You have no items in your shopping . I think reading this may become a Christmas tradition for me. I, Paul, a sufferer to the utmost extent for Christs sake, even now an ambassador in bonds, shut up in a dungeon, I say to you, Rejoice. Paul was a greatly-tried man, but he was a blessedly happy man. If he reigns we reign; if he is lifted up our hearts are more than satisfied. Let your heart make music unto God, and you will fight valiantly for the kingdom of your Lord. It is to be accomplished, and we will press forward till we are always rejoicing. But with others joy is not constant, and yet it is frequent. In the midst of the business of December, take 5 minutes each day and let Charles Spurgeon, the prince of preachers, warm your heart with joy that can only be found in the good news of Jesus Christ. Audio_type. Spurgeon authored sermons, an autobiography, commentaries, books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry, and hymns.Many sermons were transcribed as he spoke and were translated into many languages during his lifetime. Follow authors to get new release updates, plus improved recommendations. Primary Menu. Possibly you have a large family; ten or twelve were at home on that day, with a grandchild or two. Joy it refreshes the marrow of the bones; it quickens the flowing of the blood in the veins; it is a healthy thing in all respects. 86 MP3 23 MIDI. We are to joy, and then we are to re-joy. It is a way of resting the body, mind, and spirit in response to the traumatic, devastating and life-altering racialized experiences that Black people continue to encounter. I can hardly imagine them singing, except at their drunken orgies, and then in the same tone as tigers growl; but I do know that Paul and Silas sang praises unto God with their feet in the stocks, and the prisoners heard them; and I know also that this was the mark of the Christians of the first age, that, when they assembled on the Lords-day, it was not to groan, but to sing praises to the name of one Christos, whom they worshipped as a God. Your Currency: The Most popular sheet music, piano notes & chords Online . Do not be ashamed to let others see that you are glad. Amen and Amen. This is the third year Delaney and I have gone through an advent devotional leading up to Christmas, and I think this one was my favorite. Do you not think that this was intended also to impress upon them the importance of the duty? That is one occasion of joy. Let men their songs employ; While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat the sounding joy, Repeat . Great Value. Your lot is somewhat hard, my brother, and sometimes your spirit sinks within you; but do you not count yourself to be, even at your worst, happier than the worldling at his best? nay, they must speak their joys abroad; let us endeavour to do so always, by the help of the Holy Spirit. Our Priority is bringing souls to christ. When the day darkens into evening, and the evening into midnight, and the midnight into a sevenfold horror of great darkness, rejoice in the Lord; and when that darkness does not clear, but becomes more dense and Egyptian, when night succeedeth night, and neither sun nor moon nor stars appear, still rejoice in the Lord alway. Joy! .orange-text-color {color: #FE971E;} Explore your book, then jump right back to where you left off with Page Flip. Do not rejoice in your temporal prosperity, for riches take to themselves wings, and fly away. Faith's Checkbook - Charles H. Spurgeon 2017-01-03 "Ask anything in my name, I will do it." (John 14:14) Charles H. Spurgeon supplies daily deposits of God's promises into the reader's personal bank of faith. However, it was also choppy and/or confusing at times, since someone else stitched together various selections from Spurgeon's sermons to create this book. Sure am I that many of you here present, both mothers and fathers, can truly say, "We have no . Charles Spurgeon's sermons are wonderful. The Charles Spurgeon Sermon Collection is home to over 3,000 sermons written by C.H. It is a singular joy, then, because it oftens buds, blossoms, and ripens in winter time, and when the fig tree does not blossom, and there is no herd in the stall, Gods Habakkuks rejoice in the God of their salvation. Last year I had a book of C. H. Spurgeons Christmas sermons and thought to read them a bit at a time, like a devotional. : Streams of Joy International is a global lighthouse with a multi-ethnic membership that spans all of the world's countries. Just notice how he begins the third chapter: Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. The word is sometimes rendered farewell. When he says, Rejoice, it is the counterpart of welcome. We say to a man who comes to our house, Salve, Welcome. When he goes away, it is our duty to speed the parting guest, and say, Farewell. This is what Paul meant to say here. Imitate their many virtues: take the pot of ointment and pick out the dead fly. The Greatest Fight in the World. I am trying, if I can, to find a joy in rheumatism, but I cannot get up to it yet. If the Lord be your joy, your joy will never dry up. It is joy to the world. And oh, what joy there is in coming to the Lords table! We joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ. There are many more flies caught with honey than with vinegar; and there are many more sinners brought to Christ by happy Christians than by doleful Christians. Now, if in the very worst times Gods people have been a happy people, I am sure they are so now. Great advent! Enjoy a great reading experience when you buy the Kindle edition of this book. Bring on the Black Joy. Watch Winners Live Sunday Service Today. No more let sins and sor rows grow, Nor thorns in fest the ground; 4. We come up to the sanctuary and bring our offering to God, and present him our oblation, just as the Jew of old brought his bullock or his lamb; and we joyfully present our gift unto the Most High. If the present be dreary, it will soon be over. True joy, when it is joy in the Lord, must speak; it cannot hold its tongue, it must praise the name of the Lord. Usage. Rejoice in the Lord alway; that is, when you cannot rejoice in anything or anyone but God. Saints in poverty have been made exceeding rich, and when they have eaten a dry crust they have found a flavour with it which they never discovered in the dainties of their abundance. 