An all-round ministry by CH Spurgeon (Available from Amazon or free here) - Conclude Chapter 9 (Stewards).
Today we finish looking at ministers as stewards.
Spurgeon teaches us that stewards are to be faithful. This means we fail to be stewards:
(i) through acting as if we were chiefs instead of servants;
(ii) by acting as men-pleasers;
(iii) if we are idlers and triflers;
(iv) when we misuse our Master's property;
(v) when we neglect one of the family;
(vi) when we connive at evil;
(vii) by forgetting that the Master is coming.
Such an important point to not forget that Jesus is coming: '"He will not come yet," whisper some; "there are so many prophecies to be fulfilled; and it is even possible that He will not come at all, in the vulgar sense of the term. There is no particular need for us to make haste." Ah, my brethren! it is the unfaithful servant who says, "My Lord delayeth His coming." This belief allows him to put off labour and travail. The servant will not clean the room by daily duty, because the Master is away; and the servant of Christ thinks that he can have a great clear up, in the form of a revival, before his Lord arrives. If we would each feel that each day may be our last day, we should be more intense in our work. While preaching the gospel, we may some day be interrupted by the blast of the trumpet, and the cry, "Behold, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet Him."'
Now that's one interruption I wouldn't mind when I'm preaching!
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.'
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