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O Blessed Truth!

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For I know that my Redeemer lives… – Job 19:25

Job had a living Kinsman amid a dying family. All his children were dead. We cannot easily estimate the full force of that blow upon the patriarch’s heart. The loss of one child is a very painful event, even when the child is a very little one, and the parents have many others left; but it is a far worse bereavement when the children, who are taken away, are grown up, as Job’s were…Altogether, it was a fine family -seven sons and three daughters; -and now they were all gone at once! To lose all one’s family at once, like that, is a heavy stroke that none can measure but those who have felt it. All were gone! -the whole ten at once! That was sad for poor Job, but it was most blessed that he was able to say, “Though my children are all dead, ‘I know that my Redeemer liveth.’ He, is not dead, and in Him I find more than all that I have lost.”

Rejoice that He lives in a dying world. If you walk through the cemetery, or stand by the open grave, how blessedly these words seem to fall upon your spirit, like the music of angels, “These are dead, but ‘I know that my Redeemer liveth,’-liveth on, liveth in power, liveth in happiness, liveth with a life which He communicates to all who trust Him. He lives, and therefore I shall live with Him. He lives, and therefore the dead, who are in Him, shall live for ever.” O blessed truth! ` C.H. Spurgeon

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/2909.cfm

The Best of All Possessions

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For I know that my Redeemer lives… – Job 19:25

Poor Job, he had lost everything else, but he had not lost his Redeemer. Notice, he does not say, “I know that my wife and my children live;” but he says, “I know that my Redeemer liveth.” Ah! “my Redeemer,”-he has not lost Him, so he has the best of all possessions still left. Looking up to Him, by faith, with the tears of joy standing in his eyes, he says, “Yes, He is my Redeemer, and He still lives; I accept Him as mine, and I will cling to Him for ever.” Can you, beloved friends, not merely rejoice in Christ as the Redeemer, but also as your Redeemer? Have you personally accepted Him as your Redeemer? Have you personally trusted Him with your soul, wholly and really; and do you already feel in your own heart, a kinship to this great Kinsman, a trust in this great Vindicator, a reliance upon His great redemption? Another man’s redemption is of no value to my soul; the sweetness lies in the little word “my”-“my Redeemer.” Luther used to say that the marrow of the gospel is found in the pronouns, and I believe it is: “my Redeemer.” We had lost everything. Father Adam had put everything under a heavy mortgage, and we could not even meet the interest on it; but the whole estate is unmortgaged now, even to paradise itself. Does someone ask, “Is there not any mortgage even upon paradise?” …Jesus Christ hath said, in the words of the psalmist, “I restored that which I took not away.” Bankrupt debtors, through the Lord’s sovereign grace, you are no longer under any liabilities because of your sin if Christ be accepted by you as your Goel and Redeemer. He hath restored to you the estates which your first father, Adam, had lost; and He hath made you heirs of God, and joint heirs with Jesus Christ, through the wondrous redemption which He wrought for you upon the cross of Calvary. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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The Two Redemptions

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For I know that my Redeemer lives… – Job 19:25

Let us think of how the Lord Jesus Christ hath redeemed us from bondage. Having broken the law of God, we were in bondage to that law; we had received the spirit of bondage again to fear. But we, who have believed in Jesus, our Kinsman, can say that He hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, and that we are no longer in bondage. We were also in bondage under sin, as Paul wrote, “I am carnal, sold under sin;” but Christ has come, and broken the power of sin in us, so that its reigning power is subdued; and though it still striveth to get the mastery, and often maketh us to groan within ourselves, even as Paul did, yet do we, with Him, thank God, who giveth us the victory, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

There are two redemptions,-redemption by price and redemption by power, and both of these Christ hath wrought for us;-by price, by His sacrifice upon the cross of Calvary; and by power, by His Divine Spirit coming into our heart, and renewing our soul. Ought we not unceasingly to bless the Lord who hath redeemed us from under the law, having paid the penalty for the commands which we had broken, and who hath also redeemed us from the power of sin? “I know that my Redeemer liveth,” then I know that I am a free man; for if the Son makes us free, then are we free indeed. I know that He paid the price for my soul’s eternal redemption, then may my soul continually exult in Him, and rejoice in the liberty wherewith He hath made me free. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/2909.cfm

Our Vindicator Liveth

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For I know that my Redeemer liveth, and that He shall stand at the latter day upon the earth. – Job 19:25

