10 Things you may like to know about Charles Spurgeon
 

by: Michael Reeves
 

1. His ministry began in the year of his conversion as a young man.
Spurgeon was raised in a Christian home, but was converted in 1850 at fifteen years old. Caught in a snowstorm, he took refuge in a small Primitive Methodist chapel in Colchester. After about ten minutes, with only twelve to fifteen people present, the preacher fixed his eyes on Spurgeon and spoke to him directly:

“Young man, you look very miserable.” Then, lifting up his hands, he shouted, “Young man, look to Jesus Christ. Look! Look! Look! You have nothin’ to do but to look and live.”

Spurgeon later wrote, ‘Oh! I looked until I could almost have looked my eyes away [out].’ 1

The ‘Prince of Preachers’ was tricked into preaching his first sermon that same year. An older man had asked Spurgeon to go to the little village of Teversham the next evening, “for a young man was to preach there who was not much used to services, and very likely would be glad of company.” It was only the next day that he realized the ‘young man’ was himself.2

2. He was a man of hard work and huge influence. 
He went on to preach in person up to thirteen times per week, gathered the largest church of his day, and could make himself heard in a crowd of twenty-three thousand people (without amplification). In print he published some eighteen million words, selling over fifty-six million copies of his sermons in nearly forty languages in his own lifetime.
 

3. He was self-consciously a theological and doctrinal preacher.
While Spurgeon is not known as a theologian as such, he was nevertheless a deeply theological thinker and his sermons were rich in doctrine, and dripping with knowledge of historical theology – especially that of the Puritans.

Some preachers seem to be afraid lest [for fear that] their sermons should be too rich in doctrine, and so injure the spiritual digestion of their hearers. This fear is superfluous. . . This is not a theological age, and therefore it rails at sound doctrinal teaching, on the principle that ignorance despises wisdom. The glorious giants of the Puritan age fed on something better than sermons of whipped creams and pastries which are now so much in vogue.3

4. He was pre-eminently a theologian and preacher of the cross.
Spurgeon’s was a cross-centered and cross-shaped theology, for the cross was “the hour” of Christ’s glorification (John 12:23–24), the place where Christ was and is exalted, the only message able to overturn the hearts of men and women otherwise enslaved to sin. Along with (Isaiah 45:22), one of Spurgeon’s favorite Bible verses was (John 12:32) : “And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.”

He insisted on celebrating the Lord’s Supper every Sunday, and often during the week as well. He believed his preaching of the crucified Christ was the only reason why such great crowds were drawn to his church for so many years.

Who can resist his charms? One look of his eyes overpowers us. See with your heart those eyes when they are full of tears for perishing sinners, and you are a willing subject. One look at his blessed person subjected to scourging and spitting for our sakes will give us more idea of his crown rights than anything besides. Look into his pierced heart as it pours out its life-flood for us, and all disputes about his sovereignty are ended in our hearts. We own him Lord because we see how he loved.4

Regeneration, he saw, is a work of pure grace—and those the Lord regenerates, he will indwell.

5. He aimed his ministry and preaching at [sinners in need of] the new birth.
Regeneration was one of the “three Rs” (ruin, redemption, and regeneration) Spurgeon always sought to preach. And regeneration was something he always expected to see as he preached the gospel. A friend of his once came to him, depressed because for three months of ministry he had not seen a single conversion. Spurgeon slyly asked, “Do you expect the Lord to save souls every time you open your mouth?” Embarrassed, the man answered “Oh, no, sir!”

 “Then,” Spurgeon replied, “that is just the reason why you have not had conversions:

 

‘According to your faith be it unto you.’ ” 5  Matthew 9:29

Regeneration, he saw, is a work of pure grace—and those the Lord regenerates, he will indwell. And “with such an indweller we need not fear, but that this poor heart of ours will yet become perfect as God is perfect; and our nature through his indwelling shall rise into complete meetness [readiness] for the inheritance of the saints in light.”6

6. He knew how to enjoy life.
Spurgeon loved life and saw the creation as a blessing from God to be enjoyed. For tired ministers, he recommended:

A day’s breathing of fresh air upon the hills, or a few hours’ ramble in the beech woods’ umbrageous [amazing] calm [sp. " calma asombrosa”],’ which ‘would sweep the cobwebs out of the brain of scores of our toiling ministers who are now only half alive. A mouthful of sea air, or a stiff walk in the wind’s face, would not give grace to the soul, but it would yield oxygen to the body, which is next best.’7

He couldn’t resist walking outside in thunderstorms (‘I like to hear my Heavenly Father’s voice in the thunder’), he is known for his cigar smoking, and he had a keen interest in botany. Like us all, Spurgeon was uniquely himself. Yet his big-heartedness and joy as he walked through his Father’s creation displays exactly the sort of life that will always grow from sound theology.

