Tell Others About It

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…thou art now the blessed of the LORD. And he made them a feast, and they did eat and drink. – Genesis 26:29,30

How few there are of us who make it our business to be constantly telling out the sweet story of Jesus and His love! I read, the other day, of a chaplain in the Northern army in the lamentable war in the United States, who, while he lay wounded on the battle-field, heard a man, not far off, utter an oath. Though he himself was so badly wounded that he could not stand, yet he wished to reach the swearer to speak a gospel message to him, and he thought, “I can get to him if I roll over.” So, though bleeding profusely himself, he kept rolling over and over till he got to the side of the poor blasphemer, and on the lone battle-field he preached to him Jesus. Some of the other men came along, and he said to them, “Can you carry me? I fear that I am dying, but I do not want to be taken off the field. I should like you, if you would, to carry me from one dying man to another, all the night long, that I might tell them of a Saviour.” What a splendid deed was this! A bleeding man talking to those who were full of sin about a Saviour’s bleeding wounds! Oh, you who have no wounds, who can walk, and possess all the faculties to fit you for the service, how often you miss opportunities and refuse to speak of Jesus! “Thou art now the blessed of the Lord,” and at this moment I would have you think that the blessed Lord lays His pierced hand on thee saying, “Go and tell others what I have done for thee.” Never cease to tell the divine tale, as opportunity is given, until thy voice is lost in death; then thy spirit shall begin to utter the story in the loftier sphere. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Now Blessed

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…thou art now the blessed of the LORD. – Genesis 26:29

“Thou art now the blessed of the Lord.” “Now.” Beloved, do labour to get a hold of a present blessing. If you are indeed saved, do not be always thinking of what you are to enjoy in heaven; but seek to be the blessed of the Lord now. Why not have two heavens, a heaven here and a heaven there? What is the difference between a believer’s life here and a believer’s life there? Only this: here Christ is with us, and there we are with Christ. If we live up to our privileges this is the only difference we need to know. Try to be “now the blessed of the Lord.” I have heard of a traveller who was followed by a beggar, in Ireland, who very importunately asked for alms. As long as there seemed a chance of getting anything, the old woman kept saying, “May the blessing of God follow your honour all through your life!” but when all hope of a gift was vanished, she bitterly added, “and never overtake you.” But the blessings which God has for His chosen are not of that slow-footed kind which never catch us up. It is written, “All these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.” I beseech you, then, to lay hold of this overtaking blessing. Let it not pass unheeded…Be very grateful that you are in this position of grace. You might have been in the drink-shop, you might have been speaking infidelity, you might have been in prison, you might have been in hell. But “thou art now the blessed of the Lord.” Wherefore, praise the Lord, whose mercy endureth for ever. If you do not lift up your voice, yet lift up your heart, and bless him for the grace which hath made you to differ from other people. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/2238.cfm

Blessed of God, Not of Men

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And Isaac said unto them, Wherefore come ye to me, seeing ye hate me, and have sent me away from you? And they said, We saw certainly that the LORD was with thee…thou art now the blessed of the LORD. – Genesis 26:27-29

Though Isaac was the blessed of the Lord, this did not secure him from trial. Even before Abimelech saw the source of Isaac’s grace, he was “the blessed of the Lord”; yet he still had to move about. He was a pilgrim and a stranger, as was his father, and he lived as an alien in the land. He was without any inheritance in the country, and though his flocks and herds increased, he dwelt but in tents, while others reared for themselves stately houses and palaces. But God had prepared some better thing for him, and “he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose Builder and Maker is God.” Thus, this trial became a means of blessing to him, as trials always do when sanctified by the Spirit of God. If these words reach any child of God whose nest on earth has been disturbed, whose house has been broken up, I would seek to cheer you by the thought of the “continuing city” which shall soon be your portion. If you have, through Christ, an assurance of an abundant entrance there, though you never have a house of your own on earth, and roam from place to place a stranger, seeming to be very often in the way of other people, yet remember that “thou art now the blessed of the Lord.” He will never forsake thee, and His deliverance shall soon make thy heart glad. Daily He doth load thee with benefits, and thou canst even now have thy home in His love. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/2238.cfm