It was the kinsman’s duty to defend the rights of his needy relative, so Job intended here to say, “I know that my Vindicator liveth;” and the Lord Jesus Christ is the Vindicator of His people from all false charges. It is not easy for Christians to live in this world without being slandered and misrepresented; certainly, those of us who live in the full blaze of public life can hardly utter a word without having it twisted, and tortured, and misconstrued. We are often represented as saying what we loathe even to think; yet we must not be surprised at that. The world loves lying, -it always has done so, and it always will. Even in private life you may meet with similar cruel treatment; there are some of God’s best children who lie under reproach by the year together. The very things which they would not tolerate for a moment are laid to their charge, and they are thought to be guilty of them, and even good people hold up their hands in pious horror at them, though they are perfectly innocent all the while. Well, beloved, ever remember that your Vindicator liveth. Do not be too much concerned to clear your own character; above all, do not attempt to vindicate yours in a court of law, but say to yourself, “I know that my Vindicator liveth.” When He cometh, “then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.” His people may be under a cloud now; but, when He appeareth, the cloud shall break, and their true glory shall be seen. The greater the obloquy under which any of us have unjustly lived on earth, the greater will be the joy and the honor which will be vouchsafed to us in the day when Christ shall clear our character from all the shameful aspersions that have been brought against us. All will be cleared up in that day, so leave the accusations alone, knowing that your Vindicator liveth. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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“They are My brethren.”

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For both He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one: for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren. – Hebrews 2:11

It is written concerning our great Kinsman, “He that sanctifieth and they who are sanctified are all of one; for which cause He is not ashamed to call them brethren.” He declares to the whole universe, concerning those persecuted ones, those who are ridiculed as being fools, “They are My brethren.” The Prince of glory, whose fingers are adorned with stars of light like rings of priceless value, calls the poor bedridden woman, who is a child of God, his sister, and calls the humble, toiling, laboring man, who walks with Him, His brother; and He is not ashamed to do so. Think, beloved, with intensest gratitude, of this great Kinsman of yours, who is so near of kin to you- voluntarily near of kin- and not ashamed to own the kinship.

Remember, too, that your Kinsman liveth in this respect, -that He will always be your Kinsman. The closest ties of an earthly relationship must, to a great extent, end in death, for there are no husbands and wives, as such, in heaven. There cannot be, “for in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.” There are other ties, of a spiritual kind, that, will far outshine the best of bonds that linked us together here; but, when all other ties are broken, Jesus will always be our Kinsman, our Brother. We shall find the fraternal relationship better understood, more fully enjoyed, and more clearly manifested up there than it ever can be here… your great Kinsman intends that you should be betrothed unto Him for ever, and He will bring you to His heavenly home at the marriage supper of the Lamb. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Our Kinsman

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“For I know that my Redeemer liveth,”- Job 19:25

Job, in the midst of his false friends, had One whom he called his kinsman. “I know,” he said, “that my Kinsman liveth.” I want you to think of Jesus Christ as your Kinsman if you are really in Him, for He is indeed the nearest akin to you of any- bone of your bone, and flesh of your flesh. “Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same.” Now, your own flesh and blood, as you call them, are not so near to you in real kinship as Jesus is; for, often, you will find flesh and blood near akin by birth but not by sympathy. Two brothers may be, spiritually, very different from one another, and may not be able to enter into each other’s trials at all; but this Kinsman participates in every pang that rends your heart; He knows your constitution, your weakness, your sensitiveness, the particular trial that cuts you to the quick, for in all your afflictions He was afflicted. Thus, He is nearer to you than the nearest of earthly kin can possibly be, for He enters more fully into the whole of your life; He seems to have gone through it all, and He still goes through it all in His constant sympathy with you… Our Lord Jesus Christ’s relationship to us is no accident of birth; it was voluntarily assumed by Him. He would be one with us because He loved us; nothing could satisfy Him till He had come to this earth and been made one flesh with His Church. This He did because He would be one flesh with His people, and that is a very near kinship which comes as close as that, and which willingly does so, not by force, but by voluntary choice. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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We Have Christ for Perpetual Resort

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…Who gave Himself for our sins, that He might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father… – Galatians 1:4

We have had Christ for acceptance, Christ for safety, and Christ for food, now we have Christ for perpetual resort. The Lamb of God in the morning! Oh, blessed be God for a Saviour in the morning! If the night has gathered aught evil, He doth then disperse it as the sun dispels the darkness. But oh, what a precious thing also to have the Lamb of God in the evening! If in the day we have soiled our feet in traversing this busy world, here we come to the fountain, and we are made clean through the blood of the Lamb. Perpetual merit, perpetual intercession, perpetual life-giving, perpetual salvation, flow from Jesus Christ the Lamb of God. He is not slain twice; His one wonderful offering has finished transgression and made an end of sin…”Who loved me, and gave Himself for me”; “Who His own self bore our sins in His own body on the tree”; and that old view of the atonement is ever fresh and ever new to the heart and conscience.

The Lamb is our Guide. The Lord is a Shepherd as well as a Lamb, and the flock following in His footsteps is safely led. My soul, when thou wantest to know which way to go, behold the Lamb of God! Ask, “What would Jesus do?” Then do thou what Jesus would have done in such a case, and thou canst not do amiss. “They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb.” The Lamb is a great Warrior, there is none like Him. Is He not the Lion of the tribe of Judah? Though He be gentle as a lamb, yet against sin and iniquity He is fiercer than a young lion when it roareth on its prey. If we follow Him, hold fast His truth, believe in His atonement, and perpetually proclaim His gospel, we shall overcome all error, and all sin, and all evil.~ C.H. Spurgeon

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