5 JUNE (UNDATED SERMON)
The blessings of following on
‘Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.’ Hosea 6:3
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: John 5:39–47
We may read the Bible—I trust we shall; but there is such a thing as resting in Bible reading, and if we do so we shall fall short. Our Lord denounced that in his day when he said, ‘Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.’ As much as if he had said, ‘Your searching the scriptures is well enough, but coming to me is the main business.’ It is not the letter-God, but the living God that we want. It is not the book of God so much as the God of the book that we must know. We must seek Christ Jesus, the personal Christ, really existent to ourselves; falling at his feet, confessing our sin, looking up to his wounds, trusting and confiding in him, we shall be indeed blessed. You cannot know the Lord in any other way than by his coming to you in the reality of his incarnation as the very Christ of God.
I wish I knew how to put the matter so that every one would recognize to the full my meaning. You know the moment people begin to think about religion they say, ‘Well, yes, we must keep the Sabbath, we must attend a place of worship and we must have family prayer.’ Thus they dwell upon the many things that they ‘must do’, all of which things are right enough, but they are only the shell. What the sinner has to say is not, ‘I will arise and go to church.’ No! ‘I will arise and go to my closet and pray.’ No, that is not it, first. ‘I will arise and go and read a chapter of the Bible.’ No, that is not it, good as that is: but ‘I will arise and go to my father.’ That is where you have to go—to a real God.
FOR MEDITATION: Coming to God requires faith alone (Hebrews 11:6) in the Lord Jesus Christ alone (John 14:6; Hebrews 7:25). The Lord Jesus Christ said ‘Come unto me’ (Matthew 11:28) and his apostles repeated the same invitation and command (1 Peter 2:4). Have you heeded his call and obeyed him?
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 167.
The blessings of following on
‘Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.’ Hosea 6:3
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: John 5:39–47
We may read the Bible—I trust we shall; but there is such a thing as resting in Bible reading, and if we do so we shall fall short. Our Lord denounced that in his day when he said, ‘Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.’ As much as if he had said, ‘Your searching the scriptures is well enough, but coming to me is the main business.’ It is not the letter-God, but the living God that we want. It is not the book of God so much as the God of the book that we must know. We must seek Christ Jesus, the personal Christ, really existent to ourselves; falling at his feet, confessing our sin, looking up to his wounds, trusting and confiding in him, we shall be indeed blessed. You cannot know the Lord in any other way than by his coming to you in the reality of his incarnation as the very Christ of God.
I wish I knew how to put the matter so that every one would recognize to the full my meaning. You know the moment people begin to think about religion they say, ‘Well, yes, we must keep the Sabbath, we must attend a place of worship and we must have family prayer.’ Thus they dwell upon the many things that they ‘must do’, all of which things are right enough, but they are only the shell. What the sinner has to say is not, ‘I will arise and go to church.’ No! ‘I will arise and go to my closet and pray.’ No, that is not it, first. ‘I will arise and go and read a chapter of the Bible.’ No, that is not it, good as that is: but ‘I will arise and go to my father.’ That is where you have to go—to a real God.
FOR MEDITATION: Coming to God requires faith alone (Hebrews 11:6) in the Lord Jesus Christ alone (John 14:6; Hebrews 7:25). The Lord Jesus Christ said ‘Come unto me’ (Matthew 11:28) and his apostles repeated the same invitation and command (1 Peter 2:4). Have you heeded his call and obeyed him?
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 167.
5 JUNE (UNDATED SERMON)
The blessings of following on
‘Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the LORD: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.’ Hosea 6:3
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: John 5:39–47
We may read the Bible—I trust we shall; but there is such a thing as resting in Bible reading, and if we do so we shall fall short. Our Lord denounced that in his day when he said, ‘Search the scriptures; for in them ye think ye have eternal life: and they are they which testify of me. And ye will not come to me, that ye might have life.’ As much as if he had said, ‘Your searching the scriptures is well enough, but coming to me is the main business.’ It is not the letter-God, but the living God that we want. It is not the book of God so much as the God of the book that we must know. We must seek Christ Jesus, the personal Christ, really existent to ourselves; falling at his feet, confessing our sin, looking up to his wounds, trusting and confiding in him, we shall be indeed blessed. You cannot know the Lord in any other way than by his coming to you in the reality of his incarnation as the very Christ of God.
I wish I knew how to put the matter so that every one would recognize to the full my meaning. You know the moment people begin to think about religion they say, ‘Well, yes, we must keep the Sabbath, we must attend a place of worship and we must have family prayer.’ Thus they dwell upon the many things that they ‘must do’, all of which things are right enough, but they are only the shell. What the sinner has to say is not, ‘I will arise and go to church.’ No! ‘I will arise and go to my closet and pray.’ No, that is not it, first. ‘I will arise and go and read a chapter of the Bible.’ No, that is not it, good as that is: but ‘I will arise and go to my father.’ That is where you have to go—to a real God.
FOR MEDITATION: Coming to God requires faith alone (Hebrews 11:6) in the Lord Jesus Christ alone (John 14:6; Hebrews 7:25). The Lord Jesus Christ said ‘Come unto me’ (Matthew 11:28) and his apostles repeated the same invitation and command (1 Peter 2:4). Have you heeded his call and obeyed him?
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 167.
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