24 NOVEMBER (UNDATED SERMON)
For the sick and afflicted
‘Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: that which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.’ Job 34:31–32
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Hebrews 12:1–4
Do you find in the law that any sin is excused upon the ground that it is constitutional? Do you find anything in the example of Christ, or in the precepts of the gospel, to justify a man in saying, ‘I must be treated with indulgence, for my nature is so inclined to a certain sin that I cannot help yielding to it’? You must not talk such nonsense. Your first business is to conquer the sin you love best; against it all your efforts and all the grace you can get must be leveled. Jericho must be first besieged, for it is the strongest fort of the enemy, and until it is taken nothing can be done.
I have generally noticed in conversion that the most complete change takes place in that very point in which the man was constitutionally most weak. God’s strength is made perfect in our weakness. ‘Well’, cries one, ‘suppose I have a besetting sin; how can I help it?’ I reply, if I knew that four fellows were going to beset me tonight on Clapham Common, I should take with me sufficient policemen to lock the fellows up. When a man knows that he has a besetting sin it is not for him to say, ‘It is a besetting sin and I cannot help it;’ he must, on the other hand, call for heavenly assistance against these besetments.
If you have besetting sins and you know it, fight with them and overcome them by the blood of the Lamb. By faith in Jesus Christ besetting sins go to be led captive, and they must be led captive, for the child of God must overcome even to the end. We are to be ‘more than conquerors through him that loved us’. Let the love of God, then, lead you to search yourselves and say, ‘that which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.’
FOR MEDITATION: The Christian’s attitude towards besetting sin should not be to continue in it (Romans 6:1–2), to be ruled by it (Romans 6:12–14), or to be a slave to it (Romans 6:16–17), but to lay it aside (Hebrews 12:1) and to strive against it (Hebrews 12:4).
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 339.
For the sick and afflicted
‘Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: that which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.’ Job 34:31–32
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Hebrews 12:1–4
Do you find in the law that any sin is excused upon the ground that it is constitutional? Do you find anything in the example of Christ, or in the precepts of the gospel, to justify a man in saying, ‘I must be treated with indulgence, for my nature is so inclined to a certain sin that I cannot help yielding to it’? You must not talk such nonsense. Your first business is to conquer the sin you love best; against it all your efforts and all the grace you can get must be leveled. Jericho must be first besieged, for it is the strongest fort of the enemy, and until it is taken nothing can be done.
I have generally noticed in conversion that the most complete change takes place in that very point in which the man was constitutionally most weak. God’s strength is made perfect in our weakness. ‘Well’, cries one, ‘suppose I have a besetting sin; how can I help it?’ I reply, if I knew that four fellows were going to beset me tonight on Clapham Common, I should take with me sufficient policemen to lock the fellows up. When a man knows that he has a besetting sin it is not for him to say, ‘It is a besetting sin and I cannot help it;’ he must, on the other hand, call for heavenly assistance against these besetments.
If you have besetting sins and you know it, fight with them and overcome them by the blood of the Lamb. By faith in Jesus Christ besetting sins go to be led captive, and they must be led captive, for the child of God must overcome even to the end. We are to be ‘more than conquerors through him that loved us’. Let the love of God, then, lead you to search yourselves and say, ‘that which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.’
FOR MEDITATION: The Christian’s attitude towards besetting sin should not be to continue in it (Romans 6:1–2), to be ruled by it (Romans 6:12–14), or to be a slave to it (Romans 6:16–17), but to lay it aside (Hebrews 12:1) and to strive against it (Hebrews 12:4).
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 339.
24 NOVEMBER (UNDATED SERMON)
For the sick and afflicted
‘Surely it is meet to be said unto God, I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: that which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.’ Job 34:31–32
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Hebrews 12:1–4
Do you find in the law that any sin is excused upon the ground that it is constitutional? Do you find anything in the example of Christ, or in the precepts of the gospel, to justify a man in saying, ‘I must be treated with indulgence, for my nature is so inclined to a certain sin that I cannot help yielding to it’? You must not talk such nonsense. Your first business is to conquer the sin you love best; against it all your efforts and all the grace you can get must be leveled. Jericho must be first besieged, for it is the strongest fort of the enemy, and until it is taken nothing can be done.
I have generally noticed in conversion that the most complete change takes place in that very point in which the man was constitutionally most weak. God’s strength is made perfect in our weakness. ‘Well’, cries one, ‘suppose I have a besetting sin; how can I help it?’ I reply, if I knew that four fellows were going to beset me tonight on Clapham Common, I should take with me sufficient policemen to lock the fellows up. When a man knows that he has a besetting sin it is not for him to say, ‘It is a besetting sin and I cannot help it;’ he must, on the other hand, call for heavenly assistance against these besetments.
If you have besetting sins and you know it, fight with them and overcome them by the blood of the Lamb. By faith in Jesus Christ besetting sins go to be led captive, and they must be led captive, for the child of God must overcome even to the end. We are to be ‘more than conquerors through him that loved us’. Let the love of God, then, lead you to search yourselves and say, ‘that which I see not teach thou me: if I have done iniquity, I will do no more.’
FOR MEDITATION: The Christian’s attitude towards besetting sin should not be to continue in it (Romans 6:1–2), to be ruled by it (Romans 6:12–14), or to be a slave to it (Romans 6:16–17), but to lay it aside (Hebrews 12:1) and to strive against it (Hebrews 12:4).
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 339.
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