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Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 18 views
Did you ever know a boy without an excuse? I never did. I think I never knew a girl either. We all make excuses readily enough. But those rough, surly pedagogues always answered the boy’s idle apologies by giving the offender an extra stroke of the whip for daring to impose upon his guardian. That is…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 10 views
God’s law is not of variable quantity or quality depending upon the quantity or quality of the conscience; it is fixed and definite. It is just as if a man were to take prussic acid believing that it would benefit him—he would die, despite his conscience. Or it is as if a person were to walk northward…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 13 views
The law had its uses, blessed uses. The law should be used for its own purposes, and then it is admirable, it is divine. Take it out of its own proper use, make it a master instead of being a servant, and it is something like fire, which in your grate will comfort you, but if it masters you, it burns…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 9 views
The first covenant was typical and shadowy. It was but a school lesson for children. Just as we give to our boys models of churches or models of ships, so was the ceremonial law a model of good things to come, but it did not contain the things themselves. Christ is no surety of a mere model or pattern…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 48 views
If we had accomplished obedience for twenty years, yet still, if in the next year we broke the law, we would come under its curse. A thief is not excused because he was honest beforehand, nor a murderer because previously he had not shed blood. A Methuselah would be under the law in his nine hundredth…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 16 views
You may have kept the law in many points, but if you have broken it in one, you are under its curse. If you want to send a message by the telegraphic wire, it may be perfectly sound for one hundred miles, but if it is only broken in one inch—not only that, but if it is simply cut across—you cannot send…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 35 views
The law ceases its office as pedagogue when it comes to be written on our hearts. Boys have their lessons on slates, but men have their laws in their minds. We trust a man where we would carefully watch a boy. When the child becomes a man, his father and mother do not write down little rules for him,…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 10 views
I have read that, when the people of the State of Massachusetts wanted a set of laws, and they had not time to make them just then, they passed a resolution that they would be governed by the laws of God until they had time to make better ones. We may believe the doctrines revealed in the Word of God…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 9 views
If children have learned a thing by heart, rather than merely by rote, they have made it their own, and it remains with them. A man with whom God the Holy Spirit deals is one who does not have to go to Exodus 20 to know what the law is. He does not need to stop and ask concerning most things, “Is this…


Spurgeon Commentary
Charles Spurgeon • Logos Sermons • Illustration • • 49 views
In a child of God there is a burning and a shining light that reveals the truth concerning sin. There is within him a something that cannot be silenced; this is that principle or power that John Bunyan calls in his Holy War, “Mr. Conscience, the Recorder of Mansoul.” You know that, when the city of Mansoul…


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 • • 15 views
The Israelites in Egypt had no doubt caught very much the spirit of the Egyptians, and the spirit of the Egyptians was the exact opposite of the spirit of a true-born Englishman. We rejoice that we are free. We are in the habit of discussing laws and criticizing statutes, and if there were an unjust…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 11 views
On June 26th 2015, the U.S. Supreme court revealed their ruling that same-sex marriage is constitutional. In the decision the majority stated that the fourteenth amendment provides the legal right for same sex marriage. Justice Kennedy cited that it was a fundamental right guaranteed by the first clause…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 17 views
In “Life Beyond the Law,” Daryl Watts writes, “As my six-year-old daughter’s birthday party approached, I tried to coach her on how to be gracious about gifts. Even as a young child, she already had a reputation for brutal honesty. I asked her, “What do you say if you get a gift you don’t like?” She…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
A survey investigating personal finances has found that roughly 18% of Americans say they expect to be in debt for the rest of their lives. The number has effectively doubled since the last time the survey was taken in May 2013. Overall the survey found that credit card indebtedness has increased moderately…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 10 views
Hector Montoya wanted a PlayStation 4. He saved $300 from his meager allowance. Hector heard the news about a mother and her 6-year-old child killed in a house fire. He made the choice then. With the help of the Grand Prairie, Texas Fire Department, Hector purchased about 100 smoke detectors and had…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
The seal of the United States of America reflects the early inception of the country and its subsequent history. In its design, the motto E Pluribus Unum, out of many, one. It has been understood to mean that the thirteen colonies became one nation. This has evolved to mean, that out of many peoples,…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 6 views
It is hard to know what to do when the world keep changing. Does anybody know what the rules are anymore? Warren Bennis and Burt Nanus liken our world to Chinese Baseball, when they write, “Chinese baseball is played exactly the same way as American baseball with one major exception, and that is this:…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 16 views
For safety, authorities in New South Wales passed a law to ban texting and driving. Australian police found an obvious violation. A 30-year-old man was using his mobile phone without a hands-free device. The man pleaded guilty to violating the law. The guilty man was traveling about 6 mph while he made…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 20 views
One group in today’s culture that is not tolerated is those who are ex-homosexual. Former homosexual Christopher Doyle of Voice of the Voiceless told the crowd: “Anti-ex-gay extremists say that I do not exist—that we don’t exist.” When planning an evening reception they received enough email and phone…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
A New York man has filed a $200,000 lawsuit against his parent because he feels unloved. 32-year-old Bernard Bey is homeless and claims that he ran away from home when he was 12 and has been in and out of various shelters since he turned 16. Bey, who aspires to become an rap musician, wrote the lawsuit…
Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Nine-year-old Dane Best took on the authorities in the town of Severance, Colorado and convinced them to rescind a century-old ban on snowball fights. The Colorado town gets a lot of snow and Best thought it was keep thinking about snowballs fights from the time he learned that the town had outlawed…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 8 views
Researchers from the Missouri University of Science and Technology and Duke University have found that young adults who are heavy users of the Internet may also exhibit signs of addiction. The study tracked the Internet usage of 69 students over a two month period, and found a correlation between some…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 4 views
Many people at some point discover their debt is more than they can easily handle. That point came suddenly to Ann Wiley of Gwinnett County, Ga. Her bank cut her off when she attempted to make an online payment. When she looked at her balance it was in the red. It was $100 million in the red. She logged…


Jim L. Wilson • Illustration • • 9 views
As we try to stay out of debt, society offers us more and more ways to get in over our heads. Researchers at George Washington University say one in four Americans has used “alternative financing” options such as payday loans, pawn shops, auto-title loans, and tax refund anticipation loans. Believers…