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1 | The Condishion of the lost | John 3:16 | stjohn | 195846 | ||
In regard to the condition of the lost. How oft do we contemplate their plight and destiny without anguish of heart? Should we not be ashamed that we could consider these souls, lost to eternity, that it does not rend our very hearts from our chests! Oh Lord! Give us that sacrificial love, which you expressed, and exposed, to our hearts, at the Cross of Christ! Do we just shrug them off?-! Kill them all, ... and let, God sort it out?-! .... For your sake, and for your glory, dear Lord, give us AGAPE! That we should quake within, at the very thought of our enemy, on their ever downward spiral to perdition! | ||||||
2 | The Condishion of the lost | John 3:16 | DocTrinsograce | 195849 | ||
"It scarce needs that I do more than rehearse in bare outline the reasons why we should tenderly compassionate the perishing sons of men. For first, observe, the dreadful nature of the calamity which will overwhelm them. Calamities occurring to our fellow men naturally awaken in us a feeling of commiseration; but what calamity under heaven can be equal to the ruin of a soul? What misery can be equal to that of a man cast away from God, and subject to his wrath world without end! Today your hearts are moved as you hear the harrowing details of war. They have been dreadful indeed; houses burnt, happy families driven as vagabonds upon the face of the earth, domestic circles and quiet households broken up, men wounded, mangled, massacred by thousands, and starved, I was about to say, by millions; but the miseries of war, if they were confined to this world alone, were nothing compared with the enormous catastrophe of tens of thousands of spirits accursed by sin, and driven by justice into the place where their worm dieth not, and their fire is not quenched. The edge of the sword grows blunt at last, the flame of war dies out for want of fuel, but, lo! I see before me a sword which is never quiet, a fire unquenchable. Alas! that the souls of men should fall beneath the infinite ire of justice. All your hearts have been moved of late with the thought of famine, famine in a great city. The dogs of war, and this the fiercest mastiff of them all, have laid hold upon the fair throat of the beautiful city which thought to sit as a lady for ever and see no sorrow; you are hastening with your gifts, if possible to remove her urgent want and to avert her starvation; but what is a famine of bread compared with that famine of the soul which our Lord describes when he represents it as pleading in vain for a drop of water to cool its tongue tormented in the flame? To be without bread for the body is terrible, but to be without the bread of life eternal, none of us can tell the weight of horror which lies there! When Robert Hall in one of the grand flights of his eloquence pictured the funeral of a lost soul, he made the sun to veil his light, and the moon her brightness; he covered the ocean with mourning and the heavens with sackcloth, and declared that if the whole fabric of nature could become animated and vocal, it would not be possible for her to utter a groan too deep, or a cry too piercing to express the magnitude and extent of the catastrophe. Time is not long enough for the sore lamentation which should attend the obsequies of a lost soul. Eternity must be charged with that boundless woe, and must utter it in weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth. Not the tongues of prophets, nor of seraphs, could sew forth all the sorrow of what it is to be condemned from the mouth of mercy, damned by the Savior who died to save, pronounced accursed by rejected love. The evil is so immense that imagination finds no place, and understanding utterly fails. Brethren, if our bowels do not yearn for men who are daily hastening towards destruction, are we men at all?" --Charles H. Spurgeon (1871) | ||||||
3 | The Condishion of the lost | John 3:16 | stjohn | 195859 | ||
Dear Brother, I had just listened to a short bio of our esteemed brother Charles Spurgeon, and it was he that inspired me to wright what I did. Thanks for the link to that website, by the way. But he was indeed cut from a finer cloth, when it comes to inspiring men to cry out to their maker, It's perhaps better to let those the likes of him to do the talking. Even with the little I know about him, I am moved to the brink when I contemplate his, all to short life here on earth, and how he so eloquently, and masterfully, glorified our God. Bless you Doc. John |
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4 | The Condishion of the lost | John 3:16 | DocTrinsograce | 195860 | ||
Dear Brother John, I am glad you have been blessed by this man of God, who gave his Life to the service of the Lord. Although the modern church has largely forgotten them, there are many more. It is pretty amazing how these men, though dead, still speak -- if we will simply seek them out. God has graciously given us some pretty wonderful gifts (Ephesians 4:8-12), don't you agree? In Him, Doc "Thus says the LORD: 'Stand by the roads, and look, and ask for the ancient paths, where the good way is; and walk in it, and find rest for your souls.'"(Jeremiah 6:16a ESV) "Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God." (Hebrews 12:1-2 ESV) |
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5 | The Condishion of the lost | John 3:16 | stjohn | 195861 | ||
Amen Doc! We have at our fingertips, the ability to search out thousands, perhaps millions, of volumes! And I wander what men like William Tyndale, and those who also worked and died so hard, to bring out the word of God would say today, seeing what the fruits of their labors wrought so the common man could have such a plethora of the written word. We are blessed indeed! 2 Chr 25:9b And the man of God answered, "The LORD has much more to give you than this." God bless John |
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