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windows 11 taskbar icons missing; BOOK ONLINE; romans 8 commentary spurgeon. If Christ should make thee repent, thou hast no need to think that thou shalt be the least in the family. The bringing up of families is a very great matter. Suffer me first to go and bury my father." You read the newspaper you read the book; you hear the lecturer; you sit and listen to the pretty essayist; but where is the preacher? Your joy is your God: make your God your joy. Abraham's slips--for he made one or two--were made when he had left the land and gone down among the Philistines. Look at this preparation just a minute. May the Lord convince you, yea, at this moment, may be lead you to decision, and enable you henceforth to live by faith. There was nothing in the range of possibility, or, I might say, nothing within the lines of impossibility, which they could not have performed. The very meaning of a church is, "called out by Christ." Not now do I hear the shouts of the mob, as they exult that Christians are given to the lions. In the parlour, pleasantly conversing, or in the kitchen, perhaps, occupied with the day's work--toiling in the field, or trading on the mart, busy on the land or tossed about on the sea, there are critical seasons on which destiny itself might appear to hang contingent. Ay, my friends--young people like myself--we little know what we owe to the prayers of our parents. His feet would have been willing to attempt a miracle, and the stormy billows would have been dry before his march. Ahab did, and yet his sins were never forgiven. Christ himself has said it, and so it must be. Noah had not a careless fear, as some here have. If you know how to pray, you can move heaven and earth. I know a man who walks seven miles every Sabbath to hear the gospel preached in a certain place--a place where they preach the gospel. May I pass the question round these galleries, and put it to you also in this vast area? More than that, if ever the child of God gets entangled, for a while he is uneasy in it. Notwithstanding that grace is its main characteristic it has all the authority of a command. ABRAHAM'S FAITH was of the most eminent order, for he is called the Father of the Faithful. See, then, dear friends, what we must have if we are to be numbered with the seed of Abraham, we must have faith in God and a consequent obedience to his commands. Their faith, though at times it was sorely tried, continued unto death. Yet he devises means, and brings about the purposes of his grace. He is in very fact a brother, born for their adversity, able and ready to redress their grievances, he is not ashamed to call them brethren. This is a first-fruit of the Spirit. A sermon delivered by C.H. So, then, you cannot go back, because you cannot accomplish the end for which you went forward till you die. You look to those who agree with you, and they are lukewarm; you turn to old associates, and they do not share your concern. It is a city, too, for dignity. There are seas of suffering which the sufferer must navigate alone. I do not know to which of them that dog belongs, but I shall be able to tell you directly. HYMNS FROM "OUR OWN HYMN BOOK" 174, 655, 658. More than that, there were messages exchanged, servants were sometimes sent, and you know there was a new relation entered into--did not Rebekah come from thence? Most probably he heard a voice from heaven speaking audibly to him and saying, "Get thee out from thy kindred and from thy father's house." And I gather it from the fact that there never has been the case of a man recorded in Scripture who did please God without faith. I cannot reproduce the letters that were written about the sturdy patriarch, nor can I recount the spiteful things which were said by the gossips; but I have no doubt they were very clever, and very sarcastic. All you can see in that poor child of God is a hard-working laboring man, mocked and despised of his fellows. Such a wretched faith has no influence on the man's self, and it will have no influence upon others. Beneath him lay the villages, sleeping in their beauty, with the corn-fields motionless in the sunshine; but he did not look at them, for his attention was arrested by a woman standing at her door, and who, upon seeing him, came up to him with the greatest anxiety, and said, "O sir, have you any keys about you? THE OPPORTUNITIES WHICH WE HAVE HAD, AND STILL HAVE, TO RETURN to the old house if we were mindful of it. the Spirit of God comes to many when they are in much the same condition; and what a work it is to bring up from the horrible midnight, and to give strength to rise out of the inky waters! But that is no faith, it is sight. And now in conclusion, THE QUESTION, the vital question. Beware of the high places: they are very slippery. the gutta-percha backbone is common among Dissenters, and they take to politics, and the new philosophy, and therefore we are losing the force of our testimony, and are, I fear, decreasing in numbers too. If you truly believe a man, you believe all that he says. It is a long time to wait; but what would you do with a hundred added on to it? It is very interesting to read about their faithfulness, and the faith that they had. There is not all the enjoyment that you may think to be gathered in retirement and in ease, but, on the contrary, luxury often puffeth up, and abundance makes the heart to swell with vanity. There is not much need to preach caution nowadays: those who would run any risk for the truth's sake are few enough. Oh! It may be that an awful temper broke over us in surging waves. The apostle tells us, however, that they were not forced so to continue; they did not remain because they could not return. Own them! And methinks that by what he has prepared for them he esteems them and loves them; esteeming them by what he means them to be rather than by what they appear to be. for obedience, if it be of the kind we are speaking of, is faith in action faith walking with God, or, shall I say, walking