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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 36 views
When the prodigal is received and forgiven, he is not put at the end of the table, below the salt, or sent into the kitchen with the servants, as if his faults were forgiven but yet remembered. He is invited to the table, and he feasts there upon the best the house affords. The fatted calf is killed,…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 7 views
Christ has gone to heaven to put in an appearance on our behalf. As in a court of law, when a man appears by his attorney, or legal representative, he is in the court, even though he may be miles away. So are we, today, in possession of our eternal inheritance through Him, who has put in an appearance…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 21 views
I have told you before of the bricklayer who fell off a scaffold, and was taken up so injured that it was seen that he must soon die. A good clergyman, bending over him, said, “My dear man, you had better make your peace with God.” The poor fellow opened his eyes and said, “Make my peace with God, sir?…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 265 views
As Abraham was less than Melchizedek, for without doubt the less is blessed of the greater, so also Levi was less than Melchizedek, for he was in the loins of Abraham when Melchizedek met him. As Levi was in the loins of Abraham and paid tithes to Melchizedek, so we were in the loins of Christ and paid…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 23 views
It is not possible that any sin should ever be forgiven to any man without shedding of blood. This has been known from the very first. As soon as man had sinned, God taught him that he needed a sacrifice. Adam and Eve, after they had sinned, tried to clothe themselves with fig leaves, but that was not…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 26 views
In the dark and dreadful night, the destroying angel is let loose, with noiseless wings, and with a sharp sword that never misses its mark. He is speeding from house to house throughout all the land of Egypt, and from the firstborn of Pharaoh upon the throne to the firstborn of the slave woman behind…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 34 views
The Israelites were commanded on the Feast of the Passover to put away all leaven out of their houses, and to this day they are very scrupulous about the fulfillment of that command at the time of that great festival. The house is very carefully swept lest a crumb of common leavened bread should remain.…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 9 views
God could not accept any sacrifice that was touched with the golden tongs or that lay upon the brazen altar so long as those golden tongs and the brazen altar were imperfect. What was done to make them perfect? Why, they were sprinkled with blood; but they had to be sprinkled with blood ever so many…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 19 views
John Bunyan speaks of the law as coming to sweep a chamber like a maid with a broom. When she began to sweep there was a great dust that almost choked people and got into their eyes. But then came the gospel with its drops of water and laid the dust, and then the broom might be used far better. Now it…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 13 views
If you go to the top of some mountains such as Snowdon or the Rigi, you will find it all solid and firm enough. But there are some people who want to get a little higher than the mountain, so the people there build a rickety old stage and charge you fourpence or sixpence to go to the top of it. When…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 10 views
Who among us can tell all the perils of this mortal life? I remember reading a work in which there were collected together numerous instances of the simple means by which men have died, such as the swallowing of a fruit stone, or the sticking of a small bone in the throat, the breathing of some invisible…


Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 12 views
When Pompey was killed, Julius Caesar obtained possession of a large box that contained a vast amount of correspondence that had been carried on with Pompey. There is no doubt whatever that in that box there were many letters from certain of Caesar’s followers making overtures to Pompey, and if Caesar…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 101 views
James Harrison, a 77-year-old Australian has the blood that saved the lives of 2.4 million new born babies. His blood contains a rare antibody capable of curing Rhesus disease, a severe form of anemia affecting babies whose blood type is incompatible with that of their mother. He has donated blood over…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 5 views
In Keene, N.H. Robin Hood is at work. A group of six people, calling themselves the Robin Hooders, have been shadowing city parking enforcement officers and feeding change into expired meters just before the officer has a chance to check. The city has filed a civil lawsuit against the group, which a…
Todd Frusti • Illustration • • 8 views
In the book called the "Turning Point," the author talks about an event of a young man who is beginning his senior year in college during the yers of the Great Depression. His family did not have the money to afford to send him to college, even though it only cost $20 including the books. The father…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 18 views
Atonement Evite, the self-described "world's leading FREE online invitation service," made Business 2.0's (www.business2.com) top ten list in their fourth annual, "101 Dumbest Moments in Business," for calling Yom Kippur, the Jewish day of atonement, a "reason to party." http://accounting.smartpros.com/x42419.xml…
Timothy C. Seal • Illustration • • 6 views
CROSS, TRIUMPH OF “‘You shall then sound a ram’s horn abroad on the tenth day of the seventh month; on the day of atonement you shall sound a horn all through your land.”—Leviticus 25:9 “I have now an interesting fact to tell you, and I am sure you will think it worth mentioning. Turn to Leviticus 25:9,…
Jerrie W. Barber • Illustration • • 11 views
Ron Rand writes in For Fathers Who Aren’t in Heaven: “Michael usually takes his family out each week to see a movie or sports event. When they come home, they make a fire in the fireplace and pop popcorn. “During one of these evenings, little Billy made a real pest of himself in the car on the drive…
Leigh Johnson • Illustration • • 17 views
I. Definition Atonement – reconciliation by removing the barrier that sin creates Christ suffered in our place II. Traditional Understandings It was necessary to meet the requirement of divine righteousness (Anselm, 1100) Expression of divine love, moral example (Abelard, 1141) Satisfaction of the law/divine…
Jacob Hantla • Illustration • • 33 views
Arthur W. Pink tells a story that is helpful at this point. A Christian farmer was concerned about an unsaved neighbor who was a carpenter. The farmer had been trying to explain the gospel to his friend, particularly that the death of Jesus had accomplished everything that was needed for him to be saved.…
Stephen N. Rummage • Illustration • • 18 views
Peter showed us that our position in Christ is illustrated by Noah’s position in the ark (see 1 Peter 3:18-22). When that ark was finished, a perfect way of escape from the wrath of God had been provided. That’s because the ark was covered “within and without with pitch” (Genesis 6:14). The Hebrew word…
Justin Wood • Illustration • • 6 views
A missionary to Brazil served a native tribe in a remote part of the jungle. A contagious disease was ravaging the population. The missionary determined that the only hope was to take the tribe to a hospital in another part of the jungle for treatment. In order to reach the hospital it was necessary…
Robby Roberson • Illustration • • 132 views
“Charles Finney was preaching in a great revival in Detroit. After the service one night a man said, ‘I want you to go home with me, Mr. Finney.’ Some who knew the man said to Finney, do not go.’ But he went. When they came to the man’s house, the man walked in last, locked the door and pulled a revolver…
Robby Roberson • Illustration • • 48 views
Do You Want a Donut? There was a boy by the name of Steve who was attending Seminary in Utah. In Utah, Seminary classes are held as optional release-time curriculum. Brother Christianson taught Seminary at this particular school. He had an open-door policy and would take in any student that had been…
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Salvation as conceived today is far removed from what it was in the beginnings of Christianity and only by correcting it can God's grace in salvation be returned to the concrete, embodied existence of our human personalities walking with Jesus in his easy yoke. Once salvation is relegated to mere forgiveness…