Christian, be joyful! For you are a people saved by the Lord!
Israel was God’s first “chosen people,” and those saved in Israel, who descended from Jacob, like us, were those of faith. For those who were not of the faith of Abraham were broken off, and you were grafted in (Rom. 11:17). This should be reason for fear (Rom. 11:20), humility (Rom. 11:18), and joy. We have not replaced Israel, but been joined to the true Israel, that God’s Israel might be complete.
It is not those born of the flesh who are Israel, but those born of the promise (Rom. 9:8). This is how Paul is able to say, “For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel” (Rom. 9:6). For Abraham is “the father of all who believe,” of those who “follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham” (Rom. 4:11-12).
The promise is by faith, so that it might be in accordance with grace, both of which come from God (Rom. 4:16; Eph. 2:8-9).
Let us therefore be joyful, as Jesus spoke, that we should have His joy, and that our “joy may be made full” (Jn. 15:11). Rejoice brethren, that you are a people saved by the Lord!
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Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions
Morning, September 27
"Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord!" Deuteronomy 33:29
He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it. It were strange indeed, if it made us wretched, for see to what a position it exalts us! It makes us sons of God. Suppose you that God will give all the happiness to His enemies, and reserve all the mourning for His own family? Shall His foes have mirth and joy, and shall His home-born children inherit sorrow and wretchedness? Shall the sinner, who has no part in Christ, call himself rich in happiness, and shall we go mourning as if we were penniless beggars? No, we will rejoice in the Lord always, and glory in our inheritance, for we "have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but we have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." The rod of chastisement must rest upon us in our measure, but it worketh for us the comfortable fruits of righteousness; and therefore by the aid of the divine Comforter, we, the "people saved of the Lord," will joy in the God of our salvation. We are married unto Christ; and shall our great Bridegroom permit His spouse to linger in constant grief? Our hearts are knit unto Him: we are His members, and though for awhile we may suffer as our Head once suffered, yet we are even now blessed with heavenly blessings in Him. We have the earnest of our inheritance in the comforts of the Spirit, which are neither few nor small. Heritors of joy for ever, we have foretastes of our portion. There are streaks of the light of joy to herald our eternal sunrising. Our riches are beyond the sea; our city with firm foundations lies on the other side the river; gleams of glory from the spirit-world cheer our hearts, and urge us onward. Truly is it said of us, "Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord?"
Israel was God’s first “chosen people,” and those saved in Israel, who descended from Jacob, like us, were those of faith. For those who were not of the faith of Abraham were broken off, and you were grafted in (Rom. 11:17). This should be reason for fear (Rom. 11:20), humility (Rom. 11:18), and joy. We have not replaced Israel, but been joined to the true Israel, that God’s Israel might be complete.
It is not those born of the flesh who are Israel, but those born of the promise (Rom. 9:8). This is how Paul is able to say, “For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel” (Rom. 9:6). For Abraham is “the father of all who believe,” of those who “follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham” (Rom. 4:11-12).
The promise is by faith, so that it might be in accordance with grace, both of which come from God (Rom. 4:16; Eph. 2:8-9).
Let us therefore be joyful, as Jesus spoke, that we should have His joy, and that our “joy may be made full” (Jn. 15:11). Rejoice brethren, that you are a people saved by the Lord!
——————
Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions
Morning, September 27
"Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord!" Deuteronomy 33:29
He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it. It were strange indeed, if it made us wretched, for see to what a position it exalts us! It makes us sons of God. Suppose you that God will give all the happiness to His enemies, and reserve all the mourning for His own family? Shall His foes have mirth and joy, and shall His home-born children inherit sorrow and wretchedness? Shall the sinner, who has no part in Christ, call himself rich in happiness, and shall we go mourning as if we were penniless beggars? No, we will rejoice in the Lord always, and glory in our inheritance, for we "have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but we have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." The rod of chastisement must rest upon us in our measure, but it worketh for us the comfortable fruits of righteousness; and therefore by the aid of the divine Comforter, we, the "people saved of the Lord," will joy in the God of our salvation. We are married unto Christ; and shall our great Bridegroom permit His spouse to linger in constant grief? Our hearts are knit unto Him: we are His members, and though for awhile we may suffer as our Head once suffered, yet we are even now blessed with heavenly blessings in Him. We have the earnest of our inheritance in the comforts of the Spirit, which are neither few nor small. Heritors of joy for ever, we have foretastes of our portion. There are streaks of the light of joy to herald our eternal sunrising. Our riches are beyond the sea; our city with firm foundations lies on the other side the river; gleams of glory from the spirit-world cheer our hearts, and urge us onward. Truly is it said of us, "Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord?"
Christian, be joyful! For you are a people saved by the Lord!
Israel was God’s first “chosen people,” and those saved in Israel, who descended from Jacob, like us, were those of faith. For those who were not of the faith of Abraham were broken off, and you were grafted in (Rom. 11:17). This should be reason for fear (Rom. 11:20), humility (Rom. 11:18), and joy. We have not replaced Israel, but been joined to the true Israel, that God’s Israel might be complete.
It is not those born of the flesh who are Israel, but those born of the promise (Rom. 9:8). This is how Paul is able to say, “For they are not all Israel who are descended from Israel” (Rom. 9:6). For Abraham is “the father of all who believe,” of those who “follow in the steps of the faith of our father Abraham” (Rom. 4:11-12).
The promise is by faith, so that it might be in accordance with grace, both of which come from God (Rom. 4:16; Eph. 2:8-9).
Let us therefore be joyful, as Jesus spoke, that we should have His joy, and that our “joy may be made full” (Jn. 15:11). Rejoice brethren, that you are a people saved by the Lord!
——————
Spurgeon’s Morning and Evening Devotions
Morning, September 27
"Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord!" Deuteronomy 33:29
He who affirms that Christianity makes men miserable, is himself an utter stranger to it. It were strange indeed, if it made us wretched, for see to what a position it exalts us! It makes us sons of God. Suppose you that God will give all the happiness to His enemies, and reserve all the mourning for His own family? Shall His foes have mirth and joy, and shall His home-born children inherit sorrow and wretchedness? Shall the sinner, who has no part in Christ, call himself rich in happiness, and shall we go mourning as if we were penniless beggars? No, we will rejoice in the Lord always, and glory in our inheritance, for we "have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but we have received the spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father." The rod of chastisement must rest upon us in our measure, but it worketh for us the comfortable fruits of righteousness; and therefore by the aid of the divine Comforter, we, the "people saved of the Lord," will joy in the God of our salvation. We are married unto Christ; and shall our great Bridegroom permit His spouse to linger in constant grief? Our hearts are knit unto Him: we are His members, and though for awhile we may suffer as our Head once suffered, yet we are even now blessed with heavenly blessings in Him. We have the earnest of our inheritance in the comforts of the Spirit, which are neither few nor small. Heritors of joy for ever, we have foretastes of our portion. There are streaks of the light of joy to herald our eternal sunrising. Our riches are beyond the sea; our city with firm foundations lies on the other side the river; gleams of glory from the spirit-world cheer our hearts, and urge us onward. Truly is it said of us, "Happy art thou, O Israel; who is like unto thee, O people saved by the Lord?"
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