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Ärende: The Right to Holy Things
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Faith's Checkbook  

Charles H. Spurgeon
Aug 2, 2006

 

August 3 




The Right to Holy Things 

"But if the priest buy any soul with his money, he shall eat of it, and he that
is born in his house: they shall eat of his meat" (Leviticus 22:11). 

Strangers, sojourners, and servants upon hire were not to eat of holy things.
It is so in spiritual matters still. But two classes were free at the sacred
table, those who were bought with the priest's money and those who were born
into the priest's house. Bought and born, these were the two indisputable
proofs of a right to holy things. 

Bought. Our great High Priest has bought with a price all those who put their
trust in Him. They are His absolute property -- altogether the LORD's. Not for
what they are in themselves, but for their owner's sake they are admitted into
the same privileges which He Himself enjoys, and "they shall eat of his meat."
He has meat to eat which worldlings know not of. "Because ye belong to Christ,"
therefore shall ye share with your LORD. 

Born. This is an equally sure way to privilege. If born in the Priest's house
we take our place with the rest of the family. Regeneration makes us fellow
heirs and of the same body, and, therefore, the peace, the joy, the glory,
which the Father has given to Christ, Christ has given to us. Redemption and
regeneration have given us a double claim to the divine permit of this promise.

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Spiritually Sick? 




The following is from Spurgeon’s sermon,  “NEARER AND DEARERö 

Alas! my brethren, as in this world our bodies are subject to many sicknesses,
so our souls also, by reason of the body of this death with which we are
encompassed, are often sorely afflicted with sin, spiritual sickness, and an
evil heart of unbelief in departing from the Lord. 

We are not what we Might be, 
we are not what we Should be, 
we are not what we Shall be, 
we are not what we Wish to be. 

I fear that many of us are not walking in the light of God’s  countenance, are
not resting with our heads upon the Savior’s  bosom, nor sitting with Mary at
the Master’s feet. 

We dwell in Kedar rather than Zion, and  sojourn in Mesech rather than
Jerusalem. 

Spiritual sickness is very common in the church of God,  and the root of the
mischief lies in Distance from Jesus,  following Christ afar off, and yielding
to a drowsy temperament. 

Away from Jesus, away from joy. 
Without the sun the flowers pine; 
without Jesus our hearts faint. 



http://www.spurgeongems.org/vols13-15/chs793.pdf








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