"Perfect in Christ Jesus."

—Colossians 1:28.

DO you not feel in your own soul that perfection is not in you?
Does not every day teach you that?
Every tear which trickles from your eye, weeps "imperfection"; every harsh word
which proceeds from your lip, mutters "imperfection."

You have too frequently had a view of your own heart to dream
for a moment of any perfection in yourself.

But amidst this sad consciousness of imperfection,
here is comfort for you—you are "perfect in Christ Jesus."

In God's sight, you are "complete in Him;" even now you are "accepted in the Beloved."
But there is a second perfection, yet to be realized, which is sure to all the seed.

Is it not delightful to look forward to the time when every stain of sin shall be removed from the believer, and he shall be presented faultless before the throne, without spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing?

The Church of Christ then will be so pure, that not even the eye of Omniscience will see a spot or blemish in her; so holy and so glorious, that Hart did not go beyond the truth when he said—

"With my Saviour's garments on,
Holy as the Holy One."
Then shall we know, and taste, and feel the happiness of this vast but short sentence, "Complete in Christ." Not till then shall we fully comprehend the heights and depths of the salvation of Jesus.

 Doth not thy heart leap for joy at the thought of it? 

Black as thou art, thou shalt be white one day; filthy as thou art, thou shalt be clean.

 Oh, it is a marvellous salvation this! Christ takes a worm and transforms it into an angel;

 Christ takes a black and deformed thing and makes it clean and matchless in His glory, 

peerless in His beauty, and fit to be the companion of seraphs. 

O my soul, stand and admire this blessed truth of perfection in Christ.

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The heart—a den of evil !!!

‘For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies.’ Matthew 15:19

Suggested Further Reading: Psalm 58:1–6

Your child will have evil thoughts without your sending him to a diabolical infant school; children who have been brought up in the midst of honesty, will be found guilty of little thefts early enough in life. 

False witness, which is one form of lying, is so common, that perhaps to find a tongue which never did bear false witness would be to find a tongue that never spoke.

 Is this caused by education or by nature? It is so common a thing that even when the ear has heard nothing but the most rigid truth, children learn to lie and men commonly do lie and love to tell an evil tale against their fellow men whether it be true or not, bearing false witness with an avidity which is perfectly shocking.

 Is this a matter of education, or is it a depraved heart? Some men will wilfully invent a slanderous lie, knowing that they need not take any special care of their offspring, for they may lay it in the street and the first passer-by will take it up and nurse it, and the lie will be carried in triumph round the world; whereas a piece of truth which would have done honour to a good man’s character, will be left to be forgotten till God shall remember it at the day of judgment. 

You never need educate any man into sin. The serpent is scarcely born before it rears itself and begins to hiss. The young lion may be nurtured in your parlour, but it will develop ere long the same thirst for blood as if it were in the forest. So is it with man; he sins as naturally as the young lion seeks for blood, or the young serpent stores up venom.

For meditation:
Adam and Eve were created sinless in God’s image (Genesis 1:27; 5:1); they became sinners and as the result of disobedience Adam’s children were born sinful in his image (Genesis 5:3 ).

Everybody since has sinned as the result of being born a sinner—except for the Son of God who was born in the likeness of sinful flesh i.e. in real, but sinless, flesh. Are you trusting in him alone as the one who was punished in his own flesh for your sin (Romans 8:3)?


Sermon no. 732
27 January (1867)

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Precious Repentance !!!

And there shall ye remember your ways, and all your doings, wherein ye have been defiled; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for all your evils that ye have committed. (Ezekiel 20:43)

When we are accepted of the Lord and are standing in the place of favor, and peace, and safety, then we are led to repent of all our failures and miscarriages toward our gracious God.

 So precious is repentance that we may call it a diamond of the first water, and this is sweetly promised to the people of God as one most sanctifying result of salvation.

 He who accepts repentance also gives repentance; and He gives it not out of "the bitter box" but from among those "wafers made with honey" on which He feeds His people.

A sense of blood-bought pardon and of undeserved mercy

 is the best means of dissolving a heart of stone.

Are we feeling hard?

 Let us think of covenant love, and then we shall leave sin, lament sin, and loathe sin; yea,

we shall loathe ourselves for sinning against such infinite love.

