The necessity of human agency.

"Launch out into the deep, and let down your nets for a draught."

—Luke 5:4.

WE learn from this narrative, the necessity of human agency.
The draught of fishes was miraculous, yet neither the fisherman nor his boat, nor his fishing tackle were ignored; but all were used to take the fishes. So in the saving of souls, God worketh by means; and while the present economy of grace shall stand, God will be pleased by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

When God worketh without instruments, doubtless He is glorified; but He hath Himself selected the plan of instrumentality as being that by which He is most magnified in the earth. Means of themselves are utterly unavailing.

"Master, we have toiled all the night and have taken nothing."
What was the reason of this? Were they not fishermen plying their special calling? Verily, they were no raw hands; they understood the work.

Had they gone about the toil unskillfully? No. Had they lacked industry? No, they had toiled. Had they lacked perseverance? No, they had toiled all the night. Was there a deficiency of fish in the sea? Certainly not, for as soon as the Master came, they swam to the net in shoals. What, then, is the reason? Is it because there is no power in the means of themselves apart from the presence of Jesus? "Without Him we can do nothing.
" But with Christ we can do all things.


Christ's presence confers success.
Jesus sat in Peter's boat, and His will, by a mysterious influence, drew the fish to the net. When Jesus is lifted up in His Church, His presence is the Church's power—the shout of a king is in the midst of her. "I, if I be lifted up, will draw all men unto me."

Let us go out on our work of soul fishing, looking up in faith, and around us in solemn anxiety. Let us toil till night comes, and we shall not labour in vain, for He who bids us let down the net, will fill it with fishes.

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from the "Prince of Preachers," 

Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

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The best news man ever heard

The best news man ever heard ¡¡¡

"Ye are brought with a price."
To every man of whom this may be said, it is the best news he ever heard. 

An angel sent from heaven could not bring to any man or woman here a more delightful message than this, “Thou art bought with a price, even with the precious blood of Christ.” 

“Ye are Christ’s,” says the apostle in the chapter we read to you (1 Corinthians 3.), 

and he seemed as if his heart glowed as he said it. 

He even made it the climax of a remarkable burst of eloquence. 

“Therefore let no man glory in men.

For all things are yours; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, 

or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours; and ye are Christ’s; 

and Christ is God’s.”

To be bought with a price is the grandest distinction of our manhood, 

and lifts us above angels themselves. 

It puts great honor upon the saints, even as the Lord has said, 

“Since thou wast precious in my sight, 

thou hast been honorable and I have loved thee."

 

From a sermon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon entitled "Redemption And Its Claims," delivered March 8, 1874.

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Always First in Fellowship

Always First in Fellowship

He goeth before you into Gailee; there shall ye see him, as he said unto you. (Mark 16:7)

Where He appointed to meet His disciples, there He would be in due time.

 Jesus keeps His trust. If He promises to meet us at the mercy seat, or in public worship, or in the ordinances, we may depend upon it that He will be there.

 We may wickedly stay away from the appointed meeting place, but He never does. 

He says, "Where two or three are met together in my name, there am I"; He says not, 

"There will I be," but, "I am there already."

Jesus is always first in fellowship: "He goeth before you."

 His heart is with His people, His delight is in them, He is never slow to meet them.

 In all fellowship He goeth before us.

But He reveals Himself to those who come after Him: "There shall ye see him."

 Joyful sight! We care not to see the greatest of mere men, but to see Him is to be filled with joy and peace.

 And we shall see Him, for He promises Himself to them. 

Rest assured that it will be so, for He does everything according to His word of promise: "

As he said unto you.

 Catch at those last words, 

and be assured that to the end He will do for you 

"as he said unto you."

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

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The Voice of the Spirit Himself

 The Voice of the Spirit Himself

The law of God is not given to us to be laid by upon the shelf to be obeyed at some future period of life, and the gospel of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is not so intended for the eleventh hour as to be lightly trifled with during the first ten.


 Wherever the Holy Ghost exhorts, he speaks in the present tense, and bids us now repent, or now believe, or now seek the Lord.

I pray you ever remember whenever you read the Bible, that it is the Spirit of the living God who there admonishes you to immediate obedience. 


The calls of the inspired word are not those of Moses, or David, or Paul, or Peter, but the solemn utterances of the Holy Ghost speaking through them. 


With what a dignity does this truth invest Holy Scripture, and with what solemnity does it surround our reading of it! Cavilling at Scripture, trifling with it, disputing its doctrines, or neglecting its admonitions, we grieve the Spirit of God; and this is very dangerous ground to trespass on, for although he is longsuffering and pitiful, yet remember it is of the sin against the Holy Ghost that it is said, “It shall never be forgiven.” 


Not every sin against the Holy Ghost is unpardonable; God be thanked for that; but still there is a sin against the Holy Spirit: which shall never be forgiven: therefore do we tread, I say, on very delicate ground when we vex him, as we do if at any time in reading his word we count his teachings to be light matters.
Beware, I say, ye men of England, who have your Bibles in your houses among whom the word of the Lord is common as wheaten bread, beware how ye treat it; for in rejecting it ye reject not alone the voice of apostles and prophets, but the voice of the Holy Spirit himself.

