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Ärende: Never Ashamed / Sustained by Feeding / One with Christ Jesus
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       Faith's Checkbook

      Charles H. Spurgeon
      Oct 16, 2006


October 14
Never Ashamed

"Whosoever therefore shall confess Me before men, him will I confess also
before My Father which is in Heaven" (Matthew 10:32).

Gracious promise! It is a great joy to me to confess my LORD. Whatever my
faults may be, I am not ashamed of Jesus, nor do I fear to declare the
doctrines of His cross. O LORD, I have not hid Thy righteousness within my
heart.

Sweet is the prospect which the text sets before me! Friends forsake and
enemies exult, but the LORD does not disown His servant. Doubtless my LORD will
own me even here and give me new tokens of His favorable regard. But there
comes a day when I must stand before the great Father. What bliss to think that
Jesus will confess me then! He will say, "This man truly trusted Me and was
willing to be reproached for My name's sake; and therefore I acknowledge him as
Mine." The other day a great man was made a knight, and the Queen handed him a
jeweled garter; but what of that? It will be an honor beyond all honors for the
LORD Jesus to confess us in the presence of the divine Majesty in the heavens.
Never let me be ashamed to own my LORD. Never let me indulge a cowardly silence
or allow a fainthearted compromise. Shall I blush to own Him who promises to
own me?



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October 15
Sustained by Feeding

"As the living Father hath sent Me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth
Me, even he shall live by Me" (John 6:57).

We live by virtue of our union with the Son of God. As God-man Mediator, the
LORD Jesus lives by the self existent Father who has sent Him, and in the same
manner we live by the Savior who has quickened us. He who is the source of our
life is also the sustenance of it. Living is sustained by feeding. We must
support the spiritual life by spiritual food, and that spiritual food is the
LORD Jesus. Not His life, or death, or offices, or work, or word alone, but
Himself, as including all these. On Jesus Himself we feed.

This is set forth to us in the LORD's Supper, but it is actually enjoyed by us
when we meditate upon o ur LORD, believe in Him with appropriating faith, take
Him into ourselves by love, and assimilate Him by the power of the inner life.
We know what it is to feed on Jesus, but we cannot speak it or write it. Our
wisest course is to practice it and to do so more and more. We are entreated to
eat abundantly, and it will be to our infinite profit to do so when Jesus is
our meat and our drink. LORD, I thank Thee that this, which is a necessity of
my new life, is also its greatest delight. So, I do at this hour feed on Thee.



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October 16
One with Christ Jesus

"Because I live, ye shall live also" (John 14:19).

Jesus has made the life of believers in Him as certain as His own. As sure as
the Head lives the members live also. If Jesu s has not risen from the dead,
then are we dead in our sins; but since He has risen, all believers are risen
in Him. His death has put away our transgressions and loosed the bonds which
held us under the death sentence. His resurrection proves our justification: we
are absolved, and mercy saith, "The LORD hath put away thy sin, thou shalt not
die."

Jesus has made the life of His people as eternal as His own. How can they die
as long as He lives, seeing they are one with Him? Because He dieth no more,
and death hath no more dominion over Him, so they shall no more return to the
graves of their old sins but shall live unto the LORD in newness of life. O
believer, when, under great temptation, thou fearest that thou shalt one day
fall by the hand of the enemy, let this reassure thee. Thou shalt never lose
thy spiritual life, for it is hid with Christ in God. Thou dost not doubt the
immortality of thy LORD; therefore, do not think that He will let thee die,
since t hou art one with Him. The argument for thy life is His life, and of
that thou canst have no fear; wherefore rest in thy living LORD.



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