Spurgeon - Things That Accompany Salvation

[Baruch]

IN THE MARCHES OF TROOPS AND ARMIES, THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE OUTRIDERS, AND GO FAR AHEAD OF THE OTHER TROOPS.

So in the march of Salvation, which have far preceded it to clear the way. I will tell you the names of these stupendous Titans who have gone before.

The first is ELECTION, the second is PREDESTINATION, the third is REDEMPTION and the COVENANT is the captain of them all.

Before SALVATION came into this world, ELECTION marched in the very forefront, and it had for its work the billeting of SALIVATION.

ELECTION went through the world and marked the houses to which Salvation should come and the hearts in which the treasure should be deposited. Election looked through all the race man, from Adam down to the last, and marked with sacred stamp those for whom Salvation was designed.

Then came PREDESTINATION. Predestination didnot merely mark the house, but it mapped the road in which Salvation should travel to that house, PREDESTINATION ORDAINED every step of the great army of Salvation, it ordained the time when the sinner should be brought to CHRIST, the manner how he should be saved, the means that should be employed; it marked the EXACT HOUR and MOMENT, when God the Spirit should quicken the dead in sin, and when peace and pardon should be spoken through the blood of Jesus. Predestination marked the way so completely, that Salvation doth never overstep the bounds, and it is never at a loss for the road.

In the everlasting decree of the SOVEREIGN GOD, the footsteps of MERCY were every one of them ordained. As nothing in this world revolves by chance—as even the foreknown station of a rush by the river is as fixed as the station of a king—it was not meet that Salvation should be left to chance;and therefore God has mapped the place where it should pitch its tent, the manner of its footsteps to that tent, and the time when it should arrive there.

Then came REDEMPTION. The way was rough; and though Election had marked the house, and Predestination had mapped the road, the way was so impeded that Salvation could not travel it until it had been cleared. Forthcame REDEMPTION, it had but one weapon;

that weapon was the all-victorious CROSS of CHRIST. There stood the mountains of our sins; Redemption smote them, and they split in halves and left a valley for the Lord’s redeemed to march through. There was the great gulph of God’'s offended wrath; Redemption bridged it with the cross, and so left an everlasting passage by which the armies of the Lord may cross. Redemption has tunnelled every mountain; it has dried up every sea, cut down every forest; it has levelled every high hill, and filled up the valleys, so that the road of Salvation is now plain and simple.

GOD CAN BE JUST, and yet the JUSTIFIER of the UNGODLY.

C.H. Spurgeon from sermon Things That Accompany Salvation (Hebrews 6:9)

[Lou Newton]

IN THE MARCHES OF TROOPS AND ARMIES, THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE OUTRIDERS, AND GO FAR AHEAD OF THE OTHER TROOPS.

So in the march of Salvation, which have far preceded it to clear the way. I will tell you the names of these stupendous Titans who have gone before.

The first is ELECTION, the second is PREDESTINATION, the third is REDEMPTION and the COVENANT is the captain of them all.

Before SALVATION came into this world, ELECTION marched in the very forefront, and it had for its work the billeting of SALIVATION.

ELECTION went through the world and marked the houses to which Salvation should come and the hearts in which the treasure should be deposited. Election looked through all the race man, from Adam down to the last, and marked with sacred stamp those for whom Salvation was designed.

Then came PREDESTINATION. Predestination didnot merely mark the house, but it mapped the road in which Salvation should travel to that house, PREDESTINATION ORDAINED every step of the great army of Salvation, it ordained the time when the sinner should be brought to CHRIST, the manner how he should be saved, the means that should be employed; it marked the EXACT HOUR and MOMENT, when God the Spirit should quicken the dead in sin, and when peace and pardon should be spoken through the blood of Jesus. Predestination marked the way so completely, that Salvation doth never overstep the bounds, and it is never at a loss for the road.

In the everlasting decree of the SOVEREIGN GOD, the footsteps of MERCY were every one of them ordained. As nothing in this world revolves by chance—as even the foreknown station of a rush by the river is as fixed as the station of a king—it was not meet that Salvation should be left to chance;and therefore God has mapped the place where it should pitch its tent, the manner of its footsteps to that tent, and the time when it should arrive there.

