GOD’S WORD FOR OCTOBER 6

We are using Charles Spurgeon book, “The Risen King.”  It’s a collection of well chosen excerpts from Spurgeon’s  “Easter” sermons in devotional form, put together by Jeff Medders.   Pastor Spurgeon lived from 1834 to 1892  in London, England, and had a unique gift of understanding and showing the depth of our faith.  Thus, his reverential title as the Prince of Preachers.   Even though we’re not in or near that season, every day is a good day to focus on Christ’s sacrifice and victory for us!

BRING IT TO JESUS

Matthew 17:14-18

“And when they had come to the multitude, a man came to Him, kneeling down to Him and saying,  ‘Lord, have mercy on my son, for he is an epileptic and suffers severely; for he often falls into the fire and often into the water.  So I brought him to Your disciples, but they could not cure him.’

 Then Jesus answered and said, ‘O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you? How long shall I bear with you? Bring him here to Me.’ and Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of him; and the child was cured from that very hour.”

The kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ, while on earth, was so extensive as to touch the confines of both heaven and hell.  We see Him at one moment discoursing with Moses and Elijah in His glory, as though at heaven’s gates, and then – after a few hours – we see Him confronting a foul spirit, as though defying the infernal pit.  There is a long journey from patriarchs to demons, from prophets to dumb devils, yet mercy prompts Him and power supports Him so that He is equally glorious in either place.  What a glorious Lord He was, even while in His humiliation!  How glorious is He now!  How far His goodness reaches! 

Truly He has dominion from sea to sea; His empire reaches to the extremes of the human condition.  Our Lord’s transfiguration did not disqualify Him for casting out the devils;  Neither did it make Him too superior and spiritual to grapple with human ills, and so, even now, the glories of heaven do not take Him away from the miseries of earth, nor do they make Him forget the cries of the feeble ones who are seeking Him in this valley of tears.

There is no demon, however forceful, who will not tremble if Jesus speaks or even so much as looks at him.  Today, Jesus is the Master of hearts and consciences, and by His secret power, He can work upon every one of our minds.  There cannot be a case that is too hard for Him; we only need to bring it to Him.  I know we are tempted to think of Him as of one far away who does not behold the sorrows of His church, but I tell you, Christ’s honor is as much concerned at this moment with the defeat or victory of His servants as it was when He came down from the mountain top.  He is ready for His brothers and sisters to bring Him their needs.

The highest sin and the deepest despair together cannot baffle the power of Jesus. If you were between the very jaws of hell, Christ could snatch you out.  If your sins had brought you even to the gates of hell, so that the flames flashed into your face, if then you looked to Jesus, He could save you.  If you are brought to Him when you are at death’s door, yet still eternal mercy will receive you.

 Christ unable to save?  NEVER!

Christ outdone by satan and by sin?  IMPOSSIBLE!

 A sinner with diseases too many for the great Physician to heal?  I tell you that if all the diseases and all the sins of men were heaped on you, and blasphemy and murder and every sin that is possible or imaginable had all been committed by you, yet the precious blood of Jesus Christ, God’s dear Son, cleanses us from all sin.  Where Jesus heals, He heals forever.  Once He brings the soul out of prison, it will not go back again. If He says, “I forgive,” the sin is forgiven;  if He speaks peace, the peace shall be like a river that never ceases, running until it pours away into the ocean of eternal love.

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Psalm 139:13

For You formed my inward parts; You covered me in my mother’s womb.

Isaiah 57:18

I have seen his ways, and will heal him; I will also lead him, And restore comforts to him And to his mourners.

Exodus 15:26

For I am the Lord who heals you.

Genesis 15:7

Then He said to him, “I am the Lord, who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldeans, to give you this land to inherit it.”

Genesis 16:13

Then she called the name of the Lord who spoke to her, You-Are-the-God-Who-Sees; for she said, “Have I also here seen Him who sees me?”

Isaiah 41:10

Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’

Hebrews 13:5

Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Jeremiah 31:3

The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: “Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you.”

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