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ILLUSTRATIONS AND MEDITATIONS; OR, FLOWERS FROM A PURITAN’S GARDEN, DISTILLED AND DISPENSED BY C. H. SPURGEON NEW YORK FUNK & WAGNALLS, […]
FLOWERS FROM A PURITAN’S GARDEN – Vol 1 Read Post »
“My soul desired the first ripe fruit.” We would not be merely the green blade; we desire to be the whole corn in the ear; we would not simply show forth the blossoms of repentance and the young buds of struggling faith, but we would go on to maturity and bring forth fruit unto perfection, to the honor and praise of Jesus Christ.
Ripe Fruit – The Conclusion We want mature Christians in the army of Christ to play the part of veterans,
Ripe Fruit – The Conclusion Read Post »
That He should be our Creator, and yet be separated from us, seems an impossibility; that we should be His creatures, and yet remain at a distance from Him, seems the most unnatural and unlikely of all relations. Intercourse, fellowship, mutual love, then, seem to flow from all that He is to us, and from all that we are to Him.
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Open Intercourse With God Read Post »
There was nothing to prevent man from going in to speak with God, or God from coming out to speak with man. It was not till after man had disobeyed that the veil was let down which separated God from man, which made a distinction between the dwellings of man and the habitation of God.
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How There Came To Be A Veil Read Post »
Nor let us forget Gethsemane, where “His sweat was as it were great drops of blood falling down to the ground.” At His circumcision, at Gethsemane, at the cross, we see the blood-sprinkled veil. And all this for us; that the blood which was thus required at His hands should not be required of us.
All this corporeal perfection and beauty were produced by the Holy Ghost. Never had His hand brought forth such material perfection as in the body of the Christ of God. It was “without spot and blemish,” worthy of Him out of whose eternal purpose it came forth; worthy of Him who so cunningly had wrought it as the perfection of divine workmanship; worthy of Him in whom dwelt all the fulness of the Godhead bodily.
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“Your covenant with death shall be disannulled, and your agreement with hell shall not stand.” You never were your own so that you could not give yourself up to Satan; you are released from all your rash promises and your wicked oaths; you cannot be bound by any covenant that you have made with the devil and with sin.
Make haste! Get these affections disengaged from a present evil world. Get these sins of thine buried in the grave of Christ. Get that soul of thine wrapped up, all over, in the perfection of the perfect One, in the righteousness of the righteous One. Then all is well, all is well. But till then thou hast not so much as one true hope for eternity or for time.
The Rending Of The Veil Read Post »
It is by blood that this race of ours is preserved against the possibility of a second fall, and this earth against the contingency of a second curse. It is by blood that the Church of God has won her victory, and been made without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing. It is the blood that has given such resplendent glory to the New Jerusalem, and made its light so pure, for “THE LAMB is the light thereof.”
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The Removal of the First Sacrifice and the Establishment of the Second Read Post »
That which saves the sinner is done. Another has done it all. Messiah has done it all; and our gospel is not a command to do, but simply to take what another has done. He who ceases from His own labours, and enters on these labours of another, has taken possession of all to which these labours entitled Him, who so performed them, even the Messiah of Israel, the Son of God, the Saviour of the world.
Messiah Within The Veil Read Post »
That which is presented to God must have passed through the blood, else it is unholy, however imposing and splendid. If it has come through the blood, it is holy, however small and mean and poor. All worship is unclean save that which has been sanctified by the blood. All holy worship begins with the blood, and is carried on by means of the blood. We go within the rent veil to worship, not without blood. For it is the blood which sprinkled on the worshipper makes him first, and then his worship, acceptable. This is “entire consecration.”
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The Blood Within The Veil Read Post »
