Daily Spurgeon
DEVOTION for February 28th *A.D. 2025 Written and calendared for this exact date by Charles Haddon Spurgeon 1834-1892.
*A.D. Does NOT mean after death as is commonly believed. It is a Latin abbreviation
for anno Domani (It means “Year of our Lord”.
BC/AD versus BCE/CE Is there a difference?​
Yes. Stand for the Truth, Won’t you?
Jesus Christ [Messiah] (Anointed King)] the LORD GOD was born of a virgin 2025 years ago, was crucified, then rose from the dead, victorious over sin, death and the grave and is here in the flesh from GOD as His Church, The Body of Christ and will live forever, time without end and He, Himself, is coming again.
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For ever, O Lord, thy Word is settled in heaven. Psalms 119:89
[The Textus Receptus (Received Text) was rendered from 5,321 extant Greek manuscripts known as the Majority Text MT. These manuscripts overwhelmingly agree with one
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Amazing Grace by Wintley Phipps at Carnegie Hall
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Jesus Christ [Messiah] (Anointed King)] the LORD GOD was born of a virgin 2025 years ago, was crucified, then rose from the dead, victorious over sin, death and the grave and is here in the flesh from GOD as His Church, The Body of Christ and will live forever, time without end and He, Himself, is coming again.
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Who was (is) Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Devotion for February 28, A.D. 2025
The letters: “A.D.” DO NOT mean “after death” but abbreviate Latin for Anno Domani. [Year of our Lord]
The Lord Jesus is God. He is come in human flesh born of a virgin 2025 years ago.
He lives today, has always existed as the living Word of God, and shall soon come again for his bride, the Church. (all who trust and follow Him)
Today’s Contents:
Sermon from Spurgeon’s Home Church, The Metropolitan Tabernacle (London, G.B.)
Possessing The Land by Dr. Peter Masters, Pastor
PRAISE: (Tap and sing, won’t you? )
Oh The Blood of Jesus by Gaither Congregation
PRAYER: UNDER THE BLOOD. PRAYER 11, Part 1 of 10
ANECDOTE 211: A Father’s Heart.
FAITH’S CHECKBOOK: February 28 REAL ESTATE IN HEAVEN
-Knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance—Hebrews 10:34
MORNING: My expectation is from Him.—Psalm 62:5
EVENING: The barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail, according to the word of the Lord, which He spake by Elijah." —1 Kings 17:16
A SINNER’S PRAYER
PRAYER 11: UNDER THE BLOOD Part 1 of 10
JEHOVAH our God, we thank Thee for leaving on record the story of Thine ancient people. It is full of instruction to ourselves. Help us to take its warning to avoid the faults into which they fell! Thou art a covenant God, and Thou keepest [keep] Thy promises and Thy Word never faileth [fails]. We have proved this so, hitherto: [already]—
“Thus far we find that promise good, Which Jesus ratified with blood.”
But as for ourselves we are like Israel of old, a fickle [foolish] people, and, we confess it with great shame, there are days when we take the timbrel [tambourine] and we sing with Miriam
“unto the Lord who triumphed gloriously;”
and yet, we grieve to say it, not many hours after, we are thirsty, and we cry for water, and we, murmur [complain, whine] in our tents; the brackish Marah [salty water] turns our heart and we are grieved with our God.
Sometimes we bow before Thee with reverence and awe when we behold Thy Sinai altogether on a
*smoke; but there have been times when we have set up the golden calf and we have said of some earthly things,
“These be Thy gods, O Israel.”
We believe with intensity of faith and then doubt with a horribleness of doubt.
[Deliver us O lord from doubt in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ] Amen.
(Attachment: PRAYER 11.doc)
* “And mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in fire: and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.” Exodus 19:18
ANECDOTE 211: A Father’s Heart.
When King Henry II., in the ages gone by, was provoked to take up arms against his un grateful and rebellious son, he besieged him in one of the French towns, and the son, being near unto death, desired to see his father and confess his wrongdoing; but the stern old sire refused to look the rebel in the face. The young man, being sorely troubled in his conscience, said to those about him, “I am dying ; take me from my bed, and let me lie in sackcloth and ashes, in token of my sorrow for my ingratitude to my father.” Thus he died, and when the tidings came to the old man outside the walls, that his boy had died in ashes, repentant for his rebellion, he threw himself upon the earth, like another David, and said,
“Would God I had died for him.”
The thought of his boy’s broken heart touched the heart of the father. If ye, being evil, are overcome by your children’s tears, how much more shall your Father who is in heaven find in your bemoanings [sorrow] and confessions an argument for the display of his pardoning love through Christ Jesus our Lord.
FAITH’S CHECKBOOK FEBRUARY 28 REAL ESTATE IN HEAVEN C.H. Spurgeon 1834—1892
-Knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance—Hebrews 10:34
Conociendo que teneis en vosotros una mejor sustancia en los cielos, y que permanence—Hebreos 10:34
This is well. Our substance here is very insubstantial; there is no substance in it. But God has given us a promise of real estate in the glory-land, and that promise comes to our hearts with such full assurance of its certainty, that we know in ourselves that we have an enduring substance there.
Yes, -we have it- even now. They say, -A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush-; but we have our bird in the bush and in the hand too. Heaven is even now our own. We have the title-deed of it, we have the earnest [guarantee] of it, we have the first fruits [evidence] of it.
