A Call To Action And To Change

Daily in my email I receive a quote from sermons by Charles Spurgeon. He was a Baptist Preacher in England during the mid nineteenth century. His writings and sermons are still highly influential among Christians of all denominations. I receive these from here The Daily Spurgeon.

I would recommend that any and all subscribe. This was very convicting to me. I find myself all too often being worldly and not Godly, as I am sure we all do. We all need to change that as part of our sanctification process. If God can sacrifice his only son for our salvation, can't we do a simple thing like shift from a worldly focus to a Godly focus?

As it says in Matthew 6:33 "But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness..." and in the Beatitudes in Matthew 5:10-12 where Jesus says "Blessed are those who have been persecuted for the sake of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you when people insult you and persecute you, and falsely say all kinds of evil against you because of Me. Rejoice and be glad, for your reward in heaven is great; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets who were before you."

If you do not get persecuted(reproached) for your focus, behavior, faith, and approach to life, as it says below "...for Him..."are you really being sanctified, or are you just going through the motions?

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Bearing His Reproach

Posted: 19 Aug 2009 05:30 AM PDT

You have heard how He was reproached for you: are you unwilling to be reproached for Him! You have heard how He went without the camp in that shameful manner: are you unwilling to go without the camp for Him? Too many Christians try to be Christians in the camp, and it cannot be done. “Be not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds.”

There is so much of worldly conformity among us; but the promise is not to worldly-minded Christians, but “Come ye out from among them; be ye separate; touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you, and will be a Father unto you.” How much we lose by affinities with the world! How much of distance there is between us and God, because of the nearness there is between us and the world! Come out, ye lovers of the Savior, and tread the separated way which your Savior trod before you!

From a sermon entitled "The Sin Offering," delivered March 10, 1867. "