lectures to my students

Quotes from Charles Spurgeon’s lectures to my students.Though he was accused of speaking slang, Spurgeon was a gifted wordsmith that didn’t mince his words.

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..the sooner such ministers sleep in the churchyard and preach by the verse on their gravestones the better.” #lecturestomystudents #CharlesSpurgeon #Spurgeon #thespurge

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“There are preachers who care very little whether they are attended to or not; so long as they can hold on through the allotted time it is of very small importance to them whether their people hear for eternity, or hear in vain #lecturestomystudents #thespurge #Spurgeon

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we should not send out our boys and girls with swords and guns to meet the foe, neither may the church send out every fluent novice or inexperienced zealot to plead for the faith.#lecturestomystudents #thespurge #charlesspurgeon #Spurgeon

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Believe it, brethren, God never saved any man for being a preacher, nor because he was an able preacher; but because he was a justified, sanctified man, and consequently faithful in his Master's work.#lecturestomystudents #thespurge #CharlesSpurgeon

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Better abolish pulpits than fill them with men who have no experimental knowledge of what they teach.#lecturestomystudents #charlesspurgeon #thespurge #Spurgeon

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Many churches today are lacking in sound, Christ exalting theology and preaching. The same was true, in many ways, of Victorian England. What did Spurgeon do about it?

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If your salt be unsavoury how can you season others?#lecturestomystudents #charlesspurgeon #spurgeon #thespurge

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True and genuine piety is necessary as the first indispensable requisite; whatever "call" a man may pretend to have, if he has not been called to holiness, he certainly has not been called to the ministry.#lecturestomystudents #charlesspurgeon #spurgeon #thespurge

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Beware of being "shoddy" preachers.#charlesspurgeon #lecturestomystudents #thespurge #spurgeon

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Act 11:18 When they heard these things they fell silent. And they glorified God, saying, “Then to the Gentiles also God has granted repentance that leads to life.” #Godgrantsrepentance

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and Arminianism, on the other hand, with its wide sweep of the offer of mercy, may do most serious damage to the souls of men, if the careless tone of the preacher leads his hearers to believe that they can repent whenever they please; #charlesspurgeon #lecturestomystudents

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Act 5:31 God exalted him at his right hand as Leader and Savior, to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins. #Godgrantsrepentance

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2Ti 2:24 And the Lord's servant must not be quarrelsome but kind to everyone, able to teach, patiently enduring evil,
2Ti 2:25 correcting his opponents with gentleness. God may perhaps GRANT THEM REPENTANCE leading to a knowledge of the truth,

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It is to be feared that Calvinistic doctrine becomes most evil teaching when it is set forth by men of ungodly lives, and exhibited as if it were a cloak for licentiousness;#lecturestomystudents #charlesspurgeon #thespurge #spurgeon

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If you feel that you want something else, why, then grow your beards! A habit most natural, scriptural, manly, and beneficial.#lecturestomystudents #charlesspurgeon #thespurge #spurgeon #beard #beardgamestrong

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I can only weep and agonize for souls in my own renewed nature, therefore must I watchfully maintain the tenderness which was in Christ Jesus.#lecturestomystudents #charlesspurgeon #thespurge #spurgeon

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We are, in a certain sense, our own tools, and therefore must keep ourselves in order. #charlesspurgeon #lecturestomystudents #thespurge #spurgeon

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Every workman knows the necessity of keeping his tools in a good state of repair, for "if the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength."#charlesspurgeon #thespurge #lecturestomystudents #spurgeon

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The solemn work with which the Christian ministry concerns itself demands a man's all, and that all at its best.#charlesspurgeon #thespurge #lecturestomystudents #spurgeon

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I am as much at home with my young brethren as in the bosom of my family, and therefore speak without restraint.#spurgeon #lecturestomystudents #thespurge #charlesspurgeon