And the shepherds returned

"And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them."—Luke 2:20.
WHAT was the subject of their praise?
 They praised God for what they had heard—for the good tidings of great joy
that a Saviour was born unto them.

Let us copy them; let us also raise a song of thanksgiving that we have heard of Jesus and His salvation. They also praised God for what they had seen.

 There is the sweetest music—what we have experienced, what we have felt within, what we have made our own—"the things which we have made touching the King."

 It is not enough to hear about Jesus: mere hearing may tune the harp,
but the fingers of living faith must create the music.

If you have seen Jesus with the God-giving sight of faith, suffer no cobwebs to linger among the harpstrings, but loud to the praise of sovereign grace, awake your psaltery and harp.

One point for which they praised God was the agreement between what they had heard and what they had seen. Observe the last sentence—"As it was told unto them."

 Have you not found the gospel to be in yourselves just what the Bible said it would be?
Jesus said He would give you rest—have you not enjoyed the sweetest peace in Him?
He said you should have joy, and comfort, and life through believing in Him—have you not received all these? Are not His ways ways of pleasantness, and His paths paths of peace? Surely you can say with the queen of Sheba, "The half has not been told me."
 I have found Christ more sweet than His servants ever said He was.

 I looked upon His likeness as they painted it, but it was a mere daub compared with Himself; for the King in His beauty outshines all imaginable loveliness.

 Surely what we have "seen" keeps pace with, nay, far exceeds, what we have "heard."
 Let us, then, glorify and praise God for a Saviour so precious, and so satisfying.

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Behave Like Christ is Coming Again !!!

Wherever you may live, and whatever may be your trials; however great your difficulties, and however small your helps; nothing should prevent your aiming at the highest standard, to behave like one who believes that Christ is coming again! 

You should resolve, by God's help, to live so that the day of Christ shall find you needing as little change as possible! You should seek to have . . .

your tastes so heavenly,

your affections so spiritual,

your will so subdued,

your mind so unworldly —

that when the Lord appears, you may be thoroughly in tune for His kingdom!

~ J.C. Ryle

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Saved Through God's Own Blood !!!

If one man might suffer for another, yet one man’s sufferings could not avail 

for ten thousand times ten thousand men. 

What efficacy could there be in the death of one innocent person to put away the transgressions of a multitude? Nay, but because he who carried our sins up to the tree was God over all, blessed for ever; because he who suffered his feet to be fastened to the wood was none other than that same Word who was in the beginning with God, and who also was God; because he who bowed his head to death was none other than the Christ, who is immortality and life: — his dying had efficacy in it to take away the sins of all for whom he died. 

As I think of my Redeemer and remember that he is God himself, I feel that if he took my nature 

and died, then indeed my sin is gone. 

I can rest on that. I am sure that if he who is infinite and omnipotent offered a satisfaction for my sins I need not enquire as to the sufficiency of the atonement, for who dares to suggest a limit to its power? What Jesus did and suffered must be equal to any emergency. 

Were my sins even greater than they are his blood could make them whiter than snow.

 If God incarnate died in my stead my iniquities are cleansed. 

From a sermon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon entitled "Jesus, The Substitute For His People.

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"But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart."

—Luke 2:19.

THERE was an exercise, on the part of this blessed woman,

 of three powers of her being:

her memory—she kept all these things;

her affections—she kept them in her heart;

 her intellect—she pondered them; so that memory,

affection, and understanding, were all exercised about the things

which she had heard.

Beloved, remember what you have heard of your Lord Jesus,

 and what He has done for you; make your heart the golden pot of manna

 to preserve the memorial of the heavenly bread

whereon you have fed in days gone by.

Let your memory treasure up everything about Christ which you have either felt, or known, or believed, and then let your fond affections hold Him fast for evermore.

 Love the person of your Lord! Bring forth the alabaster box of your heart, even though it be broken, and let all the precious ointment of your affection come streaming on His pierced feet.

Let your intellect be exercised concerning the Lord Jesus. 

Meditate upon what you read: stop not at the surface; dive into the depths. 

Be not as the swallow which toucheth the brook with her wing,

but as the fish which penetrates the lowest wave.

