"The wrath to come."

—Matthew 3:7.

IT is pleasant to pass over a country after a storm has spent itself; to smell the freshness of the herbs after the rain has passed away, and to note the drops while they glisten like purest diamonds in the sunlight.

That is the position of a Christian. He is going through a land where the storm has spent itself upon His Saviour's head, and if there be a few drops of sorrow falling, they distil from clouds of mercy, and Jesus cheers him by the assurance that they are not for his destruction.

But how terrible is it to witness the approach of a tempest: to note the forewarnings of the storm; to mark the birds of heaven as they droop their wings; to see the cattle as they lay their heads low in terror; to discern the face of the sky as it groweth black, and look to the sun which shineth not, and the heavens which are angry and frowning!

How terrible to await the dread advance of a hurricane—such as occurs, sometimes, in the tropics—to wait in terrible apprehension till the wind shall rush forth in fury, tearing up trees from their roots, forcing rocks from their pedestals, and hurling down all the dwelling-places of man! And yet, sinner, this is your present position.

 No hot drops have as yet fallen, but a shower of fire is coming.
No terrible winds howl around you, but God's tempest is gathering its dread artillery.

As yet the water-floods are dammed up by mercy, but the flood-gates shall soon be opened: the thunderbolts of God are yet in His storehouse, but lo! the tempest hastens, and how awful shall that moment be when God, robed in vengeance, shall march forth in fury! Where, where, where, O sinner, wilt thou hide thy head, or whither wilt thou flee? O that the hand of mercy may now lead you to Christ!

He is freely set before you in the gospel: His riven side is the rock of shelter.
 Thou knowest thy need of Him; believe in Him, cast thyself upon Him, and then the fury shall be overpast for ever.

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Showers of blessing !

I will cause the shower to come down in his season; there shall be showers of blessing."—Ezekiel 34:26.

HERE is sovereign mercy—"I will give them the shower in its season."

 Is it not sovereign, divine mercy?—for who can say, "I will give them showers," except God?

There is only one voice which can speak to the clouds, and bid them beget the rain.

Who sendeth down the rain upon the earth?

Who scattereth the showers upon the green herb?

 Do not I, the Lord?

So grace is the gift of God, and is not to be created by man.

It is also needed grace.

What would the ground do without showers?

You may break the clods, you may sow your seeds, but what can you do without the rain?

 As absolutely needful is the divine blessing.

In vain you labour, until God the plenteous shower bestows, and sends salvation down.

 Then, it is plenteous grace. "I will send them showers." It does not say, "I will send them drops," but "showers." So it is with grace.

If God gives a blessing, He usually gives it in such a measure that there is not room enough to receive it. Plenteous grace! Ah! we want plenteous grace to keep us humble, to make us prayerful, to make us holy; plenteous grace to make us zealous, to preserve us through this life, and at last to land us in heaven.

We cannot do without saturating showers of grace.

 Again, it is seasonable grace.

 "I will cause the shower to come down in his season."

 What is thy season this morning?

 Is it the season of drought?

Then that is the season for showers.

Is it a season of great heaviness and black clouds?

Then that is the season for showers.

 "As thy days so shall thy strength be."

And here is a varied blessing.

"I will give thee showers of blessing."

The word is in the plural.

All kinds of blessings God will send.

 All God's blessings go together, like links in a golden chain.

If He gives converting grace, He will also give comforting grace.

 He will send "showers of blessing." Look up to-day, O parched plant, and open thy leaves and flowers for a heavenly watering.

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"I will never leave thee."

—Hebrews 13:5.

NO promise is of private interpretation.
Whatever God has said to any one saint, He has said to all.

 When He opens a well for one, it is that all may drink.
When He openeth a granary-door to give out food, there may be some one starving man who is the occasion of its being opened, but all hungry saints may come and feed too.

Whether He gave the word to Abraham or to Moses, matters not, O believer; He has given it to thee as one of the covenanted seed.
There is not a high blessing too lofty for thee, nor a wide mercy too extensive for thee.

 Lift up now thine eyes to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west, for all this is thine. Climb to Pisgah's top, and view the utmost limit of the divine promise, for the land is all thine own.

There is not a brook of living water of which thou mayst not drink.
If the land floweth with milk and honey, eat the honey and drink the milk, for both are thine.

Be thou bold to believe, for He hath said, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."
In this promise, God gives to His people everything.
"I will never leave thee."

Then no attribute of God can cease to be engaged for us. Is He mighty? He will show Himself strong on the behalf of them that trust Him. Is He love? Then with lovingkindness will He have mercy upon us.

Whatever attributes may compose the character of Deity, every one of them to its fullest extent shall be engaged on our side.

To put everything in one, there is nothing you can want, there is nothing you can ask for, there is nothing you can need in time or in eternity, there is nothing living, nothing dying, there is nothing in this world, nothing in the next world, there is nothing now, nothing at the resurrection-morning, nothing in heaven which is not contained in this text—
"I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."

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Past Deliverance Begets Faith

David said moreover, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. (1 Samuel 17:37)

This is not a promise if we consider only the words, but it is truly so as to its sense; for David spoke a word which the Lord endorsed by making it true. 

He argued from past deliverances that he should receive help in a new danger. 

In Jesus all the promises are "Yea" and "Amen" to the glory of God by us, and so the Lord's former dealings with His believing people will be repeated.

Come, then, let us recall the Lord's former lovingkindness. 

We could not have hoped to be delivered aforetime by our own strength; yet the Lord delivered us. 

