Reading consecutively through the sermons of C. H. Spurgeon, beginning 1st January 2021. 3561 sermons, and we are over half way through.
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Readings for Sun 25–Sat 31 Oct:
S 2124. Help for Your Sickness
M 2125. Hope for Your Future
T 2126. Something Done for Jesus
W 2127. Love’s Competition
Th 2128. Heaven Above, and Heaven Below
F 2129. Pleading, not Contradiction
Sa 2130. *The Deceitfulness of Sin*
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"The Deceitfulness of Sin" is this week's #featuredsermon, from Hebrews 3:13.
#Spurgeon hates #sin, and rightly so. It is, in part, a reflection of his love to Christ, and his love to Christ only increases as he considers the sinfulness of sin. This is a profoundly insightful sermon, with shades of John Owen’s books on temptation and the mortification of sin, a sort of anatomy of sin, at least in the way that it tries to draw us into darkness and wickedness. So first we think about the way in which sin deceives, given that its very nature is to assault the truth of God and the God of truth. Spurgeon spends a large proportion of the sermon telling us the kinds of lies which sin whispers in our ears and to our hearts. If we have never thought about this, then the sermon will shock us and teach us. Then we think about the way in which this deceit tends to harden the heart, and again we are in the realm of spiritual experience, and the gradual coarsening of the conscience, the increasing carelessness with regard to conduct, that comes when we listen to sin’s lying tongue and begin to act accordingly. Finally, branching out a little from the text, we are urged to fight against deceiving sin by faith, by confession, by tenderness of heart, and by exhorting one another daily—and that means a willingness both to receive and to give appropriate exhortation. We are not a pack of barking dogs, nipping at each other constantly and unkindly, but we are to look out for each other, both as we commit sins and omit duties. Loaded with pastoral wisdom, here is an outstanding reminder of our susceptibility to sin, and our need to be on guard against it.
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Better than life itself Thy love,
Dearer than all beside to me;
For whom have I in heaven above,
Or what on earth compared with Thee?
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“Look unto me,” saith he, “and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth: for I am God, and there is none else.” Look! Look now! Look to him alone; and as you look to him with the look of faith he will look on you with loving acceptance, and say, “Great is thy faith: be it unto thee even as thou wilt.” Thou shalt be saved at this very hour; and though thou camest into this house of prayer grievously vexed with a devil, thou shalt go out at peace with God, and as restful as an angel.
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My Lord gives me unlimited credit at the Bank of Faith. I am very deeply in debt to him, and I am resolved to be more indebted still. Sinner as I am, if I were a million times as sinful as I am, and then had a million souls each one a million times more sinful than my own, I would still trust his atoning blood to cleanse me, and himself to save me. By thine agony and bloody sweat, by thy cross and passion, by thy precious death and burial, by thy glorious resurrection and ascension, by thine intercession for the guilty at the right hand of God, O Christ, I feel that I can repose in thee. May you come to this point, all of you; that Jesus is abundantly able to save.
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Canst thou believe it—thou, a condemned, lost sinner—that if God save thee it will be the greatest wonder that ever was; and yet that to Jesus, who made himself a sacrifice for sin, it will be no more than if this day thy dog or thy cat should eat a tiny morsel that one of thy children had dropped from the table? Canst thou think Jesus to be so great, that what is heaven to thee will be only a crumb to him? Canst thou believe that he can save thee readily? As for me, I believe my Lord to be such a Saviour that I can trust my soul wholly to him, and that without difficulty.
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Ah, dear hearer! my Lord Jesus Christ is a shepherd by office and by nature, and if you are a lost sheep this is good tidings for you. There is a holy instinct in him which makes him gather the lambs with his arms, and causes him to search out the lost ones, who were scattered in the cloudy and dark day. Trust him to seek you; yea, come to him now, and leave yourselves with him.
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Think of Jesus Christ as God over all, blessed for ever, he that made the heaven and the earth, and upholdeth all things by the word of his power. Know that he became man, veiling his Godhead in this poor clay of ours: he hung as a babe upon a woman’s breast, he sat as a weary man upon the curb of a well, he died with malefactors on the cross; and all this out of love to man. Can you not trust this Son of David?
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Believe that God delighteth in mercy, delighteth to give grace where it cannot be deserved, delighteth to forgive where there is no reason for forgiveness but his own goodness. Believe also that the Lord Jesus Christ whom we preach to you is the incarnation of mercy: his very existence is mercy to you, his every word means mercy; his life, his death, his intercession in heaven, all mean mercy, mercy, mercy, nothing but mercy. You need divine mercy, and Jesus is the embodiment of divine mercy—he is the Saviour for you. Believe in him, and the mercy of God is yours.
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He may justly ask, “Shall I not do as I will with my own?” Beloved, do not dispute the rights of the eternal God. It is the Lord: let him do as seemeth him good. Do not quarrel with the King; but come humbly to him, and plead thus: “O Lord, thou alone hast the right to pardon; but then thy Word declares that if we confess our sins, thou art faithful and just to forgive us our sins; and thou hast said, that whosoever believeth in the Lord Jesus Christ shall be saved.” This pleading will prevail.
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I meet with men who say, “O sir, sin is an awful thing; it condemns me. I feel I can never answer the Lord for my iniquities, nor stand in his holy presence.” This is assuredly true; but remember another truth: “The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all”; “He was made sin for us, who knew no sin”; “There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus.” Set the truth of the sin-bearing of our Lord over against the guilt and curse of sin due to yourself apart from your great Substitute.
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How often we may use the holy art of looking from one doctrine to another! If a truth looks black upon me, I shall not be wise to be always dwelling upon it; but it will be my wisdom to examine the whole range of truth, and see if there be not some other doctrine which will give me hope.
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If thou findest it in thy heart to say, “Truth, Lord,” to all that the Holy Spirit teaches, then surely that same Spirit is at work upon thy soul, leading thee to look to Jesus, and causing thee to give thy heart’s consent to the way of salvation through the merit of the Redeemer’s blood.
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Now, mark this: if you find your heart agreeing with what Jesus says, even when he answers you roughly, you may depend upon it this is a work of grace; for human nature is very upstart, and stands very much upon its silly dignity, and therefore it contradicts the Lord, when he deals truthfully with it, and humbles it.
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