NO. 1830<\/b><\/p>\n
A SERMON INTENDED FOR READING ON LORD\u2019S-DAY, MARCH 29TH, 1885,<\/b><\/p>\n
DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON,<\/i><\/p>\n
AT THE METROPOLITAN TABERNACLE, NEWINGTON.<\/b><\/p>\n
ON NOVEMBER 25TH, 1883.<\/p>\n
I Shall have five texts \u2014 one of them a good one, the other four bad. The first text is good. It is God\u2019s text.<\/p>\n
Exodus 10:26: \u2014 \u201cThere shall not an hoof be left behind.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
That is God\u2019s text, and the whole sermon will illustrate it by exposing the compromises with which it was met.<\/p>\n
The other four are Pharaoh\u2019s texts, or, if you like, the devil\u2019s, for that is exactly what the devil says to men. Exodus 8:25: \u2014 \u201cPharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron, and said, Go ye, sacrifice to your God in the land<\/i>.\u201d That is his first proposal. Then we find him saying at the twenty-eighth verse, \u201cI will let you go, that ye may sacrifice to the Lord your God in the wilderness; only ye shall not go very far away<\/i>.\u201d That is the second of his compromises. In the tenth chapter, at the eighth verse, you have the third. He said to them, \u201cGo, serve the Lord your God: but who are they that shall go<\/i>.\u201d Adding, \u201cGo now, ye that are men, and serve the Lord<\/i>.\u201d And Pharaoh\u2019s fourth and last proposal is in the twenty-fourth verse of that same tenth chapter: \u2014 \u201cPharaoh called unto Moses, and said, Only let your flocks and your herds be stayed<\/i>.\u201d<\/p>\n
Satan is very loth to give up his hold on men. He is quite as loth as Pharaoh, and he must be driven to it by force of arms; I mean by force of divine grace, before he will let God\u2019s people go. Having once got them under his power through the fall, through their sin, and through their obduracy of heart, he will not lose his subjects if he can help it; but he will put forth all his craft, and all his strength, if possible to hold them in his accursed sway. Many of Satan\u2019s slaves altogether disregard the voice of God. For them there are no Sabbaths, no Bibles, no religion. Practically they say, \u201cWho is Jehovah that we should obey his voice?\u201d Now, when God means to save men \u2014 when the eternal purpose so runs, and the divine determination is to be accomplished, he soon puts an end to this. For some reason quite unknown to the man \u2014 it may be quite unguessed by him \u2014 he feels uneasy: he is disturbed. He thinks one morning that he will go up to a place of worship; not that he cares much about it, but he thinks that he shall perhaps be a little easier there. He takes his Bible: he begins to read a chapter. A very striking passage comes before his eye. He is not more easy, for the text has fixed upon him. Like a barbed shaft it has stuck into his soul, and he cannot possibly draw it out again. He is more troubled than ever. He begins to enquire a little about the things of God; there is some respect now outwardly to religion; the man is considerably changed.<\/p>\n
But do not imagine that the work is accomplished. Our blessed Master has to fight for every inch of ground which he wins in human hearts. With the matchless artillery of his love he drives the enemy back farther and farther, till at last he conquers; but it is often a long and slow process, and were he not possessed of infinite patience he would give it up. But where it is his resolve that a man shall come out of the world and shall be saved, that resolve must and will be carried into effect; and the man though he is only brought so far that he begins to thinks a little about divine and about eternal matters, will have to go a great deal farther than that.<\/p>\n
You see him sitting under the word of God, and perhaps Satan says now, \u201cWell, you are a fine fellow. You are beginning to occupy a seat Sunday after Sunday in the house of prayer. You have given up your evil habits to a large extent. You are quite a different man. Now you have done something very pleasing to God. You may rest content with this.\u201d And it is a very sad thing when men do rest content with such a paltry hope as can have come out of poor performances like these. But still they will stop just there if they can, for Satan does not mind where he makes men halt so long as they will stay under the dominion of sin, and refuse to come to Christ.<\/p>\n
Now the Lord begins to deal with the man perhaps in a way of affliction and trouble. His wife sickens: a child dies: he is himself unhealthy: he fears he is about to die, and his fancied righteousess evaporates before his eyes; and he thinks that now surely he must seek after something better. Then will Satan come in and say, \u201cThere is time enough yet. Do not be in too much of a hurry.\u201d<\/p>\n
If the Lord drives a man from that by the solemn movements of the Spirit upon his soul, then the devil will say to him, \u201cHow do you know that this is all true?\u201d and he has not to go far before he finds infidels to help his unbelief. I am sorry to say that he can find them in the pulpit pretty plentifully, preaching their infidelities as \u201cadvanced thought\u201d; and so poor souls get bewildered, and scarcely know their right hand from their left, they begin again to relapse into a condition of indifference, and remain where they were.<\/p>\n