We have Heaven in price, in promise, and in principle: this we know not only by the hearing of the ear, but -in ourselves.-
Should not the thought of the better substance on the other side of Jordan reconcile us to present losses? Our spending-money we may lose, but our treasure is safe. We have lost the shadows, but the substance remains, for our *Savior lives, and the place which He has prepared for us abides. There is a better land, a better substance, a better promise; and all this comes to us by a better covenant [divine promise]; wherefore, let us be in better spirits, and say unto the Lord,
-Every day will I bless thee; and praise thy name for ever and ever-
*English USA spelling
Prayer: Thank you Lord that we may Know, in ourselves, that we have in heaven a better and an enduring substance. Help us to receive this assurance for Your name’s sake I pray, Amen.
MORNING February 28
My expectation is from Him." —Psalm 62:5
─De él es mi esperanza—Salmos 62:5
IT is the believer's privilege to use this language. If he is looking for anything from the world, it is a poor "expectation" indeed. But if he looks to God for the supply of his wants, whether in temporal [here and now] or [eternal] spiritual blessings, his "expectation" will not be a vain [fruitless] one.
Constantly he may draw from the bank of faith and get his need supplied out of the riches of God's loving-kindness. I know this, I would rather have God for my banker than all the Rothschilds.
My Lord never fails to honor his promises; and when we bring them to His throne, He never sends them back unanswered. Therefore I will wait only at His door, for He ever opens it with the hand of munificent [magnanimous, more than generous] grace. At this hour I will try him anew.
But we have "expectations" beyond this life. We shall die soon; and then our "expectation is from Him." Do we not expect that when we lie upon the bed of sickness, He will send angels to carry us to His bosom [into His arms] ? We believe that when the pulse is faint, and the heart heaves heavily, some angelic messenger shall [may] stand and look with loving eyes on us, and whisper,
"Sister spirit, come away!"
As we approach the heavenly gate, we expect to hear the welcome invitation, "Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world."
We are expecting harps of gold and crowns of glory; we are hoping soon to be among the multitude of shining ones before the throne; we are looking forward and longing for the time when we shall be like our glorious Lord—for
"We shall see Him as He is."
Then if these are your "expectations," O my soul, live for God; live with the desire and resolve to glorify Him from whom all your supplies come, and of whose grace in your election, redemption, and calling, it is [His grace] that you have any "expectation" of coming glory.
EVENING February 28
"The barrel of meal wasted not, neither did the cruse of oil fail [run out] , according to the word of the Lord, which He spake by Elijah." —1 Kings 17:16
Y la tinaja de la harina no escaseó, ni menguó la botija del aceite, conforme á la palabra de Jehová que había dicho por Elías. —1 Reyes 17:16
SEE the faithfulness of divine love. You observe that this woman had daily necessities. She had herself and her son to feed in a time of famine; and now, in addition, the prophet Elijah was to be fed too.
But though the need was threefold [tripled], yet the supply of meal did not diminish, for she had a constant supply. Each day she made calls upon [took meal from] the barrel, yet each day it remained the same [did not diminish].
You, dear reader, have daily necessities, and because they come so frequently you are apt to fear that the barrel of meal will one day be empty or the cruse of oil will fail you. Rest assured that, according to the Word of God, this will not be the case [won’t happen]. Each day, though it bring its trouble, will bring its help; and though you should live to outnumber the years of Methuselah, [969 years] and though your needs should be as many as the sands of the seashore, yet God's grace and mercy will last through all your necessities. You will never know a real lack.
For three long years, in this widow's day, the heavens never saw a cloud, and the stars never wept a holy tear of dew upon the wicked earth. Famine and desolation and death made the land a howling wilderness, but this woman never was hungry, but always joyful in abundance. So shall it be with you. You will see the sinner's hope perish [fail], for he trusts his native strength; you will see the proud Pharisee's confidence totter [move in a feeble or unsteady way], for he builds his hope upon the sand; you will see even your own schemes blasted and withered, but you yourself will find that
your place of defense will be the munition [fort] of rocks:
"Your bread shall be given you, and your water shall be sure." Better have God for your guardian, than the Bank of England [or any other Bank] for your possession. You might spend the wealth of the [West] Indies, but you
can never exhaust the infinite riches of God.
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A SINNER’S PRAYER: … FOR WHOSOEVER:
Whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord shall be saved. Acts 2:21
Call on the name of the Lord Jesus and be saved … pray like this, won’t you?
“Lord Jesus, I’m a lost sinner and without You I am lost. I can’t save myself. Without your death on the cross to pay my sin debt I would be condemned to spend eternity in Hell. My nature and behavior has been sinful from birth. Please forgive me.
I realize that doing my best, being as good as possible, or being better than other people can never save me. . I’m sorry for each and every sin I have ever done and look to You to forgive them all.
I look to You, alone Lord Jesus to save me.
I call on You, Lord Jesus, right now to save me. You died on the cross for me, as God’s sacrifice for my sin.
Right now, just as I am, I call on You, Lord Jesus to save me, I trust You to be my Savior and Lord.
Thank You, Lord Jesus, that You have forgiven me of all my sins. I want to follow You from now on.
You paid the price for all of my sins by dying on the cross.
Thank you, Lord Jesus that You loved me and died for me before I was born and that You love me still
Thank you, Heavenly Father, that You called me away from sin and death into the Life everlasting in Your only begotten son, the Lord Jesus.
Thank You, Heavenly Father that you raised Jesus from the dead. He is alive and in Him we are victorious over sin, death and the grave.
Thank You for saving me heavenly Father and Holy Spirit for Your comfort and guidance in all things.
With all my heart, thank you Lord Jesus for saving me. In your name, I pray, Amen.
Please allow us to share the joy of your new birth with heaven. Heaven rejoices over each redeemed sinner. Luke 15:7.
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