Attributes of God

Keep to Christ

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“…wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.” – 2 Samuel 15:21

Our Master is to be found wherever there is anything to be done for the good of our fellow-men. The Lord Jesus Christ is to be found wherever there is work to be done in seeking after His lost sheep. Some people say that they have very little communion with Christ, and when I look at them, I do not wonder. Two persons cannot walk together if they will not walk at the same pace. Now, my Lord walks an earnest pace whenever He goes through the world, for the King’s business requires haste; and if His disciples crawl after a snail’s fashion they will lose His company. If some of our groaning brethren would go to the Sunday-school, and there begin to look after the little children, they would meet with their Lord who used to say, “Suffer the little children to come unto Me.” If others were to get together a little meeting, and teach the ignorant, they would there find Him who had compassion on the ignorant, on those that are out of the way. Our Master is where there are fetters to be broken, burdens to be removed, and hearts to be comforted, and if you wish to keep with Him you must aid in such service.

Our point must be to resolve in God’s strength to keep to Christ in all weathers and in all companies, and that whether in life or death. Ah that word “death” makes it sweet, because then we reap the blessed result of having lived with Christ. We shall go upstairs for the last time and bid good-bye to all, and then we shall feel that in death He is still with us as in life we have been with Him.  ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Be On the Side of Truth and Right

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“…wherever my lord the king shall be, whether for death or for life, there also will your servant be.” – 2 Samuel 15:21

Where is the Lord Jesus Christ? Well, brethren, He is wherever the truth is, and I pray God that He may raise up a race of men and women who are determined to be wherever the truth of God is. We have a host of molluscous creatures about who will always be where the congregation is the most respectable: respectability being measured by clothes and cash. Time was in the church of God when they most esteemed the most pious men; has it come to this that gold takes precedence of grace? Our fathers considered whether a ministry was sound, but now the question is-“Is the man clever?” Words are preferred to truth, and oratory takes the lead of the gospel. Shame on such an age. O you who have, not altogether sold your birthrights, I charge you keep out of this wretched declension.

Where is our Master? Well, He is always on the side of truth and right. And, O, you Christian people, mind that in everything- politics, business and everything you keep to that which is right, not to that which is popular. Do not bow the knee to that which for a little day may be cried up but stand fast in that which is consistent with rectitude, with humanity, with the cause and honor of God, and with the freedom and progress of men. It can never be wise to do wrong. It can never be foolish to be right. It can never be according to the mind of Christ to tyrannize and to oppress. Keep you ever to whatsoever things are pure and lovely and of good report, and you will so far keep with Christ. Temperance, purity, justice-these are favorites with Him; do your best to advance them for His sake. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Be Not Ashamed of Your Lord

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…whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be. – 2 Samuel 15:21

 But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed… – 2 Timothy 1:12

Dear friend, you must publicly own yourself a Christian. If you are a Christian, you must not try to sneak to heaven round the back alleys but march up the narrow way like a man and like your Master. He was never ashamed of you, though He might have been: how can you be ashamed of Him when there is nothing in Him to be ashamed of? Some Christians seem to think that they shall lead an easier life if they never make a profession. Like a rat behind the wainscot, they come out after candlelight and get a crumb, and then slip back again. I would not lead such a life. Surely, there is nothing to be ashamed of. A Christian-let us glory in the name! A believer in the Lord Jesus Christ-let them write it on our door plates, if they will. Why should we blush at that? “But,” says one, “I would rather be a very quiet one.” I will now place a torpedo under this cowardly quietness. What saith the Lord Jesus? Whosoever shall deny Me before men, him will I also deny before My Father which is in heaven; but he that shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also before My Father which is in heaven.” Take up your cross and follow Him, for “with the heart man believeth unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” …If you have the spirit of Ittai you will say, “Wheresoever my lord the king is, there also shall thy servant be.” ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Tokens of the Power of Love

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And David said unto Ahimelech, and is there not here under thine hand spear or sword? – 1 Samuel 21:8

There are some great sinners at this day who are wonderful tokens of the power of love. When we look round the temple and see the shields and spears hung up, we say, “Who did those shields and spears belong to?” One says, “Why, that is the shield and spear of John Newton, the old blasphemer!” Glory be to God, Christ conquered him. Whose shield and spears are those? Why, that is the shield and spear of John Bunyan, the blasphemer on the village green. God’s mercy conquered him. Yes, there will be a pillar for many of us, and I do not know which will bring Christ most honor, for He had much ado to bring us down. I wonder whether there will be a place for you, you old sailor? These many years you have been living without God and without Christ. You have been a frequenter of every place of sin, every filthy haunt in London. I do trust God’s grace will meet with you. The poor harlot, Mary, the woman that was a sinner-there hangs her shield and spear. She was a hard fighter, a very Amazon, but Christ conquered her, hung up her shield and spear, and there it shall hang for ever, to the praise of the glory of His grace, who vanquished even her, and made her His willing servant, nay, His beloved friend. What will heaven be when all of us shall be trophies of His power to save, and when our bodies shall be there as well as our souls! “O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?”-when not only souls, but bodies shall be in heaven too, all as trophies of what Christ has done when He plucked His people from the jaws of the grave and delivered them from the grasp of the sepulcher. Let us take care that we have good confidence, always walking by faith, be the path of our pilgrimage rough or smooth, and ever maintaining the fight of faith, however fierce our temptations or fiery our trials. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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The Trophies of Our King