The Family Altar

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And the LORD appeared unto him the same night, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father: fear not, for I am with thee, and will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for My servant Abraham’s sake. And he builded an altar there, and called upon the name of the LORD, and pitched his tent there… – Genesis 26:24,25

The Lord bore testimony to Isaac in secret manifestation. He came to him in the watches of the night, and spake with him face to face. None but those who are the blessed of the Lord have such communion with Him. If He manifests Himself to us in this choice manner, it is because He has blessed us in a way in which He would not bless the ungodly world. We find that “(Isaac) builded an altar,” and then he, “pitched his tent.” Keep up the altar of God in your home and keep to the right order-the altar first, and the tent second. When God accepts you there and makes your family altar to be a place of refreshment and delight to you, you will feel that in thus doing He is giving you the sweet assurance that you are now the blessed of the Lord. It is a pity that there are so many houses nowadays without roofs-I mean, houses of Christian people without family prayer. What are some of you at? If your children turn out ungodly, do you wonder at it, seeing that there is no morning and evening prayer, no reading of the Word of God in your home? In every home where the grace of God is known, there should be an altar, from which should rise the incense of praise, and at which the one sacrifice for sin should be pleaded before God day by day. In the midst of such family piety, which I fear is almost dying out in many quarters, you will get the witness, “Thou art now the blessed of the Lord.” ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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Good News for the Elderly

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You who are King of kings and Lord of lords, we worship You. Before Jehovah’s awful throne we bow with sacred joy.

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Our Covenant Relationship with God

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Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father… – Genesis 26:3

God said to Isaac, “I will be with thee, and will bless thee…I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father.” And in the twenty-fourth verse of the chapter, where the promise is renewed, it is still on the ground of the covenant: “I am with thee, and I will bless thee, and multiply thy seed for my servant Abraham’s sake.” Now, do you know anything of the covenant relationship between God and His people? The bulk of Christians nowadays are wholly ignorant on this subject…I love the promises of God because they are covenant promises. God has engaged to keep His word with His people in the person of His dear Son. He has bound Himself, by covenant with Christ, and will not, cannot, go back from His word; and Christ has fulfilled the conditions of the covenant, and He who hath “brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,” will certainly, “make you perfect to do His will, working in you that which is well-pleasing in His sight, through Jesus Christ.” The promise is a double promise when it is confirmed in Jesus. Though we are poor and worthless creatures, yet can we say with David, “Although my house be not so with God, yet He hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure.” Twice God says by Isaiah, “I have given Him for a covenant to the people” thrice happy are they who receive what God hath given, and who, in Christ, enter into that blessed bond. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

https://www.blueletterbible.org/Comm/spurgeon_charles/sermons/2238.cfm

Blessed and Envied

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For he had possession of flocks, and possession of herds, and great store of servants: and the Philistines envied him. – Genesis 26:14

While these Philistines saw that God blessed Isaac, they nevertheless envied him, as we read in the fourteenth verse. How strange it is that men, who do not care to be blessed of God themselves, envy them who are blessed of Him! I heard one say, “It is not just that God should have a chosen people.” Sir, do you want to be one of God’s people? These blessings which God gives to them, do you want to have them? You may have them, if you will. If you will not have them, I pray you do not quarrel with God because He chooses to give them where He wills…If you want the blessing of the Lord, have it even now, for my commission as an ambassador of Christ is to beseech men to be reconciled to God; if you do not want it, do not quarrel with God for giving it to His own chosen. It was so with those Philistines-they wanted not Jehovah’s blessing, and yet they envied Isaac, who had it.

But while they envied him, they feared him, and courted his favour. Do I speak to some young believer who has gone into a house of business, or some Christian woman who has been placed in a family where her religion exposes her to opposition? Let me counsel you to go straight on, taking no notice of the hindrances thrown in your way. You will first be envied; after that you will be feared; and after that you will be sought after, and your company will be desired. If you can only keep as firm as Isaac did, never losing your temper, but always being gentle, and meek, and kind, you will conquer; and you who are to-day despised, will yet come to be honoured, even as Isaac was by the very Abimelech who had, just a little while before, asked him to go away. ~ C.H. Spurgeon

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