In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
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Presumed Salvation – Charles Spurgeon
If thou shalt hate the things that thou didst once love, and love the things that thou didst once hate; if thou hast really repented; if there be a thorough change of mind in thee; if thou be born again, then hast thou reason to rejoice: but if there be no vital change, no inward godliness; if there be no love to God, no prayer, no work of the Holy Spirit, then thy saying “I am saved” is but thine own assertion, and it may delude, but it will not deliver thee.
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Believe God – Charles Spurgeon
If we cannot believe God when circumstances seem be against us, we do not believe Him at all.
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Christ’s hold of you – Charles Spurgeon
What a mercy it is that it is not your hold of Christ that saves you, but His hold of you!
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Condition of the Church – Charles Spurgeon
The condition of the church may be very accurately gauged by its prayer meetings. So is the prayer meeting a grace-ometer, and from it we may judge of the amount of divine working among a people. If God be near a church, it must pray. And if He be not there, one of the first tokens of His absence will be slothfulness in prayer.
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The basis for truth – Charles Spurgeon
The church does not determine what the Bible teaches. The Bible determines what the church must teach.
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Evidence of Salvation – Charles Spurgeon
Another proof of the conquest of a soul for Christ will be found in a real change of life. If the man does not live differently from what he did before, both at home and abroad, his repentance needs to be repented of and his conversion is a fiction.
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Powerful holiness – Charles Spurgeon
In proportion as a church is holy, in that proportion will its testimony for Christ be powerful.
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Holy or Happy? – Charles Spurgeon
I would sooner be holy than happy if the two things could be divorced. Were it possible for a man always to sorrow and yet to be pure, I would choose the sorrow if I might win the purity, for to be free from the power of sin, to be made to love holiness, is true happiness.
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