This introduction to Spurgeon’s life and ministry—organized around themes such as the centrality of Christ and the empowerment of the Spirit—will be an encouragement for readers to live for God's glory.

7. He was a mischievous, fun loving, joyful man.
'What a bubbling fountain of humor  Mr. Spurgeon had!’ wrote his friend William Williams. ‘I have laughed more, I verily believe, when in his company than during all the rest of my life .

’8A whole chapter of Spurgeon’s ‘autobiography’ is entitled ‘Pure Fun,’ and he regularly surprised people who expected the zealous pastor to be dour and intense. Grandiosity, religiosity, and humbug could all expect to be pricked by his wit.

 

8. He was serious about joy.
Spurgeon’s humor and jollity [joviality] were not trivial or frivolous. For him, joy was a theological matter and a manifestation of that happiness and cheer which is found in Christ alone. He refused to take himself—or any other sinner—too seriously, believing that to be alive in Christ means to fight not only the habits and acts of sin but also sin’s temperamental sullenness, ingratitude, bitterness, and despair.

Christ wishes his people to be happy. When they are perfect, as he will make them in due time, they shall also be perfectly happy. As heaven is the place of pure holiness, so is it the place of unalloyed [pure] happiness; and in proportion as we get ready for heaven, we shall have some of the joy which belongs to heaven, and it is our Savior’s will that even now his joy should remain in us, and that our joy should be full.9

9. He suffered with depression.
Spurgeon was full of life and joy, but also suffered deeply with depression as a result of personal tragedies, illness, and stress. Today he would almost certainly be diagnosed as clinically depressed and treated with medication and therapy. His wife, Susannah, wrote, “My beloved’s anguish was so deep and violent, that reason seemed to totter in her throne, and we sometimes feared that he would never preach again.”10

Spurgeon believed that Christian ministers should expect a special degree of suffering to be given  them as a way of forming them for Christlike, compassionate ministry. Christ himself was tempted in all points like as we are yet without sin. (Heb. 4:15)  (Heb. 2:16–18). It is weak and suffering people that God sometimes uses to minister to the weak and suffering.

10. He was emphatically Christ-centered [Christ Saturated]. [He Always Preached Christ and Christ Crucified]
Spurgeon saw theology much like astronomy: as the solar system makes sense only when the sun is central, so systems of theological thought are coherent only when Christ is central. Every doctrine must find its place and meaning in its proper relation to Christ [Himself].

“Be assured that we cannot be right in the rest, unless we think rightly of HIM. . . . Where is Christ in your theological system?”  11

Spurgeon’s view of the Bible, his Calvinism, and his view of the Christian life are all deeply Christocentric–and even the above  astronomical analogy may be too weak to capture quite how Christ-centered Spurgeon was in his thinking.

For him, Christ is not merely one component—however pivotal—in the bigger machinery of the gospel. Christ himself is the truth we know, the object and reward of our faith, and the light that illumines every part of any true theological system.

He wrote, ‘He himself [Jesus Christ] is Doctor and Doctrine, Revealer and Revelation, the Illuminator and the Light of Men. He is exalted in every word of truth, because he is its sum and substance. He sits above the gospel, like a prince on his own throne. Doctrine is most precious when we see it distilling from his lips and embodied in his person.

Sermons are valuable in proportion as they speak of him and point to him.  12

Bibliography:
C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography, Compiled by His Wife and His Private Secretary, 1834–1854, vol. 1 (Chicago: Curts & Jennings, 1898),106.

1. C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography, Compiled from His Diary, Letters, and Records, by His Wife and His Private Secretary, 1834–1854, vol. 1 (Chicago: Curts & Jennings, 1898), 200.

2. C. H. Spurgeon, The Sword and Trowel (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1865–1891), 125–26.

3. C. H. Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, 63 vols. (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1855–1917),* vol. 23, 269.

4. C. H. Spurgeon’s Autobiography, Compiled from His Diary, Letters, and Records, by His Wife and His Private Secretary, 1834–1854, vol. 2:151.

5. C. H. Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, 63 vols. (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1855–1917),* vol.18:225.