9. This being so, we have a joy in all Gods ordinances: with joy do we draw water out of the wells of salvation. What a joy prayer is: I hope you find it so. Find a man who never loved anybody and you have found a joyless man. Mourner, you are commanded to put on beauty for ashes, and the oil of joy for mourning. If any of you have taken a gloomy view of religion, I beseech you to throw that gloomy view away at once. Now when, on the other hand, the Lord multiplies his mercies to you, do speak about it, do sing about it. But I have scarcely begun the list yet, for we have a great joy in the salvation of other people. Turn now to the poor, hunted Christians, and read the inscriptions left by them in the catacombs; they are so calm and peaceful that you say instinctively a joyous people were wont to gather here. It is not a matter that is left to your option; it is not set before you as a desirable thing which you can do without, but it is a positive precept of the Holy Spirit to all who are in the Lord: Rejoice in the Lord alway. We ought to obey this precept because joy in the Lord makes us like God. Our joy is altogether unspeakable joy at times. Good but the dated (100 plus years ago) makes reading slightly difficult. Joy in the Lord will be very helpful to you as to usefulness. He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist tradition, defending the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the church of his day. Believers are not dependent upon circumstances. However, perhaps because of the centrality of the subject or because it is from sermons, this is more readable and beneficial. : Joy, a Duty. Sick beds have been thrones to many saints; they have almost feared to come out of the furnace, because the presence of the Lord in the midst of the fire has made it none other than the gate of heaven to their souls. God delights in the joy of his creatures. Joy To The World: Daily Readings For Advent Charles Haddon Spurgeon 4.57 316 ratings36 reviews In the midst of the business of December, take 5 minutes each day and let Charles Spurgeon, the prince of preachers, warm your heart with joy that can only be found in the good news of Jesus Christ. , Dimensions Joy is our portion, and we are cheered and comforted in the Saviour. Rejoice in the Lord alway, says the apostle, for joy is a most influential grace, and every child of God ought to possess it in a high degree. II. Glad tidings of great joy; and you who believe it must show by its effect upon you that it is glad tidings of great joy to you believe that a man of God under trial and difficulty and affliction, bearing up, and patiently submitting with holy acquiescence, and still rejoicing in God is a real preacher of the gospel, preaching with an eloquence which is mightier than words can ever be, and which will find its secret and silent way into the hearts of those who might have resisted other arguments. I felt like I wasnt getting the full impact and flow of thought without reading the whole sermon in context. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we dont use a simple average. Come, would you not take your poverty, even with your mourning, rather than accept his wealth with all his hilarity, and give up your hope in God? They had been so kind to him, and they had made him so happy, that he said, Oh, dear brethren, do rejoice; dear sisters, do rejoice. Thus in a figure we see that our heavenly Father delights in the delight of his children, and is glad to see them grateful and happy, and acting as children should do towards such a Parent. In the eighteenth verse, he declares that he found joy oven in the opposition of those who preached Christ in order to rival him. Those pioneers of our holy faith were destitute, afflicted, tormented, yet were they men of whom the world was not worthy, and men who counted it all joy to suffer persecution for Christs sake. View Download PDF: Complete sheet music (4 pages . Brethren, despondency is not the fruit of the Spirit. Joy to the World, the Savior reigns! The vows of God are upon you, O believer, and they bind you to be joyful. Let earth re ceive her King; 2. So, bring on the Joy. 1 - Joy To The World. Or if, by the Lord is meant the Lord Jesus, then let me invite, persuade, command you to delight in the Lord Jesus, incarnate in your flesh, dead for your sins, risen for your justification, gone into the glory claiming victory for you, sitting at the right hand of God interceding for you, reigning over all worlds on your behalf , and soon to come to take you up into his glory that you may be with him for ever. Finally, my brethren, fare you well in the Lord. Were marching thro Immanuels ground I pray you do not allow such an evil thing to be wrought in your heart. He is happy, not for causes at which he guesses, but by infallible reasons plainly revealed in Gods word. Wonderful to read as a family or on your own. Secondly, THIS JOY IS OF A SINGULAR CHARACTER. I knew some of you when you were not worth twopence, and you are pretty well-to-do now; you have got on uncommonly well for men who are being ruined! I