 Let us come to God with this promise of penitence and ask Him to help us to remember,

and repent, and regret, and re-turn.

Oh, that we could enjoy the meltings of holy sorrow!

What a relief would a flood of tears be!

Lord, smite the rock, or speak to the rock, and cause the waters to flow!

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God Routs Fear !!!

Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel. (Numbers 23:23)

How this should cut up root and branch all silly, superstitious fears! 
Even if there were any truth in witchcraft and omens, they could not affect the people of the Lord. 
Those whom God blessed, devils cannot curse.


Ungodly men, like Balaam, may cunningly plot the overthrow of the Lord's Israel; 
but with all their secrecy and policy they are doomed to fail. 


Their powder is damp; the edge of their sword is blunted. 
They gather together; but as the Lord is not with them, they gather together in vain. 


We may sit still and let them weave their nets, for we shall not be taken in them.
 Though they call in the aid of Beelzebub and employ all his serpentine craft, it will avail them 
nothing: the spells will not work, the divination will deceive them. 


What a blessing this is!
How it quiets the heart! 
God's Jacobs wrestle with God, but none shall wrestle with them and prevail. 


God's Israels have to prevail against them. 
We need not fear the fiend himself, nor any of those secret enemies whose 
words are full of deceit and whose plans are deep and unfathomable. 


They cannot hurt those who trust in the living God. 
We defy the devil and all his legions.

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He Acts on Honest Confession

He looketh upon men, and if any say, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not; he will deliver his soul from going into the pit, and his life shall see the light. (Job 33:27-28)

This is a word of truth, gathered from the experience of a man of God, and it is tantamount to a promise. 

What the Lord has done, and is doing, He will continue to do while the world standeth.

 The Lord will receive into His bosom all who come to Him with a sincere confession of their sin; in fact, He is always on the lookout to discover any that are in trouble because of their faults.

Can we not endorse the language here used? 

Have we not sinned, sinned personally so as to say,

 "I have sinned"?

 Sinned willfully, having perverted that which is right?

 Sinned so as to discover that there is no profit in it but an eternal loss?

 Let us, then, go to God with this honest acknowledgment.

 He asks no more. We can do no less.

Let us plead His promise in the name of Jesus. 

He will deliver us from the pit of hell which yawns for us; He will grant us life and light.

 Why should we despair?

 Why should we even doubt? 

The Lord does not mock humble souls. He means what He says. 

The guilty can be forgiven. 

Those who deserve execution can receive free pardon.

 Lord, we confess, and we pray Thee to forgive!

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True God from True God

When John fell down to worship one of the angels he received an earnest protest, 

“See thou do it not.” 

Now, if the worship given to Christ had been wrong, the thrice holy Savior would have exclaimed most earnestly, “See thou do it not”; but he intimates no objection to the worship, although it is freely rendered by all the intelligent beings before the throne.

 Depend upon it, my hearer, you never will go to heaven unless you are prepared to worship Jesus Christ as God.

They are all doing it there: you will have to come to it, and if you entertain the notion that he is a mere man, or that he is anything less than God, I am afraid you will have to begin at the beginning 

and learn what true religion means. 

You have a poor foundation to rest upon. 

I could not trust my soul with a mere man, or believe in an atonement made by a mere man: I must see God himself putting his hand to so gigantic a work.

 I cannot imagine a mere man being thus praised as the Lamb is praised. 

Jesus is “God over all, blessed for ever.” When we ever speak at all severely of Socinians and Unitarians you must not be surprised at it, because if we are right they are blasphemers, and if they are right we are idolaters, there is no choice between the two. We never could agree, and never shall while the world standeth.

We preach Christ the Son of God as very God of very God, and if they reject him it is not for us to pretend that it makes no difference, when in fact it makes all the difference in the world. 

We would not wish them to say more than they believe to be true, and they must not expect us to say less than we believe to be true. If Jesus be God, they must believe it, and must worship him as such, or else they cannot participate in the salvation which he has provided.

 I love the deity of Christ! I preach his humanity with all my might, and I rejoice that he is the son of man; but oh, he must be the Son of God too, or there is no peace for me. 

