The backslider’s way hedged up

The backslider’s way hedged up

‘She said, I will go after my lovers … Therefore, behold, I will hedge up thy way with thorns … that she shall not find her paths. And she shall follow after her lovers … but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.’

 Hosea 2:5–7

Suggested Further Reading: 

Jeremiah 3:1–25

By the mouth of Jeremiah God speaks these words—‘Turn … for I am married unto you.’ I do not know anything which should make the backslider’s heart break like the doctrine of God’s immutable love to his people.

 Some say that if we preach that ‘whom once he loves he never leaves, but loves them to the end,’ it will be an inducement to man to sin. 

Well, I know man is very vile, and he can turn even love itself into a reason for sinning, but where there is as much as even one spark of grace, a man cannot do that.

 A child does not say, ‘I will offend my father because he loves me;’ it is not even in fallen nature generally, unless inspired by the devil to find motives for sin in God’s love, and certainly no backsliding child of God can say ‘I will continue in sin that grace may abound.’

 They who do so show that they are reprobates, and their damnation is just. But the backslider, who is a child of God at the bottom, will, I think, feel no cord so strong to hold him back from sin as this. 

Backslider, I hope it will also be a golden chain to draw you to Christ. Jesus meets you, meets you this morning. You were excommunicated. 

You were driven out from among God’s people with shame, but Jesus meets you, and pointing to the wounds which he received in the house of his friends at your hands, he nevertheless says, ‘Turn … for I am married unto you.’

 It is a relationship which you have broken, and it might legally be broken for ever if he willed it; but he does not will it, for he hates to put away. 

You are married to Jesus. Come back to your first husband, 

for he is your husband still!

For meditation: 

Backsliding is a real problem amongst God’s people (Hosea 11:7), but not incurable (Hosea 14:4). The remedy is to state the obvious—‘return unto the Lord’ (Hosea 6:1; 14:1).

Sermon no. 590

18 September (1864)

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 Father,

 I ask You to bless my friends, 

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who are reading this right now. 

Show them a new revelation of Your love and power.

 Holy Spirit,

 I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. 

 Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy.. 

 Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. 

 Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. 

Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings. 

 Amen. 

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Reward Is Certain

Reward Is Certain 

"And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, 

verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward"   

(Matthew 10:42).

Well, I can do as much as that. 

I can do a kind act toward the LORD's servant. 

The LORD knows l love them all and would count it an honor to wash their feet. 

For the sake of their Master, I love the disciples. 

How gracious of the LORD to mention so insignificant an action -- "to give to drink a cup of cold water only"! This I can do, however poor: this I may do, however lowly: this I will do right cheerfully. 

This, which seems so little, the LORD notices -- notices when done to the least of His followers. Evidently it is not the cost, nor the skill, nor the quantity, that He looks at, but the motive: that which we do to a disciple, because he is a disciple, his LORD observes and recompenses. 

He does not reward us for the merit of what we do but according to His riches of His grace.

 I give a cup of cold water, and He makes me to drink of living water. 

I give to one of His little ones, and He treats me as one of them. 

Jesus finds an apology for His liberality in that which His grace has led me to do, and He says, "He shall in no wise lose his reward."

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who died for me to make me free of sin,

 I want Jesus to enter in to my heart and make me free, 

I confess that He is the son of God.

 I ask to change my heart and to give me wisdom to understand your Holy Word full of promises of eternal value, 

not only to live on this earth, 

but to be expectant of my life in heaven. 

In the precious name of Jesus I ask. 

Amen.. 

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PRAYER 

 Father,

 I ask You to bless my friends, 

relatives and those that I care deeply for, 

who are reading this right now. 

Show them a new revelation of Your love and power.

 Holy Spirit,

 I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. 

 Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy.. 

 Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. 

 Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. 

Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings. 

 Amen. 

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What meanest thou, O sleeper?

What meanest thou, O sleeper?

‘But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.’ 

Jonah 1:5–6

Suggested Further Reading: 

Ezekiel 33:1–11

Men can be so careless about the ruin of men’s souls. 

Let us hear the cry of ‘Fire! fire!’ in the streets, and our heart is all in trepidation lest some poor creature should be burned alive; but we read of hell, and of the wrath to come, and seldom do our hearts palpitate with any compassionate trembling and fear.

 If we are on board a vessel, and the shrill cry is heard, ‘Man overboard!’ whoever hears of a passenger wrapping his overcoat around him, and lying down upon a seat to contemplate the exertions of others? But in the church, when we hear of thousands of sinners sinking in the floods of ruin, we behold professed Christians wrapping themselves up in their own security, and calmly looking upon the labours of others, but not even lifting a finger to do any part of the work themselves.

 If we heard tomorrow in our streets the awful cry, more terrible than fire, the cry of ‘Bread! bread! bread!’ and saw starving women lifting up their perishing children, would we not empty out our stores? Who among us would not spend our substance to let the poor ravenous creatures satisfy the pangs of hunger? And yet, here is the world perishing for lack of knowledge. 

Here we have them at our doors crying for the bread of heaven, and how many there are that hoard their substance for avarice, give their time to vanity, devote their talents to self-aggrandisement, and centre their thoughts only on the world or the flesh! Oh! could you once see with your eyes a soul sinking into hell, it would be such a spectacle that you would work night and day, and count your life too short and your hours too few for the plucking of brands from the burning.

For meditation: 

What a terrible thing it is to leave someone to die in their sin. 

What a tremendous thing it is to help them find the Saviour 

(James 5:20; Jude 23).

Sermon no. 469

14 September (1862)

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you can be accepted into his kingdom.

 I invite you to let him to make of you what He always wanted. 

"PRAYER" 

Marvelous God Almighty, 

I come to you in the precious name of Jesus, 

who died for me to make me free of sin,

 I want Jesus to enter in to my heart and make me free, 

I confess that He is the son of God.

 I ask to change my heart and to give me wisdom to understand your Holy Word full of promises of eternal value, 

not only to live on this earth, 

but to be expectant of my life in heaven. 

In the precious name of Jesus I ask. 

Amen.. 

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“The true minister of Christ knows that the true value of a sermon must lie, 

 not in its fashion and manner, 

 but in the truth which it contains.” 

~ C. H. Spurgeon ~

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 The purpose of these pages is to share the precious word of God,

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 God gave me the salvation for free, 

so I share the gospel of his word the same way .. 

( NO ADVERTISEMENTS ) ... 

 Blessings to all of You, 

rejoice in the sublime and infallible word of God 

 ♥♥♥♥♥♥ 

PRAYER 

 Father,

 I ask You to bless my friends, 

relatives and those that I care deeply for, 

who are reading this right now. 

Show them a new revelation of Your love and power.

 Holy Spirit,

 I ask You to minister to their spirit at this very moment. 

 Where there is pain, give them Your peace and mercy.. 

 Where there is self-doubt, release a renewed confidence through Your grace. 

 Where there is need, I ask you to fulfill their needs. 

Bless their homes, families, finances, their goings and their comings. 

 Amen. 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

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http://powerofthehighest.blogspot.com/

SPANISH: 

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