Or to vary the picture; sometimes when persons are asleep, they take to walking and they will climb where others will not think of venturing. It would be if you could write now. Christmas sermons by charles spurgeon commentary. And there is certainly no reason for keeping it just now except. The birth of Christ has given such Glory to God as I know not that He could ever have had here by any other means! Am I his or am I not? They sing of Him as "a Savior, ".
They sang the story out, for they could not stay to tell it in heavy prose. Tenfold shame that there. They have proven beyond all doubt, as far as their own dogmatism is concerned, that everything is to be doubted which is most sure and that nothing is to be believed at all except the infallibility of pretenders to science! It is a fact that a child is born. God Incarnate, the End of Fear by C. Spurgeon. Times of Feasting: The Merry Bell, the Sermon Bell, and the Funeral Bell. This sacred peace between the pardoned soul and God the pardoner; this marvelous at-one-ment between the sinner and his judge, this was it that the angels sung when they said, "peace on earth. Sermons by charles spurgeon. "Oh, " saith one, "I have nothing; I am poor and penniless, and all but homeless. " "Go home, " he will soon say, "go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee, and hath had compassion on thee. " Go to thy chamber and confess that thou art vile. I finish by again saying, —. And in the midst of it they saw a shining spirit, a form, the like of which they had never beheld before, but of which they. Some Christians who are a little squeamish, do not like the word "merry. " They were calmed by that sweet comfort and enabled to listen to the announcement which followed.
In fact, he that contemplates the character of angels, and marks their many deeds of sympathy with men, and kindness towards them, cannot resist the impulse of his nature—the impulse of love towards them. All your confession cannot merit forgiveness, though God has promised to pardon the man who confesses his sin and forsakes it. Remember, he that saves a soul from death hath covereth a multitude of sins, and he shall have stars in his crown for ever and ever. All the redeemed are not yet converted, but they will be. The point of the message is that it is proper and fitting to celebrate good times, to enjoy feasts with one another. The ancients used to paint griffins, gryphons, dragons, chimeras, and all kinds of hideous things; but if a skillful hand could paint man accurately none of us would look at the picture, for it is a sight that none ever saw except the lost in hell; and that is one part of their intolerable pain, that they are compelled always to look upon themselves Now, then, see you not that ye must be born again, and unless ye are so this child is not born to you. Christmas sermons by charles spurgeon book. Feel the joy of it by simply believing, even as the shepherds did. Very few have ever been 'born king. '
But, once more, if it be so, what then? They had sung solemn songs over many a world which the Great One had created. It does not prove that you have no Grace when you doubt God's promise, but it does prove that you need more—for if you had more Grace, you would take God's Word as He gives it, and it would be said of you as of Abraham, that, "he staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief, being fully persuaded that what He had promised He was able also to perform. " Nature of any of them, nor allied Himself with them by any actual union with His Person. The infidel may dispute, but we, professing to be believers in Scripture, receive it as an undeniable truth, that God has given his only begotten Son to be the Savior of men. O you who call yourselves the. The angel called for joy, and I ask for it, too, on this ground, that the birth of this child was to bring. In the ages when there was but little benevolence, and consequently few hands to build lunatic asylums, superstition supplied the lack of charity, and silly men and women were allowed the indulgence of their fancies in secluded haunts or in easy laziness. The one incident in angelic history, to which our text refers, is enough to weld our hearts to them for ever. Mountain that might not be touched, and that burned with fire you are come unto the blood of sprinkling, which. There are no probabilities whatever that our Savior Jesus Christ was born on that day and the observance of it is purely of Popish origin; doubtless those who are Catholics have a right to hallow it, but I do not see how consistent Protestants can account it in the least sacred. "How he hath had compassion on thee. " His tender mercy had ever been over all His works, but they were still.
Are you ready to-day to write over again your consecration vow? He was a misery to himself, for he would run upon the mountains by night and day, crying and howling fearfully, cutting himself with the sharp flints, and torturing his poor body in the most frightful manner. I know it was grateful, because the man said, "I will tell thee how great things the Lord hath done for me;" and (not meaning a pun in the least degree) I may observe, that a man who is grateful is always full of the greatness of the mercy which God has shown him; he always thinks that what God has done for him is immensely good and supremely great. Superstition has fixed most positively the day of our Saviour's birth, although there is no possibility of discovering when it occurred. But I will give you a piece of advice. "Sir, " he begins, "an old rebel writes to thank you, and above all to thank his God, that his dear son has been converted. " For it was in the Person of that newborn Child that the Law must be fulfilled and in His precious. Gladsome tidings to bring to the fallen sons of men! Some of us are called to speak to the many.