NO. 3175<\/b><\/p>\n
An Address The Sermon upon \u201cThe Beauty of the Olive Tree\u201d being too long for the regular weekly series, the publishers have decided to issue it as a double number including this Address, which is an interesting souvenir of an afternoon visit paid by Mr. Spurgeon to an invalid a Mentone, the late Giles Shaw, Esq., of Bewdley, brother-in-law of Miss Frances Ridley Havergal. The Address was delivered without preparation, and followed immediately the singing of the hymn upon which it is based.<\/p>\n
PUBLISHED ON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 16TH, 1909,<\/b><\/p>\n
DELIVERED BY C. H. SPURGEON,<\/i><\/p>\n
IN A SICK-ROOM AT MENTONE.<\/b><\/p>\n
\u201cThou wilt keep him in perfect peace (Margin: peace, peace,) whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee. -Isaiah 26:3.<\/i><\/p>\n
A Sermon by Mr. Spurgeon, upon Isaiah 26:is No. 1,818 in Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, \u201cThe Song of a City, and the Pearl of Peace.\u201d Expositions of the whole chapter are included with Sermon No. 2,430, \u201cChristians and their Communion with God;\u201d and No. 2,713, \u201cWalking in the Light of the Lord.<\/p>\n
As we have; met together in this sick-chamber, and you all wish me to talk with you, we will thoughtfully run over the hymn which you have just been singing. It is No. 730 in Sacred Songs and Solos<\/i>, or No. 7 in The Christian Choir<\/i>. May the Divine Teacher lead us into mines of truth, and show us the deep things of God!<\/p>\n
\u201cPeace! Perfect peace! in this dark world of sin?
The blood of Jesus whispers peace within.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Peace, yea, perfect peace. What a heaven lies within! Peace gleaming with a heavenly light even in the midnight of this world of care. We cannot enjoy true peace as long as sin remains upon the conscience. As well might the ocean be quiet while tempest is raging, or the sea bird rest on the wave when the storm is mixing earth and sky. The more the conscience is enlightened, the more surely will it forbid peace so long as sin remains; for its honest verdict is, that sin deserves God\u2019s wrath, and must be punished. Every upright understanding assents to the justice of that dispensation by which \u201cevery transgression and disobedience received a just recompense of reward.\u201d To me, when convinced of sin, it seemed that God could not be God if he did not punish me for my sins. Because of this deep – seated conviction, that great gospel truth, \u201cThe blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin,\u201d became a heavenly message, sweeter than the music of angels harps. Then I saw, with glad surprise, that God in Christ Jesus is just, and the Justifier of him which believeth.\u201d To me, the glorious doctrine of substitution was a well in the desert; and it is so still. I believe it with my whole soul. An honest man, if he be in debt, will always be in trouble until the liability is removed; but when his debt is paid he leaps into liberty and gladness. When I learned that my enormous debt of sin had been fully discharged by the Lord Jesus Christ, who did this for all believers, then was my heart at peace. How much I wish that all of you may join me and Bishop Bickersteth in singing with emphasis,-<\/p>\n
\u201c Peace perfect peace! in this dark world of sin
The blood of Jesus whispers peace within!\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
The second verse goes on to speak of-<\/p>\n
\u201cPeace! perfect peace! by thronging duties press\u2019d?
To do the will of Jesus, this is rest.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
This peace is a present possession, and may be enjoyed in the ordinary circumstances of life. Everyone who keeps house, every busy housewife, every man who is much occupied with his business, needs this verse.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeace, perfect peace, by thronging duties press\u2019d\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
To be closely pressed by a crowd of duties not tend to peace of spirit. You do not know how to act through all you have to do, and there seems so much to be done all at once. If the duties world come in regular order, and you could take them as they come, you might be at peace, even though incessantly occupied; but when they come rushing in, helter-skelter,-not only one thing, but twenty other things, all claiming to be done at once,-then is the anxious soul apt to be disquieted. We are first wearied, and then worried. To be perfectly at peace amid the hurry-burly of invading cares is a very blessed condition of soul; and the only way to reach it is described in the next line of the hymn,-<\/p>\n
to do the will of Jesus, this is rest.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
To be sure that what you are doing is what Jesus would have you do is peace. Happy soul, that is doing what Jesus would have it do! I put up this little question in the Orphanage, for the children to read,- – \u201cWhat would Jesus do?\u201d This, if we have spiritual minds, will be one of the best guides for us when we are in difficulty as to what is the next thing for us to do. We would do good, but too many good things are present with us, and which is to be first? To know the will of Jesus, and to do it, is to abide in the peace of God. What we cannot do we shall leave to him, being assured that our duty does not lie in the region of the absolutely impossible.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen obstacles and trials seem
Like prison walls to be,
I do the little I can do,
And have the rest to thee.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
God comes in with his grace where the impossible shuts us out. There are two things we need never worry about,-what we can do, and what we cannot do. What remaineth? The next verse is very sweet,-<\/p>\n
\u201cPeace, perfect peace! with sorrows surging round?
