Satan’s banquet

Satan’s banquet

“The governor of the feast called the bridegroom, 

And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; 

and when men have well drunk, 

then that which is worse; 

but thou hast kept the good wine until now.” 

John 2:9-10

Suggested Further Reading: 

Psalm 55:12-23

The governor of the feast said more than he intended to say, or rather, there is more truth in what he said than he himself imagined. This is the established rule all the world over: 

“the good wine first, and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse.” 

It is the rule with men; and have not hundreds of disappointed hearts bewailed it? Friendship first—the oily tongue, the words softer than butter, and afterwards the drawn sword. 

Ahitophel first presents the lordly dish of love and kindness to David, then afterwards that which is worse, for he forsakes his master, and becomes the counsellor of his rebel son.

 Judas presents first of all the dish of fair speech and of kindness; the Saviour partook thereof, he walked to the house of God in company with him, and took sweet counsel with him; but afterwards there came the dregs of the wine—“He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.”

 Judas the thief betrayed his Master, bringing forth afterwards “that which is worse.” 

You have found it so with many whom you thought your friends. 

In the heyday of prosperity, when the sun was shining, and the birds were singing, and all was fair and cheerful with you, they brought forth the good wine; but there came a chilling frost, and nipped your flowers, and the leaves fell from the trees, and your streams were frosted with ice, and then they brought forth that which is worse, they forsook you and fled; they left you in your hour of peril, and taught you that great truth, that “Cursed is he that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm.”

For meditation: 

Has someone you trusted let you down badly, albeit unintentionally? Christ’s first miracle reminds us that man’s ways are not God’s ways (Isaiah 55:8); the Christian has a friend who sticks closer than a brother (Proverbs 18:24) and is assured that the best is still to come (Hebrews 10:34).

Sermon no. 225

28 November (1858)

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If you are NOT a believer in Jesus Christ,

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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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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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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Heavenly Alchemy

Heavenly Alchemy

"Your sorrow shall be turned into joy"   

(John 16:20).

Their particular sorrow was the death and absence of their LORD, and it was turned into joy when He rose from the dead and showed Himself in their midst. 

All the sorrows of saints shall be thus transmuted, even the worst of them, which look as if they must forever remain fountains of bitterness. Then the more sorrow, the more joy. 

If we have loads of sorrow, then the LORD's power will turn them into tons of joy. Then the bitterer the trouble the sweeter the pleasure: the swinging of the pendulum far to the left will cause it to go all the farther to the right. 

The remembrance of the grief shall heighten the flavor of the delight: we shall set the one in contrast with the other, and the brilliance of the diamond shall be the more clearly seen because of the black foil behind it. 

Come, my heart, cheer up! In a little while I shall be as glad as I am now gloomy. Jesus tells me that by a heavenly alchemy my sorrow shall be turned into joy. 

I do not see how it is to be, but I believe it, and I begin to sing by way of anticipation. This depression of spirit is not for long; I shall soon be up among the happy ones who praise the LORD day and night, and there I shall sing of the mercy which delivered me out of great afflictions.

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Blessings to all of You,

rejoice in the sublime and infallible Word of God.

PLEASE SHARE YOUR BLESSINGS 

WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. 

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 

If you are NOT a believer in Jesus Christ,

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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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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The character of Christ’s people

The character of Christ’s people

“They are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.” John 17:16

Suggested Further Reading: Leviticus 19:35-37

Look at Jesus’ character; how different from every other man’s—pure, perfect, spotless, even such should be the life of the believer. I plead not for the possibility of sinless conduct in Christians, but I must hold that grace makes men to differ, and that God’s people will be very different from other kinds of people. 

A servant of God will be God’s man everywhere. 

As a chemist, he could not indulge in any tricks that such men might play with their drugs; as a grocer—if indeed it be not a phantom that such things are done—he could not mix aloe leaves with tea or red lead in the pepper; if he practised any other kind of business, he could not for a moment condescend to the little petty shifts, called “methods of business.” 

To him it is nothing what is called “business;” it is what is called God’s law, he feels that he is not of the world, consequently, he goes against its fashions and its maxims. 

A singular story is told of a certain Quaker. 

One day he was bathing in the Thames, and a waterman called out to him, “Ha! there goes the Quaker.”

 “How do you know I’m a Quaker?” 

“Because you swim against the stream; it is the way the Quakers always do.” 

That is the way Christians always ought to do—to swim against the stream.

 The Lord’s people should not go along with the rest in their worldliness. 

Their characters should be visibly different. 

You should be such men that your fellows can recognise you without any difficulty, and say, “Such a man is a Christian.”

For meditation: 

When the Christian thinks to himself “But everybody else does it”, 

he is thinking of denying Christ (Ephesians 4:17,20).

Sermon no. 78

24 November (Preached 22 November 1855)

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 THE PURPOSE OF THESE PAGES 

is to share the precious word of God,

without acquiring any MONETARY REWARD. 

God gave me the salvation for "FREE",

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

"NO ADVERTISEMENT AND COMMERCIAL ADS."

Blessings to all of You,

rejoice in the sublime and infallible Word of God.

PLEASE SHARE YOUR BLESSINGS 

WITH YOUR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. 

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ 

If you are NOT a believer in Jesus Christ,

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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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://theinfalliblewordofgod.blogspot.com/ 

http://powerofthehighest.blogspot.com/

http://dynamicsavior.blogspot.com/
SPANISH: 

http://poderosoguerrerodejesus.blogspot.com/ 

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(E-mail) next to a pencil, under my name at the bottom of post, 

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LOVE AND HAPPINESS"

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and therefore is considered in the "Public Domain". 

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 We respect copyright laws and are committed to remove any copyright infringing material from our website. 

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Everything we do is for God Almighty's glory, 

our creator and we pray for all the people that are making images available 

to continue spreading the Gospel. 

 Thank You and God Bless.

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