Pressed down - As figs or grapes might be, and thus many more might be put into the measure. Dec 24, 1986. They take up religious. Sermon Number and Title 518 - The Bridgeless Gulf Exposition following sermon #2334 Exposition following sermon #2963 32 - The Necessity of Increased Faith 1318 . Everything in PLUS. 25); but the latter hear from the teaching of the same Master, LUKE xvi. For of thorns men do not gather figs, nor of a bramble bush gather they grapes.' Three men stand in the same field and look around them: and then they all cry out together. Take two boys in a class at college; two clerks in a shop in town. It checks licentiousness. It was legal! Nevertheless, there is also a very large measure of human responsiveness on which we may safely reckon. Whatever else is mentioned in the nature of reward is not an object to be sought after, but a consequence which must needs ensue. Unlimited church media downloads. Luke 6:38 in all English translations. Serenity amidst the uncertainties of life.--8, 9. No orator would have spoken to Spartans as to Baeotiansit was their very life and business to fightand deeds of prowess were, therefore, to be expected of them. The unconscious and uncalculated reaction that will be received by ourselves, enlarging our heart and lifting us toward the level of the supreme Giver. The same man who is so gentle that if men will not listen to him, he goes elsewhere, is so steadfast that he cannot be silenced! Where Thou art, there is heaven; and where Thou are not, A good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. The Sermon on the Mount is as full of the Light of God to you as the Transfiguration on the Mount. He that is parsimonious, close, stubborn, will find few or none who will aid him. 'Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. I should tell them that their name and parentage should not be disgraced by the idea of defeat, but that they must expect victory and seize it as their right! Best value plan. True marks proposed; such as--increasing love to God.--4. Is there anything which can seem too mean for you and me after beholding such condescension? These acts are good, but they do not come up to Christ's standard. THE GOLDEN RULE (Luke 6:27-38) 6:27-38 Jesus said, "But to you who are listening I say, Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who ill-use you. ity and morality for the fruit of the Spirit of God. In the passage that we have been reading we evidently have a form of virtue which is quite out of the ordinary range of men's thoughts. A. Jesus and Sabbath controversy. You will sleep sweetly at night and the music that awakes you in the morning will be sweet as the bells of Heaven. This ought to make professors very seriously in earnest to judge themselves lest they should mistake natural amiabil-. And the disciples of John shewed him of all these things. I turn to one more illustration of the working of our law the highest, the completest of them all. Can you love those who have belied your character, who have done the best they can to ruin you and who will do the same again? So far from flinching from suffering, we are not even to give it a thought as to how we shall speak if we are brought before kings and rulers, for a part of the Christian's heroism is to lie in his calm self-possession. But on the next occasion they cry out, "That was not a Gospel sermon! For Ye have not Received the Spirit of Bondage. We dare not ask for justice, we can only plead for mercy. Such a creature you and I shall yet become. (NASB95) NET Luke 6:1 Jesus was going through the grain fields on a Sabbath, and his disciples picked some heads of wheat, rubbed them in their hands, and ate them. March 15, 2020 Luke 21:5-38. I had rather be poor for Thy sake, than rich without Thee. They show that holy living works from the heart of things--beginning within--to the outside. Read full chapter. Click the title of a sermon to view or save the PDF. Luke Glendening Wrist Shot saved by Filip Gustavsson; . another cries, How strange! Can you rise to this? Luke 5. If you go to your brother who has treated you so badly, and say, "Brother, we are going to be friends," and you manage to heal all wounds, you will not need any other reward! Give liberally of your worldly substance to indigent persons, as you have an opportunity, according to your ability, and as cases require: and it shall be returned again to great advantage; with great recompense, either in temporals or spirituals, or both: good . I am sure it does not require Grace in the hearts of the bulk of you to make you feel kindly towards those who treat you in a friendly manner! We shall, by shunning it, secure it! Shall men give - This is said to be the reward of "giving" to the poor and needy; and the meaning is that the man who is liberal will find others liberal to him in dealing with them, and when he is also in circumstances of want. The life beyond depends on the life here. Luke 7 Luk 7:18. Religious acts count for nothing unless there is a true heart at the back of them! You go to the House of Godso do the heathens go to the house of their god. But I the more insist on the principle of a fair and just proportion, and on the duty o! another cries, How beautiful! And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people._ Dastardly fear often drives men to the greatest crimes. It is because we are puffed up with a high opinion, The Village Pulpit, Volume