On Jesus, bosom nought but calm is found.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Oh, those sorrows! sorrows of sickness in ourselves and others; bereavements, losses and crosses in daily life; inabilities to succor, and depressions of spirit. These last are at times the worst of all; for then the sorrow gets right into the heart, and becomes sorrow indeed! All the waters in the ocean are as nothing to the vessel so long as they are kept outside; but when they break into the cabin of the heart\u2019s assurance, and begin to fill the hold of the heart; then are we in peril.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeace, perfect peace, with sorrows surging round.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
This is the finger of God. It is not according to nature for a man to be just as happy when he is in adversity as in prosperity. Even when \u201csorrowful\u201d to be \u201calways rejoicing\u201d is a paradox realized only by one who knows that next line,-<\/p>\n
\u201cOn Jesus\u2019 bosom nought but calm is found.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Wonderful position! We cease to marvel at the deep calm which comes of it. I have sometimes noticed very little chicks nestling under their mother\u2019s wings, thrusting out their little heads from under her feathers, looking so warm and cosy that they did not seem to know that it was cold in the big world outside. Near their mother\u2019s bosom they chirped quite happily, and were altogether unaffected by the frosts of the night or the chills of the day. So we read, \u201cHe shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.\u201d We get to Jesus, and we find shelter and safety in him, even as the little chicks beneath their mother\u2019s wings. Is it so with each one of you? A present salvation should yield you present consolation, and it will do so if you act up to your position and privilege. Tell your sorrow to Jesus; leave your sorrow with Jesus. Bear your sorrow for<\/i> him; bear your sorrow with<\/i> him and then see what peace, what perfect peace, you will enjoy, even \u201cwith sorrows surging round.\u201d<\/p>\n
The next verse will suit us who are, for a while, a thousand miles from home.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeace! perfect peace! with loved ones far away?
In Jesus\u2019 keeping we are safe, and they.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Yes, the dear wife is at home. We do not know how things are going there with the children, and the servants, and the workpeople. All sorts of things are left as burdens upon the beloved ones at home. We leave our beloved with our God, and commend the household far away to God, who is present everywhere. A wandering son, a wayward daughter; we leave them all with Jesus. It is ordained by the providence of God that these loved ones should be far away, and therefore it is right it should be so. Yes, that which God appoints is right, and must be right<\/i>. Distance ordained of heaven is better than nearness of our own choosing. How sweet that line,-<\/p>\n
\u201cIn Jesus\u2019 keeping we are safe, and they!\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
They are safe, too. It is all well with them; we cannot see them, but they are under the eye of Jesus. They are as near to him as we are, and in his keeping they are as safe as we are. When I was a very little child, I lived so long with my grandfather that he became everything to me; and when I left him, it seemed like going among strangers; and I remember that grandfather tried to comfort me by saying, \u201cAh, child! you are going away from Stambourne; but the same moon will shine where you are going. It will always be the same moon.\u201d Often I looked at the moon, and remembered that grandfather was looking at it too, and we were not, so very far away from one another. It is a sweet comfort to think that there is the same providence watching over the loved ones far away on the other side of the globe, in Australia, as there is watching over us who are gathered here. The absence of friends must not break our inward peace.<\/p>\n
Some are naturally anxious and fretful; and this comes out most in their thoughts of those who are away. I was just now talking to a friend who tries to leave her troubles with the Savior, but very soon takes them up again, and bears them on her own back. She casts her burdens on the Lord, and then bows her own weary shoulders to the load. This she confessed she had done many times. I said to her, \u201cDo you keep your money in a bank?\u201d \u201cYes,\u201d she replied. \u201cThen,\u201d said I, \u201cit is well for both of us that I am not your banker.\u201d \u201cWhy?\u201d she asked. \u201cWhy,\u201d I replied, \u201cif you were to place \u00a3100 with me, and then come, back in five minutes, and ask whether your money was safe, I should have to assure you that it could not be safer. Then you would probably want to see it, and I should say, \u2019There is your money. You can draw it out at once.\u2019 I should not be best pleased if the next day you came again, and repeated your question, and made a personal inspection. I am afraid I should say to you, \u2019You had better take away your money, and look after it yourself, for it is evident that you have little or no confidence in me.\u2019\u201d At any rate, however I might take it, it would be very provoking conduct. We must not talk of confidence in our Lord Jesus, and then withdraw at the first sign of trouble or difficulty. \u201cWe are safe, and they.\u201d Will not an assured conviction of this truth bathe us in seas of heavenly peace? The Lord make it so with us all! Now for verse five,<\/p>\n
\u201c Peace I perfect peace! our future all unknown?
