By Charles H. Spurgeon
Charles Spurgeon, the “Prince of Preachers,” used to be very conscious of the necessity to keep away from seeing Christmas as a in simple terms spiritual vacation, open to commercialization and frivolity.
Accordingly, all through so much of his broad ministry he refused to change his educating agenda to slot in a “Christmas” sermon, as is so universal at the present time. searching through Spurgeon’s massive educating archive, we discover basically 19 situations during which specified consciousness was once given to the subject of Christmas.
Spurgeon’s concentration in those 19 sermons is overwhelmingly the who and why of Christmas. He marvelled on the truth that God may ship his purely Son into the area for those that not at all deserved it.
Christ got here into the area to save lots of sinners. That was once Spurgeon’s concentration one hundred fifty years in the past. we want that message now greater than ever.
Joy to the realm, the Lord has come!
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Now, secondly, where did he come to? A word or two concerning Bethlehem. It seemed meet and right that our Saviour should be born in Bethlehem, and that because of Bethlehem’s history, Bethlehem’s name, and Bethlehem’s position—little in Judah. 1. First, it seemed necessary that Christ should be born in Bethlehem, because of Bethlehem’s history. Dear to every Israelite was the little village of Bethlehem. Jerusalem might outshine it in splendour; for there stood the temple, the glory of the whole earth, and “beautiful for situation, the joy of the whole earth was Mount Zion;” yet around Bethlehem there clustered a number of incidents which always made it a pleasant resting-place to every Jewish mind; and even the Christian cannot help loving Bethlehem.
If such an one be here! I know not; among such a multitude there may be such an one. Woman! hast thou strayed from thy family? Hast thou left them long? “Go home to thy friends,” I beseech thee, ere thy father totters to his grave, and ere thy mother’s grey hairs sleep on the snow-white pillow of her coffin. Go back. I beseech thee! ” And if so, I shall not blush to have said these things, though you may think I ought not to have mentioned them; for if I may but win one such soul, I will bless God to all eternity, “Go home to thy friends.
Poor sinner! Christ has not left going forth yet. And when he goes forth, recollect, he goes to Bethlehem. Have you a Bethlehem in your heart? Are you little? He will go forth to you yet. Go home and seek him by earnest prayer. If you have been made to weep on account of sin, and think yourself too little to be noticed, go home, little one! Jesus comes to little ones; his goings forth were of old, and he is going forth now. He will come to your poor old house; he will come to your poor wretched heart; he will come, though you are in poverty, and clothed in rags, though you are destitute, tormented, and afflicted; he will come, for his goings forth have been of old from everlasting.