before the Lord in the land of the living? "he hath prepared for them"--"them." The gospel has about it a divine authority, and is not to be trilled with. Earthly comforts are not yours; but if you grasp the spiritual and the eternal you will not repine. Again, there is another thing; you have joined yourself to an ancient fraternity that has something more than rules to guide or legends to captivate; for it has a combination of both, seeing it is rich in poetic lore. They had news concerning the family house. I could not come to the point." The man who waits until he shall find it more easy to bear the yoke of obedience, is like the woodman who found his faggot too heavy for his idle shoulder, and, placing, it upon the ground, gathered more wood and added to the bundle, then tried it, but finding it still an unpleasant load, repeated the experiment of heaping on more, in the vain hope that by-and-by it might be of a shape more suitable for his shoulder. A city is a place of social joy. And said a minister at the table, "I had an instance of that yesterday. This is his infallible revelation, and I believe it against every argument that can possibly be urged against it. There have been days when the world poured continually a river of infamy and calumny upset them, but they stemmed the torrent, and, by continued grace, made strong in weakness, they held their own until the current turned, and they, in their success, were praised and applauded by the very men who sneered before. Abraham went without any hesitation. We want the religion of hands and feet. In a lonely hamlet one has little company, but in a city much. That pettifogging king of Sodom wanted to make a bargain with him, but the grand old man replied, "I will not take from a thread even to a shoe-latchet, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Abraham rich." I will make my divisions alliterative, that you may recollect them. We have to rise superior to it. Whatever you believe, carry it out. The Lord teach them better! Come, good woman, dare you serve the Lord, though husband and children ridicule you? Hebrews 6:10. "Ah!" The last thing Noah earned by his faith was this, he became heir of the righteousness which is by faith; for God said of him, when he bade him come into the ark, "Thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation." The obedience that comes of faith is of a noble sort. The Jews in all time have been very different from all other nations, and although other races have become permanently united, the Jewish people have always been a family by themselves. We may as well gather the rosebuds while we may. He has locked it up tonight, and he goes to bed, but he is afraid he heard a footstep downstairs, and he goes to see. Had they been mindful of the place from whence they came out, they might have found opportunities to return. If we were by faith to begin, humbly waiting upon the Lord for words, and taking hold upon divine strength, might we not accomplish far more than we now do? Orders are given you which cause you great searchings of heart. Take care you have it; for if not, cling to your works, and there you go floating down the stream! Every truth is essential. If, as a decided believer, he takes his stand, and if he is firm and steadfast for his God, he will make a man, and his after years will be bright and useful; but if he begins to give way a little, and if he tries to trim his sail to the wind, he will never attain to a holy character. Our temptations are pretty equally distributed, I dare say, after all. This is real faith. Thou art more glorious than all the mountains of praise. We must be going to our heavenly Father's kindly home, where Jesus is: to that royal city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God. We read of the children of Ephraim that, being armed, and carrying bows, they turned back in the day of battle; and therefore they were never to be relied on in the time of war. ABRAHAM left his country at God's command, and he never went back again. We may bear the discomforts of the eventide and the night, for the morning will break so soon. The Year of Grace, 1872. They are poor now, but God, to whom things to come are things present, sees them in their fair white linen, which is the righteousness of the saints. "Believe on the Lord Jesus, and ye shall be saved." From an unit they had multiplied into a countless host. Where can we go to escape from these opportunities to return? They are the trainers, drilling God's young soldiers, and teaching their hands to war and their fingers to fight. And one reason seems to me to be because he does not judge them by what they are, but by what he has prepared for them. Even Abraham's obedience failed somewhat in this at first; for he started at once from Ur of the Chaldees, but he only went as far as Haran, and there he stayed till his father died; and then the precept came to him again, and he set off for the land which the Lord had promised to show him. and in a mournful degree I felt what I preached, as my own cry. Believe in Christ, and thou, like Rahab, shalt not perish with the disobedient, but even thou shalt be saved. Even among the most attentive hearers how many there are to whom the word comes with small practical result in actual obedience. Yes, but you would not, though; you know better than that, for you do not, as it is, give all, no, nor yet half, nor yet the thousandth part. Father, mother, husband, wife, sister, brother, servant, master--whatever your relation, I beseech you, if you feel weak in the discharge of your duty, exercise faith in God about it, and out of weakness you shall be made strong. Believe in God, and you will prevail with God. Now, young man, dare you think for yourself? Amen. Picking and choosing are great enemies to submission. "Oh, yes," says one, "I would attempt great things for God, but I am terribly weak." Now, you may have a dead faith which will ruin your soul. One goes to the right, and other goes to the left. You can never know how great it