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Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.28.15

Sunday, June 28, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “But Aaron’s rod swallowed up their rods.”—Exodus 7:12. THIS incident is an instructive emblem of the sure victory of the divine handiwork over all opposition. Whenever a divine principle is cast into the heart, though the devil may fashion a counterfeit, and produce swarms of opponents, as sure as ever… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.27.15

Saturday, June 27, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called.”—1 Corinthians 7:20. SOME persons have the foolish notion that the only way in which they can live for God is by becoming ministers, missionaries, or Bible women. Alas! how many would be shut out from any opportunity of… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.26.15

Friday, June 26, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.”—2 Peter 1:4. VANISH for ever all thought of indulging the flesh if you would live in the power of your risen Lord. It were ill that a man who is alive in Christ should dwell in the corruption of… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.25.15

Thursday, June 25, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The dove found no rest for the sole of her foot.”—Genesis 8:9. READER, can you find rest apart from the ark, Christ Jesus? Then be assured that your religion is vain. Are you satisfied with anything short of a conscious knowledge of your union and interest in Christ? Then woe… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.24.15

Wednesday, June 24, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said . . . Be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods.”—Daniel 3:16, 18. THE narrative of the manly courage and marvellous deliverance of the three holy children, or rather champions, is well calculated to excite in the… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.23.15

Tuesday, June 23, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Waiting for the adoption.”—Romans 8:23. EVEN in this world saints are God’s children, but men cannot discover them to be so, except by certain moral characteristics. The adoption is not manifested, the children are not yet openly declared. Among the Romans a man might adopt a child, and keep it… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.22.15

Monday, June 22, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “That those things which cannot be shaken may remain.”—Hebrews 12:27. WE have many things in our possession at the present moment which can be shaken, and it ill becomes a Christian man to set much store by them, for there is nothing stable beneath these rolling skies; change is written… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.21.15

Sunday, June 21, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The foundation of God standeth sure.”—2 Timothy 2:19. THE foundation upon which our faith rests is this, that “God was in Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trespasses unto them.” The great fact on which genuine faith relies is, that “the Word was made flesh and dwelt… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.20.15

Saturday, June 20, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Straightway they forsook their nets, and followed Him.”—Mark 1:18. WHEN they heard the call of Jesus, Simon and Andrew obeyed at once without demur. If we would always, punctually and with resolute zeal, put in practice what we hear upon the spot, or at the first fit occasion, our attendance… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.19.15

Friday, June 19, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “My Beloved is mine, and I am His: He feedeth among the lilies. Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my Beloved, and be Thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.”—Song of Solomon 2:16, 17. SURELY if there be a happy… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.18.15

Thursday, June 18, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse.”—Song of Solomon 5:1. THE heart of the believer is Christ’s garden. He bought it with His precious blood, and He enters it and claims it as His own. A garden implies separation. It is not the open common; it is… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.17.15

Wednesday, June 17, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Then Israel sang this song, Spring up, O well; sing ye unto it.”—Numbers 21:17. FAMOUS was the well of Beer in the wilderness, because it was the subject of a promise: “That is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.16.15

Tuesday, June 16, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?”—Psalm 27:1. THE Lord is my light and my salvation.” Here is personal interest, “my light,” “my salvation”; the soul is assured of it, and… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.15.15

Monday, June 15, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He openeth, and no man shutteth.”—Revelation 3:7. JESUS is the keeper of the gates of paradise and before every believing soul He setteth an open door, which no man or devil shall be able to close against it. What joy it will be to find that faith in Him is… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.14.15

Sunday, June 14, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “O Lord, to us belongeth confusion of face . . . because we have sinned against Thee.”—Daniel 9:8. Adeep sense and clear sight of sin, its heinousness, and the punishment which it deserves, should make us lie low before the throne. We have sinned as Christians. Alas! that it should… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.13.15

Saturday, June 13, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Remove far from me vanity and lies.”—Proverbs 30:8. O my God, be not far from me.” Psalm 38:21. Here we have two great lessons—what to deprecate and what to supplicate. The happiest state of a Christian is the holiest state. As there is the most heat nearest to the sun,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.12.15

Friday, June 12, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Who hath saved us, and called us with an holy calling.” 2 Timothy 1:9. THE apostle uses the perfect tense and says, “Who hath saved us.” Believers in Christ Jesus are saved. They are not looked upon as persons who are in a hopeful state, and may ultimately be saved,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.11.15

Thursday, June 11, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “There brake He the arrows of the bow, the shield, and the sword, and the battle.”—Psalm 76:3. OUR Redeemer’s glorious cry of “It is finished,” was the death-knell of all the adversaries of His people, the breaking of “the and the battle.” Behold the hero of Golgotha using His cross… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.10.15

