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Let not your heart be troubled, Bp. Beveridge

Beloved,

Two offerings this morning. The theme for these times is, Let not your heart be troubled, John 14:1.  This is a time of impending trouble, and the discourses here are precious to help toward these times.

The first offering is by Bishop Beveridge, the second I will send out, is by C.H. Spurgeon.

God Bless, and may you be edified in His Spirit.

~Al

 

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. John 14:1

 Trouble and its cordial

 

I. GOD'S MOST FAITHFUL SERVANTS ARE SUBJECT TO TROUBLES OF HEART.

 1. What troubles?

(1) Inward, arising from

(a) Sin (Psa 51:4-8).

(b) Corruption (Rom 7:24).

(2) Outward, which are

(a) Spiritual: Christ's absence.

(b) Temporal: outward afflictions (Lam 1:4).

2. The reason.

(1) Weakness of faith.

(2) Imperfection of other graces.

 

II. FAITH IN GOD AND CHRIST IS THE BEST CORDIAL TO A TROUBLED HEART.

1. It is the surest and most infallible (Mat 11:28).

2. The strongest (Isa 59:1).

3. The pleasantest (1Pe 1:8).

4. The readiest (Psa 46:1).

5. The most suitable (Isa 43:2-3).

6. The most constant (Heb 13:5).

7. The most universal.

 

III. APPLY THIS to

1. Temporal troubles. Art thou troubled with

(1) Poverty?

(a) Faith is the best riches (Jas 2:5).

(b) It will turn thy very poverty into a blessing (Rom 8:28).

(2) Disgrace?

(a) By faith thou mayest see the emptiness of honor (Psa 42:11).

(b) Faith will procure thee honor (Heb 1:14; 1Sa 2:30).

(3) Sickness and pains.? By faith

(a) Thou mayest see God's love in them (Heb 12:6).

(b) Thou mayest get good by them (Psa 119:71).

(c) Thou mayest receive more comfort in them than in health.

(4) Losses and crosses?

(a) Faith will show thee from whence they came (Job 1:21).

(b) Why (Heb 12:10).

(c) And so turn them to thy gain (2Co 4:17).

(5) Fears of death? Faith will show thee

(a) That the sting is out (1Co 15:55).

(b) That death is but the entrance of life.

(c) And so turn thy fears into hopes (Php 1:23).

2. In spiritual troubles. Art thou troubled

(1) For thy sins?

(a) God is merciful (Psa 103:8; Isa 43:25).

(b) Christ is all-sufficient (1Jn 2:1).

(2) With thy lusts?

(a) God is almighty.

(b) Christ will send His Spirit (chap. 16:7).

(c) Faith conquers them (1Jn 5:4).

(3) With desertions? If thou believest

(a) God will never forsake thee wholly (Joh 13:1; Heb 13:5).

(b) Christ will pray that thy faith fail not (Luk 22:31-32).

(Bp. Beveridge.)


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