Blessed be God, if he means to save such, he will, by push of pike, and point of bayonet, carry the day. They shall not rest where they are. The right hand of the Lord is stretched out still, and he will make the Pharaoh of evil yet know that Jehovah is stronger than he. Grace is mightier than nature and the eternal purpose more sure of fulfillment than all the resolves of case-hardened consciences; so at last it comes to this \u2014 that the man is driven to yield to God, and when he is driven to that point Satan comes in again with his promises.<\/p>\n
We are going to speak about these four compromises to-night. The first compromise is found in the eighth chapter at the twenty-fifth verse.<\/p>\n
\u201cSacrifice to your God in the land.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cYes,\u201d says the devil, \u201cyou must be a Christian, that is evident. You cannot hold out any longer, for you are too uneasy in your sins. You will have to be a Christian.\u201d \u201cBut,\u201d says he, \u201cstop in the world, and be a Christian. Remain where you are. \u2019Sacrifice to your God in the land<\/i>\u2019\u201c; by which he sometimes means this: live in sin, and be a believer. Trust yourself with Christ, and then indulge yourself in whatsoever your heart desires. Do you not know that he is a Savior of sinners? Therefore stop in your sin, and yet trust in him. Oh, I charge you, by the living God, never be duped by such a treacherous lie as this, for it is not possible that you can find any rest or salvation while you live in sin. My dear hearers, Christ came to save us from<\/i> our sins, but not in our sins. He has built a hospital of mercy into which he receives the worst possible cases. All are welcome, but he does not receive them that they may continue sick, but that he may heal them, and make sound men of them. When the Lord Jesus Christ takes hold upon a thief, the man is a thief no longer; his inmost heart becomes honest. When the Lord meets with the harlot, he blots out her iniquity, and she is affected with deep repentance for her crimes, and turns unto her Savior, desiring henceforth to walk in purity all her days. It is impossible that you should serve God and yet continue to indulge in knowing sin. What a fool that man is who thinks that he may drink and be a Christian, that he may cheat in his business and be a Christian, that he may act like the ungodly world in all respects, and yet be a Christian! It cannot be. Mark Antony yoked two lions together and drove them through the streets of Rome; but he could never have yoked together the lion of the pit and the lion of the tribe named Judah. There is a deadly hate between these two. The principle of good, if it be yielded to, will destroy the mastery of evil. There cannot be a compromise between them. No man can serve two masters.<\/i> He may serve two, but not two when each determines to be master. Satan will be master if he can, and Christ will be master, and therefore you cannot serve the two. It must be one or the other. If thou art to have thy sin forgiven thee, thou must leave thy sin. Remember that voice which came to Master John Bunyan when he was playing tipcat on Elstow Green on Sunday morning. He thought that he heard a voice say, \u201cWilt thou leave thy sins and go to heaven, or wilt thou have thy sins and go to hell?\u201d That problem is proposed to you if you are unconverted and undecided. But as to the idea of keeping your sins and going to heaven, shut that out of the question, for it must not, cannot shall not be: it is a compromise proposed by Satan, but the Lord will not have it.<\/p>\n
Yes, but then Satan, retreating a little, says, \u201cWell, now, of course I did not mean that you were not to give up your grosser sins; but I mean to tell you of something better. Love the world, and live with worldlings, and find your company and your joy among them, and yet be a Christian. Surely you are not going to throw up everybody, are you? You know you must not be singular. You must not make yourself an oddity altogether. You have many merry companions of yours, keep to them. They do not, perhaps, do you much good. Well, you must not be too particular, and precise.\u201d So he says, \u201cContinue in the world, and be a Christian.\u201d Shall I tell you God\u2019s word about that? \u201cIf any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.\u201d That is short, though not sweet. A man says, \u201cWell, I shall be a Christian; but I shall find my chief pleasure and my amusement where the world finds it.\u201d Will you? \u201cI shall be a Christian; but I shall hold with the hare and run with the hounds. I shall be with the church on Sunday; but nobody shall know that I am not the veriest worldling on the week-day. Can I not put my hymn-book in one pocket and a pack of cards in the other, and so go to heaven and keep friends with the world? \u201cNo, it is not possible.\u201d Let my people go, that they may serve me,\u201d is God\u2019s word. Not, \u201cLet them stop in the land, and still serve you and serve me too.\u201d It cannot be. \u201cKnow ye not that the friendship of the world is emnity with God?\u201d That text is another sharp, drawn sword cutting to the quick; and there are professors who ought to feel it go to their very hearts, for they are trying all that they possibly can to go as near as ever they can to the borderline, and yet to keep up a hope. What would you think of a man who went as near as he could to burning his house down, just to try how much fire it would stand? Or of one who cut himself with a knife, to see how deep he could go without mortally wounding himself? Or of another, who experimented as to how large a quantity of poison he could take? Why, these are extreme follies; but not so great as that of a man who tries how much sin he may indulge in, and yet be saved. I pray you, do not attempt such perilous experiments. \u201cCome ye out from among them; be ye separate, and touch not the nuclear thing.\u201d Shun with horror Satan\u2019s old compromise: dream not that you can love the world, and yet have the love of the Father in you.<\/p>\n
