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Sermons of Rev. C.H. Spurgeon of London ...
Sermons of Rev CH Spurgeon of London Author:Charles Haddon Spurgeon Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: SERMON III "THUS SAITH THE LORD;" OB, TUB BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER WEIGHED IN THE BJ DANCES OF THE SANCTUARY. " THUS SAITH THE LORD." — Ezek. xi. 5 The ... more »wise man saith, " Where the word of a king is, there is power." What power must there be where there is the word of the King of kings, who ruleth over all! We are not left to conjecture as to the power of the divine word, for we know that " By the word of the Lord were the heavens made; and all the host of them by the breath of his mouth." Out of nothingness the glorious creation leaped at the bidding of the Most High, and when the earth was without form, and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, there was nothing wanted but that solemn voice, " Light be," and straightway light was. God's word was sufficient in itself to build the temple of the universe, and to finish it from its foundations to its pinnacles. That same word upholdeth by its power, and ruleth all things by its might. The pillars of heaven stand because the divine word hath fixed them upon their bases, nor shall they be shaken until that Fame almighty word shall bid them remove; then as a moment's foam dissolves into the wave which bears it and is gone forever, so shall the whole creation melt away. His word, which created, shall also destroy; but until that won! be spoken every atom of this world is imperishable. Consider, my brethren, what power is concentrated in him who is clothed with a vesturedipped in blood, and whose name is " TnE Word Op God." With what glorious power our Lord Jesus Christ uplifted the burden of our sins, carried the load up to the tree, and cast it forever into the Red Sea of his own atoning blood! Ye know how he burst the bars of death, tore away the gates of the grave, overthrew all the hosts of hell, and dragged the ...« less