Letter: Here's the real reason for the season

Letter: Here's the real reason for the season

Spurgeon On Apostasy

You know how many passages there are in which it is positively asserted that if a
child of God did deliberately and totally apostatize, his restoration would be
utterly impossible—not difficult, but impossible. This is one of the greatest
proofs of the doctrine of the final perseverance of the saints, since there is no man
in a condition in which it is impossible to save him, and yet any man would be in such
a state if he apostatized. Therefore true believers shall not apostatize, but shall stand
fast, and shall be kept even to the end. Yet, could they totally apostatize, they could
never be restored again: the greatest remedy having already failed, there would
remain no other.

Spurgeon Quote

“All the days of his separation shall he eat nothing that is made of the vine tree, from the kernels even to the husk.” – Numbers 6:4

Nazarites had taken, among other vows, one which debarred them from the use of wine. In order that they might not violate the obligation, they were forbidden to drink vinegar of wine or strong liquors, and to make the rule still more clear, they were not to touch the unfermented juice of grapes, nor even to eat the fruit either fresh or dried. In order, altogether, to secure the integrity of the vow, they were not even allowed anything that had to do with the vine; they were, in fact, to avoid the appearance of evil. Surely this is a lesson to the Lord’s separated ones, teaching them to come away from sin in every form, to avoid not merely its grosser shapes, but even its spirit and similitude. Strict walking is much despised in these days, but rest assured, dear reader, it is both the safest and the happiest. He who yields a point or two to the world is in fearful peril; he who eats the grapes of Sodom will soon drink the wine of Gomorrah. A little crevice in the sea-bank in Holland lets in the sea, and gap speedily swells till a province is drowned. Worldly conformity, in any degree, is a snare to the soul, and makes it more and more liable to presumptuous sins. Moreover, as the Nazarite who drank grape juice could not be quite sure whether it might not have endured a degree of fermentation, and consequently could not be clear in heart that his vow was intact, so the yielding, temporizing Christian cannot wear a conscience void of offence, but must feel the inward monitor is in doubt of him. Things doubtful we need not doubt about; they are wrong to us. Things tempting we must not dally with, but flee from them with speed. Better to be sneered at as a Puritan than be despised as a hypocrite. Careful walking may involve much self-denial, but it has pleasures of its own which are more than a sufficient recompense.

-C.H. Spurgeon

1834-1892

FOR HIM - Paul Washer - Sermon Jam

Quote by Tozer

"I think that most Christians would be better pleased, if the Lord
did not inquire into their personal affairs too closely. They want Him
to save them, to keep them happy, and to take them off to Heaven at
last, but not to be too inquisitive about their conduct or services."
~A.W. Tozer

Dangers Facing the Young and Reformed - Paul Washer