An all-round ministry by CH Spurgeon (Available from Amazon or free here) - Commence Chapter 10 (The Evils of the Present Time, and Our Object, Necessities, and Encouragements) by reading up to the paragraph beginning 'In these evil times, we have still—ONE ABIDING OBJECT.'
This week we begin Spurgeon's chapter on the evils of his age by looking at what they are:
(i) a questioning of fundamental truth;
(ii) the attacking of the truth by misrepresenting it and wickedly distorting it;
(iii) the want of decision for the truth among truly good men;
(iv) the insatiable craving for amusements;
(v) the lack of intense piety in many of the churches;
(vi) the stolidity of the people outside with regard to the gospel.
Good point about why practical atheism is rampant: 'The ministers have done it. They preached the people out of their faith in the Scriptures; they taught them to be doubters. The most mischievous servant of Satan that I know of is the minister of the gospel, who not only doubts the truth in his own soul, but propagates doubt in the minds of others by his criticisms, innuendoes, and triflings with words. Some ministers believe nothing except that nothing can be believed. Such a man's conscience is withered. In some modern ministers, the faculty wherewith to believe is extinct; they have played with words till they cannot be true if they try.'
Many so-called ministers will have much to answer for come judgement day.
Conclude Chapter 10 (The Evils of the Present Time, and Our Object, Necessities, and Encouragements).
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