Praying and Waiting E-Book

Charles Spurgeon

• Herausgeber: Editora Oxigênio
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: Hope messages in times of crisis
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 37

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2016

Beschreibung

Praying and Waiting is one important bible study about the prayer. A book that will bring growth and knowledge about prayer, and invite him to live with greater intimacy with God. Written by Charles Spurgeon, important preacher Christian. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Charles Haddon (CH) Spurgeon,19 June 1834 - 31 January 1892) was a British Particular Baptist preacher. Spurgeon remains highly influential among Christians of various denominations, among whom he is known as the "Prince of Preachers". He was a strong figure in the Reformed Baptist , defending the Church in agreement with the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith understanding, and opposing the liberal and pragmatic theological tendencies in the Church of his day. It is estimated that in his lifetime, Spurgeon preached to around 10,000,000 people,Spurgeon was the pastor of the congregation of the New Park Street Chapel (later the Metropolitan Tabernacle) in London for 38 years. He was part of several controversies with the Baptist Union of Great Britain and later had to leave the denomination. In 1867, he started a charity organisation which is now called Spurgeon's and works globally. He also founded Spurgeon's College, which was named after him posthumously. Spurgeon was a prolific author of many types of works including sermons, an autobiography, commentaries, books on prayer, devotionals, magazines, poetry, hymns and more. Many sermons were transcribed as he spoke and were translated into many languages during his lifetime. Spurgeon produced powerful sermons of penetrating thought and precise exposition. His oratory skills held his listeners spellbound in the Metropolitan Tabernacle and many Christians have discovered Spurgeon's messages to be among the best in Christian literature.

Leseprobe

INTRODUCTION

PRAYING AND WAITING

BY C. H. SPURGEON

“These things have I written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God; that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may believe on the name of the Son of God. And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us: and if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him.”

1 John 5:13-15.

The beloved apostle John here addresses himself to those who have believed in the Son of God; and having himself ascended the high hill of fellowship with Jesus, he labors to conduct his fellow believers up three glorious ascents of the mount of God. I think I see before me now three shining ladders, and with the glory of God reflected from his brow, I see John, like an angel of God, conducting the Lord’s Jacobs up the glittering rounds. The first ascent he would have them take is from faith to the full assurance of faith. He writes to them as believers, and he says, “These things have I written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God; that you may know that you have eternal life.” As believers, they had eternal life, for “He who believes in the Son of God has everlasting life,” and shall never come into condemnation; yes, “He who lives and believes in Christ, though he were dead, yet should he live.”

But it is one thing to have eternal life, and another thing to know that we have eternal life. In the third verse of the second chapter of this very Epistle, this apostle draws a distinction between knowing Christ, and knowing that we know Him, for he writes, “Hereby we do know that we know Him, if we keep His commandments.” A man may know Christ in his heart, and yet at certain seasons, through weakness of judgment, or stress of temptations, he may be cast into doubts as to whether he has any saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus at all; but he alone is happy, who, building upon the sure foundation of God’s promise, gives all diligence to make his calling and election sure, and enjoys an assured confidence of his interest in Christ. I know there are some who do not like us to draw any distinction between faith and assurance; but the more I think upon the subject, the more I am compelled to do it not for the encouragement of unbelief but for the consolation of those weaklings of the flock, who, upon another ground, must be rejected altogether, since their trembling faith has never, as yet, ripened into assurance.

Believers who have observed their own experience must have noticed that even when they can cast themselves in all simplicity upon Christ Jesus, and consequently have a right to be confident of their own safety, yet even then, they cannot at all times enjoy the comfortable persuasion of security, because their minds are distracted, and Satan has gained an advantage over them. They trust their God, but it is with something of the spirit of Job, when he said, “Though He slays me, yet will I trust in Him.” The shadow of the dark thought that perhaps you may prove an apostate darkens your path, and you cling to the Lord, not with a joyful assurance which can say, “He is mine,” but with that desperate faith which cries, “I must believe, for otherwise there is nothing before me but destruction! ‘To whom shall I go but unto You, for You have the words of eternal life!’” Even the strongest of saints must be led, I think, in their experience to observe that while always believing, they are not always assured. This must certainly be the case with the weaker ones and the beginners. I know faith is a sureness concerning the truth of God.

I cheerfully accept the definition; but I must bid you observe that there is a difference between being sure of the truth of God, and being sure that I am a partaker of divine life. I come to Christ not knowing whether He died especially for me, or not; but I trust in Him as the Savior of sinners this is faith. And having trusted in Him, I discover that I have a particular and special interest in the merit of His blood, and in the love of His heart this is rather assurance