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       Faith's Checkbook

      Charles H. Spurgeon
      Nov 8, 2006



November 9
Necessary Knowledge

"Thus shall they know that I the LORD their God am with them, and that they,
even the house of Israel, are My people, saith the LORD God" (Ezekiel 34:30).

To be the LORD's own people is a choice blessing, but to know that we are such
is a comfortable blessing. It is one thing to hope that God is with us and
another thing to know that He is so. Faith saves us, but assurance satisfies
us. We take God to be our God when we believe in Him; but we get the joy of Him
when we know that He is ours and that we are His. No believer should be content
with hoping and trusting; he should ask the LORD to lead him on to full
assurance, so that matters of hope may become matters of certainty.

It is when we enjoy covenant blessings and see our LORD Jesus raised up for us
as a plant of renown that we come to a clear knowledge of the favor of God
toward us. Not by law, but by grace do we learn that we are the LORD's people.
Let us always turn our eyes in the direction of free grace. Assurance of faith
can never come by the works of the law. It is an evangelical virtue and can
only reach us in a gospel way. Let us not look within. Let us look to the LORD
alone. As we see Jesus we shall see our salvation.

LORD, send us such a flood tide of Thy love that we shall be washed beyond the
mire of doubt and fear.

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827 7.6. J. HART
“And they shall mourn for him.ö Zech. 12. 10


1 Suffering Saviour, Lamb of God,
How hast thou been usŠd?
With the Almighty’s wrathful rod
Soul and body bruisŠd!

2 We, for whom thou once wast slain, We, whose sins did pierce thee,
Now commemorate thy pain,
And implore thy mercy.

3 We would with thee sympathise
In thy bitter passion;
With soft hearts and weeping eyes
See thy great salvation.

4 [Thine’s an everlasting love;
We have dearly tried thee;
Whom have we in heaven above,
Whom on earth beside thee?

5 What can helpless sinners do
When temptations seize us?
Nought have we to look unto
But the blood of Jesus.]

6 Pardon all our baseness, Lord;
All our weakness pity;
Guide us safely by thy word
To the heavenly city.

7 O sustain us on the road
Through this desert dreary;
Feed us with thy flesh and blood
When we’re faint and weary.

8 Bid us call to mind thy cross,
Our hard hearts to soften;
Often, Saviour, feast us thus,
For we need it often.





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