PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH (BY SPURGEON)
As we gather with our church, many of us need comfort; our heart is cast down within us. Command your loving-kindness this weekend, and let your song be with us at this moment. Up from the shades may we ascend into the eternal light. Oh, that the sun of your love might shine full on our brows, until our faces shall be bright like the face of Moses!
Oh, that we might have such fellowship with God this morning, that we might defy Satan, defy unbelief, defy the flesh, defy the world, with a holy joy which comes not of the creature, and which the creature cannot mar—a “joy unspeakable and full of glory,” a drink out of the eternal fountains, which well up from the deep which lies under, in the immutable and everlasting love and decree of God. Oh, let it be so with every child of yours this good weekend.
Amen.
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WEEKEND LONG READ (SERMON BY SPURGEON)
Now, and Then
“For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face.” (1 Corinthians 13:12)
There are many things that we have been accustomed to see that, after this transient life has passed, we shall see no more. Though we delighted in them, and they pleased our eyes while sojourning on earth, they will pass away as a dream when one awakes; we shall never see them again, and never want to see them; for our eyes in clearer light, anointed with eye-salve, shall see brighter visions, and we shall never regret what we have lost, in the presence of fairer scenes we shall have found.
Other things there are that we know now and shall never forget; we shall know them forever, only in a higher degree, because no longer with a partial knowledge; and there are some things that we see now that we shall see in eternity, only we shall see them there in a clearer light.
Read the full sermon from the Spurgeon Center for Biblical Preaching at Midwestern Seminary.
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