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June 20 - July 18, 2018
It is preaching to sleepy congregations that kills good ministers.”
If we want revivals, we must revive our reverence for the Word of God. If we want conversions, we must put more of God’s Word into our sermons.”
“May I beg you carefully to judge every preacher, not by his gifts, not by his elocutionary powers, not by his status in society, not by the respectability of his congregation, not by the prettiness of his church, but by this—does he preach the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation?”
There is no such thing as preaching Christ and Him crucified unless we preach what is nowadays called Calvinism. It is a nickname to call it Calvinism; Calvinism is the Gospel and nothing else. I do not believe that we preach the Gospel unless we preach the sovereignty of God in His dispensation of grace; nor unless we exalt the electing, unchangeable, eternal, immutable, conquering love of Jehovah, nor do I think we can preach the Gospel unless we base it upon the special and particular redemption of His elect and chosen people which Christ wrought out upon the cross; nor can I comprehend the
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Christ did not die in vain for any who die in unbelief.
the intent of Christ’s death defined its extent.
both Arminians and Calvinists limit the atonement. Those who teach that Christ’s death made salvation possible limit its effect, while those who believe in a definite atonement limit its extent. Put another way, the former see an unlimited extent but a limited effect. The latter see a limited extent but an unlimited effect. Spurgeon
“I would rather believe a limited atonement that is efficacious for all men for whom it was intended, than a universal atonement that is not efficacious for anybody, except the will of men be joined with it.”
Christ came into the world not to put men into a salvable state, but into a saved state.”
“A man is not saved against his will, but he is made willing by the operation of the Holy Ghost. A mighty grace which he does not wish to resist enters into the man, disarms him, makes a new creature of him, and he is saved.”
‘They see the devil’s hook and yet cannot help nibbling at his bait.’
“I never have to reconcile friends. Divine sovereignty and human responsibility have never had a falling out with each other. I do not need to reconcile what God has joined together.”
“Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; indeed, it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.”
Preaching the gospel, Spurgeon believed, requires announcing all the truths of the Bible—both law and grace, repentance and faith, Christ’s lordship and His saviorhood, self-denial and sin’s forgiveness, even heaven and hell.
Preach the gospel, prodigals return. Preach the gospel to every creature, it is the Master’s mandate and the Master’s power to everyone who believes.”
Death-beds are stony things without the Lord Jesus Christ.
You cannot tell me you are not fit; there is no fitness wanted, the command is given and it is yours to obey, not to dispute.”
“He is not humanity deified. He is not Godhead humanized. He is God. He is man. He is all that God is, and all that man is as God created him.”
“The heart of the gospel is redemption, and the essence of redemption is the substitutionary sacrifice of Christ.”
“There is nothing for God to do. ‘It is finished.’ There is nothing for you to do. ‘It is finished.’ Christ need not bleed. ‘It is finished.’ You need not weep. ‘It is finished.’ God the Holy Spirit need not delay because of your unworthiness, nor need you delay because of your helplessness. ‘It is finished.’”
“Faithfulness requires us to give [our hearers] a four-square gospel from which nothing is omitted, and in which nothing is exaggerated.”
“The Holy Spirit will move them by first moving you. If you can rest without their being saved, they will rest, too.
“You might as well expect to raise the dead by whispering in their ears, as hope to save souls by preaching to them, if it were not for the agency of the Spirit.”