Jesus we know, and he is on the throne.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
That is the end of all doubts about the future, \u201cHe is on the throne.\u201d His hand is on the helm, to steer the ship. He is in the place of sovereign government; nothing can happen but what he ordains or permits. Ah, dear friends! some of us have need to remember such a verse as this. We went home one year from this place, two of us, as happy as birds could be; and within a very few days one had lost his wife, and the other one dear friend, and then another. We will not try to peer through that telescope which would unveil the future. It may be that dark scenes will startle us before we reach the eternal light. We do not know, and need not wish to know, what is appointed for us; but this great and comfortable truth meets it all,-<\/p>\n
\u201cJesus we know, and he is on the throne.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
We can very well leave all things with our crowned Head. I suppose none of us would wish to contradict him<\/i>, nor to have anything arranged otherwise than his loving mind appoints. If he stood by us this afternoon, and said to any one of us, \u201cMy child, I have arranged thy way in tender love and wisdom;\u201d no one of us would wish it to be otherwise. If he said to us, \u201cI have appointed so-and-so,\u201d should we say to him, as Joseph said to Jacob, \u201cNot so, my father,\u201d and would we wish him to uncross the hands which he guides so wittingly? Would we not ask for the cross handed blessing? Let the King be a king, and do what seemeth him good! May we not only say that, but stand to it in the trying hour.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeace! perfect peace! death shadowing us and ours?
Jesus has vanquished death and all its powers.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Death is the last enemy, but more, he is \u201cthe last enemy that shall be destroyed<\/i>.\u201d He cannot touch a child of God: only his shadow may fall upon us. How small a thing is this! The shadow of a sword cannot kill, the shadow of a dog cannot, bite, the shadow of a lion cannot rend, and the shadow of death cannot destroy.<\/p>\n
\u201c Death shadowing us and ours.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Well, well, we are not silly babes, that can be frightened at a shadow; for-<\/p>\n
\u201cJesus has vanquished death and all its powers.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
He did it by his own death and resurrection. That resurrection transformed death into quite another thing from what it was before. Death used to be as a black cavern in the mountains. Men said that many were the footsteps into it, but that there were none from it. It was an awful, all-devouring cavern; but Jesus has, by passing through it, turned the cavern into a tunnel. He went in at the gloomy side, but he remained not in the heart of the earth; he re-appeared at the other side. So that, now, death is all on the way to heaven and immortality.<\/p>\n
I have heard of an aged Christian sister at Plymouth, who had been for many years troubled with the fear of death, but she got over it, and was very happy and very cheerful when speaking about her departure. She lived in a room of her own, and one night she said to the friends in the house, \u201cI believe I shall see the Lord tomorrow.\u201d It was on a Saturday night she spoke thus, and, according to her wish, they did not disturb her in the morning; but as they did not hear anything of her as the day passed on, they went to her room about mid-day, and sure enough she was with her Lord. On a piece of paper, which lay on her bed, they found these lines written,-<\/p>\n
\u201cSince Jesus is mine, I\u2019ll not fear undressing,
But gladly put off these garments of clay;
To die in the Lord is a covenant blessing,
Since Jesus to glory through death led the way.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
That is the way to look at it.<\/p>\n
\u201cPeace, perfect peace, death shadowing us and ours?