 Abide with your Lord: let Him not be to you as a wayfaring man, that tarrieth for a night, but constrain Him, saying, "Abide with us, for the day is far spent."

Hold Him, and do not let Him go.

The word "ponder, ' means to weigh.

Make ready the balances of judgment.

 Oh, but where are the scales that can weigh the Lord Christ?

"He taketh up the isles as a very little thing:"—who shall take Him up? "

He weigheth the mountains in scales"—in what scales shall we weigh Him? Be it so, if your understanding cannot comprehend, let your affections apprehend; and if your spirit cannot compass the Lord Jesus in the grasp of understanding, let it embrace Him in the arms of affection.

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"All they that heard it wondered at those things."

Luke 2:18.

WE must not cease to wonder at the great marvels of our God.

It would be very difficult to draw a line between holy wonder and real worship;for when the soul is overwhelmed with the majesty of God's glory, though it may not express itself in song, or even utter its voice with bowed head in humble prayer, yet it silently adores.

 Our incarnate God is to be worshipped as "the Wonderful." 
That God should consider His fallen creature, man, and instead of sweeping him away with the besom of destruction, should Himself undertake to be man's Redeemer, and to pay his ransom price, is, indeed marvellous! But to each believer redemption is most marvellous as he views it in relation to himself. 

It is a miracle of grace indeed, that Jesus should forsake the thrones and royalties above,
to suffer ignominiously below for you.

 Let your soul lose itself in wonder, for wonder is in this way a very practical emotion.
 Holy wonder will lead you to grateful worship and heartfelt thanksgiving.

It will cause within you godly watchfulness; you will be afraid to sin against such a love as this.

Feeling the presence of the mighty God in the gift of His dear Son, you will put off your shoes from off your feet, because the place whereon you stand is holy ground.

 You will be moved at the same time to glorious hope. 
If Jesus has done such marvellous things on your behalf, you will feel that heaven itself is not too great for your expectation. 

Who can be astonished at anything, when he has once been astonished at the manger and the cross? What is there wonderful left after one has seen the Saviour?

Dear reader, it may be that from the quietness and solitariness of your life, you are scarcely able to imitate the shepherds of Bethlehem, who told what they had seen and heard, but you can, at least, fill up the circle of the worshippers before the throne, by wondering at what God has done.

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Wherever you may live, and whatever may be your trials; however great your difficulties,

 and however small your helps; nothing should prevent your aiming at the highest standard, 

to behave like one who believes that Christ is coming again! 

You should resolve, by God's help, to live so that the day of Christ 

shall find you needing as little change as possible! 

You should seek to have . . .

your tastes so heavenly,

your affections so spiritual,

your will so subdued,

your mind so unworldly —

that when the Lord appears, you may be thoroughly in tune for His kingdom!

~ J.C. Ryle

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Those who appreciate Him !!!

There are some who do appreciate the sweetness of Christ. 

I would to God I could find such out this morning.

Hungry souls, we are brethren.

If you are hungry after pardon, mercy, and grace, 

I remember when I was in your condition.

What would you give to have Christ?

 “I would give my eyes,” says one. 

Give him your eyes, then, by looking to him, 

and you shall have him. 

“What would I give,” saith one, “

to be delivered from my besetting sin! 

I hunger after holiness.” 

Soul, you may have deliverance from besetting sins, and have it for nothing.

Jesus Christ has come into the world to save his people from their sins, 

and looking to him he will deliver you from that disease which now makes you love sin, and he will give you a taste for holiness, and a principle of holiness by the Holy Ghost, and you shall henceforth become a saint unto God. 

He turns lions into lambs, and ravens into doves; nothing is impossible with him. 

You have but to trust your soul with him and 

you shall have pardon, peace, holiness, heaven, God, everything. 

From a sermon by Charles Haddon Spurgeon entitled "Spiritual Appetite," 

delivered April 4, 1875.

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ON THIS YOU MUST THINK !!!!

“Summing it all up, friends, I'd say you'll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious—the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse. Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies.” Philippians 4:8MSG

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CHARLES H. SPURGEON QUOTATION

"The eye cannot see itself. Did you ever see your own eye? 

