16 DECEMBER (UNDATED SERMON)
Amazing grace
‘I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.’ Isaiah 57:18
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 1 Corinthians 6:9–11
Isaiah 57:9 says, ‘thou … didst debase thyself even unto hell.’ A man does that when he defies his maker and blasphemes his Saviour, when after every other word he uses an oath, and garnishes his conversation with profane expressions, as some do. What good can there be in such wanton wickedness? What is to be gained by it? I suppose the devil himself is not such a blasphemer as some people are, whom we have the misery to hear even in our streets as we walk along, for I suppose he has some method in his profanity, but they use it for mere lack of other words.
Men sink to the level of the devil when they are unkind to their aged parents, or are unnatural to their own offspring. What shall I say of the abominable cruelty of some men to their wives? I believe that if the devil had a wife he would not treat her as many working men treat their wives. Creatures called men are frequently brought up before our police-courts, and the charges proved against them make us altogether disgusted with human nature. Would the fierce lion, the savage tiger or the wild boar treat his mate so ill? O how many are thus debased unto hell!
Yet, should this reach the ear of anyone who has thus debased himself, let him listen to this: ‘I have seen his ways. I have seen him debase himself even unto hell; yet will I heal him, lead him, and restore comforts unto him.’ ‘Why,’ says one, ‘that seems too good to be true.’ It does; and were you dealing with men it would be too good to be true, but you are dealing with one of whom it is written, ‘Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage?’ ‘All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men’; ‘the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.’
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.248 v.1—Julia Anne Elliott, 1835)
‘We love Thee, Lord, because when we
Had erred and gone astray,
Thou didst recall our wandering souls
Into the heavenward way.’
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 361.
Amazing grace
‘I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.’ Isaiah 57:18
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 1 Corinthians 6:9–11
Isaiah 57:9 says, ‘thou … didst debase thyself even unto hell.’ A man does that when he defies his maker and blasphemes his Saviour, when after every other word he uses an oath, and garnishes his conversation with profane expressions, as some do. What good can there be in such wanton wickedness? What is to be gained by it? I suppose the devil himself is not such a blasphemer as some people are, whom we have the misery to hear even in our streets as we walk along, for I suppose he has some method in his profanity, but they use it for mere lack of other words.
Men sink to the level of the devil when they are unkind to their aged parents, or are unnatural to their own offspring. What shall I say of the abominable cruelty of some men to their wives? I believe that if the devil had a wife he would not treat her as many working men treat their wives. Creatures called men are frequently brought up before our police-courts, and the charges proved against them make us altogether disgusted with human nature. Would the fierce lion, the savage tiger or the wild boar treat his mate so ill? O how many are thus debased unto hell!
Yet, should this reach the ear of anyone who has thus debased himself, let him listen to this: ‘I have seen his ways. I have seen him debase himself even unto hell; yet will I heal him, lead him, and restore comforts unto him.’ ‘Why,’ says one, ‘that seems too good to be true.’ It does; and were you dealing with men it would be too good to be true, but you are dealing with one of whom it is written, ‘Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage?’ ‘All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men’; ‘the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.’
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.248 v.1—Julia Anne Elliott, 1835)
‘We love Thee, Lord, because when we
Had erred and gone astray,
Thou didst recall our wandering souls
Into the heavenward way.’
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 361.
16 DECEMBER (UNDATED SERMON)
Amazing grace
‘I have seen his ways, and will heal him: I will lead him also, and restore comforts unto him and to his mourners.’ Isaiah 57:18
SUGGESTED FURTHER READING: 1 Corinthians 6:9–11
Isaiah 57:9 says, ‘thou … didst debase thyself even unto hell.’ A man does that when he defies his maker and blasphemes his Saviour, when after every other word he uses an oath, and garnishes his conversation with profane expressions, as some do. What good can there be in such wanton wickedness? What is to be gained by it? I suppose the devil himself is not such a blasphemer as some people are, whom we have the misery to hear even in our streets as we walk along, for I suppose he has some method in his profanity, but they use it for mere lack of other words.
Men sink to the level of the devil when they are unkind to their aged parents, or are unnatural to their own offspring. What shall I say of the abominable cruelty of some men to their wives? I believe that if the devil had a wife he would not treat her as many working men treat their wives. Creatures called men are frequently brought up before our police-courts, and the charges proved against them make us altogether disgusted with human nature. Would the fierce lion, the savage tiger or the wild boar treat his mate so ill? O how many are thus debased unto hell!
Yet, should this reach the ear of anyone who has thus debased himself, let him listen to this: ‘I have seen his ways. I have seen him debase himself even unto hell; yet will I heal him, lead him, and restore comforts unto him.’ ‘Why,’ says one, ‘that seems too good to be true.’ It does; and were you dealing with men it would be too good to be true, but you are dealing with one of whom it is written, ‘Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage?’ ‘All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men’; ‘the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin.’
FOR MEDITATION: (Our Own Hymn Book no.248 v.1—Julia Anne Elliott, 1835)
‘We love Thee, Lord, because when we
Had erred and gone astray,
Thou didst recall our wandering souls
Into the heavenward way.’
C. H. Spurgeon and Terence Peter Crosby, 365 Days with Spurgeon (Volume 4), (Leominster, UK: Day One Publications, 2007), 361.
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