Jesus has vanquished death and all its powers.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Then comes the last verse,-<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is enough: earth\u2019s struggles soon shall cease,
And Jesus call us to heaven\u2019s perfect peace.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Dear friends, it is very essential that we, as Christian people, should not only talk about this peace, and believe in it, but that we should enjoy it, and exhibit it. I believe that, to some of you, the best way in which you can honor God, and win others to Christ, is by exhibiting a quiet, cheerful frame of mind, especially in sickness. Nothing is so convincing to ungodly men as to see Christians very calm in time of danger, very resigned in the hour of affliction, very patient under provocation, and taking things altogether, as Christian men should take them, as from the hand of God. They are struck with it, for it is so different from what they feel within themselves. When their earth shakes, when their foundations are removed, when their health is gone, when their earthly comforts are taken away; what have they left? But you and I have just as much left when all these things are gone as we had before. While we have earthly comforts, we have learned to see God in them all; and when they are taken away, we see them all in God. But the ungodly have not that wonderful sense of the full possession of all things, which, is the peculiar delight of the heirs of salvation. You and I are like Jacob; the Lord said to him, \u201cThe land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it;\u201d you have only to lie down upon a promise, and you may claim it for yourself, and it is yours by the Magna Charta of faith. Go to the Bible, and whatever promise you find there addressed to a child of God, stretch yourself upon it, and so make it your own, and it will be so. Remember how the Lord spake unto Abraham, \u201cLift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward: for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it.\u201d Let us believe that God has given us all things in giving us his Son.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis world is ours, and worlds to come,
Earth is our lodge, and heaven our home.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
We must get this perfect peace of which we have now been singing and speaking. I admire in certain of the saints their self-command, their great quiet and deep restfulness of spirit. It is not everything; but it is a very great deal. It is all the more needful just now, because the world is in such a hurry. It is needful to us when we are weak, and suffering, and when we are surrounded by cares and sorrows. Yet it is quite as valuable when we are strong and young, and comfort would tempt us aside. Oh, that the world may see that we have a peace that cannot be taken away from us by force or fraud! I do not quite like that saying of Addison, \u201cCome here, young man, and see how a Christian can die,\u201d it looks too theatrical; but I should like it to be so with us that men might turn aside to see how a Christian can live. O Lord and giver of peace, grant us thy peace, and grace to keep it, even to the end!<\/p>\n
EXPOSITION BY C. H. SPURGEON<\/p>\n
HOSEA 14.<\/b><\/p>\n
Verse 1. O Israel, return unto the LORD thy God, See Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, No. 2,192, \u201cThe Joyous Return.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
Bless his name that he is still thy God, however much thou mayest have backslidden, thou hast not lost thy right to claim him as thy God, for he is thine eternally by a fixed entail; and because he is still thy God, let his everlasting kindness entice thee to come back to him.\u201d<\/p>\n
1. For thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cThou hast lost thy comforts, thou hast become a poor despicable creature; thou hast fallen by thine iniquity, this is the eve of all the mischief; thy sin is the seed of all thy ruin; get rid of that, and thou shalt soon have thy comforts back again.\u201d<\/p>\n
2. Take with you words, and turn to the LORD: say unto him,-<\/i><\/p>\n
See he puts the words into your mouth; as it he felt persuaded that you would say, \u201cLord, I cannot pray an acceptable prayer,\u201d be makes one for you, so that you, who have backslidden the most, and have gone the farthest astray, may have no excuse: \u201cTurn to the Lord: say unto him,\u201d \u2014 <\/p>\n
2. Take away all iniquity, and receive us graciously: so will we render the calves of our lips.<\/i><\/p>\n
\u201cOur thankfulness shall give thee such hearty praise that it shall not be like the Jew\u2019s slender sacrifice, when he offered the turtle-doves or the young pigeons, but we will give thee of our praise as hearty a sacrifice as when the devout Israelite brought the young bullock, the very best of his beasts, to be offered upon the altar of his God; so we will offer to thee the calves of our lips.\u201d<\/p>\n
3. Asshur shall not save us;-<\/i><\/p>\n
Backslider, hast thou been putting thy trust anywhere but in God, hoping to find comfort in the world and in sin? Then make this confession: \u201cAsshur shall not save us;\u201d \u2014 <\/p>\n
3. We will not ride upon horses:<\/i><\/p>\n
These were the confidence of the Egyptians, and the Israelites vainly tried to imitate their powerful and rich neighbors, so we will not put our confidence in the strength of cavalry.<\/p>\n
3. Neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods:-<\/i><\/p>\n