In a mirror you may have done so, but that was only a reflection of it.

 And you may, in like manner, see the evidence of your faith, but you cannot look at the faith itself.

 Faith looks away from itself to the object of faith, 

even to Christ."

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"Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler."

—Psalm 91:3.

GOD delivers His people from the snare of the fowler in two senses.
From, and out of.

First, He delivers them from the snare—does not let them enter it; and secondly, if they should be caught therein, He delivers them out of it.
The first promise is the most precious to some; the second is the best to others.

"He shall deliver thee from the snare." How? Trouble is often the means whereby God delivers us.
 God knows that our backsliding will soon end in our destruction, and He in mercy sends the rod.

 We say, "Lord, why is this?" not knowing that our trouble has been the means of delivering us from far greater evil.

Many have been thus saved from ruin by their sorrows and their crosses;
these have frightened the birds from the net.

At other times, God keeps His people from the snare of the fowler by giving them great spiritual strength, so that when they are tempted to do evil they say, "How can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God?" But what a blessed thing it is that if the believer shall, in an evil hour, come into the net, yet God will bring him out of it! O backslider, be cast down, but do not despair.

Wanderer though thou hast been, hear what thy Redeemer saith—"Return, O backsliding children; I will have mercy upon you."

But you say you cannot return, for you are a captive.
Then listen to the promise—"Surely He shall deliver thee out of the snare of the fowler."

 Thou shalt yet be brought out of all evil into which thou hast fallen, and though thou shalt never cease to repent of thy ways, yet He that hath loved thee will not cast thee away; He will receive thee, and give thee joy and gladness, that the bones which He has broken may rejoice.

No bird of paradise shall die in the fowler's net.

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A Completed Sacrifice

And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering: and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. (Leviticus 1:4)

If by that laying on of his hand the bullock became the offerer's sacrifice,
how much more shall Jesus become ours by the laying on of the hand of faith?

My faith doth lay her hand On that dear head of Thine,
While like a penitent I stand, And there confess my sin.

If a bullock could be accepted for him to make atonement for him,
 how much more shall the Lord Jesus be our full and all-sufficient propitiation?
 Some quarrel with the great truth of substitution; but as for us, it is our hope, our joy, our boast, our all.

Jesus is accepted for us to make atonement for us, and we are "accepted in the Beloved."
 Let the reader take care at once to lay his hand on the Lord's completed sacrifice,
that by accepting it he may obtain the benefit of it

 If he has done so once, let him do it again. If he has never done so,
let him put out his hand without a moment's delay.

Jesus is yours now if you will have Him.
 Lean on Him—lean hard on Him—and He is yours beyond all question; you are reconciled to God, your sins are blotted out, and you are the Lord's.

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"Doth Job fear God for nought?"

Job 1:9.

THIS was the wicked question of Satan concerning that upright man of old, but there are many in the present day concerning whom it might be asked with justice, for they love God after a fashion because He prospers them; but if things went ill with them, they would give up all their boasted faith in God.

 If they can clearly see that since the time of their supposed conversion the world has gone prosperously with them, then they will love God in their poor carnal way; but if they endure adversity, they rebel against the Lord.

 Their love is the love of the table, not of the host; a love to the cupboard, not to the master of the house. As for the true Christian, he expects to have his reward in the next life, and to endure hardness in this. The promise of the old covenant is adversity.

Remember Christ's words—"Every branch in Me that beareth not fruit"—What? "He purgeth it, that it may bring forth fruit." If you bring forth fruit, you will have to endure affliction.

 "Alas!" you say, "that is a terrible prospect." But this affliction works out such precious results, that the Christian who is the subject of it must learn to rejoice in tribulations, because as his tribulations abound, so his consolations abound by Christ Jesus.

 Rest assured, if you are a child of God, you will be no stranger to the rod. Sooner or later every bar of gold must pass through the fire. Fear not, but rather rejoice that such fruitful times are in store for you, for in them you will be weaned from earth and made meet for heaven; you will be delivered from clinging to the present, and made to long for those eternal things which are so soon to be revealed to you.

When you feel that as regards the present you do serve God for nought, you will then rejoice in the infinite reward of the future.

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