In this quote from Spurgeon he reveals a depth of spiritual experience that frankly surpasses that of the vast majority of Christians today, whether charismatic or cessationist. But surely we can and should all aspire to know something of the depths of experience he knew?<\/p>\n
\u201cBeloved brethren and sisters in Christ, I think that you and I can say, that to us the surest fact in all the world is that there is a God. No God? I live in him. Tell a fish in the sea there is no water. No God? Tell a man who is breathing that there is no air. No God? I dare not come downstairs without speaking to him. No God? I would not think of closing my eyes in sleep unless I had some sense of his love shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Ghost. \u2018Oh!\u2019 says one, \u2018I have lived fifty years, and I have never felt anything of God.\u2019 Say that you had been dead fifty years; that is nearer to the mark. But if you had been quickened by the Holy Spirit fifty minutes, this would have been the first fact in the front rank of all fact, God is, and he is my Father, and I am his child. Now you become sentient to his frown, his smile, his threat, or his promise. You feel him; his presence is photographed upon your spirit; your very heart trembles with awe of him, and you say with Jacob, \u2018Surely God is in this place.\u2019 That is one result of spiritual life.\u201d
\nC. H. Spurgeon, Sermon No. 2267, \u201cLife from the Dead,\u201d delivered March 13, 1890 at the Metropolitan Tabernacle, Newington; http:\/\/www.spurgeon.org\/sermons\/2267.htm.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In this quote from Spurgeon he reveals a depth of spiritual experience that frankly surpasses that of the vast majority of Christians today, whether charismatic or cessationist. But surely we can and should all aspire to know something of the depths of experience he knew? \u201cBeloved brethren and sisters in Christ, I think that you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1268,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[380],"class_list":["post-21233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-spurgeon","tag-spurgeon"],"yoast_head":"\n
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