For I will cleanse their blood that I have not cleansed.
Joel 3:21
"There is a promise before you, an exceeding great and precious promise. Why do you not lay hold upon it?
Why not receive it in all its length and breadth and call it your own?
Adam, I think, never trembled to pluck the pomegranate or to crush the grape; he was a perfect man, and he knew that the bounties of God’s providence in Eden’s garden were his own.
We pray, but it is often to a distant God, as to one who stands upon a mountain beyond our reach! How few of us come like a child to his Father, and lay hold on God as one who is near to us by ties of divine affinity.
The most of Christians, I fear, are outer court worshippers. They stand in the place of the priests, but they never come to stand where the high priest stood, within the veil.
Sinner! he that believeth in Christ, may claim this text for himself."
Charles Spurgeon
Joel 3:21
"There is a promise before you, an exceeding great and precious promise. Why do you not lay hold upon it?
Why not receive it in all its length and breadth and call it your own?
Adam, I think, never trembled to pluck the pomegranate or to crush the grape; he was a perfect man, and he knew that the bounties of God’s providence in Eden’s garden were his own.
We pray, but it is often to a distant God, as to one who stands upon a mountain beyond our reach! How few of us come like a child to his Father, and lay hold on God as one who is near to us by ties of divine affinity.
The most of Christians, I fear, are outer court worshippers. They stand in the place of the priests, but they never come to stand where the high priest stood, within the veil.
Sinner! he that believeth in Christ, may claim this text for himself."
Charles Spurgeon