hope which He won’t fulfill. To assist my brethren to consider this, I’ve ready this little quantity. The sight of the guarantees themselves is sweet for the eyes of religion: the extra we examine the phrases of grace, the extra grace we could derive from the phrases. To the cheering Scriptures I’ve added testimonies of my very own, the fruit of trial and expertise. I consider all the guarantees of God, however a lot of them I’ve personally tried and proved. I’ve seen that they’re true, for they’ve been fulfilled to me. This, I belief, could also be cheering to the younger; and never with out solace to the older kind. One man’s expertise could also be of the utmost use to a different; and for this reason the person of God of outdated wrote, “I sought the LORD, and he heard me”; and once more, “This poor man cried, and the LORD heard him.”
I commenced these day by day parts once I was wading within the surf of controversy. Since then I’ve been solid into “waters to swim in,” which, however for God’s upholding hand, would have proved waters to drown in. I’ve endured tribulation from many hails. Sharp bodily ache succeeded psychological melancholy, and this was accompanied each by bereavement and affliction within the individual of 1 pricey as life. The waters rolled in regularly, wave upon wave. I don’t point out this to precise sympathy, however merely to let the reader see that I’m no dry-land sailor. I’ve traversed full many a time these oceans which aren’t Pacific: I do know the roll of the billows, and the push of the winds. By no means had been the guarantees of Jehovah so treasured to me as at this hour. A few of them I by no means understood until now; I had not reached the date at which they matured, for I used to be not myself mature sufficient to understand their that means.” from the video introduction
