The PyroManiacs devote some space each weekend to highlights from the lifetime of works from the Prince of Preachers, Charles Haddon Spurgeon. The following excerpt is from the Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, volume 34, sermon number 2,031, "David dancing before the Ark because of his election."
"Dear brethren, there is great power in the truth of election
when a man can grasp it."
when a man can grasp it."
Personally, I have overflowing joy
in the doctrines of eternal, unchanging love. It is
bliss to know that the Lord has chosen me. When I am down very low in
spirit, I crave for those old books which, like the Lord Jesus, are full of
grace and truth.
You who are at ease in Zion can do with the chaffy modern
theology; but when your heart is heavy, and especially when your conscience is
under a sense of sin, you will want these two dishes on the table—free
grace and dying love, and you cannot do without them.
We must have an
atoning sacrifice, and free grace to make us partakers thereof. I cannot give
up the doctrines of grace, for they are my life. I do not so much hold them
as they hold me. The five fingers of the great doctrines of grace have enclosed
my heart.
I can die; but I cannot deny the imperishable truth. The
doctrine of the eternal choice gives forth joy as myrrh and
cassia give forth perfume. May you all know it!
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