wish we had more of it! But the fruit of the Spirit is joy. Galatians v. 22. What bliss to know that the Redeemer liveth. In life he is my life, and in death he shall be the death of death. He wanted them to be happy. Year after year after year Ive tried Advent reading books and given up after a few days because they were too boring or too long or too academic or just weird. I do not know how much Tiberias and Caligula and Nero used to sing; happy men they certainly were not. I count it one of the wisest things that, by rejoicing in the Lord, we commence our heaven here below. Listed on Feb 23, 2023 A joy filled collection of advent readings taken from Spurgeons sermons. Kansas City, Missouri 64118, 2017 The Spurgeon Center and Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary. They dread the lash of punishment, and tremble like slaves; but to believers it is said Ye are not under the law, but under grace, and Ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father. To be in bondage under the law, to be afraid of being cast away by God, and visited with destruction on account of sin after we have trusted in Jesus, this is not the work of the Spirit of God in believers, but the black offspring of unbelief or ignorance of the grace of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. I know some whom I am very far from despising, but whom on the contrary I greatly value, whose religion, sincere as I know it is, is sadly tinged with gloomy colours. Remember how the seventy disciples came back to Jesus, and said, Lord, oven the devils are subject unto us through thy name, and he answered, Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven. Do not rejoice in your privileges; I mean, do not make the great joy of your life to be the fact that you are favoured with this and that external privilege or ordinance, but rejoice in God. Many children of God, even when driven away from the outward means of grace, have nevertheless enjoyed such visits of God, such inlets of divine love, that they have wondered whence such joy could come. Plunge into the joy of your Lord. Oh, my dear brethren, from the way some of you grumble, I might imagine you were all ruined if I did not know better! The joy of the ungodly is like the crackling of thorns under a pot, noisy, flashy, but soon over. Holy joy will oil the wheels of your lifes machinery. Should it not be so? hope thou in God: for I shall yet praise him for the help of his countenance. What is there on earth that is worth fretting for even for five minutes? It is quite true that the Spirit of God produces sorrow, for one of his first effects upon the soul is holy grief. We get joy and peace in believing. 5. Oh, to think that we are just in the sight of God through Jesus Christ. It is a speaking thing, a demonstrative thing; and I am sure that joy in the Lord ought to have a tongue. Holy joy will strengthen you for your daily labour. Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2023. His kiss was never warm upon their cheek, the ring was never on their finger, nor the best robe upon their shoulder; the music and the dancing of the joyous family, who are in harmony with the fathers joy over the lost son, have never charmed their ears. Tonight again as we come to our time in God's Word, I want to draw your attention to 1 Peter chapter 1, 1 Peter chapter 1. Why, even, The thought of such amazing bliss, I say it twice over to you, Be happy, be happy, because I love you so well that I am anxious to have you beyond all things else to rejoice in the Lord alway., I also think that, perhaps, he said it twice over to suggest the difficulty of continual joy. Leap from all your miseries into this sea of glory. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading Joy To The World: Daily Readings For Advent. It is not so easy as some think always to rejoice. C . Well, but still, Rejoice in the Lord alway. When you cannot get anybody else to rejoice with you, still continue to rejoice. This was, first, to show Pauls love for the Philippians. I would sooner walk in the dark, and hold hard to a promise of my God, than trust in the light of the brightest day that ever dawned. Brethren, the Spirit of God is not barren: if he be in you he must and will inevitably produce his own legitimate fruit, and the fruit of the Spirit is joy.. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. Addeddate. Further, brethren, notice that, the apostle, after he had said, Rejoice in the Lord alway, commanded the Philippians to be careful for nothing, thus implying that joy in the Lord is one of the best preparations for the trials of this life. What then? A very good advent devotion leading up to Christmas. The Personality of the Holy Spirit - C.H. Many a Christian has a thousand reasons for joy which he knows nothing of. Like the crocus, 2 it will burst into bloom; it will rejoice greatly and shout for joy. Ye pilgrims to Zion who press The jewels of an emperor are nothing compared with the riches we possess in winning a soul for Christ. There is a something about every limb of the man that betokens that his body, like a well-tuned harp, has had its strings put in order. It helped prepare my heart for advent in such a meaningful way. Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 25, 2022. "Rejoice in the Lord alway: and again I say, Rejoice.". He to to We had a visiting preacher this morning. The Parent's and Pastor's Joy. What an encouragement and refreshment to the soul to read someone whose heart is so on fire that it comes through in all his words, igniting a greater burning in your own heart. Easy to read, they were warm and full of the flavor of Spurgeon's voice.
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