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Sermon #734 - The Dawn Of Revival, Or Prayer Speedily Answered
Delivered On Lord’s-Day Morning, February 10, 1867,
By C. H. Spurgeon,
At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.


“At The Beginning Of Your Supplications The Commandment Came Forth, And I Am Come To Show You; For You Are Greatly Beloved.” Daniel 9:23.


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Sermon #732
The Heart—A Den Of Evil
Delivered On Lord’s-Day Morning, January 27, 1867,
By C. H. Spurgeon,
At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.

“For Out Of The Heart Proceed Evil Thoughts, Murders, Adulteries, Fornications, Thefts, False Witness, Blasphemies.” Matthew 15:19.



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Sermon #730
Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled
Delivered On Lord’s-Day Morning January 20, 1867,
By C. H. Spurgeon,
At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.


“Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled: You Believe In God, Believe Also In Me.” John 14:1.


http://baptistforum.net/inhisword/spur/mp3/no730.mp3

Sermon #728
Good Cheer For The New Year
Delivered On Lord’s-Day Morning, January 6, 1867, By C. H. Spurgeon,
At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.


“The Eyes Of The Lord Your God Are Always Upon It, From The Beginning Of The Year Even Unto The End Of The Year.” Deuteronomy 11:12.



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Sermon #725
A Message From God To His Church And People

Delivered On Sunday Morning, December 16, 1866,
By C. H. Spurgeon,
At The Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington.


“O Lord, I Have Heard Your Speech, And Was Afraid: O Lord, Revive Your Work In The Midst Of The Years! In The Midst Of The Years Make It Known; In Wrath Remember Mercy.”
Habakkuk 3:2.


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“DO NOT QUENCH THE SPIRIT”

By Oswald Chambers


“Do not quench the Spirit” (1 Thessalonians 5:19 ).
The voice of the Spirit of God is as gentle as a summer breeze—so gentle that unless you are living in complete fellowship and oneness with God, you will never hear it. The sense of warning and restraint that the Spirit gives comes to us in the most amazingly gentle ways. And if you are not sensitive enough to detect His voice, you will quench it, and your spiritual life will be impaired. This sense of restraint will always come as a “still small voice” (1 Kings 19:12 ), so faint that no one except a saint of God will notice it.
Beware if in sharing your personal testimony you continually have to look back, saying, “Once, a number of years ago, I was saved.” If you have put your “hand to the plow” and are walking in the light, there is no “looking back”—the past is instilled into the present wonder of fellowship and oneness with God (Luke 9:62 ; also see 1 John 1:6–7 ). If you get out of the light, you become a sentimental Christian, and live only on your memories, and your testimony will have a hard metallic ring to it. Beware of trying to cover up your present refusal to “walk in the light” by recalling your past experiences when you did “walk in the light” (1 John 1:7 ). Whenever the Spirit gives you that sense of restraint, call a halt and make things right, or else you will go on quenching and grieving Him without even knowing it.
Suppose God brings you to a crisis and you almost endure it, but not completely. He will engineer the crisis again, but this time some of the intensity will be lost. You will have less discernment and more humiliation at having disobeyed. If you continue to grieve His Spirit, there will come a time when that crisis cannot be repeated, because you have totally quenched Him. But if you will go on through the crisis, your life will become a hymn of praise to God. Never become attached to anything that continues to hurt God. For you to be free of it, God must be allowed to hurt whatever it may be.

THE COMPELLING PURPOSE OF GOD

By Oswald Chambers

“He … said to them, ‘Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem …’ ” (Luke 18:31 ).


Jerusalem, in the life of our Lord, represents the place where He reached the culmination of His Father’s will. Jesus said, “I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me” (John 5:30 ). Seeking to do “the will of the Father” was the one dominating concern throughout our Lord’s life. And whatever He encountered along the way, whether joy or sorrow, success or failure, He was never deterred from that purpose. “… He steadfastly set His face to go to Jerusalem …” (Luke 9:51 ).
The greatest thing for us to remember is that we go up to Jerusalem to fulfill God’s purpose, not our own. In the natural life our ambitions are our own, but in the Christian life we have no goals of our own. We talk so much today about our decisions for Christ, our determination to be Christians, and our decisions for this and that, but in the New Testament the only aspect that is brought out is the compelling purpose of God. “You did not choose Me, but I chose you …” (John 15:16 ).
We are not taken into a conscious agreement with God’s purpose—we are taken into God’s purpose with no awareness of it at all. We have no idea what God’s goal may be; as we continue, His purpose becomes even more and more vague. God’s aim appears to have missed the mark, because we are too nearsighted to see the target at which He is aiming. At the beginning of the Christian life, we have our own ideas as to what God’s purpose is. We say, “God means for me to go over there,” and, “God has called me to do this special work.” We do what we think is right, and yet the compelling purpose of God remains upon us. The work we do is of no account when compared with the compelling purpose of God. It is simply the scaffolding surrounding His work and His plan. “He took the twelve aside …” (Luke 18:31 ). God takes us aside all the time. We have not yet understood all there is to know of the compelling purpose of God.