PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH (BY SPURGEON)
Now, Lord, we ask you to help all in this house to look to Jesus Christ alone. Perhaps some backsliders here are questioning whether they ever did believe in Jesus. May they leave that question alone and believe in him now. May they be content to let the past go by the wall, and once for all come, if they never did come, and embrace the savior whom you, great God, have set forth as all-sufficient to save.
Let Peter weep bitterly, but let him come to his master again. Oh, let the most wandering, cry to you; and may they look to your holy temple; and as they look, let the eternal life stream into them again, by the energy of the eternal Spirit; and may they feel that whatever may have been the past, they are restored like prodigal children to a feast of love, restored forever to the Father’s house.
Amen.
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WEEKEND LONG READ (SERMON BY SPURGEON)
High Doctrine and Broad Doctrine
This is a statement without limitation of any kind: it has been thought to leave the free grace of God open to the free will of man, so that whosoever pleases may come and may be sure that he will not be refused. We have no permission to pare down either sentence, nor is there the slightest need to do so. The first sentence appears to me to say that God has chosen a people, and has given these people to Christ, and these people must and shall come to Christ, and so shall be saved. The second truth declares that every man who comes to Christ shall be saved, since he shall not be cast out, and that implies that he shall be received and accepted. These are two great truths; let us carry them both with us, and they will balance each other.
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