A Gospel Promisse E-Book

C. H. Spurgeon

• Herausgeber: Selected Christian Literature
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: Selected Christian Literature
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Seitenzahl: 35

Beschreibung

A selection of Charles Spurgeon's sermons on the infinite and amazing Love of God. A Gospel Promisse is one book that will bring growth and knowledge about hope, peace and invite him to live with greater intimacy with God. Written by Charles Spurgeon was one of the most important Christian writers of all time.

Leseprobe

Sumary

Sumary

About the Author

Introduction

Who Is This Spirit?

How Does He Fulfill This Promise?

Say A Few Good And Comfortable Words To Some Of You Who May Be Anxious To Possess This Spirit Of God In Your Hearts

Exposition by C. H. Spurgeon

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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. He also famously denied being a Protestant, and held to the view of Baptist Successionism.

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 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 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 hold his writings in exceptionally high regard among devotional literature.

INTRODUCTION

“And I will put My Spirit within you, and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments, and do them.” Ezekiel 36:27. 

THE blessing here promised is one of the most essential that men can need, or that God can give. Without this blessing, all the other benefits of the covenant would be null and void. It is vain to have a Savior if we have not spiritual power to believe in Him! Of what use is it to us that there should be provided precious promises if we have no faith worked in us by the Holy Spirit whereby we can grasp those promises, plead them in prayer and obtain their fulfillment?

Without holiness, no man shall see the Lord, but holiness grows not in any human heart by nature. Therefore, without the Spirit of God, who is the Author of holiness, no man could ever become an heir of immortality, or enter into the rest which remains for the people of God! The Holy Spirit is needed for the very least form of spiritual life and is equally necessary for its highest development. Without the Holy Spirit, we cannot go through the first gate and without the Spirit we cannot pass the last. No man can say in his heart that Jesus is the Christ but by the Holy Spirit much less can any man attain to the perfection which is necessary to heaven except through the work and power of the Spirit of the living God!

I am always apprehensive lest by any means in my ministry I should even seem to obscure this blessed and indispensable agency of the Holy Spirit. Oh! if the Spirit of God is not honored if He takes offense at our neglect if He withdraw from us of what use will be our congregations? Of what use our earnestness, even if we could maintain it? To what purpose your assembling for prayer if you had not any wish to gather? Without Him, we can do nothing!

He breathes all the animation into the Christian Church! Jesus is gone from us into heaven, but He continues to reign and rule in our midst by His vicegerent, the Holy Spirit! Let us honor Him.

Let us rely upon Him. Let us earnestly seek Him. Let it be ours to declare Him, those of us who have to speak, and yours to receive Him, those of you who have to hear!