From a sermon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon entitled "Jesus, The Delight Of Heaven."

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Care of Our Feet

He will keep the feet of his saints. (1 Samuel 2:9)

The way is slippery and our feet are feeble, but the Lord will keep our feet. 

If we give ourselves up by obedient faith to be His holy ones, He will Himself be our guardian.

 Not only will He charge His angels to keep us, but He Himself will preserve our goings.

He will keep our feet from falling so that we do not defile our garments, 

wound our souls, and cause the enemy to blaspheme.

He will keep our feet from wandering so that we do not go into paths of error, 

or ways of folly, or courses of the world's custom.

He will keep our feet from swelling through weariness,

 or blistering because of the roughness and length of the way.

He will keep our feet from wounding: our shoes shall be iron and brass so that even though we tread on the edge of the sword, or on deadly serpents, we shall not bleed or be poisoned.

He will also pluck our feet out of the net. 

We shall not be entangled by the deceit of our malicious and crafty foes.

With such a promise as this, let us run without weariness and walk without fear.

 He who keeps our feet will do it effectually.

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"I have exalted one chosen out of the people."

—Psalm 89:19.

WHY was Christ chosen out of the people?
 Speak, my heart, for heart-thoughts are best.

 Was it not that He might be able to be our brother, in the blest tie of kindred blood?
Oh, what relationship there is between Christ and the believer!

The believer can say, "I have a Brother in heaven;
I may be poor, but I have a Brother who is rich, and is a King, and will He suffer me to want while
 He is on His throne? Oh, no! He loves me; He is my Brother."

Believer, wear this blessed thought, like a necklace of diamonds, around the neck of thy memory;
 put it, as a golden ring, on the finger of recollection, and use it as the King's own seal, stamping the petitions of thy faith with confidence of success.

 He is a brother born for adversity, treat Him as such.
Christ was also chosen out of the people that He might know our wants and sympathize with us.
"He was tempted in all points like as we are, yet without sin."

In all our sorrows we have His sympathy. Temptation, pain, disappointment, weakness, weariness, poverty—He knows them all, for He has felt all. Remember this, Christian, and let it comfort thee.

However difficult and painful thy road, it is marked by the footsteps of thy Saviour; and even when thou reachest the dark valley of the shadow of death, and the deep waters of the swelling Jordan,
 thou wilt find His footprints there.

 In all places whithersoever we go, He has been our forerunner; each burden we have to carry, has once been laid on the shoulders of Immanuel.

"His way was much rougher and darker than mine
Did Christ, my Lord, suffer, and shall I repine?"
Take courage! Royal feet have left a blood-red track upon the road, and consecrated the thorny path for ever.

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THESE words are for the humbling of God's people

"Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?"

—Ezekiel 15:2.


THESE words are for the humbling of God's people; they are called God's vine, but what are they by nature more than others? They, by God's goodness, have become fruitful, having been planted in a good soil; the Lord hath trained them upon the walls of the sanctuary, and they bring forth fruit to His glory; but what are they without their God? What are they without the continual influence of the Spirit, begetting fruitfulness in them? O believer, learn to reject pride, seeing that thou hast no ground for it.

Whatever thou art, thou hast nothing to make thee proud. The more thou hast, the more thou art in debt to God; and thou shouldst not be proud of that which renders thee a debtor. Consider thine origin; look back to what thou wast. Consider what thou wouldst have been but for divine grace.

Look upon thyself as thou art now. Doth not thy conscience reproach thee? Do not thy thousand wanderings stand before thee, and tell thee that thou art unworthy to be called His son? And if He hath made thee anything, art thou not taught thereby that it is grace which hath made thee to differ? Great believer, thou wouldst have been a great sinner if God had not made thee to differ.

O thou who art valiant for truth, thou wouldst have been as valiant for error if grace had not laid hold upon thee. Therefore, be not proud, though thou hast a large estate—a wide domain of grace, thou hadst not once a single thing to call thine own except thy sin and misery.

Oh! strange infatuation, that thou, who hast borrowed everything, shouldst think of exalting thyself; a poor dependent pensioner upon the bounty of thy Saviour, one who hath a life which dies without fresh streams of life from Jesus, and yet proud! Fie on thee, O silly heart!

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