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SPURGEON AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE: 365 SERMONS
TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2020
Messengers Wanted
‘Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.’ Isaiah 6:8
Suggested Further Reading: Romans 15:14–21
Ask any man whether he is a Christian against his will, and he will tell you certainly not, for he loves the Lord, and delights in his law after the inward man. Thy people are not led unwillingly to thee in chains, O Jesus, but ‘Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power.’ We willingly choose Christ, because he has from of old chosen us. In the matter of holy work, every man who becomes a worker for Jesus is so because he was chosen to work for him; but he would be a very poor worker if he himself had not chosen to work for Jesus. I can say that I believe God ordained me to preach the gospel, and that I preach it by his will, but I am sure I preach it with my own; for it is to me the most delightful work in all the world, and if I could exchange with an emperor, I would not consent to be so lowered. To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ is one of the sweetest and noblest employments, and even an angel might desire to be engaged in it. The true worker for God must be impelled by divine election, but yet he must make and will make, by divine grace, his own election of his work. Here are the persons wanted. Are there not many such persons here who feel ‘God has chosen me to do something for him; woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel’? but who, on the other hand, can testify, ‘I choose the work too. For Christ’s sake, whether it be teaching in the Sunday school, or tract distributing, or talking to ones or twos, or whatever it may be, my God, I choose the vocation; help me to follow it heartily, for it is my delight to do thy will, O my God.’ Here is the divine side then, the man is chosen; but there is also the human side, the man is led to choose the engagement for himself.
For meditation: We tend to assume that God’s will must be diametrically opposed to our wills and that we can only do it grudgingly. But God can so transform our thinking that his will becomes ‘good, and acceptable, and perfect’ (Romans 12:2), our delight (Psalm 40:8) and joy (Romans 15:32).
Sermon no. 687
22 April (1866)
Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
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THANK YOU ALL IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST of NAZARETH
OUR LORD & SAVIOR!
GOD BLESS & KEEP US
MAY HIS FACE SHINE UPON US
MAY HE BE EXALTED AMONG ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH
AND MAY HIS PEACE, HEALING, AND RESTORATION
DESCEND UPON US ALL FROM UP ON HIGH!
Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws near.
SPURGEON AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE: 365 SERMONS
TUESDAY, APRIL 21, 2020
Messengers Wanted
‘Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.’ Isaiah 6:8
Suggested Further Reading: Romans 15:14–21
Ask any man whether he is a Christian against his will, and he will tell you certainly not, for he loves the Lord, and delights in his law after the inward man. Thy people are not led unwillingly to thee in chains, O Jesus, but ‘Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power.’ We willingly choose Christ, because he has from of old chosen us. In the matter of holy work, every man who becomes a worker for Jesus is so because he was chosen to work for him; but he would be a very poor worker if he himself had not chosen to work for Jesus. I can say that I believe God ordained me to preach the gospel, and that I preach it by his will, but I am sure I preach it with my own; for it is to me the most delightful work in all the world, and if I could exchange with an emperor, I would not consent to be so lowered. To preach the gospel of Jesus Christ is one of the sweetest and noblest employments, and even an angel might desire to be engaged in it. The true worker for God must be impelled by divine election, but yet he must make and will make, by divine grace, his own election of his work. Here are the persons wanted. Are there not many such persons here who feel ‘God has chosen me to do something for him; woe is unto me if I preach not the gospel’? but who, on the other hand, can testify, ‘I choose the work too. For Christ’s sake, whether it be teaching in the Sunday school, or tract distributing, or talking to ones or twos, or whatever it may be, my God, I choose the vocation; help me to follow it heartily, for it is my delight to do thy will, O my God.’ Here is the divine side then, the man is chosen; but there is also the human side, the man is led to choose the engagement for himself.
For meditation: We tend to assume that God’s will must be diametrically opposed to our wills and that we can only do it grudgingly. But God can so transform our thinking that his will becomes ‘good, and acceptable, and perfect’ (Romans 12:2), our delight (Psalm 40:8) and joy (Romans 15:32).
Sermon no. 687
22 April (1866)
Joshua 24:15 And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.
-----
IF YOU FEEL FED HERE & LED OF THE LORD ALMIGHTY
TO SUPPORT THIS MINISTRY
YOU MAY DO SO AT THE FOLLOWING LINKS BELOW:
- Via PayPal
paypal.com/paypalme2/TimothyCastleberry
- Via Patreon-
patreon.com/TimothyCastleberry
YOUR PRAYERS ARE THE BIGGEST SUPPORT TO BE OFFERED UP!
THANK YOU ALL IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST of NAZARETH
OUR LORD & SAVIOR!
GOD BLESS & KEEP US
MAY HIS FACE SHINE UPON US
MAY HE BE EXALTED AMONG ALL THE NATIONS OF THE EARTH
AND MAY HIS PEACE, HEALING, AND RESTORATION
DESCEND UPON US ALL FROM UP ON HIGH!
Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draws near.
