Tuesday, July 19, 2011

But in the meantime



...“The Son of man came to seek and to save that which was lost.”

Concerning such a sentence I will venture to say every single syllable in the verse is worth more than whole volumes about heaven might have been, though the Spirit of God might have inspired them - worth more for present and practical purpose to us who are yet among the sons of men. Are there any dear brethren who understand the Book of Revelation, the Book of Ezekiel, and the Book of Daniel? I am pleased to hear it. But if the Lord will help me to understand Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, I shall be perfectly satisfied to go on preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ, for I think I shall get up to them by and by in their knowledge of prophecy and mystery, when I come into clearer light and see the Master face to face.

Meanwhile, there are sinners to be saved. We must go about doing this soul-saving business in his name, with the simple means put before us in the gospels and epistles, which we are enabled to understand by the Spirit of God through our own personal experience of the truth revealed.

From a sermon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon entitled "Royal Homage." Image by szeke on Flickr under Creative Commons License.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

these is a most essential point to note, the business of the kingdom, the likes of pual and the league of his kind, were a direct function of what the professy and the law had stated.the new testament is Gods change plan for his new creation, his advanced position, to redifine things fron the complicated past. if we must be sincere brethrem, we have
have dynamic issue of life to relate with at present, and we must embrace available changes..