6. C. H. Spurgeon, Lectures to My Students, Addresses Delivered to the Students of the Pastors’ College, Metropolitan Tabernacle (New York: Robert Carter and Brothers, 1889) vol. 1, 172.


7. William Williams, Personal Reminiscences of Charles Haddon Spurgeon (London: Passmore & Alabaster,
   1895),, 17–18.

8. C. H. Spurgeon, The Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit Sermons, 63 vols. (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1855–1917),* vol. 51:229.

9. Charles Ray, “The Life of Susannah Spurgeon,” in Morning Devotions by Susannah Spurgeon: Free Grace and Dying Love (Edinburgh: Banner of Truth, 2006), 166.

10. C. H. Spurgeon, An All-Round Ministry: Addresses to Ministers and Students (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1900), 364.


11. C. H. Spurgeon, The New Park Street Pulpit Sermons, 6 vols. (London: Passmore & Alabaster, 1855–1860),1:vi.

By Michael Reeves (PhD, King’s College, London) is president and professor of theology at Union School of Theology in Bridgend and Oxford, United Kingdom. He is the author of several books, including Delighting in the Trinity; Rejoice and Tremble; and Gospel People.
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Here’s how this is scripturally discerned: 

1 John 4:1-3  Beloved ones, don’t be believing every spirit [voice] you hear but be testing the spirits [voices] whether they are of God: because many false prophets have gone out into the world. Here’s how you know the Spirit [voice]  of God: Every spirit [voice] that confesses that Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh, having come from God, is of God:  and every spirit that confesses not that Jesus Christ is come [is here] in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit [voice] of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world. 

Therefore, we should [must] test every voice [spirit] whether it is from God, bonified and trustworthy to be believed only if it  confesses [says]  that… 

“Jesus Christ is here, from God, in the flesh having come from God .”  

[All English translations of the Bible other than King James have  erroneously translated from two alternate Greek texts created by Westcott & Hort or Nestle & Alland as “Has come” rather than“Is come” [Is Here] which is the correct translation following the Greek Majority Text and the Textus Receptus].  The majority of manuscripts MT of the 5,321 individual Greek manuscripts that are preserved, protected, inerrant, infallible and immutable manuscripts and are in overwhelming agreement with one another and are the source from which the Textus Receptus is taken

All Modern Critical  translations ignore the original Greek verb “ictin” [To be] [is] (third person singular) that is in virtually all Majority Texts MT and  subsequently in the Textus Receptus [Received Text] therefore they fail to correctly translate  the Greek verb  as, “Is come” [Is here].  (as does the KJV) 

This  error occurs  because the  modern critical Greek text, created by Westcott & Hort and Nestles & Alland DO NOT follow the  MT [Majority Texts] from which  the TR  [Textus Receptus] is rendered and both have omitted the verb “is”, from the Greek text. This error show itself as a  res ipsa loquitur [a point of law meaning Its flaw is self-evident].

 Therefore, the alternate translations generated from the two alternate Greek fabrications are not correct. Why not? Because non-believers and false prophets can indeed, and often do affirm that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh. Practically anyone can  make this confession as the  birth of Jesus Christ is considered by virtually all respected historians to be the most well documented fact in history. That He has come is generally acknowledged by nonbelievers and believers alike.   However, here’s the point. There is a huge difference between “Has come” and “Is Here”. “Has come” falls woefully short of the essential and clear meaning of the confession “Is Here”. Just because something “has come” it can not be assumed, inferred or deduced that it also “is here”.

The “has come” assertion is not surprising nor is it, per se, a false statement, that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh. However, It fails to give the Rubric necessary to establish whether the sprit [voice] being tested [tried] is from God or from false prophets in the spirit of antichrist. 

Again, the confession “has come” rather than  “is come” [is here]  is not, per se a false statement. But, it does not deliver the promised method for discernment that is proffered and inferred in the hypothesis. The failure here  to establish a logical and rhetorically sound rubric to addresses the question of whether spirits [words] are from God or from false prophets and the spirit of antichrist is glaring by its absence.

Namely, it does not provide a sound hypothesis to discern whether a spirit [spoken or written words]  are from God or the spirit of Antichrist.

Virtually anyone [or any spirit] may avow that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh. But as you can see, this does not resolve the issue of whether something should or should not be believed as true or followed. Why?  Once again,  because virtually anyone and everyone can and often do confess that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh. This leaves absent a valid and efficacious discernment.