is unless you have stood in the capacity of a saviour to other men. The man reasons with himself that he ought to obey his Redeemer, his Father, his God; and, at the same time, the love of Christ constrains him so to do, and thus what argument suggests affection performs. Book excerpt: Get ready to make the book of Hebrews your new favorite book of the Bible with the help of Looking to Christ, an . A little have l read of it, and somewhat has been revested by the Spirit to my soul; but how little do we know of the realms of the future! By faith alone can you bear persecution, and turn it to account for the good of others. Do you the same. You cannot take hold upon the angel, and win the victory. Note what it is he has made ready for them. Taking another view, we would remark that faith makes us strong to fulfill the relationships of life. But," said he, wishing to improve the occasion, "have you ever heard of the key of heaven?" Poor sinner! I feel much the same myself, and would do nothing of which God would not approve." It must be sooner or later exercised. "Prophesying; how is that? God bade Abraham journey, and he moved his camp at once. you will care, one day, when the earth is reeling, and the world is tossing to and fro; ye will care when God shall summon you to judgment, and when he shall condemn the faithless and the unbelieving. But a strong-minded man is one who does not try to be singular, but who dares to be singular, when he knows that to be singular is to be right. Sitting here with your brethren in Christ, you look very cheerful; but I may be addressing those whose life is one protracted struggle for existence. Review them often: refresh your memory with them frequently; recur to them and renew them in every time of trial and temptation. But while it continues with me, I shall find opportunities to return. said he to him. "Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he hath prepared for them a city." You have to question in your inmost soul whether you can conscientiously do as your employer requires. The fountain filled with blood was opened for black ones; the robe of Christ was woven for naked ones; the balm of Calvary was compounded for sick ones; life came into the world to raise the dead. Dear brethren, cultivate these desires more and more. "By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went." Many a man has felt keenly enough the separation from home and kindred, and next to that, the sad banishment from his native land. Whatever we may find in this world, we shall never find a heaven here. I may know a thing, and yet not believe it. To tell a very familiar story, and even the poorest may not misunderstand what I say: a minister was one day going to preach. Bible Study Tools Language Tools We have been separated. Alas! What a great thing it is to save a soul! may grace be given you so that, if others play the Judas, instead of leading you to do the same, it may only bind you more fast to your Lord, and make you walk more carefully, lest you also prove a son of perdition. We have, in one place, faith triumphing over death; Enoch entered not the gates of hades, but reached heaven by another road from that which is usual to men. Well doth Paul say, "They have not all obeyed the gospel": for to many the call comes as a common call, and the common call falls on a sealed ear, but to Abraham and to those who by grace have become the children of faithful Abraham, to whom are the blessings of grace, and with whom God has entered into league and covenant, to touch it comes as a special call, a call attended with a sacred power which subdues their wills and secures their obedience. Perhaps they were living at home before, but now they have to take a room where they can have no quiet, but where sounds of blasphemy greet them, or, in some cases, where they have to go to the workhouse, and be far away from all Christian intercourse or anything that could comfort them. The call is given again, will you obey it or not? We serve a jealous God, and a holy Saviour; wherefore let us mind that we do not grieve his Spirit, and cause him to withdraw from us. "No," they say; "the walls of Jericho are strong; can the feeble host resist us? If a man has been sunk down in black waters full of filth, a thousand fathoms deep, and if he has been long imprisoned in dark caves where no light has come, what a wondrous power would that be which should raise him to the sunlight! Howbeit, repent of them never, or woe betide you. God had scarcely spoken ere Abraham replied. But there is no praying without believing. Alas! III. Noah had a very humble distrust of himself. They say, "The thing is likely, therefore I believe it." He knows better than we do when to strike for victory. Meanwhile, the tremendous blow made their future antagonists in Canaan to tremble. The things that we have, that we value, are ours today by faith. Those sons of Heth also were willing to make him a present of a piece of land around the cave of Machpelah; but he did not want a present from Canaanites, and so he said, "No, I will pay you every penny. That is reading--not preaching. But yet it must be done; and only faith can do it, by calling in the aid of the Almighty One. That is the one business of your life; and I believe that if you have faith in the Lord as to your family, your beloved ones shall be given you as a prey. I sigh to think of how many that appeared very earnest Christians when they were struggling for bread have become very dull and cold now that they have become rich. "He hath prepared a city." To believe is to be holy. By C. H. Spurgeon. Great men, in the best sense, are bred in holy households. Like a good soldier, he obeyed his marching orders, asking no questions. She dared to risk her life for the sake of the spies. Let us consider, secondly, THE KIND OF OBEDIENCE WHICH FAITH PRODUCES. After all, we confess tonight, and rejoice in the confessions, that our best hopes are for things that are out of sight. 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