Then came REDEMPTION. The way was rough; and though Election had marked the house, and Predestination had mapped the road, the way was so impeded that Salvation could not travel it until it had been cleared. Forthcame REDEMPTION, it had but one weapon;

that weapon was the all-victorious CROSS of CHRIST. There stood the mountains of our sins; Redemption smote them, and they split in halves and left a valley for the Lord’s redeemed to march through. There was the great gulph of God’'s offended wrath; Redemption bridged it with the cross, and so left an everlasting passage by which the armies of the Lord may cross. Redemption has tunnelled every mountain; it has dried up every sea, cut down every forest; it has levelled every high hill, and filled up the valleys, so that the road of Salvation is now plain and simple.

GOD CAN BE JUST, and yet the JUSTIFIER of the UNGODLY.

C.H. Spurgeon from sermon Things That Accompany Salvation (Hebrews 6:9)

Thanks Barry. It is so good to see a post from you.

[Lou Newton]

IN THE MARCHES OF TROOPS AND ARMIES, THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE OUTRIDERS, AND GO FAR AHEAD OF THE OTHER TROOPS.

So in the march of Salvation, which have far preceded it to clear the way. I will tell you the names of these stupendous Titans who have gone before.

The first is ELECTION, the second is PREDESTINATION, the third is REDEMPTION and the COVENANT is the captain of them all.

Before SALVATION came into this world, ELECTION marched in the very forefront, and it had for its work the billeting of SALIVATION.

ELECTION went through the world and marked the houses to which Salvation should come and the hearts in which the treasure should be deposited. Election looked through all the race man, from Adam down to the last, and marked with sacred stamp those for whom Salvation was designed.

Then came PREDESTINATION. Predestination didnot merely mark the house, but it mapped the road in which Salvation should travel to that house, PREDESTINATION ORDAINED every step of the great army of Salvation, it ordained the time when the sinner should be brought to CHRIST, the manner how he should be saved, the means that should be employed; it marked the EXACT HOUR and MOMENT, when God the Spirit should quicken the dead in sin, and when peace and pardon should be spoken through the blood of Jesus. Predestination marked the way so completely, that Salvation doth never overstep the bounds, and it is never at a loss for the road.

In the everlasting decree of the SOVEREIGN GOD, the footsteps of MERCY were every one of them ordained. As nothing in this world revolves by chance—as even the foreknown station of a rush by the river is as fixed as the station of a king—it was not meet that Salvation should be left to chance;and therefore God has mapped the place where it should pitch its tent, the manner of its footsteps to that tent, and the time when it should arrive there.

Then came REDEMPTION. The way was rough; and though Election had marked the house, and Predestination had mapped the road, the way was so impeded that Salvation could not travel it until it had been cleared. Forthcame REDEMPTION, it had but one weapon;

that weapon was the all-victorious CROSS of CHRIST. There stood the mountains of our sins; Redemption smote them, and they split in halves and left a valley for the Lord’s redeemed to march through. There was the great gulph of God’'s offended wrath; Redemption bridged it with the cross, and so left an everlasting passage by which the armies of the Lord may cross. Redemption has tunnelled every mountain; it has dried up every sea, cut down every forest; it has levelled every high hill, and filled up the valleys, so that the road of Salvation is now plain and simple.

GOD CAN BE JUST, and yet the JUSTIFIER of the UNGODLY.

C.H. Spurgeon from sermon Things That Accompany Salvation (Hebrews 6:9)

I have read that Spurgeon preached to an average crowd of 10,000 every night.

[Baruch]

I have read that Spurgeon preached to an average crowd of 10,000 every night.

He was a mighty man in Scripture. And I heard he was very anxious about preaching, I got the impression he "white knuckled" before each sermon. Yet, or perhaps therefore, he was mighty in the Lord.

[Lou Newton]

He was a mighty man in Scripture. And I heard he was very anxious about preaching, I got the impression he "white knuckled" before each sermon. Yet, or perhaps therefore, he was mighty in the Lord.

Barry, it makes my day every time I see one of your posts. Thanks for this wonderful comment.

I think it may be like that ( white knuckled) before, one who depends on The Holy Spirit speaking through him, instead of preparing a sermon himself. He gets up to preach, often only having one line that The Lord gave him right before he got up. He hopes that The Lord will continue to speak after he speaks those few words. He fears that nothing else will come out and will look foolish, as to why he got up.

I have often been told to get up and speak by The Lord, when He only gave one verse of scripture to speak. When I asked Him, what else He wanted me to speak, He told me not to worry about it, just get up and speak what I told you. Well a whole sermon came out and it was so good, that I knew that it did not come from me. Things came out of my mouth that were far beyond my knowledge.