Again, while it is  true that Jesus Christ “has come” in the flesh, this alone is inadequate to discern truth from error. “Has come” does not mean the same thing as “is come [is here],  from God, in the flesh” and is therefore is a fraudulent attempt to represent itself as true spiritual discernment as outlined in the scripture at  1 John Chapter 4: 1-3.

Further, by comparing  the scripture 1 John 4:1-3 with with the scripture of  Ephesians 5:30-32 

we can comprehend the mystery of God’s message regarding  Jesus Christ  being in  the Flesh.

Compare  1 John 4:1-3   with Ephesians 5:30-32 

1 John 4:1-3
Authorized (King James) Version

4 Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world. 2 Hereby know ye the Spirit of God: Every spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God: 3 and every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

 

Ephesians 5:30-32 
Authorized (King James) Version

30 for we are members of his [Jesus Christ’s]  body,  of his flesh, and of his bones. 31 For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh. 32 This is a great mystery: 

but I speak concerning  Christ and the church. 

 [So, we are members of His body, flesh and bone, [we are] one flesh with Him,  The Body of Christ is (In the flesh); is the actual  Body of believers].

 He was born of a virgin 2024 years ago.  He lives today,

and He’s coming soon,  for His bride; the Church [All Blood-bought, Born-again members of His body].

 

Every time a believer considers the fact that they are a member of the body of Christ, they should acknowledge and readily confess that…

 

Jesus Christ is here, from God,  in the flesh, bodily; We are the Body of Christ; The Church, in the flesh!   Amen.

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… be being filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody [music] in your heart to the Lord; Ephesians 5:18-19

SACRED  CLASSICAL ORATORY: 

Handle’s Messiah  A Complete Performance of World’s most Beloved Christmas Oratory by American BACH Soloists at the Grace Cathedral. [Libretto is exclusively from Old Testament book of Isaiah]. 

 

BABY’S FIRST SONG:
Jesus Loves Me This I Know  by Gaither Vocal Band

 

OTHER CHILDREN’S FAVORITES:

Praise Him, Praise Him All Ye Little Children   Hillsong Kids

What a Wonderful World  by Luis Armstrong

Noah’s Arky Arky     by the Cedarmont Kids
Away in a Manger by The Gaither Studio
Away in a Manger by Gaither Vocal Band
O Be Careful Little Eyes What You See by the Cedarmont Kids

Jesus Loves Me   All three verses

Children’s Medley  with Rosemary Siemens with children singing

This Little Light Of Mine  Cedarmont Kids

 

SACRED HYMNS:  (Sing, won’t you?
Jesus Saves Temple Baptist Church Powell, Tennessee

Christ Receiveth Sinful Men Traditional with Lyrics 

Beneath the Cross of Jesus Congregational Singing Metropolitan Tabernacle March 13, 2022

When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder  Gaither Congregation
Oh The Blood of Jesus  by Gaither Congregation
I Will Sing of My Redeemer by Gaither Music TV 

Surely Our God Is Able by Gaither Congregation 

If That Isn’t Love Love Can Turn The World Gaither Premiere

The Love of God by Gaither Vocal Band 

Ring the Bells of Heaven    by Fountainview Academy Orchestra & Singers.
When They Ring Those Golden Bells by Gaither Homecoming Choir 
Redeemed  by Guy Penrod Bill and Gloria Gaither

Praise Him, Praise Him   by Loma Linda University Church

Praise Him, Praise Him  by Ernie Haase
Praise Him, Praise Him  Bombay Christian Fellowship from 1869 of Hymn by Fanny J. Crosby 
Ring the Bells of Heaven    by Fountainview Academy Orchestra & Singers.
When They Ring Those Golden Bells by Gaither Homecoming Choir 

Burdens Are Lifted at Calvary   by Gaithers  

Grace, Grace God’s Grace by Gaither Choir

Onward Christian Soldiers Salvation Army Band

Amazing Grace by Guy Penrod, Gaither Voice Band

Amazing Grace by Wintley Phipps at Carnegie Hall

Blessed Assurance by the Isaacs

Blessed Assurance by Sounds like Reign
Blessed Assurance  by Gaithers with Larry Ford and Lillie Knauls

A Mighty Fortress written by Martin Luther with Steve Green

The Love of God   by Gaithers with Gardner, Penrod and Phelps
The Love Of God   by the Gaither congregation

Oh, The Blood of Jesus, Nothing But The Blood, Near The Cross  Medley by Gaithers

Standing on the Promises of God by Gaither Voice Band

Trust and Obey  Vagle Brothers written1887 by Daniel Towner music John Sammis. 
Come Thy Fount (lyrics & chords) Chris Rice

