The day is coming when the lion shall eat straw like the ox, when the leopard shall lie down with the kid; when the weaned child shall put his hand upon the cockatrice den and play with the asp. The Captain of our salvation could only be made perfect through suffering it is necessary. Christmas sermons by charles spurgeon study. There is now not only the hole through which the nail was driven, but the weight of his body has sunken upon his feet, and see the iron is tearing through his flesh. And thou, poor sheep, when thou shall be gathered in, wilt thou not tell how thy Shepherd sought thee, and how he found thee?
Bodes good to our race! All who have an interest in Christ are, in the fullness of time, by grace converted, quickened, and renewed. Christmas sermons by charles spurgeon songs. … The Savior was peculiarly, and in a special sense, hers. Tell them how you were once a lost abandoned sinner, how the Lord met with you, how you bowed your knees, and poured out your soul before God, and how at last you leaped with joy, for you thought you heard him say within you, "I, even I, am he that blotteth out thy transgressions for my name's sake. "
Let our hearts be glad! If we could grasp him he could not be infinite: if we could understand him, then were he not divine. But, lo, He has allied Himself. Although it would be a high sin, and an act of misdemeanor against the Sovereign Court of Heaven to pay the slightest adoration to the mightiest angel, yet it would be unkind and unseemly, if we did not give to holy angels a place in our heart's warmest love. To whom, then, is it a joy? He would coolly have taken notes for a lecture upon the nature of light and have commenced a disquisition upon the. They sang the story out, for they could not stay to tell it in heavy prose.
The heroes are found in their tombs! It will be those who are most conscious of their sinnership! Next, the angel tells us that this Savior is Christ the Lord and there is much gladness in that fact. The race is not to be outlawed and marked with the brand of death and Hell, or to be utterly abandoned to destruction, for, lo, the Lord has married into the race and the Son of God has become the Son of Man! "Well, sir, I confess I owe you five hundred pounds, " and by degrees he comes to confess that he owes the thousand.
My Soul, when you cannot, for very amazement, stand on the sea of glass mingled with fire. There is more in that than in creation, more melody in Jesus in the manger, than there is in worlds on worlds rolling their grandeur round the throne of the Most High. The way in which many believers in Christmas keep the feast we know too well. I dare say, " and laugh in his face.
He is glorified in every dew drop that twinkles to the morning sun. Ye will not bow before them, and there ye are right; but will ye not love them? When we have spoken upon this we shall. He was worse than the wild beasts, for they might be tamed; but his fierce nature would not yield. Blessed Christmas, that brings such creatures as angels to confirm our faith in God's good will to men! Ay, and doubtless the angels heard by faith the fulness of the song, "Hark! It was all in vain to talk to the good man, you could not persuade him that he had a soul; but all the time he was preaching, and praying, and working, more like a man that had two souls than none. Him as Lord, and yet as born. Showing that Christ is free to all who will come. Golden mouth could have spoken. Well, then, it meant that it was joy to all the nation of the Jews but assuredly our version is truer to the inner spirit of the text it is joy to all people upon the face of the earth that Christ is born! Sound forth the jubilee trumpets for this marvelously Anointed One and rejoice in Him who is your Priest, to cleanse you, your Prophet to instruct you and your King to deliver you!
Ye drops of blood within my veins dance every one of you! Seek, if you can, to get them one by one, and tell them the story. The whole three Prophet, Priest and King never met in one thrice-anointed being until Jesus came. Nor does it stir the hearts of half of mankind. Then they sing of Him as, "Christ, " and that must be human, for only man can be anointed, yet that unction comes from the Godhead! By C. H. Spurgeon, 1876 "The angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you. They have made it as.
I could not but notice in the late discovery of the famous Greek cities and the sepulchers of the heroes, the powerful rebuke which the spirit of skepticism has received! Do not throw it to the winds; do not leave it as soon as you get out of Exeter Hall. Lord, make me ready to go to heaven, give me now to trust the Savior that I may live. The Word is made flesh. You can never think of Gethsemane and of its bloody sweat, of Gabbatha and of the mangled back of Christ, flayed by the whip: you can never think of Calvary and his pierced hands and feet, without loving him; and it is a strong argument when I say to you, for his dear sake who loved you so much, go home and tell it. Blessed moment, when that shall be the word—"Go home to thy friends! " Still, "it may be, " and the remedy: Job sent for his sons, as a father; he sanctified them as a preacher; he sacrificed for them as a priest.
I have tried to put these tests in the way that the text would suggest them. They are household servants of the family of love. The father and mother had lost their daughter, they had never heard from her; and there she was, brought back by the agency of this institution, 1 and restored to the bosom of her family. Poem called by his name was a mere collection of unfounded legends and mere tales. Men are born princes, but they are seldom born kings. Yes, so glad were angels at this Gospel that when the discourse was over, one angel, having evangelized and given out the Gospel for the day, there suddenly appeared a band of choristers and sang an anthem loud and sweet that there might be a full service at the first propounding of the glad tidings of great joy!