When the enemy cannot get on with that, he harks back a little, and cries, \u201cThat is very proper; you are hearing very faithful teaching this time, but listen to me! You can live for yourself and be a Christian. Do not go out into worldly company, but enjoy yourself at home. You see you want to have your own soul saved. Well, live for that<\/i>.\u201d This is only a subtler and uglier form of selfishness. It is nothing better. \u201cLook,\u201d says Satan, \u201cI do not ask you to be profligate with your money, be penurious with it: be very thrifty. Everybody will pat you on the back, and say, \u2019He is taking care of number one, and he is doing the right thing.\u2019 Come, now, and make a good thing of religion. Believe in Jesus Christ, of course, in order that you yourself may be saved, and then live all the rest of your life trying to hear sermons that will feed you, and read books that will comfort you, and become a great man among religious folks.\u201d Hateful advice! Do you not know, dear friends, that the very essence of Christianity is for a man to deny himself? Self can never properly be the end-all and be-all of a man\u2019s existence. Self is to religion, in fact, nothing but the flesh in a pretendedly spiritual form. If a man lives to himself, he is under the dominion of an evil spirit just as much as if he went out into open sin. So you must come out of that. Selfishness will not do. You must love the Lord with all your heart, and you must love your fellow-men. There must be an obedience to that command that thou \u201clove the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy neighbor as thyself,\u201d or else there is no coming out into safety. Thus the first compromise will not hold at all.<\/p>\n
Pushed back from the first compromise, Pharaoh proposes a second, and this is found in the twenty-eighth verse of the eighth chapter: \u2014 <\/p>\n
\u201cOnly ye shall not go very far away.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Satan says, \u201cYes, I see your conscience tells you that you must come out from the world, and come out from sin, but do not go very far away, for you may want to come back again. In the first place, do not make it public. Do not join a church. Be like a rat behind the wainscot; never come out except it be at night to get a mouthful of food. Do not commit yourself by being baptized, and joining the church; do not go so very far as that. Just try, if you can, and save yourself from the wrath to come by secret religion, but do not let any one know it. There really cannot be soy need of actually saying, \u2019I am a Christian.\u2019\u201d My friend, this is the very depth of Satan. When a soldier goes to the barrack-room, if he is a child of God he may say, \u201cI shall not kneel down to pray because they might throw a boot at me, as they generally do in the barrack-room. I can keep my religion to myself.\u201d That man will go wrong. But if he boldly says, \u201cI will fly my flag. I am a Christian, and I will never yield that point, come what may\u201d; he will stand. The beginning of yielding is like the letting out of water; no man knows to what a flood it will come. This is what Satan would have with some of you, that you may fall by little and little. Therefore defeat him: come out boldly. Take up your cross, and follow Jesus. \u201cHe that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.\u201d<\/p>\n
The tempter also says, \u201cDo not be so very precise and exact. The Puritanic saints \u2014 well, people point the finger at them. You need not be quite so particular.\u201d By which he means this \u2014 that you may sin as much as you like so long as you do not violate propriety; and that, after all, you are not to obey God thoroughly, but only to obey him when it pleases you. This is flat rebellion against God. This will never do.<\/p>\n
\u201cWell,\u201d he says, \u201cif you are to be so precise, yet do not be so desperately earnest. There are some of those friends down there at the Tabernacle who are always looking after the souls of others, and trying to proclaim Christ to everybody. You know they are a very dogmatic lot, and they are a great deal too pushing and fanatical. Do not go with them.\u201d Just so. He means, stand and serve the Lord, because you dare not do any other, but never give him your heart; never throw your soul into his cause. That is what Satan says; and do you think that such traitorous service will save you? If Moses had thought that going a little way into the wilderness would have saved Israel, he would have let them go a little way into the wilderness, and there would have been an end of it. But Moses knew that nothing would do for God\u2019s Israel but to go clean away as far as ever they could, and put a deep Red Sea between them and Egypt. He knew that they were never to turn back again, come what might, and so Moses pushed for a going forth to a distance; as I would in God\u2019s name push for full committal to Christ with everybody who is tempted to a compromise.<\/p>\n