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And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the valley of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod… – 1 Samuel 21:9

Jesus Christ, our King, has hung up many shields and spears in the house of the Lord. I shall not occupy many minutes, but I invite every believer’s heart to look at the great temple that Christ has builded, and see how He has hung it round with trophies of His victory. Sin-Christ has borne it in Himself, endured its penalty and overcome it; He has hung up the handwriting of ordinances that was against us as a trophy in the house of the Lord. He has nailed it to the cross. Satan-our great foe-He met him foot to foot in the wilderness and discomfited him-met him in the garden-overcame him on the cross. Now hell, too, is vanquished-Christ is Lord. The prince of the power of the air is but His serf. The King of kings hath led captivity captive, and all the crowns of this prince of the power of the air are hung up as trophies. Broken are their spears: their shields all battered and vilely cast away, hang up as memorials of what Christ has done. Death, too, the last enemy, Christ hath taken spoils from him when He rose again Himself from his prison house, and ascended on high, leading captivity captive. And the enmity of the human heart, my brethren. Oh! how many of these enmities has Christ hung up in the hall, for He has conquered that enmity and made the hater into a lover. My heart, your heart, all our hearts, are trophies of what Christ’s love can do. God grant that all of us may be trophies of Christ and hung up thus as memorials for ever. Amen. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/0972.cfm

Victory in the Sinner’s Battle

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Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness: according unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions…Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow. – Psalm 51:1,7

Do not appeal to justice, sinner. That is against you; appeal to mercy. “Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness!” This prayer he brings before God is prayer tipped with a hope in the mercy of God. Go, sinner, and plead with God and fight your sins with hope in His mercy. When he had done that, he then turns to confession: “I acknowledge my transgression, and my sin is ever before me.” There is no weapon to drive away guilty fears like making a clean breast of your sins. Tell your Father whom you have offended; do not plead any extenuations or mitigations. Confess that you deserve His wrath. Put yourself before the throne of God’s clemency. Confess that if it were turned to a throne of vengeance, you deserve it well. Prayers, tears, pleas for mercy, and full confession-these are weapons to conquer with.

“Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.” Hyssop was a little bunch, a brush, used to dip into the blood-a basin full of blood, and then with this brush of hyssop the priest sprinkled the guilty man, the unclean man, and he was counted clean. The master argument in this verse is blood. Oh! how this destroys our sins, how this scatters all our doubts and fears-the almighty weapon of the cross, the divine weapon of the atonement. Let sins come on, and let them be more than the hairs of my head, loftier than mountains and deeper than the unfathomed ocean, let them come on-God’s flaming wrath behind them, hell itself coming to devour me; yet if I can but take the cross and hold it up before me, if I can plead the precious blood I shall be safe, for I shall be saved and proved a conqueror, notwithstanding all. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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The Battlefield – Part 2

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I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search. – Psalm 77:5,6

Going on with the strategy of war, what next? Why, in the fifth verse we read how David maintained his courage and his constancy-“I considered the days of old.” He enquired of hoary fathers, and looked back upon the inspired traditions, if I may be allowed the expression, of the early church. He wanted to see whether God ever did forsake any of his people, rightly judging that if He never did, He never would, and firmly resolving that till he could find a clear case of God’s unfaithfulness he would not yield an inch of soil, nor give up a stone of any fortress, but would hold on and fight the battle out. That inward musing helped him much. The enemy began to weary, while he recruited His strength.

But now he used another weapon. He looked to his own experience-see the sixth verse. “I called to remembrance my song in the night.” Past experience acknowledged gratefully and taken as the index of what the future will be-this is another of David’s shields and spears. And then he seemed to put a whole path of spears before the enemy, and hold up an entire wall of shields when he came to close quarters with him, and said, “Will the Lord cast off for ever? Will He be favorable no more? Is His mercy clean gone for ever? Doth His promise fail for evermore? Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath He in anger shut up His tender mercies?” Oh! this is how to win the battle. The next time, dear friend, you find yourself downcast in trouble, do not run away because Giant Despair is so strong. Though pressed by danger and beset by foes, feed not this frenzy of the soul with gloomy black forebodings. Armed with David’s shield and spears, attack him; show a bold front, and so shall you resist the devil and find that he flees from you, and you shall come back from the conflict with louder notes of victory than you had dreamed before. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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