From a sermon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon entitled "The Entreaty of the Holy Ghost," delivered March 1, 1874. 

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

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The Leadership of Our Guide

The Leadership of Our Guide

Howbeit when he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth. (John 16:13)

Truth is like a vast cavern into which we desire to enter, but we are not able to traverse it alone. At the entrance it is clear and bright; but if we would go further and explore its innermost recesses, we must have a guide, or we shall lose ourselves. 

The Holy Spirit, who knows all truth perfectly, is the appointed guide of all true believers, and He conducts them as they are able to bear it, from one inner chamber to another, so that they behold the deep things of God, and His secret is made plain to them.

What a promise is this for the humbly inquiring mind! 

We desire to know the truth and to enter into it. 

We are conscious of our own aptness to err, and we feel the urgent need of a guide. 

We rejoice that the Holy Spirit is come and abides among us.

 He condescends to act as a guide to us, and we gladly accept His leadership. 

"All truth" 

we wish to learn, that we may not be one-sided and out of balance. 

We would not be willingly ignorant of any part of revelation lest thereby we should miss blessing or incur sin. 

The Spirit of God has come that He may guide us into all truth: let us with obedient hearts hearken to His words and follow His lead.

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

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An offensive salvation !!!

An offensive salvation

Pride is woven into man’s nature.

 The prodigal became a prodigal through his love of independence, he desired his own portion of goods to do as he liked with.

 After he became a prodigal his time was occupied with spending — he spent his money riotously; he loved to play the fine gentleman and spend. 

Even when the prodigal came to himself the old idea of paying was still to him, and he desired to be a hired servant, so that if he could not pay in money he would pay in labor.

We do not like to be saved by charity, and so to have no corner in which to sit and boast. 

We long to make provision for a little self-congratulation. 

You insult a moral man if you tell him that he must be saved in the same way as a thief or a murderer, yet this is no more than the truth. 

For a woman of purity to be told that the same grace which saved a Magdalene is necessary for her salvation is so humbling, that her indignation is roused, and yet it is the fact, 

for in every case salvation is “without money and without price.” 

From a sermon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon entitled "Without Money And Without Price," delivered March 8, 1871.

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Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

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ALL the strength supplied to us by our gracious God

"He arose, and did eat and drink, and went in the strength of that meat forty days and forty nights."—1 Kings 19:8.

ALL the strength supplied to us by our gracious God is meant for service, 
not for wantonness or boasting. 


When the prophet Elijah found the cake baked on the coals, and the cruse of water placed at his head, as he lay under the juniper tree, he was no gentleman to be gratified with dainty fare that he might stretch himself at his ease; far otherwise, he was commissioned to go forty days and forty nights in the strength of it, journeying towards Horeb, the mount of God. 


When the Master invited the disciples to "Come and dine" with Him, after the feast was concluded He said to Peter, "Feed my sheep"; further adding, "Follow me." Even thus it is with us; we eat the bread of heaven, that we may expend our strength in the Master's service. 


We come to the passover, and eat of the paschal lamb with loins girt, and staff in hand, so as to start off at once when we have satisfied our hunger.


 Some Christians are for living on Christ, but are not so anxious to live for Christ. 
Earth should be a preparation for heaven; and heaven is the place where saints feast most and work most. 


They sit down at the table of our Lord, and they serve Him day and night in His temple. 
They eat of heavenly food and render perfect service.


Believer, in the strength you daily gain from Christ labour for Him. 
Some of us have yet to learn much concerning the design of our Lord in giving us His grace. 


We are not to retain the precious grains of truth as the Egyptian mummy held the wheat for ages, without giving it an opportunity to grow: we must sow it and water it.


 Why does the Lord send down the rain upon the thirsty earth, and give the genial sunshine?
 Is it not that these may all help the fruits of the earth to yield food for man?


Even so the Lord feeds and refreshes our souls that we may afterwards use our renewed strength in the promotion of His glory.

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Reflection and inspiration 

from the "Prince of Preachers," 

Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

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The Mighty Magnet !!!

The Mighty Magnet

And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto me. (John 12:32)

Come, ye workers, be encouraged. 

You fear that you cannot draw a congregation. 

Try the preaching of a crucified, risen, and ascended Savior; for this is the greatest "draw" 

that was ever yet manifested among men. 

What drew you to Christ but Christ? 

What draws you to Him now but His own blessed self?

 If you have been drawn to religion by anything else, you will soon be drawn away from it; 

but Jesus has held you and will hold you even to the end. 

Why, then, doubt His power to draw other?

 Go with the name of Jesus to those who have hitherto been stubborn and see if it does not draw them.

No sort of man is beyond this drawing power.

 Old and young, rich and poor, ignorant and leaned, depraved or amiable—

all men shall feel the attractive force. 

Jesus is the one magnet. 

Let us not think of any other. 

Music will not draw to Jesus, neither will eloquence, logic, ceremonial, or noise.

 Jesus Himself must draw men to Himself; and Jesus is quite equal to the work in every case. 

Be not tempted by the quackeries of the day; but as workers for the Lord work in His own way, and draw with the Lord's own cords. 

Draw to Christ, and draw by Christ, for then Christ will draw by you.

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Reflection and inspiration 

from the "Prince of Preachers," 

Charles Haddon Spurgeon.

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