\u201cOh, but,\u201d Satan will say, \u201cbe earnest too. Yes, be earnest. Of course that is right enough; and be precise in all your actions; but do not be one of those people who are always praying in secret. You can keep an open religious profession going without much private praying, without heart-searching, without communion with God. These are tough things,\u201d says he, \u201cto keep up. You will find it difficult to maintain the inward life, and preserve a clean heart and a right spirit. Let these go by default, and attend to externals, and be busy and active, and that will do.\u201d But it will not do, for unless the heart and soul be renewed by the Spirit of God, it little matters what your externals may be. You have failed before God unless your very soul is joined unto him by a perpetual covenant that shall never be forgotten. What a blessing it is when a man can say, \u2014 I have done with these compromises; I do not want to serve God and win favor with the world. I do not want to go just a little way from the world. I pray God to divide me from the worldby an everlasting divorce, just asit was with Paul when he said, \u201cThe world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.\u201d \u201cFrom henceforth let no man trouble me; for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.\u201d Happy man who has come right out under divine guidance to seek the eternal Canaan! His is the path of safety and acceptance; but they that temporize and parley with sin and Satan will find mischief come out of it.<\/p>\n
Pushed back from that, the enemy suggests another compromise in the tenth chapter, at the eighth and eleventh verses: \u2014 <\/p>\n
\u201cGo, serve this Lord your God: but who are they that shall go? Go now, ye that are men, and serve the Lord.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
Yes, that is his next point. \u201cYes,\u201d he says, \u201cwe see what it has come to. You are driven at last to this \u2014 that you must be an out-and-out Christian; but, now,\u201d he says, \u201cdo not worry your wife with it; do not take it home.\u201d Or he says to the woman, \u201cYou are to follow Christ. I see you must. You seem driven to that; but never say anything to your husband about it.\u201d Was not that a pretty idea of Pharaoh\u2019s \u2014 that all the men were to go, and were to leave the women and children to be his slaves? And that is just the idea of Satan. \u201cYou have plenty to do to look after yourself; but your wife \u2014 well, leave her to her own ways. Your husband \u2014 leave him to his irreligion.\u201d Let us answer him thus, \u2014 \u201cAs for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.\u201d So said Joshua of old; and so let every man here say. Remember Paul\u2019s words to the Philippian gaoler, \u201cBelieve on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house<\/i>.\u201d Let us pray that we may have the whole house for Christ. Up to your measure of influence over your family, say within yourself, \u201cMy Lord, I will never rest until I see all my family brought to thy dear feet. Lord, save my wife: save my husband: save my father: save my brothers and sisters! Bring these out of bondage!\u201d You cannot be a Christian unless that is your heartfelt desire. He that careth not for his own house is worse than a heathen man and a publican.<\/p>\n
And then the children. \u201cOh,\u201d Pharaoh says, \u201cleave the children!\u201d Do you not see he knew very well that, if they did that, they would themselves come back again? What man among us would go away into the wilderness, and leave his wife and children in slavery? Should we not want to come back to them? Should we not think that we heard their cries? Should we not want to look into their dear faces again? Leave them in slavery? Oh, that cannot be! And yet let me sorrowfully say that there are many professing Christians who seem as though they were themselves determined to be the Lord\u2019s, but their children should belong to Pharaoh and to the devil For instance, the boy is getting of a certain age. Let him be sent to a foreign school, and, preferably, a Roman Catholic school. Will that be useful to his religion? Yet if he should turn out a Papist, his foolish father will almost break his heart. It was all his own doing, was it not? Well, the girls, of course, they must go into society: of course, they must \u201cgo into society.\u201d And so everything is done to put them into places of danger, where they will not be likely to be converted, and where, in all probability, they will become gay, and vain, and light. Then a situation is looked out for the boy. How often there is no question about the master being a Christian! Is it a business that the lad can follow without injury to his morals? \u201cNay, it is a fine roaring trade, and it is a cutting house, where he will pick it up in a smart way. Let him go there.