1/5/2024 0 Comments Wrought flesh priceHe never leaves it breathing time argument after argument he hurls like javelins upon it he will by no means spare the filthy thing. Herein he is a model for all ministers, both in fidelity and prudence.īe sure also to note that the apostle, when he is exposing sin, does not trifle with it, but like a mighty hunter before the Lord, pursues it with all his might his hatred to it is intense he drags it forth to the light he bids us mark its hideous deformity he hunts it through all its purlieus, hotfoot, as we say. Observe how well the apostle Paul succeeds, for though he does not mask the sin, but tears the veil from it, and lets us know well what it is that he is aiming at, yet there is no sentence which we could wish to alter. Now, it is at all times exceedingly difficult for the preacher either to speak or to write upon this subject it demands the strictest care to keep the language guarded, so that while we are denouncing a detestable evil we do not ourselves promote it by a single expression that should be otherwise than chaste and pure. You will notice that in this chapter the apostle Paul has been dealing with sins of the flesh, with fornication and adultery. ![]() Before he closed his eyes in death he left a text of Scripture for the pastors: "Christ is all, and in all " and he left another for his fellow church members, for all of you this day who are members of the body of Christ and this is the legacy, which now, as a spiritual executor, I present to you: "Ye are not your own: for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's." I have no doubt the intention of our departed brother was to promote God's glory by speaking to us even after he was dead concerning our sanctification, that so we might be stirred up to a greater consecration to the Lord our Savior. This day we thank God for his useful life, and ask for grace to imitate it. We have laid his earthly remains in the tomb: his spirit rejoices before the throne of God. OUR BELOVED BROTHER, Thomas Cook, who has for so long a time served this church as an honored deacon, has fallen asleep in Christ. "Ye are not your own: for ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's." - 1 Corinthians 6:19-20. ![]() Spurgeon's Sermons Volume 17: 1871 - Charles Haddon Spurgeon A Sermonĭelivered on Lord's-day Morning, August 6th, 1871, byĪt the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington
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