Wednesday, June 10, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “They are they which testify of Me.”—John 5:39. JESUS Christ is the Alpha and Omega of the Bible. He is the constant theme of its sacred pages; from first to last they testify of Him. At the creation we at once discern Him as one of the sacred Trinity; we… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.09.15

Tuesday, June 09, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Search the Scriptures.”—John 5:39. THE Greek word here rendered search signifies a strict, close, diligent, curious search, such as men make when they are seeking gold, or hunters when they are in earnest after game. We must not rest content with having given a superficial reading to a chapter or… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.08.15

Monday, June 08, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Thou shalt see now whether My word shall come to pass unto thee or not.”—Numbers 11:23. GOD had made a positive promise to Moses that for the space of a whole month He would feed the vast host in the wilderness with flesh. Moses, being overtaken by a fit of… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.07.15

Sunday, June 07, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Be zealous.”—Revelation 3:19. IF you would see souls converted, if you would hear the cry that “the kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord”; if you would place crowns upon the head of the Saviour, and His throne lifted high, then be filled with zeal. For,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.06.15

Saturday, June 06, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Are they Israelites? so am I.”—2 Corinthians 11:22. WE have here A PERSONAL CLAIM, and one that needs proof. The apostle knew that His claim was indisputable, but there are many persons who have no right to the title who yet claim to belong to the Israel of God. If… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.05.15

Friday, June 05, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He that loveth not knoweth not God.”—1 John 4:8. THE distinguishing mark of a Christian is his confidence in the love of Christ, and the yielding of his affections to Christ in return. First, faith sets her seal upon the man by enabling the soul to say with the apostle,… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.04.15

04. Thursday, June 04, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Received up into glory.”—1 Timothy 3:16. WE have seen our well-beloved Lord in the days of His flesh, humiliated and sore vexed; for He was “despised and rejected of men, a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief.” He whose brightness is as the morning, wore the sackcloth of… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.03.15

Wednesday, June 03, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He humbled Himself.”—Philippians 2:8. JESUS is the great teacher of lowliness of heart. We need daily to learn of Him. See the Master taking a towel and washing His disciples’ feet! Follower of Christ, wilt thou not humble thyself? See Him as the Servant of servants, and surely thou canst… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.02.15

Tuesday, June 02, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Good Master.”—Matthew 19:16. IF the young man in the gospel used this title in speaking to our Lord, how much more fitly may I thus address Him! He is indeed my Master in both senses, a ruling Master and a teaching Master. I delight to run upon His errands, and… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 06.01.15

Monday, June 01, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “He will make her wilderness like Eden.”—Isaiah 51:3. METHINKS, I see in vision a howling wilderness, a great and terrible desert, like to the Sahara. I perceive nothing in it to relieve the eye, all around I am wearied with a vision of hot and arid sand, strewn with ten… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.31.15

Sunday, May 31, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Who healeth all thy diseases.”—Psalm 103:3. HUMBLING as is the statement, yet the fact is certain, that we are all more or less suffering under the disease of sin. What a comfort to know that we have a great Physician who is both able and willing to heal us! Let… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.30.15

Saturday, May 30, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “That henceforth we should not serve sin.”—Romans 6:6. CHRISTIAN, what hast thou to do with sin? Hath it not cost thee enough already? Burnt child, wilt thou play with the fire? What! when thou hast already been between the jaws of the lion, wilt thou step a second time into… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.29.15

Friday, May 29, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Cursed be the man before the Lord, that riseth up and buildeth this city Jericho.”—Joshua 6:26. SINCE he was cursed who rebuilt Jericho, I much more the man who labours to restore Popery among us. In our fathers’ days the gigantic walls of Popery fell by the power of their… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.28.15

Thursday, May 28, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.”—Lamentations 3:21. MEMORY is frequently the bondslave of despondency. Despairing minds call to remembrance every dark foreboding in the past, and dilate upon every gloomy feature in the present; thus memory, clothed in sackcloth, presents to the mind a cup of… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.27.15

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?”—2 Samuel 9:8. IF Mephibosheth was thus humbled by David’s kindness, what shall we be in the presence of our gracious Lord? The more grace we have, the less we shall think of ourselves, for… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.26.15

Tuesday, May 26, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “Continue in the faith.”—Acts 14:22. PERSEVERANCE is the badge of true saints. The Christian life is not a beginning only in the ways of God, but also a continuance in the same as long as life lasts. It is with a Christian as it was with the great Napoleon: he… (more…)

Evening’s With Charles Spurgeon ~ 05.25.15

Monday, May 25, 2015 This Evening’s Meditation C. H. Spurgeon “And they rose up the same hour, and returned Jerusalem . . . and they told what things were done in the way, and how He was known of them.”—Luke 24:33,35. WHEN the two disciples had reached Emmaus, and were refreshing themselves at the evening meal, the mysterious stranger who… (more…)

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