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S P U R G E O N By C H A R L E S H A D D O N S P U R G E O N. |
irst, the Christian should speak of Christ's upholding power.
What a strange expression this is, "The Lord upholdeth all that fall"!
Yet remember John Bunyan's quaint old saying,– "He that is down needs fear no
fall; He that is low, no pride; He that is humble, ever shall Have God to be his
guide."
So David says, "The Lord upholdeth all that fall." What a singular expression!
How can he hold up those that fall? Yet those that fall, in this sense, are the only
persons that stand. It is a remarkable paradox; but it is true. The man who stands
on his feet, and says, "I am mighty,–I am strong enough to stand alone;"–down
he will go; but he who falls into Christ's arms, he who says,– "But, oh! for
this no power have I, My strength is at thy feet to lie;"– that man shall not
fall. We may well talk, then, of Christ's upholding power. Tell it to Christians;
tell how he kept you when your feet were going swift to hell; how, when fierce temptations
did beset you, your Master drove them all away; how, when the enemy was watching,
he compassed you with his mighty strength; how, when the arrows fell thickly around
you, his mighty arm did hold the shield before you, and so preserved you from them
all. Tell how he saved you from death, and delivered your feet from falling by making
you, first of all, fall down prostrate before him.
-from Christian Conversation
A Sermon (No. 2695) Intended for Reading on Lord's-Day, October 7th, 1900, Delivered
by C. H. SPURGEON, At the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington. On a Lord's-day Evening
in the autumn of 1858. "They shall speak of the glory of thy kingdom, and talk
of thy power."—Psalm 145:11.
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