27 NOVEMBER (UNDATED SERMON)
Work for Jesus
‘Son, go work to-day in my vineyard.’ Matthew 21:28
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Titus 3:1–15
The text says, ‘go work’. That is something practical, something real. It does not say, ‘My son, go and think, speculate, make curious experiments, fetch out some new doctrines, and astonish all your fellow-creatures with whims and oddities of your own.’ ‘Son, go work.’ It does not say, ‘My son, go and attend conferences one after another all the year round and live in a perpetual maze of hearing different opinions and going from one public meeting and one religious engagement to another, and so feed yourself on the fat things full of marrow.’ All this is to be attended to in its proper proportion, but here it is ‘go work’.
How many Christians there are that seem to read, ‘go plan’. They always figure in a way with some wonderful plan for the conversion of all the world, but they are never found labouring to convert a baby, never having a good word to say to the tiniest child in the Sunday-school. They are always scheming and yet never effecting anything. But the text says, ‘Son, go work’. Yes, but those who do not like to work themselves display the greatness of their talents in finding fault with those who do work, and a very clear perception they have of the mistakes and crotchets of the very best of workers, whose zeal and industry are alike unflagging. Howbeit the text does not say, ‘My son, go and criticise’; what it distinctly says is, ‘go work’.
I remember that when Andrew Fuller had a very severe lecture from some Scottish Baptist brethren about the discipline of the church, he made the reply, ‘You say that your discipline is so much better than ours. Very well, but discipline is meant to make good soldiers. Now, my soldiers fight better than yours, and I think therefore that you ought not to say much about my discipline.’
FOR MEDITATION: When Jesus said ‘go’, it was usually with some express activity in mind: go and learn (Matthew 9:13), go and preach (Matthew 10:7; Mark 16:15; Luke 9:60), go and show (Matthew 11:4; Luke 5:14; 17:14), go and tell (Matthew 18:15; 28:10; Mark 5:19; Luke 13:32), go and teach (Matthew 28:19), go and do (Luke 10:37), go and prepare (Luke 22:8), go and call (John 4:16), go and wash (John 9:7) and go and say (John 20:17). Inactivity is inconsistent with Christian life.
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 342.
Work for Jesus
‘Son, go work to-day in my vineyard.’ Matthew 21:28
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Titus 3:1–15
The text says, ‘go work’. That is something practical, something real. It does not say, ‘My son, go and think, speculate, make curious experiments, fetch out some new doctrines, and astonish all your fellow-creatures with whims and oddities of your own.’ ‘Son, go work.’ It does not say, ‘My son, go and attend conferences one after another all the year round and live in a perpetual maze of hearing different opinions and going from one public meeting and one religious engagement to another, and so feed yourself on the fat things full of marrow.’ All this is to be attended to in its proper proportion, but here it is ‘go work’.
How many Christians there are that seem to read, ‘go plan’. They always figure in a way with some wonderful plan for the conversion of all the world, but they are never found labouring to convert a baby, never having a good word to say to the tiniest child in the Sunday-school. They are always scheming and yet never effecting anything. But the text says, ‘Son, go work’. Yes, but those who do not like to work themselves display the greatness of their talents in finding fault with those who do work, and a very clear perception they have of the mistakes and crotchets of the very best of workers, whose zeal and industry are alike unflagging. Howbeit the text does not say, ‘My son, go and criticise’; what it distinctly says is, ‘go work’.
I remember that when Andrew Fuller had a very severe lecture from some Scottish Baptist brethren about the discipline of the church, he made the reply, ‘You say that your discipline is so much better than ours. Very well, but discipline is meant to make good soldiers. Now, my soldiers fight better than yours, and I think therefore that you ought not to say much about my discipline.’
FOR MEDITATION: When Jesus said ‘go’, it was usually with some express activity in mind: go and learn (Matthew 9:13), go and preach (Matthew 10:7; Mark 16:15; Luke 9:60), go and show (Matthew 11:4; Luke 5:14; 17:14), go and tell (Matthew 18:15; 28:10; Mark 5:19; Luke 13:32), go and teach (Matthew 28:19), go and do (Luke 10:37), go and prepare (Luke 22:8), go and call (John 4:16), go and wash (John 9:7) and go and say (John 20:17). Inactivity is inconsistent with Christian life.
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 342.
27 NOVEMBER (UNDATED SERMON)
Work for Jesus
‘Son, go work to-day in my vineyard.’ Matthew 21:28
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: Titus 3:1–15
The text says, ‘go work’. That is something practical, something real. It does not say, ‘My son, go and think, speculate, make curious experiments, fetch out some new doctrines, and astonish all your fellow-creatures with whims and oddities of your own.’ ‘Son, go work.’ It does not say, ‘My son, go and attend conferences one after another all the year round and live in a perpetual maze of hearing different opinions and going from one public meeting and one religious engagement to another, and so feed yourself on the fat things full of marrow.’ All this is to be attended to in its proper proportion, but here it is ‘go work’.
How many Christians there are that seem to read, ‘go plan’. They always figure in a way with some wonderful plan for the conversion of all the world, but they are never found labouring to convert a baby, never having a good word to say to the tiniest child in the Sunday-school. They are always scheming and yet never effecting anything. But the text says, ‘Son, go work’. Yes, but those who do not like to work themselves display the greatness of their talents in finding fault with those who do work, and a very clear perception they have of the mistakes and crotchets of the very best of workers, whose zeal and industry are alike unflagging. Howbeit the text does not say, ‘My son, go and criticise’; what it distinctly says is, ‘go work’.
I remember that when Andrew Fuller had a very severe lecture from some Scottish Baptist brethren about the discipline of the church, he made the reply, ‘You say that your discipline is so much better than ours. Very well, but discipline is meant to make good soldiers. Now, my soldiers fight better than yours, and I think therefore that you ought not to say much about my discipline.’
FOR MEDITATION: When Jesus said ‘go’, it was usually with some express activity in mind: go and learn (Matthew 9:13), go and preach (Matthew 10:7; Mark 16:15; Luke 9:60), go and show (Matthew 11:4; Luke 5:14; 17:14), go and tell (Matthew 18:15; 28:10; Mark 5:19; Luke 13:32), go and teach (Matthew 28:19), go and do (Luke 10:37), go and prepare (Luke 22:8), go and call (John 4:16), go and wash (John 9:7) and go and say (John 20:17). Inactivity is inconsistent with Christian life.
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 342.
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