Jesus Saves by The salvation Army Choir

I Love You Lord by the Gaither choir

Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus  withThe Living Stones Quartet   by Helen Howarth Lemmel 1922
Angles We Have heard On High  by Christendom College & Schola Gregoriana                           

Rescue The Perishing 1869 by Fanny Crosby with Altar of Praise Chorale S E Simonte
Mary Did You Know?  Gaither Music TV by Mark Lowery
O Little Town of Bethlehem  Gaither Vocal Band
It Is No Secret  by ELVIS
There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood   by The Hymn Club 

There’s Within My Heart a Melody by Gaither Congregation with Jake Hess 

Just A Little Talk With Jesus by Gaither Choir

Sweet Hour of Prayer “An Old Farmer praying” by Jimmy Dean (from a wheel chair)

Let Others See Jesus in You (Me) by  BB McKinney
Worthy is the Lamb. Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir 
I Shall Not Be Moved  Elvis and The Million Dollar Quartet

Johnny Cash sings I Shall Not Be Moved

Tis So Sweet to Trust in Jesus     by Casting Crowns

More About Jesus    by The Blackwood Brothers

Rock of Ages   Antrim Mennonite Choir

Chosen Generation  Medley:  We Are Able, Power in The Blood, Are You Washed, Victory In Jesus, Houston Covenant Church.

 

SACRED  PRAISE:

Sweet Hour of Prayer by Guy Penrod

Praise Him, Praise Him written by Fanny Crosby

Praise the Lord, Praise the Lord written by Fanny Crosby

The Love of God by Gaither, Penrod, Phelps, Gardner

We Shall Behold Him   by Sandi Patti Sing-along, won’t you?

To God Be The Glory Congregation (with lyrics

Surely the Presence of the Lord is in This Place - The Woodlands Methodist Church

Holy Spirit Breathe on Me with Anne Jernigan 

You Are My All In All Gaither Voice Band

I Will Rejoice for He Has Made Me Glad by St. John’s North Congregation 

I Shall Not Be Moved The Statler Brothers

Redeemed, Redeemed by Gaither soloists

Majesty Gaither Voice Band

Bless the Lord, O My Soul by Bill an Gloria Gaither Congregation

When the Roll Is Called Up Yonder (…I’ll be there) the Gaithers

Ye Must Be Born Again Lyrics and Melody from Baptist Hymnal 

I Will Rejoice for He Has Made Me Glad by St. John’s North Congregation 

I Shall Not Be Moved by Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash

Ye Must Be Born Again Lyrics and Melody from Baptist Hymnal 

I Will Rejoice for He Has Made Me Glad by St. John’s North Congregation 

I Shall Not Be Moved Statler Brother’s Quartet

This Train Roy Orbison, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis

I Shall Not Be Moved (Rockabilly) By the Million Dollar Quartet
Redeemed by Gaither soloists 

Standing on the Promises of God by Praise Praise

Nothing But The Blood by Buddy Greene, (Harmonica) Gaither

Oh The Blood of Jesus by Gaither Congregation

We’re Marching To Zion Gaither Congregational Singing

We Bring the Sacrifice of Praise by the Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir

I’ve Just Seen Jesus       Larnelle Harris & Sandi Patti (Gaither) 

The Name of the Lord    Gaithers

Hallelujah, What a Savior A Cappella by the Nelons

It Is Well With My Soul by Guy Penrod and David Phelps

He Has Made Me Glad Sing with music only, voices or both (choose R/L or both ear buds)

If That Isn’t Love Love   Gaither Premiere

Jesus Loves Me This I Know by Gaither Vocal Band 
Praise Him, Praise Him   by Loma Linda University Church

Ring the Bells of Heaven    by Fountainview Academy Orchestra & Singers.
When They Ring Those Golden Bells by Gaither Homecoming Choir 

The Love of God by Gaither Vocal Band 

Praise Him, Praise Him   by Loma Linda University Church

How Great Thou Art    by the Statler Brothers

Praise Him, Praise Him  by Ernie Haase
Praise Him, Praise Him  Bombay Christian Fellowship A hymn from 1869  by Fanny J. Crosby 
Grace That Is Greater Than All Our Sin   by Sovereign Grace Music

