16 NOVEMBER (UNDATED SERMON)
Seeing Jesus
‘We see Jesus.’ Hebrews 2:9
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Hebrews 11:1–16
Rapid is the action of faith. Brethren, we know not where heaven may be, where the state, the place called ‘heaven’ is, but faith takes us there in contemplation in a single moment. We cannot tell when the Lord may come; it may not be for centuries yet, but faith steps over the distance in a moment, sees him coming in the clouds of heaven, and hears the trump of resurrection. It would be very difficult, indeed it would be impossible, for us to travel backward in any other chariot than that of faith, for it is faith which helps us to see the creation of the world ‘when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy’.
Faith enables us to walk in the garden with our first parents, and to witness the scene when God promised that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent’s head. Faith makes us familiar with patriarchs, and gives us to see the troubles and trials of kings. Faith takes us to Calvary’s summit, where we stand and see our Saviour as plainly as did his mother when she stood sorrowfully at the foot of the cross. This day we can fly back to the solemn day of Pentecost and feel as if we could hear the mighty rushing wind, and see the cloven tongues sitting upon the chosen company; so swiftly does faith travel.
And, best of all, in one moment faith can take a sinner out of a state of death into a state of life, can lift him from damnation into salvation, can remove him from the land of the shadow of death, where he sat in affliction and irons, and give him ‘the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness’. O sinner, you can get at Christ in a moment of time. No sooner has your heart trusted Jesus, than you are with him, united to him.
FOR MEDITATION: Faith in the living God enables us to accept what he has done in the past (Hebrews 11:3) and to set our hopes upon what he is going to do in the future (Hebrews 11:13, 16). Consider the apostle Paul as he testified to his faith in the past and future works of God (Acts 24:14–15).
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 3), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2005), 328.
Seeing Jesus
‘We see Jesus.’ Hebrews 2:9
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Hebrews 11:1–16
Rapid is the action of faith. Brethren, we know not where heaven may be, where the state, the place called ‘heaven’ is, but faith takes us there in contemplation in a single moment. We cannot tell when the Lord may come; it may not be for centuries yet, but faith steps over the distance in a moment, sees him coming in the clouds of heaven, and hears the trump of resurrection. It would be very difficult, indeed it would be impossible, for us to travel backward in any other chariot than that of faith, for it is faith which helps us to see the creation of the world ‘when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy’.
Faith enables us to walk in the garden with our first parents, and to witness the scene when God promised that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent’s head. Faith makes us familiar with patriarchs, and gives us to see the troubles and trials of kings. Faith takes us to Calvary’s summit, where we stand and see our Saviour as plainly as did his mother when she stood sorrowfully at the foot of the cross. This day we can fly back to the solemn day of Pentecost and feel as if we could hear the mighty rushing wind, and see the cloven tongues sitting upon the chosen company; so swiftly does faith travel.
And, best of all, in one moment faith can take a sinner out of a state of death into a state of life, can lift him from damnation into salvation, can remove him from the land of the shadow of death, where he sat in affliction and irons, and give him ‘the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness’. O sinner, you can get at Christ in a moment of time. No sooner has your heart trusted Jesus, than you are with him, united to him.
FOR MEDITATION: Faith in the living God enables us to accept what he has done in the past (Hebrews 11:3) and to set our hopes upon what he is going to do in the future (Hebrews 11:13, 16). Consider the apostle Paul as he testified to his faith in the past and future works of God (Acts 24:14–15).
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 3), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2005), 328.
16 NOVEMBER (UNDATED SERMON)
Seeing Jesus
‘We see Jesus.’ Hebrews 2:9
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Hebrews 11:1–16
Rapid is the action of faith. Brethren, we know not where heaven may be, where the state, the place called ‘heaven’ is, but faith takes us there in contemplation in a single moment. We cannot tell when the Lord may come; it may not be for centuries yet, but faith steps over the distance in a moment, sees him coming in the clouds of heaven, and hears the trump of resurrection. It would be very difficult, indeed it would be impossible, for us to travel backward in any other chariot than that of faith, for it is faith which helps us to see the creation of the world ‘when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy’.
Faith enables us to walk in the garden with our first parents, and to witness the scene when God promised that the seed of the woman should bruise the serpent’s head. Faith makes us familiar with patriarchs, and gives us to see the troubles and trials of kings. Faith takes us to Calvary’s summit, where we stand and see our Saviour as plainly as did his mother when she stood sorrowfully at the foot of the cross. This day we can fly back to the solemn day of Pentecost and feel as if we could hear the mighty rushing wind, and see the cloven tongues sitting upon the chosen company; so swiftly does faith travel.
And, best of all, in one moment faith can take a sinner out of a state of death into a state of life, can lift him from damnation into salvation, can remove him from the land of the shadow of death, where he sat in affliction and irons, and give him ‘the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness’. O sinner, you can get at Christ in a moment of time. No sooner has your heart trusted Jesus, than you are with him, united to him.
FOR MEDITATION: Faith in the living God enables us to accept what he has done in the past (Hebrews 11:3) and to set our hopes upon what he is going to do in the future (Hebrews 11:13, 16). Consider the apostle Paul as he testified to his faith in the past and future works of God (Acts 24:14–15).
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 3), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2005), 328.
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