II. It is also true that we shall never understand really what Christian giving is until . Jesus, knowing that He came from God and went to God, took a towel and girded Himself and began to wash His disciples' feet. They are glad that He shall do this or that for themthat He shall, in fact, gird Himself and wait at their table while they sit down to meat. The true Believer is to be willing to bear reproach, yes, and to bear much more than reproach, as saints of God have done time out of mind. It seems that poverty of spirit is not the beatitude which corresponds to the gift of fear. All gifts flow from God's "tender mercy" and fidelity to promises made. For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knows that you have need of these things." LUKE vi. That is quite enough. I cannot speak from any painful experience, here, for all have been kind to me and I have had good measure, pressed down and running over, poured into my bosom. The parable of Dives and Lazarus is one of the most solemn passages in the whole Revelation of God. This freedom from anxiety constitutes a main part of the Christian character and is so uncommon as to lift its possessor far above men of the world. The same thing may be done by a hundred different men and apparently done in the same way and yet only one of them may be doing it in God's way and doing it with the sincere motive of honoring and glorifying Godthe 99, though studiously aiming to make the outward action correct, may, nevertheless, fail as to acceptance with God because their motive and spirit are altogether wrong. Running over - So full that the measure would overflow. Your gift will return to you in full pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. Thursday, April 13, 2023. . to the gifts of the Holy Ghost; and Ambrose in his commentary on Luke 6:20, seqq., ascribes the beatitudes mentioned there, to the four cardinal virtues. Ourselves - our thought, our affection, our sympathy. VI. Judge not . iv.8-11; vi.4-10). Candor of disposition.--6. 25); but the latter hear from the teaching of the same Master, Leo the GreatWritings of Leo the Great, The Present Life as Related to the Future. "For as Many as are Led by the Spirit of God, they are the Sons of God. I will now close with the reflection that THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION SUPPLIES DUE NOURISHMENT. Hitherto have ye asked nothing in My Name; ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full. Christianity finds me a soldier wounded in battle and it heals my woundsbut it does far more than thatit girds me with armor, it gives me a sword, it teaches me to fight and it makes a hero of me if I yield myself to its full power! Luk 7:19. 23, 24, 26. I must admit that they are not easy to come by, but when you are meek and lowly you will find them on the principle that like draws to like and birds of a feather flock together. You must be ready to help those who are too poor, even, to come to your rescue, yes, and ready to help those who would not help you if they couldwho may even return your kindness with words of falsehood and acts of unkindness! Where are the fruits of my discipleship? Luke was a companion of Paul ( Acts 16:10-11; 2 Timothy 4:11; Philemon 1:24) and Paul called him the beloved physician ( Colossians 4:14 ). With what measure we mete to it, it measures to us again. Another man comes to Jesus with a self all trembling with fear, all eager for safety, and Jesus satisfies him; He lets him know that even the humblest, and most ignorant, and least aspiring soul, which repents of and forsakes its sin, and seeks forgiveness, shall not be lost. 2. Luke 6:38. Spurgeon.) This would be glorious, indeed, especially if you could keep clear of all selfish motives in such a contest of love and would do it all, not because you want to seem a hero or to be something great, but simply because you delight to do good and feel it to be a pleasure to do that good where it is most needed, namely, where the spirit of enmity has the greatest power. A doctrine from Him we value beyond the much fine gold and a command is equally high in our esteem. It is not good when either of them is made cynical, and sneers at the possibility of virtue because of the vice which he has felt in its contamination at his side. 25.--"And Abraham said, Son remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented." For every tree is known by his own fruit. That gentle laugh which ripples over the congregation is the best refutation of such barefaced selfishness! Spurgeon left this earth for his heavenly hope in 1892. Higher virtue exists than that which loves them that love you! But truly these are interwoven through other. He should have an eye to see that which is invisible and an arm to lean on that which he cannot feel. in Monte i, 4) assigns the beatitudes recited by Matthew (v 3, seqq.) Answer, distinguishing between Legal and Evangelical righteousness. 19:21: "If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor." Read full chapter. But I will forewarn you whom you shall fear: Fear Him, which after He has killed, has power to cast into Hell." John Piper Nov 24, 1980. (Luke vi. (As it is written in the law of the Lord, Every male that openeth the womb shall be called holy to the Lord;) and to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtle-doves, or two young pigeons. No soul, bad in itself, can really learn the possibility of goodness by mere sight and touch even of a world of saints, and no soul really good can lose the noble consciousness that man was made for goodness, even though all the world but him is steeped in wickedness, nay, in subtle ways he will feed that consciousness there. 