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Title: How long will it be ere they believe me?
Source: Blue Letter Bible
URL Source: http://www.blueletterbible.org/devo ... me/view.cfm?Date=08/27&Time=am
Published: Aug 27, 2015
Author: Charles Spurgeon
Post Date: 2015-08-27 08:17:32 by redleghunter
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How long will it be ere they believe me?

—Numbers 14:11

Strive with all diligence to keep out that monster unbelief. It so dishonours Christ, that He will withdraw His visible presence if we insult Him by indulging it. It is true it is a weed, the seeds of which we can never entirely extract from the soil, but we must aim at its root with zeal and perseverance. Among hateful things it is the most to be abhorred. Its injurious nature is so venomous that he that exerciseth it and he upon whom it is exercised are both hurt thereby.

In thy case, O believer! it is most wicked, for the mercies of thy Lord in the past, increase thy guilt in doubting Him now. When thou dost distrust the Lord Jesus, He may well cry out, "Behold I am pressed under you, as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves." This is crowning His head with thorns of the sharpest kind. It is very cruel for a well-beloved wife to mistrust a kind and faithful husband. The sin is needless, foolish, and unwarranted. Jesus has never given the slightest ground for suspicion, and it is hard to be doubted by those to whom our conduct is uniformly affectionate and true.

Jesus is the Son of the Highest, and has unbounded wealth; it is shameful to doubt Omnipotence and distrust all-sufficiency. The cattle on a thousand hills will suffice for our most hungry feeding, and the granaries of heaven are not likely to be emptied by our eating. If Christ were only a cistern, we might soon exhaust His fulness, but who can drain a fountain? Myriads of spirits have drawn their supplies from Him, and not one of them has murmured at the scantiness of His resources. Away, then, with this lying traitor unbelief, for his only errand is to cut the bonds of communion and make us mourn an absent Saviour. Bunyan tells us that unbelief has "as many lives as a cat:" if so, let us kill one life now, and continue the work till the whole nine are gone. Down with thee, thou traitor, my heart abhors thee.


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Ravi Zacharias President, Ravi Zacharias International Ministries

“The Bible is the Word of God, and God cannot err. So, to deny inerrancy, rightly understood, is to attack the very character of God. Those who deny inerrancy, soon enter the dangerous terrain of denying all Scriptural authority for both doctrine and practice.”

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Another Spurgeon piece which caught my eye:

Have mercy upon me, O God.

When Dr. Carey was suffering from a dangerous illness, the enquiry was made, "If this sickness should prove fatal, what passage would you select as the text for your funeral sermon?" He replied, "Oh, I feel that such a poor sinful creature is unworthy to have anything said about him; but if a funeral sermon must be preached, let it be from the words, 'Have mercy upon me, O God, according to Thy lovingkindness; according unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions.'" In the same spirit of humility he directed in his will that the following inscription and nothing more should be cut on his gravestone:-

WILLIAM CAREY, BORN AUGUST 17th, 1761: DIED - -

"A wretched, poor, and helpless worm On Thy kind arms I fall."

Only on the footing of free grace can the most experienced and most honoured of the saints approach their God. The best of men are conscious above all others that they are men at the best. Empty boats float high, but heavily laden vessels are low in the water; mere professors can boast, but true children of God cry for mercy upon their unprofitableness. We have need that the Lord should have mercy upon our good works, our prayers, our preachings, our alms- givings, and our holiest things. The blood was not only sprinkled upon the doorposts of Israel's dwelling houses, but upon the sanctuary, the mercy-seat, and the altar, because as sin intrudes into our holiest things, the blood of Jesus is needed to purify them from defilement. If mercy be needed to be exercised towards our duties, what shall be remembrance that gracious to us, to restore our backslidings, and make our broken bones rejoice!

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WILLIAM CAREY, BORN AUGUST 17th, 1761: DIED --

And a masochistic masochistic self flagellent during the period in between. A triumphant demonstration of the degree of neurosis all of us should strive for.

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And putting a sword through your belly for bad table manners an flying airplanes into carriers yelling BONZAI is not masochistic?

redleghunter  posted on  2015-08-31   7:41:35 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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And putting a sword through your belly for bad table manners an flying airplanes into carriers yelling BONZAI is not masochistic?

Why tell me about it?

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And putting a sword through your belly for bad table manners an flying airplanes into carriers yelling BONZAI is not masochistic?

Why tell me about it?

It's completely insane behavior. As in Bushito throwing Chinese babies in the air and impaling them on stakes.

But you completely missed the point of the piece I posted to GarySpFc. The good Dr. was not masochistic. The good Dr. realized when it came to being right before God, there was nothing he could do which could compare to the Life and Actions of Jesus Christ. The good Dr. realized the human spiritual nature is corrupt, weak and compares such with the Grace of God in sending His only Begotten Son, Jesus Christ, to be the substitute for our failings as humans. When a man or woman comes to Christ, the Father sees the Son Jesus Christ. We who abide in Christ Jesus are cloaked in His righteousness. That is what the good Dr. was getting at in the piece I posted to GarySpFc.

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