Will He not again save us? We are sure He will. 

As David ran to meet his foe, so will we. 

The Lord has been with us, He is with us, and He has said, "I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee," Why do we tremble? Was the past a dream? Think of the dead bear and lion.

 Who is this Philistine? True, he is not quite the same, and is neither bear nor lion; but then God is the same, and His honor is as much concerned in the one case as in the other. 

He did not save us from the beasts of the forest to let a giant kill us.

 Let us be of good courage.

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"He hath said."

—Hebrews 13:5.

IF we can only grasp these words by faith, we have an all-conquering weapon in our hand.
What doubt will not be slain by this two-edged sword? What fear is there which shall not fall smitten with a deadly wound before this arrow from the bow of God's covenant?

Will not the distresses of life and the pangs of death; will not the corruptions within, and the snares without; will not the trials from above, and the temptations from beneath, all seem but light afflictions, when we can hide ourselves beneath the bulwark of "He hath said"? Yes; whether for delight in our quietude, or for strength in our conflict, "He hath said" must be our daily resort.

And this may teach us the extreme value of searching the Scriptures. There may be a promise in the Word which would exactly fit your case, but you may not know of it, and therefore you miss its comfort. You are like prisoners in a dungeon, and there may be one key in the bunch which would unlock the door, and you might be free; but if you will not look for it, you may remain a prisoner still, though liberty is so near at hand.

 There may be a potent medicine in the great pharmacopoeia of Scripture, and you may yet continue sick unless you will examine and search the Scriptures to discover what "He hath said."

Should you not, besides reading the Bible, store your memories richly with the promises of God? You can recollect the sayings of great men; you treasure up the verses of renowned poets; ought you not to be profound in your knowledge of the words of God, so that you may be able to quote them readily when you would solve a difficulty, or overthrow a doubt? Since "He hath said" is the source of all wisdom, and the fountain of all comfort, let it dwell in you richly, as
"A well of water, springing up unto everlasting life."

 So shall you grow healthy, strong, and happy in the divine life.

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"God, that comforteth those that are cast down."

—2 Corinthians 7:6.

AND who comforteth like Him?
Go to some poor, melancholy, distressed child of God; tell him sweet promises, and whisper in his ear choice words of comfort; he is like the deaf adder, he listens not to the voice of the charmer,
charm he never so wisely.

 He is drinking gall and wormwood, and comfort him as you may, it will be only a note or two of mournful resignation that you will get from him; you will bring forth no psalms of praise, no hallelujahs, no joyful sonnets.

But let God come to His child, let Him lift up his countenance, and the mourner's eyes glisten with hope. Do you not hear him sing—


"'Tis paradise, if thou art here;
If thou depart, 'tis hell?"
You could not have cheered him: but the Lord has done it; "He is the God of all comfort." There is no balm in Gilead, but there is balm in God. There is no physician among the creatures, but the Creator is Jehovah-rophi. It is marvellous how one sweet word of God will make whole songs for Christians.

 One word of God is like a piece of gold, and the Christian is the goldbeater, and can hammer that promise out for whole weeks. So, then, poor Christian, thou needest not sit down in despair. Go to the Comforter, and ask Him to give thee consolation. 

Thou art a poor dry well. You have heard it said, that when a pump is dry, you must pour water down it first of all, and then you will get water, and so, Christian, when thou art dry, go to God, ask Him to shed abroad His joy in thy heart, and then thy joy shall be full. 

Do not go to earthly acquaintances, for you will find them Job's comforters after all; but go first and foremost to thy 

"God, that comforteth those that are cast down," 

and you will soon say,

 "In the multitude of my thoughts within me Thy comforts delight my soul."

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Let not your hearts be troubled !!!

‘Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me.’ John 14:1

Suggested Further Reading: John 16:1–15

Let me say it ought to be a great deal easier for you and me to live above heart trouble than it was to the apostles; I mean easier than it was to the apostles at the time when the Saviour spoke to them and for forty days afterwards. 


You say, ‘How was that?’ Because you have three things which they had not. You have experience of many past troubles out of which you have been delivered. 


They had only been converted at the outside three years; they had not known much trouble, for Jesus in the flesh had dwelt among them to screen off troubles from them. 


Some of you have been converted thirty—forty—what if I say sixty years, and you have had abundance of trouble—you have not been screened from it. 


Now all this experience ought to make it easier for you to say, ‘My heart shall not be troubled.’ Again, you have received the Holy Spirit, and they had not. 


The Holy Spirit was not given, as you remember, until the day of Pentecost. His direct government in the church was not required while Christ was here. You have the Spirit, the Comforter, to abide with you for ever; surely you ought to be less distracted than they were.


 Thirdly, you have the whole of Scripture, they had but a part. 


They certainly had not the richest Scriptures of all, for they had not the evangelists nor any of the New Testament, and having, as we have, all that store of promise and comfort, we ought surely to find it no hard work to obey the sweet precept, ‘Let not your heart be troubled.’


For meditation : 
Have you ever wished you had been a contemporary of the Lord Jesus Christ 
and an eyewitness of his life on earth? 
That would have been an experience to be valued and never to be forgotten (John 1:14; 2 Peter 1:16–18; 1 John 1:1–3). However, he pronounced a particular blessing upon those of us who have trusted in him without having seen him ( John 20:29). 
We too are able to love him and experience great joy in the midst of trials and temptations
 (1 Peter 1:6–8).
Sermon no. 730
20 January (1867)

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