ENCOURAGEMENT FOR PASTORS (BY SPURGEON)
Brother, if you preach God’s Word as he gives it to you, you have nothing to do with the consequences that come of it. God will justify his own truth; and even if it should seem that the worst rather than the best consequences ensue, it is for you still to go on in the name of him who sent you. Whenever you and I begin to try to manage God’s kingdom for him, we find the divine scepter too heavy for our little hands to hold; our case would be like that of Phaeton trying to drive the horses in the chariot of the sun. We cannot hold the reins of the universe.
SERMON ILLUSTRATION (BY SPURGEON)
Spurgeon was a master illustrator. You can use this illustration in your own preaching to describe the power of Christ to save us.
A lady is the wife of the most eminent physician of the day. She is seized with a dangerous illness and is smitten down by its power. Yet she is wonderfully calm and quiet, for her husband has made this disease his special study and has healed thousands similarly afflicted. She is not in the least troubled, for she feels perfectly safe in the hands of one so dear to her, in whom skill and love are blended in their highest forms. Her faith is reasonable and natural; her husband from every point of view deserves it of her.
This is the kind of faith that the happiest of believers exercise toward Christ. There is no physician like him; none can save as he can. We love him, and he loves us, and therefore we put ourselves into his hands, accept whatever he prescribes, and do whatever he bids. We feel that nothing can be wrongly ordered while he is the director of our affairs, for he loves us too well to let us perish or suffer a single needless pang.
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Brothers,
Christ really is able to save his people, root out our sin, and prove his Word. He is the mighty savior, the husband-physician who will do the work of ministry.
We labor with the great assurance that God will certainly accomplish his purposes.
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Blessings to your ministry,
Doug H.
Creator of SpurgeonBooks