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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.

Take us more and more to yourself through Jesus Christ the Mediator and let our hearts be more and more taken up with you. Your servants have gone another six days’ journey through the wilderness and they are glad to come to an oasis, to the Lord’s Day, a day set apart for worship and spiritual improvement. Be near us today Lord, put everything away. May we keep the world outside and may we have such a fullness of God in us, and be ourselves so wholly in God, that the day may be delightful, every hour of it, even to the closing benediction when we fall asleep.

Amen.

SPURGEON’S LETTERS

Spurgeon’s letters are really encouraging devotional readings. Today, we’ll read a letter that Spurgeon wrote to his son Thomas, encouraging him in ministry.

My dear son Tom,

I have been greatly delighted with your letters and they have caused great joy all round;  your own dear mother has been especially encouraged and comforted. Write all you can for her sake—though we all share the pleasure.

God has been very gracious to you in opening so many hearts and ears to you. May his grace abide with you that these golden opportunities may all be used to the best possible result. I am overwhelmed with your reception, accepting it as a token of the acceptance which my works have among the people. When I have you and Charles Jr. at my side to preach the same great truths we shall by God’s grace make England know more of the gospel’s power.

Charles Jr. is working well at college and will, I trust, come forth well-equipped. When you come home I hope that your practice in Australia will lessen your need of college training so that one year may suffice. Still, every man in the field regrets that he did not prepare better before he entered it. We shall see.

I hope you will stay while your welcome is warm and while you are getting and doing good, and then come home a free man in all respects, free I mean from all entanglements, and buckle down to the work of the ministry here.

Receive your father’s best love and think LOTS of this letter, for I am so pressed for time that it means a good deal more than it appears upon the paper.

May our God bless you more and more and use you in his Kingdom to the utmost possible degree!

Your loving father,

Charles Spurgeon

WISDOM FROM SPURGEON: CAN I KNOW ALL OF THE BIBLE?

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

The Scriptures are just as expansive as are the heavens. No one has yet circumnavigated all the truth of divine revelation. As we look up to the great doctrines that tower above us like the high mountains, we may well say, “It is lofty; I am unable to reach it” (Psalm 139:6). The length and breadth and depth and height of Scripture surpass the comprehension of mortals. And though we do sincerely believe and devoutly rejoice in them, it is not within the range of our powers to fully comprehend them.

Some persons talk as if they know the whole circle of divine truth. They think they have put the great ocean of revelation into the small measure of their mortal capacity, but that it is not so. No one will ever be able to hold the heavens in his hand. But even if this were possible, the Word of God in all its wondrous immensity is too vast to grasp. We must hold firmly whatever we have learned of the truth of God, but we must always be prepared to learn more. To say of my Bible that I have attained to every height it reveals is as foolish as to say that I have reached the highest degree of spiritual life that is possible. Paul said, “Not that I have already reached the goal or am already perfect, but I make every effort to take hold of it because I also have been taken hold of by Christ Jesus” (Php 3:12). And when I have strived my utmost to know the Word of God, I still feel the need to pray, “Teach me your statutes. Help me understand the meaning of your precepts so that I can meditate on your wonders” (Ps 119:26–27). For expanse, for loftiness, for brightness, for glory, the Scriptures are comparable to the heavens that declare the glory of God and to the sky that shows his handiwork.