promises

Our Great Inexhaustible Well

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They that are delivered from the noise of archers in the places of drawing water, there shall they rehearse the righteous acts of the LORD -Judges 5:11

We thank God that we who are the children of the Most High, have wells to go to. The world is a wilderness; say what we will of it, we cannot make it into anything else. “This is not our rest; it is polluted.” We are passing through the desert of earth to the Promised Land of heaven, but we praise God that we have wells to drink of on the road. As Israel drank at Elim, and as the patriarchs drank at Beersheba, so have we wells of salvation, out of which we joyfully draw the living water. Our great inexhaustible well is the Lord Jesus Christ. He is, indeed, the great “deep that lieth under,” the “deep that coucheth beneath,” the secret spring and source from which the crystal streams of life flow, through the wells of instrumentality and ordinance. “All my fresh springs are in Thee.” Whenever we come to the Lord Jesus Christ, we drink and are refreshed. No thirst can abide where He is. “He that drinketh of the water that I shall give him,” saith He, “shall never thirst.” Glory be to His name, we know the truth of this-

“I came to Jesus, and I drank
Of that life-giving stream;
My thirst was quenched, my soul revived,
And now I live in Him.”

As often as we muse upon His person, commune with Him in holy fellowship, think of His wounds, triumph in His ascension, and long for His second advent, so often doth our spirit drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, and we lift up our head. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/0763.cfm

Give Christ Your Heart

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That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. -Romans 10:9

A missionary was preaching to the Maori tribe of the New Zealanders. He had been telling them of the suffering love of Christ, how He had poured forth His soul unto death for them; and as he concluded, the hills rung to the thrilling question-“Is it nothing to any who pass by? Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto His?” Then stood forth a plumed and painted chief, the scarred warrior of a thousand fights, and as his lips quivered with suppressed emotion, he spoke. “And did the Son of the Highest suffer all this for us men? Then the Indian chief would like to offer him some poor return for his great love. Would the Son of God deign to accept the Indian’s hunting dog? Swift of foot and keen of scent the tribe has not such another, and he has been to the Indian as a friend.” But the missionary told him that the Son of God had need of no such gifts as these. Thinking he had mistaken the gift he resumed-“Yet perchance He would accept the Indian’s rifle? Unerring of aim, the chief cannot replace it.” Again the missionary shook his head. For a moment the chief paused; then as a new thought struck him, suddenly despoiling himself of his striped blanket he cried with childlike earnestness, “Perhaps He who had not where to lay His head will yet accept the chieftain’s blanket. The poor Indian will be cold without it, yet it is offered joyfully.” Touched by love’s persistency, the missionary tried to explain to him the real nature of the Son of God; that it was not men’s gifts but men’s hearts that He yearned for. For a moment a cloud of grief darkened the granite features of the old chief; then as the true nature of the Son of God slowly dawned upon him, casting aside his blanket and rifle he clasped his hands, and looking right up into the blue sky, his face beaming with joy, he exclaimed-“Perhaps the Son of the Blessed One will deign to accept the poor Indian himself!”

Is that what you say this morning? You would give Christ this, and that, and the other. Soul, give Him your heart. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/0400.cfm

Your Sin Can Forever Be Put Away

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Come unto Me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. -Matthew 11:28

And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. -Acts 2:21

To return to God is not a cruel request to you. He does not ask you to perform a pilgrimage and blister your weary feet, or to thrust an iron in your back and swing yourself aloft as does the Hindoo; He asks you not to lie on a bed of spikes or starve yourself till you can count your bones. He asks no suffering of you, for Christ has suffered for you. All He asks is that you would return to Him, and what is that? That you would be unfeignedly sorry for your past sin, that you would ask His grace to keep you from it in the future, that you would now believe in Christ who is set forth to be the propitiation for sin, that through faith in His blood you may see your sin for ever put away and all your iniquity cancelled. That is neither a hard nor a cruel demand. It is for your good as well as for His glory. O Spirit of God, make the sinner now willing to repent and to believe in Christ.

“A debtor to mercy alone,
Of covenant mercy I sing;
Nor fear with Thy righteousness on,
My person and offering to bring.

The terrors of law and of God,
With me can have nothing to do;
My Saviour’s obedience and blood,
Hide all my transgressions from view.”

God promises-and He cannot lie-“He that believeth and is baptized,” He does not say, “may be,” but “shall be” saved, and God’s “shalls” and “wills” do not play with men; but He speaks them in real earnestness. “Whosoever calleth upon the name of the Lord, shall be saved.” ~ C.H. Spurgeon

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/0400.cfm

Thou Hast Said He Would Heal You

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Come, and let us return unto the LORD: for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and He will bind us up. -Hosea 6:1

The wounds which you now feel He made Himself, and if He is willing to heal any wounds, how much more those that He has Himself made…The text I read as a promise. It looks at first sight as if it were spoken by man, and so it is; but then inasmuch as it is put in God’s book as the utterance of God’s inspired prophet, it is a part of God’s word, and it is warranted to be most true. “He hath torn and He will heal.” Go and put your finger on this text and say, “Lord, Thou hast torn me, and it is written in Thy word, ‘He will heal us;'”

“Lord, I know Thou canst not lie,
Heal my soul or else I die.”

