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WEEKEND EDITION

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PRAYER FOR THE CHURCH (BY SPURGEON)

Prepare your heart to gather with your church on Sunday. Join Spurgeon in prayer for the saints and sinners who will hear God's Word at your church tomorrow.

As we gather with our church, many of us need comfort; our heart is cast down within us. Command your loving-kindness this weekend and let your song be with us at this moment. Up from the shades may we ascend into the eternal light. Oh, that the sun of your love might shine full on our brows, until our faces shall be bright like the face of Moses!

Oh, that we might have such fellowship with God this morning, that we might defy Satan, defy unbelief, defy the flesh, defy the world with a holy joy which comes not of the creature, and which the creature cannot mar—a “joy unspeakable and full of glory,” a drink out of the eternal fountains, which well up from the deep which lies under, in the immutable and everlasting love and decree of God. Oh, let it be so with every child of yours this good weekend.

Amen.

SPURGEON’S LETTERS

Spurgeon’s letters are really encouraging devotional readings. Today, we’ll read a letter that Spurgeon sent to a pastor friend whose mother had recently passed away.

Dear Mr. Feltham,

It is a great sorrow to lose such a mother but also a great joy to know it is well with her. She could not have passed away under happier circumstances. She must have been glad to see her son so happily settled and then gladder still to be with her Lord forever. No lingering sickness, no fierce pain; but gentle departure and instant admission into the glory. I envy her as much as I dare. The Lord be with you and your beloved, and comfort you to the full!

Your sympathizing friend,

Charles Spurgeon

WISDOM FROM SPURGEON: CAN A CHRISTIAN LOSE THEIR SALVATION?

This section of the Weekend Edition will include Spurgeon’s answers to timely questions. Respond to this email with your questions.

“I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand.” (John 10:28)

We believe in the eternal security of the saints. First, because they are Christ’s and he will never lose the sheep which he has bought with his blood and received from his Father.

Next, because he gives them eternal life, and if it be eternal, then it is eternal and there can be no end to it, unless there can be an end to hell, and heaven, and God. If spiritual life can die out, it is clearly not eternal life but temporary life. But the Lord speaks of eternal life and that effectively shuts out the possibility of an end.

Observe, further, that the Lord expressly says, “They will never perish.” As long as words have a meaning, this secures believers from perishing. The most obstinate unbelief cannot force this meaning out of this sentence.

Then, to make the matter complete, he declares that his people are in his hand and he defies all their enemies to pluck them out of it. Surely that is impossible even for the fiend of hell. We must be safe in the grasp of an almighty Savior.

We can dismiss carnal fear as well as carnal confidence and rest peacefully in the hollow of the Redeemer’s hand.