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Faith's Checkbook  

Charles H. Spurgeon
May 23, 2006

 

May 24 
One a Majority!


"One man of you shall chase a thousand: for the LORD your God, He it is that
fighteth for you, as He hath promised you" (Joshua 23:10). 



Why count heads? One man with God is a majority though there be a thousand on
the other side. Sometimes our helpers may be too many for God to work with
them, as was the case with Gideon, who could do nothing till he had increased
his forces by thinning out their numbers. But the LORD's hosts are never too
few. When God would found a nation, He called Abram alone and blessed him. When
He would vanquish proud Pharaoh, He used no armies, but only Moses and Aaron.
The "one-man ministry," as certain wise men call it, has been far more used of
the LORD than trained bands with their officers. Did all the Israelites
together slay so many as Samson alone? Saul and his hosts slew their thousands
but David his ten thousands. 



The LORD can give the enemy long odds and yet vanquish him. If we have faith,
we have God with us, and what are multitudes of men? One shepherd's dog can
drive before him a flock of sheep. If the LORD sent thee, O my brother, His
strength will accomplish His divine purpose. Wherefore, rely on the promise,
and be very courageous. 



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"Thus it was with me." 

(Ruth Bryan's personal testimony. From "The Marvelous Riches of Savoring
Christ—The letters of Ruth Bryan")

"Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound!" 
    Romans 5:20 

Ah, indeed! I felt there never was such a wretch,  such a living mass of
putrefying sores and corruption! Others might be worse outside—but I felt the
sin was  not less polluting, because it worked chiefly within.  And I thought
if the Lord ever saved me, I would be  the greatest wonder in heaven, and that
there  never could be such another trophy of redeeming love!  Nothing less than
sovereign power and irresistible grace  would ever be sufficient for such a
hell-deserving one  as myself!

Thus it was with me. It seemed too good to be  true—that I, who deserved the
lowest hell, and had  felt so long as though I were hanging over it—should  be
delivered forever from it! "Deliver her from going  down to the pit—I have
found a Ransom!" 

The blood of Jesus is the only way by which  a poor sinner can enter into
heaven itself.  Coming with that precious blood, the vilest  shall not be shut
out, for it "cleanses from  all sin." 

Secret sin, 
open sin, 
old sin, 
long-continued sin, 
sins against light and knowledge,
sins against judgment and mercy, 
known sin, 
unknown sin,
every kind and manner of sin which a poor  trembling, Spirit-convinced sinner
feels— does this powerful blood take away!

My sins were as scarlet, my guilt of crimson dye; but blood of a richer hue
which flowed out from the veins of my precious Savior has made me white as
snow! None need despair, since He  has saved such a worthless, hell-deserving
one  as myself! 

"Where sin abounded, grace did much more abound!"



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