The Great Charles Spurgeon

So I read a blog that puts up a Charles Spurgeon quote each weekend. The one that was up this weekend was too good not to re-post.

"Do not believe that the common Christianity of the present age will carry anybody to heaven. It is a counterfeit and a sham. It does not make men to differ from their fellows, it pretends to faith and has none, talks about love and does not show it, brags of truth and evaporates it into thin air in its latitudinarian charity.

God give us back the real thing—stimuli, strong belief in the gospel, real faith in Jesus, real prayer to him, real spiritual power.

Then again there will be persecution, but it will only blow away the chaff and leave the pure wheat!

The world likes us better because we like the world better; it calls us friends because we doff our colors and sheathe our swords and play the craven; but if we preach and live the gospel in the old apostolic way, we shall soon have the devil roaring round the camp and the seed of the serpent hissing on all sides, but we fear not, for "the Lord of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge."

I hope that was as edifying to you as it was to me. For more great Charles Spurgeon stuff, check out the Spurgeon Archive.

Also - it's been far too long since I've blogged on the London Baptist Confession. I got distracted and busy and never got back to it. So in the next couple of days, check back for the next installment of the 1689 London Baptist Confession. It's such a great Confession of historic Baptist Doctrine!

Rob

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