Put you your finger on the text-“He will bind us up.” Say, “Lord, I do not deserve it; I deserve only to perish, but then Thou hast said Thou wilt do it, be as good as Thy word. Lord, here is a poor sinner near despair, he comes to Thee, bind up his broken heart; give him peace;”-and soul, the everlasting hills shall bow, the hoary deep shall itself be burned up, and earth’s foundation shall be removed, but God’s word shall never pass away, nor shall His promise fail in one single case. Only believe the promise; receive the promise, and this very day, poor broken heart, He will heal thy wounds, and thou shalt have joy and peace in believing through Jesus Christ our Lord. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/0400.cfm

Tokens of Mercy

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For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; -2 Corinthians 4:17

So you say you have had so many trials in life, and so many strivings of conscience, that therefore you feel you must be too guilty to be saved. Do you think that you have been punished for your sins? Permit me to remind you that this is not the place where the Judge of all the earth usually punishes sin; His wrath He reserves for the day of judgment and the world to come…Ships sink whether men are at prayer, or whether they are cursing God. Providence here is not ordered according to the rule by which God shall dispense His favors or His fury in the world to come. This is the land of long-suffering rather than of execution. This is the land where God in His wise providence rather brings us to repentance than to punishment…and your having more afflictions than others, may be because God loves you; certainly it is not because He hates you. I have seen the wicked in great power, spreading themselves like green bay-trees; and I have seen them in their death too, and they are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued like other men; they are at ease, they are settled on their lees; they are not emptied from vessel to vessel. As for God’s people, they are chastened every morning, and vexed every evening and the Lord’s hand lieth heavy on them; yet there is God’s goodness in that heavy hand, and infinite lovingkindness in their tribulations.

I pray you then, do not misconstrue your sufferings of body and mind, they may be tokens of mercy; they certainly are not indicators of any special wrath.~ C.H. Spurgeon

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/0400.cfm

There is Hope for You, Afflicted Soul

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… we shall live in His sight. – Hosea 6:2

I cannot tell what is the precise temptation that Satan has been using with you, but I think it is very likely to be one of (these):

The first one has been this-“Oh,” saith he, “see how troubled you are, nothing prospers with you; what pains of body you suffer, and how depressed you are in spirit. God is a tyrant to you, He treats you cruelly; hate Him, set your teeth together and curse Him….” Oh! do not hate Him. He does not hate you; He is not coaling with you in wrath, but in mercy. There is still behind the black cloud the sun of His mercy shining.

Perhaps, the temptations of Satan have taken another shape, not so much hatred as sullenness. You have lost all you care for now, and you would as soon die as live, and as for your soul, you think you cannot be more wretched in hell itself, and you say, “So let it be; it is so bad that it cannot be mended.”…Wake, I pray thee, wake!…Oh! man, the pains thou hast had as yet are but as the finger-ache, they are but mere trifles compared with the miseries of eternity.

Possibly, however, the temptation of Satan has taken the form of despair. “Oh,” saith he, “there is no hope for you; you can clearly perceive that you are the subject of divine hatred…these trials are but the first drops of the long shower of His eternal wrath…your sins are too many and too great…you are beyond the lines of mercy; the arm of grace is not long enough or strong enough to reach such a wretch as you are; you are not jammed in hell yet, but you are the same as if you were….” Soul, do not believe him, he is a murderer of souls, and a liar from the beginning; there is hope for you; there is hope for you now. “Come, let us return unto the Lord” and He will heal you; He will bind you up; He will receive you to His heart; He will in no wise cast you out. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/0400.cfm

“I will arise and go unto my Father”

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“Come, and let us return unto the Lord: for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smitten and He will bind us up. After two days He will revive us: in the third day He will raise us up, and we shall live in His sight.”- Hosea 6:1-2

The Lord, in His long-suffering, dealt very kindly with His erring Israel, sending them favor after favor, and blessing after blessing, saying by His acts, “I have given them their corn, and their wine, and their oil, they will surely turn unto Me and say, ‘Our Father, thou shalt be the guide of our youth.’ But the more He multiplied His bounties, the more they multiplied their iniquities, and they burned sacrifice unto the gods of Edom, and of Moab, even to those that were no gods, saying, “These be thy gods, O Israel, which have given unto thee thy corn, and thy wine, and thy oil;” so they spent the mercies of God in sacrifice upon their idols…consuming upon their lusts the very mercies which God had sent to bring them to repentance.

Now, my brethren, the people of Israel are but a picture of ourselves…God has tried you with mercy upon mercy; kept you long in health, till you scarce ever had a day’s sickness; given you all that you could wish, till your cup was brimming and flowing over; but you used His mercies for your own self-indulgence, and the bodily strength which was given you to be a blessing you have made a curse. Streams of mercy never ceasing God has vouchsafed to you, but your only return has been stream of sin, broad, and black, and deep. And now today He has been changing His ways with you…You are troubled and sore broken..you are complaining.-“I am the man that has seen affliction;” and perhaps worse than that you are groaning, “His wrath lieth hard upon me, I cannot look up.”…Oh! may you…whose case is the case of Israel in Hosea, may you say, “Come, and let us return unto the Lord, for He hath torn, and He will heal us; He hath smitten, and He will bind us up.” I desire to come straight up to you who are in this condition and put my hand inside yours, holding you fast while I strive in God’s name to reason with you, beseeching God the Holy Spirit to reason better than I can, sweetly moving your soul, till you say, “I will arise and go unto my Father.”~ C.H. Spurgeon

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/0400.cfm