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Holy Longings (S1586)
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A man’s heart-longings provide an accurate index of his present and future character. Put simply, “Tell me what a man really wants and I will tell you what he is really like and what he will one day be.” Grace gives a man a new and heavenly set of desires for the judgments of God, what Spurgeon calls the saint’s absorbing object. Then he considers the saint’s ardent longing for those judgments. Finally, he points to the saint’s cheering reflections drawn from such desires of the heart. The structure is simple, with that happy repetition which helps both to follow the argument and to fix it in the mind. As so often, Spurgeon moves without fanfare from David’s experience to ours, unpacking the inner life of the believer in every age, giving preachers an example of what it means to enter into the mind and heart of his hearers. Spurgeon also excels in encouragements, which he offers both with regard to what a Christian is now and what he will one day be, so closing the loop of his sermon. And, of course, he wants us to be sure that such longing after God’s judgments makes Christ himself most precious to the saints.
Read the sermon here: https://www.mediagratiae.org/resources/holylongings
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213 episodes
Manage episode 481639074 series 2851349
A man’s heart-longings provide an accurate index of his present and future character. Put simply, “Tell me what a man really wants and I will tell you what he is really like and what he will one day be.” Grace gives a man a new and heavenly set of desires for the judgments of God, what Spurgeon calls the saint’s absorbing object. Then he considers the saint’s ardent longing for those judgments. Finally, he points to the saint’s cheering reflections drawn from such desires of the heart. The structure is simple, with that happy repetition which helps both to follow the argument and to fix it in the mind. As so often, Spurgeon moves without fanfare from David’s experience to ours, unpacking the inner life of the believer in every age, giving preachers an example of what it means to enter into the mind and heart of his hearers. Spurgeon also excels in encouragements, which he offers both with regard to what a Christian is now and what he will one day be, so closing the loop of his sermon. And, of course, he wants us to be sure that such longing after God’s judgments makes Christ himself most precious to the saints.
Read the sermon here: https://www.mediagratiae.org/resources/holylongings
Check out the new From the Heart of Spurgeon Book!
British: https://amzn.to/48rV1OR
American: https://amzn.to/48oHjft
Connect with the Reading Spurgeon Community on Twitter! https://twitter.com/ReadingSpurgeon
Sign up to get the weekly readings emailed to you: https://www.mediagratiae.org/podcasts-1/from-the-heart-of-spurgeon.
Check out other Media Gratiae podcasts at www.mediagratiae.org
Download the Media Gratiae App: https://subsplash.com/mediagratiae/app
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