You Never  Let Go      by Guy Penrod 

O Happy Day Ewin Hawkins, Anthony Brown & Combined Choirs, FBC of Glenarden

The Old Rugged Cross Made the Difference by Guy Penrod, Gaither Singers

Burdens Are Lifted at Calvary by Gaithers 

Away in a Manger by Phil Wickham… 
Traditional Version   by Casting

Majesty   By The Gaither Congregation  

Jesus Messiah by The Gaither Vocal Band

I See the Lord  by Gaither Vocal Band

Oh Happy Day The Edwin Hawkins Singers

Worthy Is The Lamb  with Gaither vocal Band

I Then Shall Live by Bill Gaither 

I Love You Lord by the Gaither choir
He Touched Me by Elvis Presley

Because He Lives Gaither Choir

Jesus Is The Sweetest Name I Know by Alvin Slaughter

Lead Me, Guide Me by Elvis

I’ll Fly Away    by Gaither Congregation 

Thy Word Is a Lamp unto My Feet Gaither Music with Amy Grant

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You are invited to confess and turn away from of all your sins, look in faith to Jesus Christ
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Worship God in Spirit and in truth:

• Pray with our heavenly Father, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; 1 Thessalonians 5:17
• Hear and obey the eternal, inspired, immutable, inerrant, infallible, revealed and protected Word of God, revealed through Jesus Christ, the living Word; 1 Peter 1:23
• Be [Be being] filled with the Spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord; Ephesians 5:18-19
•Gathering in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in the midst of them.
- Jesus Christ

Matthew 18:20

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…Be [being] filled with the spirit; speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody [music] in your heart to the lord;    Ephesians 5:18-19

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TRIBUTE TO FREEDOM   From  “A Native Thang” North Dakota (click for video)

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This is The heart of Freedom from a Native Son, thanking the Lord and Honoring the Military Service of Native American Scouts, and all Veterans …of the land of the free and the home of the Brave.

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As Jon remembered veterans, we remember him: Jon Edward Riley (1971-2021) who would, on occasion, just bust-out singing the following songs; sometimes, on the way to church sometimes just singing along with the Elvis Gospel CD that was always kept in the truck’s CD player or, 

even better, a song the Lord would spontaneously put in his joyful and loving heart.

 

I LOVE You Lord by Jared Reynolds

How Great Thou Art with Elvis

Lead Me & Rock-a My Soul by Elvis and friends

…Jon always said “Later”; as in [see’ya later] instead of “good bye”. It was his unique way to bid farewell … He would never say “good-bye”. Now,  remembering the sound of his voice saying “Later”, it rings true with a  new and deeper meaning and it brings a joyfulness and comfort to the hearts of those he loved so well; those who love him still, and always will.

… we are reminded of the promise of the Hymn:

 

’Till We Meet Again. Amen.

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GOD’S INSPIRED, INERRANT, INFALLIBLE  and  IMMUTABLE  WORD AND…
 

STILL THE  WORLD’S MOST POPULAR  BIBLE

BY: SARAH PRUITT

UPDATED: JULY 13, 2023 

URL:
https://www.history.com/news/king-james-bible-most-popular

For more than  400 years is The Authorized King James Bible. (KJV) It is immutable, inerrant, infallible and eternal. It will endure for ever, protected and preserved by God HIMSELF.

 

GOD’S HOLY WORD is

 For ever Settled in Heaven Psalm 119:89
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TODAY’S SERMONS:

 

Disabilities of the Soul   Isaiah 35:5-8   with Dr. Peter Masters

700 years before Christ, Isaiah describes the radical change that conversion brings about, using pictures of sight to the blind, agility to the crippled, and rivers streaming into the desert. Here is how the phenomenon of new life enters heart and soul when we come to Christ.

 

 

A Balanced Mind     Philippians 3:20   with Dr. Peter Masters

The opposite of minding earthly things is to keep heavenly themes in view. Here is how we should express and experience our heavenly citizenship with its riches and benefits, and how this exalts Christ in our hearts, and gives us perspective for all situations.

 

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COMMITMENT TO THE WORD OF GOD and   sermon: PAYDAY SOMEDAY

… A Peerless Pulpiteer  (Text only)  was Dr. Robert G. Lee, Pastor, Bellevue Baptist Church, Memphis Tennessee
 

URL:

https://christianindex.org/stories/rg-lee-a-peerless-pulpiteer,1680

 

Long before the Conservative Resurgence, Dr. R.G. Lee was the Southern Baptist champion of biblical infallibility and inerrancy. In his sermon, “The Word of God – Not Broken and Not Bound,” published in 1930, in which Dr. Lee stated the following regarding the HOLY BIBLE: (KJV)

“All [Prophets and Apostles] who wrote are immortalized by their writing of this great Book, supernatural in origin, divine in authorship, human in penmanship, infallible in authority, infinite in scope, universal in interest, personal in application, regenerative in power, inspired [God breathed] in totality.”