Happy is that man who turns aside from every idol, and trusts in God alone. It is a mark of very black backsliding when we begin to make our business, our families, our pleasures, and our bodily health the objects of such tender consideration that we virtually say to them, \u201cYe are our gods.\u201d<\/p>\n
3, 4. For in thee the fatherless findeth mercy. I will heal their backsliding I will love them freely: for mine anger is turned away from him. See Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, No. 501, \u201cGrace Abounding;\u201d and No. 920, \u201cBacksliding Healed.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
Everlastingly turned away through the complete and satisfactory atonement of Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n
5. I will be as the dew unto Israel:-<\/i><\/p>\n
The dew is God\u2019s gift, and so is grace; the dew falls silently, yet copiously, and bedews both the leaf and the root sufficiently. \u201cI will be as the dew unto Israel,\u201d is a promise to the man of faith, the man of prayer, the man who can endure trial: \u201cI will be as the dew unto Israel;\u201d \u2014 <\/p>\n
5. He shall grow as the lily,<\/i><\/p>\n
It is \u201cthe daffodil\u201d in the original, the yellow daffodil, in the East, springs up after a shower where you could not have perceived anything before; yet there is the idea of frailness in that simile, so it is balanced by the next one:-<\/p>\n
5. And cast forth his roots as Lebanon.<\/i><\/p>\n
After you have grown upward, you must grow downward; and growing downward, though it may not be so pleasant, is quite as excellent as growing upward, so the promise to you is, \u201cHe shall grow as the lily, and cast forth his roots as Lebanon.\u201d<\/p>\n
6. His branches shall spread,<\/i><\/p>\n
This is growing sideways; so the believer spreads his branches by public profession and testimony after having become deeply rooted in the faith and having grown up in love to God, then he begins to spread his shadow over the sons of men by telling-<\/p>\n
\u201cTo sinners round,
What a dear Savior he has found.\u201d<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
6. And his beauty shall be as the olive tree,<\/i><\/p>\n
Which largely consists in its fruitfulness. That is always the most beautiful olive which bears the most fruit; so the fruitful Christian shall have the beauty of the olive tree. Besides, the olive is an evergreen, and the Christian\u2019s beauty is of a kind that shall never fade. There is an old saying, \u201cBeauty soon fades\u201d but that does not mean the Christian\u2019s beauty, for that shall never fade, neither in life, nor in death, nor in eternity.<\/p>\n
6. And his smell as Lebanon.<\/i><\/p>\n
That is, the holy influence of his life and conversation shall be as fragrant to God and men as are the perfumes exhaled by the sweet flowers upon the side of Mount Lebanon.<\/p>\n
7. They that dwell under his shadow shall return:<\/i><\/p>\n
His children, his servants, his congregation shall be blessed by his gracious influence. As the Upas tree droppeth with deadly poison, so the tree of grace in a Christian droppeth living drops to fall on dead souls.<\/p>\n
7. They shall revive as the corn,<\/i><\/p>\n
Which suddenly springs up in the East after rain falls,-<\/p>\n
7. And grow as the vine:<\/i><\/p>\n
The branches shall in their turn become fruitful.<\/p>\n
7. The scent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.<\/i><\/p>\n
Our families and households should be so well-ordered that, not only we ourselves personally, but all in our household, should have a heavenly influence, a blessed savor upon all around us.<\/p>\n
8. Ephraim shall say, What have I to do any more with idols? See Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, No. 1,339, \u201cIdols Abolished;\u201d and No. 2,474, \u201cThe Great Change.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
Let that question also go round our ranks, \u201cWhat have I to do any more with idols; I, who am bought with the precious blood of Jesus; I, who am named by the name of Jesus; I, who have been baptized into the Sacred Trinity what have I to do any more with idols?\u201d You may make an idol of that boy or girl of yours; you may make an idol of that house or garden of yours, you may make an idol of that business or profession of yours. Do not so, I entreat you, but rather say, \u201cWhat have I to do any more with idols?\u201d<\/p>\n
8. I have heard him, and observed him: I am like a green fir tree,<\/i><\/p>\n
That is what Ephraim says, and this is what God says:-<\/p>\n
8. From me is thy fruit found: See Metropolitan Tabernacle Pulpit, No. 557, \u201cWhere to Find Fruit.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n
We are never so fruitful as when we get all our fruit from God. We always shine in borrowed light, and we are always fruitful in borrowed fruitfulness.<\/p>\n
9. Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the LORD are right,-<\/i><\/p>\n
Did your murmuring spirit say that they were not right? Because you have had some sore trial, did your repining spirit say that they were not right? They are certainly right, and you shall see that it is so one day: \u201cThe ways of the Lord are right,\u201d \u2014 <\/p>\n
9. And the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.<\/i><\/p>\n
Even in God\u2019s good ways, transgressors cannot stand; they fall even when they try to praise God, or to pray to him; and this is a sad proof of man\u2019s deep depravity, that even when he is engaged in the worship of God the thing which is in itself good becomes obnoxious to God by reason of the sin which is certain to be mingled with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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