Girded with Truth » C.H. Spurgeon http://www.girdedwithtruth.org "Your Word is a lamp to my feet, And a light to my path" ~ Psalm 119:105 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:59:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= C.H. Spurgeon: Iniquity of Holy Things http://www.girdedwithtruth.org/2012/01/08/c-h-spurgeon-iniquity-of-holy-things/ http://www.girdedwithtruth.org/2012/01/08/c-h-spurgeon-iniquity-of-holy-things/#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2012 12:30:27 +0000 Karen http://www.girdedwithtruth.org/?p=10739 "The iniquity of the holy things."- Exodus 28:38

What a veil is lifted up by these words, and what a disclosure is made! It will be humbling and profitable for us to pause awhile and see this sad sight. The iniquities of our public worship, its hypocrisy, formality, lukewarmness, irreverence, wandering of heart and forgetfulness of God, what a full measure have we there! Our work for the Lord, its emulation, selfishness, carelessness, slackness, unbelief, what a mass of defilement is there! Our private devotions, their laxity, coldness, neglect, sleepiness, and vanity, what a mountain of dead earth is there!

If we looked more carefully we should find this iniquity to be far greater than appears at first sight. Dr. Payson, writing to his brother, says, "My parish, as well as my heart, very much resembles the garden of the sluggard; and what is worse, I find that very many of my desires for the melioration of both, proceed either from pride or vanity or indolence. I look at the weeds which overspread my garden, and breathe out an earnest wish that they were eradicated. But why? What prompts the wish? It may be that I may walk out and say to myself, 'In what fine order is my garden kept!' This is pride. Or, it may be that my neighbours may look over the wall and say, 'How finely your garden flourishes!' This is vanity. Or I may wish for the destruction of the weeds, because I am weary of pulling them up. This is indolence."

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The church is a separate and distinct thing from the world. I suppose there is such a thing as “the Christian world”; but I do not know what it is, or where it can be found. It must be a singular mixture. I know what is meant [Continue reading ...]

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]]> http://www.girdedwithtruth.org/2011/07/18/c-h-spurgeon-all-things-to-enjoy/feed/ 0 Daily Grace: Storms of Life http://www.girdedwithtruth.org/2011/07/14/daily-grace-storms-of-life/ http://www.girdedwithtruth.org/2011/07/14/daily-grace-storms-of-life/#comments Thu, 14 Jul 2011 15:38:33 +0000 Karen http://girdedwithtruth.org/?p=10296 When the storms of life blow our way, we can either cringe in despair or flee to the heavenly Mercy Seat—the God of all comfort (2 Corinthians 1:3, 4). There we can find the help and strength to be overcomers. Trials can sometimes embitter and harden our spirits. However, if we use the [Continue reading ...]

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2 Corinthians 13:5

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If you remove grace out of the gospel, the gospel is gone.

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