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- Herausgeber: Editora Oxigênio
- Kategorie: Ratgeber
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016
The Relationship of Marriage is one important bible study about the marriage. A book that will bring growth and knowledge about love, and invite him to live with greater intimacy with God. Written by Charles Spurgeon, important preacher Christian.
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INTRODUCTION
C. H. SPURGEON
“Return, O backsliding children, says the Lord; for I am married to you.”
Jeremiah 3:14.
These are dainty words a grateful sedative for a troubled conscience. Such singular comfort is fitted to cheer the soul, and put the brightest hue on all her prospects. The person to whom it is addressed has an eminently happy position. Satan will be very busy with you, believer in Christ, tonight.
He will say, “What rights have you to believe that God is married to you?” He will remind you of your imperfections, and of the coldness of your love, and perhaps of the backsliding state of your heart. He will say, “What? With all this about you, can you be presumptuous enough to claim union with the Son of God? Can you venture to hope that there will be any marriage between you and the Holy One?” He will tell you as though he were an advocate for holiness, that it is not possible that such a one as you can feel yourself to be, can really be a partaker of so choice and special a privilege as being married to the Lord. Let this suffice for an answer to all such suggestions the text is found addressed, not to Christians in a flourishing state of heart, not to believers upon Mount Tabor, transfigured with Christ; not to a spouse all chaste and fair, and sitting under the banner of love, feasting with her lord; but it is addressed to those who are called “backsliding children.”
God speaks to His church in her lowest and most abject estate, and though He does not fail to rebuke her sin, to lament it, and to make her lament it too, yet still in such an estate He says to her, “I am married to you.” Oh, it is divine grace that He should be married to any of us, but it is grace at its highest pitch, it is the ocean of grace at its flood-tide, that He should speak thus of “backsliding children.” That He should speak in notes of love of any of the fallen race of Adam is “passing strange‘tis wonderful.”
But that He should select those who have behaved treacher ously toward Him, who have turned their backs to Him and not their faces, who have played Him false, although, nevertheless, His own, and say unto them, “I am married to You”this is loving-kindness beyond anything we could desire or think! Hear, O heaven, and admire, O earth, let every understanding heart break forth into singing, yes, let every humble mind bless and praise the condescension of the Most High! Cheer up poor drooping hearts. Here is sweet encouragement for some of you who are depressed, and disconsolate, and sit alone, to draw living waters out of this well. Do not let the noise of the archers keep you back from the place of the drawing of water.
Be not afraid lest you should be cursed while you are anticipating the blessing. If you do but trust in Jesus, if you have but a vital interest in the once humbled, now exalted Lord, come with holy boldness to the text and whatever comfort there is here, receive it and rejoice in it.
To this end let us attentively consider the relationship which is here spoken of, and diligently inquirehow far we are experimentally acquainted with it.
SUMMARY
CHAPTER 1
IN CONSIDERING THE RELATIONSHIP WHICH IS HERE SPOKEN OF, you will observe that the affinityofmarriage, though exceedingly near of kin, is not one of birth.
