Post by nina on Feb 25, 2006 4:43:06 GMT -5
I (re) read these today:
- The Law:
Once more: the entrance of the law makes the offence to abound in this sense, that the rebellious will of man rises up in opposition to it.
Because God commands, man refuses; and because he forbids, man desires.
- Lawlessness:
Take away all thought that God sees and hears, and you have removed the underlying basis upon which morality itself is to be built up. A godless world is a lawless world.
Anarchy comes in when the fear of God goes out; and all the mischiefs that you can imagine, and much more, rush in like a flood.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Then, about Spurgeon:
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was born June 19, 1834 and died at the age of fifty-seven.
"His churches never did have adequate seating capacity due to the eager crowds which sought to hear him.
The Metropolitan Tabernacle would seat 5,500; could hold 6,500; and was continually full.
A.T. Pierson, who succeeded Spurgeon for a short time after his death, once estimated that Spurgeon preached to not less than 10,000,000 people in his lifetime."
That was in the 19th century, no media, no promos, no props...
And, it lead me to this:
1 Corinthians 2:1-5
2:1 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, 4 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
I believe that when we hold on to these, we don't linger in the past in a sterile and fruitless way, but we long for the future, which God intended for the Church, to manifest.
God does not change, the power is still available.
Is it a legitimate question to ask: " did we lose track/sight of something along the way?"
- The Law:
Once more: the entrance of the law makes the offence to abound in this sense, that the rebellious will of man rises up in opposition to it.
Because God commands, man refuses; and because he forbids, man desires.
- Lawlessness:
Take away all thought that God sees and hears, and you have removed the underlying basis upon which morality itself is to be built up. A godless world is a lawless world.
Anarchy comes in when the fear of God goes out; and all the mischiefs that you can imagine, and much more, rush in like a flood.
Charles H. Spurgeon
Then, about Spurgeon:
Charles Haddon Spurgeon was born June 19, 1834 and died at the age of fifty-seven.
"His churches never did have adequate seating capacity due to the eager crowds which sought to hear him.
The Metropolitan Tabernacle would seat 5,500; could hold 6,500; and was continually full.
A.T. Pierson, who succeeded Spurgeon for a short time after his death, once estimated that Spurgeon preached to not less than 10,000,000 people in his lifetime."
That was in the 19th century, no media, no promos, no props...
And, it lead me to this:
1 Corinthians 2:1-5
2:1 And I, when I came to you, brothers, did not come proclaiming to you the testimony of God with lofty speech or wisdom. 2 For I decided to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ and him crucified. 3 And I was with you in weakness and in fear and much trembling, 4 and my speech and my message were not in plausible words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, 5 that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God.
I believe that when we hold on to these, we don't linger in the past in a sterile and fruitless way, but we long for the future, which God intended for the Church, to manifest.
God does not change, the power is still available.
Is it a legitimate question to ask: " did we lose track/sight of something along the way?"