 

Dr. R.G. Lee preached a sermon called Payday Someday over 1,200 times. 

Why was it so powerful? Why was it requested and preached so many times? 

Come and see, Won’t you?

 

URL:

https://youtu.be/0mstq4QTyrQ
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OTHER BED-ROCK  SERMONS:

Why The Cross? 1958 Billy Graham (38 min)

Powerful, heavyweight, urgent message for the present day.

Who crucified Jesus?

Why did Jesus die on the cross?

 

Be Filled with the Spirit   Ephesians 5:18 with Dr. Peter Masters Metropolitan Tabernacle:

Living on the Word    Deuteronomy 8:3   (Christian Sermons and Audio books) Delivered on March 15th 1883 by Charles Haddon Spurgeon, recorded by Charles Koelsch.  

 

COMFORT IN  GRIEF
No Tears in Heaven    Revelation 7:17   (Christian Sermons and Audio books)  Delivered on August 6th 1865  by Charles Haddon  Spurgeon Audio recorded by Charles Koelsch.

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MOST RECENT SERMONS from London’s Metropolitan Tabernacle  by Dr. Peter Masters, Pastor

 

Good Friday ServiceTn  Friday 29 March 2024 | 11:00am

Behold the Lamb of God!

John 1.29

'The next day John seeth Jesus coming unto him, and saith, Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.'

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 Gospel Sermon   Sunday 17 March 2024 | 6:30pm

Our Dangerous Journey

Psalm 23.1

King David's best-known psalm reveals his view of life's journey. Claiming the Almighty God as his personal guide and Saviour, he points to all that we miss without this divine Shepherd, and the conversion experience that He gives to all who follow Him.

 

 

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 Teaching SermonTng  Sunday 17 March 2024 | 11:00am

Representing the Lord

1 Peter 3.15

To have a high view of Christ, and His divine attributes, in our heart is the greatest spur and personal preparation for making Christ known. Here is the duty of readiness, the manner of witness, and what is meant by giving 'a reason'.
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B Bible StudyTng  dy Wednesday 27 March 2024 | 7:30pm

The Glory of Christ

Hebrews 1.8

'But unto the Son he saith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever: a sceptre of righteousness is the sceptre of thy kingdom.'

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PERSONAL  TESTIMONY OF FORMER ISLAMIST:
Do Muslims and Christians Worship the Same God?
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SACRED LITERATURE:
 

THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS   by  John Bunyan  is the most famous Allegory, world-wide and the Most widely Published Book of all time and was printed in over 200 Languages. It has NEVER,  since 1698, been  out-of-print.

 

Only The King James Bible was more widely published.

 

ONLINE HYPERLINK  PRINT LIBRARY: (No Enrollment Fee or Registration required)

 

BUNYAN’S  ORIGINAL of 1678: The Pilgrim’s Progress  Published in 1853  by Logos  

REVISED VERSION:              The Pilgrim’s Progrefs  [sic] 1999 by Barry E. Horner 

OLD ENGLISH  PRINT: The Pilgrim’s Progress  Part II   AKA  Christiana 
(Christian’s wife, Christiana and children; their dangerous journey, and safe arrival at the desired country.)

 

 Pilgrim Progress is the world’s most famous Allegory, It and the Bible were commonly the only books to be found in the cabin of early American Settlers and were  loved and  read more than any book, second only to the Holy Bible.  It’s  also considered, by some, as being the world’s first English novel. It’s likely the most published book other than the Bible of all time. There were 1,300 editions printed before 1938,  250 years after the Bunyan’s death. Hence, the world’s most famous Allegory.

 

 Comment on Pilgrim’s Progress by Charles H. Spurgeon from the Spurgeon Sermon 
“Christ in You”.
 

Spurgeon:  Christ in us is Christ reigning." reminds me of Mr. Bunyan’s picture of [the town of] Mansoul, …when the Prince Immanuel laid siege to it, and Diabolus from within the city strove to keep him out. It was a, hard time for Mansoul then; but when at last the battering rams had broken down the gates, and the silver trumpets sounded, and the prince’s captains entered the breach, then on a day the prince himself did ride down the city’s streets, while liberated citizens welcomed him with all their hearts, hung out all their streamers, and made the church towers rock again as the bells rang out merry peals [happy melodies] , for the king himself was come. Up to the castle of the heart [main castle]  he rode in triumph, and took his royal throne to be henceforth the sole lord and king of the city.

