Comfort for the Despoding E-Book

C. H. Spurgeon

• Herausgeber: Selected Christian Literature
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: Hope messages in times of crisis
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Seitenzahl: 40

Beschreibung

A selection of Charles Spurgeon's sermons on the infinite and amazing Love of God. Comfort for the Despoding 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

Summary

Summary

About the Author

Introduction

First, There Is A Complaint

But Now We Are About To Take These Different Characters And Tell You The Cause And Cure

And Now, The Closing Up Is To Be An Exhortation

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

 “Oh that I were as in months past.” Job 29:2.

For the most part, the gracious Shepherd leads His people beside the still waters and makes them to lie down in green pastures.

But at times they wander through a wilderness where there is no water and they find no city to dwell in. Hungry and thirsty, their soul faints within them and they cry unto the Lord in their trouble. Though many of His people live in almost constant joy and find that religion’s ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace, yet there are many who pass through fire and through water men ride over their heads they endure all manner of trouble and sorrow.

The duty of the minister is to preach to different characters. Sometimes we admonish the confident, lest they should become presumptuous.

Oftentimes we stir up the slumbering, lest they should sleep the sleep of death. Frequently we comfort the desponding and this is our duty this morning or if not to comfort them, to give them some exhortation which may, by God’s help, be the means of bringing them out of the sad condition into which they have fallen, so that they may not be obliged to cry out forever “Oh that I were as in months past!”

At once to the subject: A complaint its cause and cure. And then close up with an exhortation  to stir up your pure minds, if you are in such a position.

I. FIRST, THERE IS A COMPLAINT

How many a Christian looks on the past with pleasure, on the future with dread and on the present with sorrow! There are many who look back upon the days that they have passed in the fear of the Lord as being the sweetest and the best they have ever had. But as to the present, it is clad in a sable garb of gloom and dreariness. 

They could wish for their young days over, again, that they might live near to Jesus for now they feel that they have wandered from Him, or that He has hidden His face from them and they cry out, “Oh that I were as in months past!”

1. Let us take distinct cases, one by one. The first is the case of a man who has lost the brightness of his evidences and is crying out, “Oh that I were as in months past!” Hear his soliloquy “Oh that my past days could be recalled! Then I had no doubt of my salvation. If any man had asked for the reason of the hope that was in me, I could have answered with meekness and with fear. No doubt distressed me, no fear harassed me. I could say with Paul, ‘I know whom I have believed,’ and with Job, ‘I know that my Redeemer lives:

My steady soul did fear no more 

Than solid rocks when billows roar.’ 

“I felt myself to be standing on the Rock, Christ Jesus. I said:

‘Let cares like a wild deluge come, 

And storms of sorrow fall! 

Surely I shall safely reach my home,