A Call To The Holy Living E-Book

C. H. Spurgeon

• Herausgeber: Darolt Books
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: Hope messages for quarantine
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Seitenzahl: 38

Beschreibung

A Call To The Holy Living is a message of meditation based on the Bible and written by one of the most important Christian writers of all time. A devotional message of faith and hope for you. Charles Haddon (CH) Spurgeon,19 June 1834 - 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist , defending the Church in agreement with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day. It is estimated that in his lifetime, Spurgeon preached to around 10,000,000 people,Spurgeon was the pastor of the congregation of the New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years. He was part of several controversies with the Baptist Union of Great Britain and later had to leave the denomination. In 1867, he started a charity organisation which is now called Spurgeon's and works globally. He also founded Spurgeon's College, which was named after him posthumously. Spurgeon was a prolific author of many types of works including sermons, an autobiography, commentaries, books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry, hymns and more. Many sermons were transcribed as he spoke and were translated into many languages during his lifetime. Spurgeon produced powerful sermons of penetrating thought and precise exposition. His oratory skills held his listeners spellbound in the Metropolitan Tabernacle and many Christians have discovered Spurgeon's messages to be among the best in Christian literature.

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PREFACE

About Charles Spurgeon

Charles Haddon Spurgeon (19 June 1834 – 31 January 1892) was an English Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the Church in agreement with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day.

Spurgeon was pastor of the congregation of the New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years. He was part of several controversies with the Baptist Union of Great Britain and later he left the denomination over doctrinal convictions. In 1867, he started a charity organisation which is now called Spurgeon's and works globally. He also founded Spurgeon's College, which was named after him posthumously.

Spurgeon authored many types of works including sermons, one autobiography, commentaries, books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry, hymns, and more. Many sermons were transcribed as he spoke and were translated into many languages during his lifetime. He is said to have produced powerful sermons of penetrating thought and precise exposition. His oratory skills are said to have held his listeners spellbound in the Metropolitan Tabernacle and many Christians hold his writings in exceptionally high regard among devotional literature.  

A CALL TO HOLY LIVING

IT is a very great fault in any ministry if the Doctrine of Justification by Faith alone is not most clearly taught. I will go further, and add, that it is not only a great fault, but a fatal one, for souls will never find their way to Heaven by a ministry that is not clear upon the most fundamental of Gospel Truths. We are Justified by Faith, and not by the works of the Law. 

The merit by which a soul enters Heaven is not its own: it is the Merit of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I am quite sure that you will all hold me guiltless of ever having spoken about this great Doctrine in any other than unmistakable language; if I have erred it is not in that direction. At the same time, it is a dangerous state of things if Doctrine is made to drive out Precept, and Faith is held up as making Holiness a superfluity. 

Sanctification must not be forgotten or overlaid by Justification; we must teach plainly that the Faith which saves the soul is not a dead faith, but a Faith which operates with purifying effect upon our entire nature, and produces in us fruits of Righteousness to the praise and Glory of God. 

It is not by personal Holiness that a man shall enter Heaven, but yet without Holiness shall no man see the Lord; it is not by good works that we are Justified, but if a man shall continue to live an ungodly life, his faith will not justify him, for it is not the Faith of God’s Elect, since that Faith is worked by the Holy Spirit, and conforms men to the Im  age of Christ. We must learn to place the Precepts in their right position; they are not the base of the column, they are the capital of it. Precepts are not given to us as a way to obtain Life, but as the way in which to exhibit Life. 

The commands of Christ are not upon the legal tenor of, “Do this and live,” but upon the Gospel system of, “Live and do this.” We are not to be attentive to the Precepts in order to be saved but because we are saved; our master motive is gratitude to Him who has saved us with a great Salvation. I am sure that every renewed heart here will feel no opposition to the most Holy Precepts of our Lord; however severely pure that Law may seem to be which we have just now read from this 5th Chapter of Matthew, our hearts agree with it, and we ask that we may be so renewed that our lives may be conformed to it.