       Christ in you is a right royal word. Christ swaying his scepter from the center of your being over every power and faculty, desire and resolve, bringing every thought into captivity to himself, Oh, this is glory begun, and the sure pledge of heaven. Oh, for more of the imperial sovereignty of Jesus, The Messiah;  our liberty to be absolutely under his sway.

 

 Spurgeon Sermon: Christ in You, Preached May 13, 1883 Scripture: Colossians 1:27  From: Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, Volume 29   (cit. II. THE SWEETNESS OF THIS MYSTERY, WHICH IS CHRIST IN YOU, § 5)

 

You may choose to read, listen or share Pilgrim’s Progress with your little ones as a bed time story.   It will bless, strengthen, encourage and instruct pilgrims of all ages and will create precious and enduring memories in little ears. 

 

Spurgeon read it for the first time as a precocious five year old reader and would returned to read it over 100 times during the course of his remarkable ministry as a Baptist pastor who is  known as The Prince of Preachers .

 

Link here for the Complete Index of the  Bible Scriptures that saturates The Pilgrim’s Progress by  John Bunyan preferring God’s view to all  “World Views”. 

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ADULT AUDIO: PART I

The Pilgrim’s Progress  by John Bunyan (Complete audio-book narrated by Christopher Glyn)

 

Preface: Bunyan’s letter​     

Episode 01: The City of Destruction      

Episode 02: Obstinate & Pliable      

Episode 03: The Swamp of Despond

Episode 04: Mr. Worldly Wiseman

Episode 05: The Narrow Gate

Episode 06: The House of the Interpreter   

Episode 07: The Cross

Episode 08: Simple, Sloth & Presumption

Episode 09: Formalist & Hypocrisy

Episode 10: The Hill Difficulty

Episode 11: Timorous & Mistrust

Episode 12: The Palace Beautiful

Episode 13: Battle with Apollyon

Episode 14: The Valley of the Shadow of Death

Episode 15: Christian Meets Faithful & Talkative

Episode 16:  Mr. By-ends      Town of Fair Speech

Episode 17: The Hill Lucre [Gain and Greed]

Episode 18: By-path Meadow   Vain Confidence

Episode 19: Doubting Castle

Episode 20: The Delectable Mountains

Episode 21:  Ignorance  (Conceit)

Episode 22:  The Flatterer​

Episode 23: Atheist

Episode 24: The Enchanted Ground

Episode 25: Ignorance Rejoins the Pilgrims

Episode 26:  Beulah Land

• Episode 27: The River of Death

Episode 28:  The Celestial City

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ILLUSTRATED VIDEO  (Recommended Bed Time Story)

Pilgrim’s Progress Drama presented in 9 parts.

 

DANGEROUS JOURNEY    

• Part 1 The Slough [Swamp] of Despond 

Part 2 The Interpreter’s House

Part 3 The Hill Difficulty

Part 4 The Fight with Apollyon

Part 5 The Valley of the Shadow of Death

Part 6   Vanity Fair

Part 7 Doubting Castle

Parts  8  & 9   The Dark River and  The Celestial City

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PART II – CHRISTIANA, The Sequel  (Enjoy this “Old English” dialect)

AUDIO: These files will advance to and play the next recording automatically, if not paused.
               

1 A Visit from Secret  4:50  Audio  

2 Good News  2:25  Audio

3 Mount Charity  1:01  Audio

4 Fool  & Want-Wit    1:16  Audio

5 Valiant-For-Truth  1:41 Audio

6 Valiant Does Battle 5:51  Audio

7 Valiant’s Story  3:35  Audio

8 Which Way To Go  1:30  Audio

9 Stand-Fast’s 'Wife'   6:02  Audio

10 Stand-Fast’s Story   1:37  Audio

11 Beulah Land  3:20  2018  Audio

12 The Postman’s Visit  1:57  2018  Audio

13 Christiana’s Blessing  5:55  Audio

14 Christiana Goes Over The River  1:20  Audio 

15 Mr. Despondency’s Farewell   2:10  Audio                                                                          

16 Old-Honest Called    1:41  Audio

17 Valiant Bequeaths His Sword  2:27 Audio  Bequeath   (Definition) 

18 Stand-Fast’s Will   3:56  Audio   

• 19 Christiana Nears The City  1:01  Audio 

20 Christiana’s Triumphal Entry   4:45  Audio