5:31, 32; 15:4-7; 31, 32; 19:10). And yet you call yourself a Christian? 3 The devil said to him, "If you are the Son of God, command this stone to become bread." 4 And Jesus answered him, "It is written . Compare Isaiah 65:7, "I will measure their former work into their bosom; also Jeremiah 32:18. Those of as who are middle-aged may value the orator's generosity as we like, but we may reflect that he only recommends its exercise towards us because we are likely to be good debtors and pay back what we receive, perhaps, with interest! 2. What manner of persons ought you to be in all holy conversation and godliness? Divine providence is like a wheel . It maintains the merits of Christ, the truth of the Gospel, and the peace of the soul. (Fourth Sunday after Trinity.) Full access to all Sermon Series Kits. Connection of this chapter with the previous one on Justification. We have not so learned Christ as to be pickers and choosers when the fruits of His lips are before us. The allusion in every case is to a dry measure; and the climax in the three participles would be destroyed by Bengel's interpretation. 3019A Sermon Published on Thursday, December 20th, 1906,Delivered by C.H. What we want of Him is not merely His gifts; it is ourselves; He must give us them first. It makes no practical difference, whether we assume that this was a real occurrence, or only an imaginary, "Whatsoever ye shall ask in My Name, that will I do. Dec 25, 2005. From our ignorance, we ought to be cautious and merciful in our judgments, and from our own weakness, we should be forgiving to those who have trespassed against us. "And as ye would that men should do to you, do ye also to them like wise." A thought sufficed to do it. 3. I could wish that some who call themselves Christians were, in certain respects, as good as others whom I know of who have never borne the Christian name! WE read in the Gospel for this day that our Lord Jesus Christ said: "Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. Scripture: Luke 1:26-38. Either, how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? And His disciples plucked the heads of grain and ate them, rubbing them in their hands. A Christian should be ready to give way. Zeal for the divine honor.--11. The true soul, with a character of its own, will learn the possibility of being good from his own consciousness, all the more strongly because of the vice that touches him. Standing at her bedside, he rebuked the fever, and it left her. But Jesus rebuked them and said, "You know not what manner of spirit you are of, for the Son of Man did not com to destroy men's lives, but to save them. How can I obtain spiritual enjoyment?" Yet I am sorry to say that though this is no more than a natural excellence, it is not, by any means, so common as to be universal. Many who are total strangers to the Grace of God exhibit sparkling forms of the human virtues in integrity, generosity, kindness, courage, self-sacrifice and patience. AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON. Spurgeon regarded mercy ministry as not merely optional for Christians to be engaged in, but something he felt was actually essential to the life of the Christian and the ministry of the local church. We may be adorned from head to foot with that which is lovely and of good repute, but, for all that, we may come short of what God requires of us because inwardly our heart is not in accordance with our outward array. That is not the Christian spirit which, under pretense of seeking liberty in the Church, craves after lordship and self-display. The word "bosom" here has reference to a custom among Oriental nations of making the bosom or front part of their garments large, so that articles could be carried in them, answering the purpose of our pockets. Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers. Our possessions - our money, our time, our books, our clothes, etc. ( Luke 6:1-2) The source of the controversy: the disciples are accused of "harvesting" on the Sabbath. Spurgeon (1834-1893) over the course of his ministry in London during the 19th century, transcribed from manuscripts edited by . 37. We make no distinction between His promises and His precepts, but prize every syllable above rubies. If we are children of God, we ought to do what others never think of. Then, remember this to fire your ambitionyou shall be children of the Highest! 41, Unconditional Election; No. (C. H. Does not that awaken you? 43, 44.) But then, the preacher is not addressing himself to you as to flesh and blood, but as to those who are possessed of a far higher principle, namely, the indwelling Spirit of God! Where hath it been well with me without Thee? We say, "Love begets love," and it is natural that it should do so. We expect to see something of the father in the child. No. Luke vi. 3. Zeal for the divine honor.--11. The Present Life as Related to the Future. Watch for a time when, by great kindness, you may heap coals of fire on his head. 3. Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. Therefore the beatitudes do not differ from the virtues and gifts. 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