\u201d Ay; and if he goes to perdition? Alas, there are Christian men who do not think of that! The children of some professors are offered up to the Moloch of this world. We think it a horrible thing that the heathens should offer their children in sacrifice to idols, and yet many professors put their children where, according to all likelihood, they will be ruined. Do not let it be so. Do not let the devil entangle one of you in that compromise, but say, \u201cNo, no, no; my house, God helping me, shall be so conducted that I will not put temptation in my children\u2019s way. I will not lead them into the paths of sin. If they will go wrong, despite their father\u2019s exhortations and their mother\u2019s tears, why, they must; but, at any rate, I will be clear of their blood, for I will not put them into places where they would be led astray.\u201d I am sure there is a great deal of importance in this remark, and if it cuts anybody very closely, and he says, \u201cI think you are very personal,\u201d that is exactly what I mean to be \u2014 the precise thing I am aiming at. I desire to put this thing before every individual Christian, that all may see the right and the wrong of it, and may resolve, \u201cOur women and our children shall go with us to worship God. They as well as ourselves shall leave this Egypt, as far as God\u2019s grace can help us to accomplish it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now the devil is getting pushed into a corner. Here is the man\u2019s whole house to go right for God, and the man gives himself up to be a Christian out and out. What now? \u201cWell,\u201d says the enemy in the twenty-fourth verse of that tenth chapter,<\/p>\n
\u201cGo ye, serve the Lord; only let your flocks and your herds be stayed.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Just so. What does Moses say to that? \u201cThou must give us also sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice unto Jehovah our God. Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not a hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the Lord our God; and we know not with what we must serve the Lord, until we come thither.\u201d This was the divine policy of \u201cNo surrender,\u201d and I plead for it with you. Satan says, \u201cDo not use your property for God. Do not use your talents and your abilities; especially, do not use your money for the Lord Jesus. Keep that for yourself. You will want it one of these days, perhaps. Keep it for your own enjoyment. Live to God in other things, but, as to that, live to yourself.\u201d Now, a genuine Christian says, \u201cWhen I gave myself to the Lord I gave him everything I had. From the crown of my head to the sole of my foot I am the Lord\u2019s. He bids me provide things honest in the sight of all men, and care for my household; and so I shall; but yet I am not my own, for I am bought with a price; and therefore it becomes me to feel that everything I have, or ever shall have, is a dedicated thing, and belongs unto the Lord, that I may use it as his steward, not as if it were mine, but at his discretion, and at his bidding. I cannot leave my substance to be the devil\u2019s. That must come with me, and must be all my Lord\u2019s; for his it is even as I am.\u201d The Christian takes the line which Moses indicated: \u201cI do not know what I may be required to give. I know that I am to sacrifice unto the Lord my God, and I do not know how much. I cannot tell what may be the needs of the poor, the needs of the church, the needs of Christ\u2019s church all over the land. I do not know, but this I know, that all that I have stands at the surrender point. If my Redeemer wants it he shall have it. If Satan wants it he shall not have a penny of it. If there be anything that is asked of me that will not conduce to good morals \u2014 that will not conduce to the promotion of that which is right in the sight of God \u2014 I withhold it. But if there be anything that is for Christ\u2019s glory and for the good of men, then, as the Lord shall help me, it shall be given freely, and not be begrudged as if it were a tax. It shall be my joy and my delight to devote all that I am, and all that I have, to him who bought me with his precious blood.\u201d<\/p>\n
Now, brothers and sisters, you that profess to be Christians, come you, stand right square out, and own yourselves wholly and altogether the Lord\u2019s.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2019Tis done! the great transaction\u2019s done; I am my Lord\u2019s, and he is mine.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cMy house is his, and my all is his. Whether I live or die \u2014 whether I work or suffer, all that I am, and all that I have, shall be for ever my Lord\u2019s.\u201d This is to enter into peace: this indeed is to be clean delivered from the power of Satan; this is to be the Lord\u2019s free man; and what remains but with joyful footsteps to go onward toward Canaan, shod with shoes of iron and brass, fed with heavenly bread, guarded by the Lord himself, guided by his fiery-cloudy pillar, enjoying all things in him, and finding him in all things? This is to be a Christian of the true order. The Lord make you so by faith in his dear Son! Amen and Amen.<\/p>\n
PORTION OF SCRIPTURE READ BEFORE SERMON \u2014 Selections from the eighth and tenth chapters of Exodus.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
HYMNS FROM \u201cOUR OWN HYMN BOOK\u201d \u2014 645,656,658.<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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