“You are all priests, because you love his dear name and
have a great sacrifice to perform, not a propitiation for your sins, for that
has been once offered, but a sacrifice this day of holy thanksgiving. Oh! how
sweet in God’s ear is the prayer of his people! That is the sacrifice that he
accepts; and when their holy hymn swells upwards towards the sky, how pleasant
it is in his ears, because then he can say, “My hosts of priests are
sacrificing praise.” And do, you know, beloved, there is one point in which
most of us fail in our oblations before God? We offer our prayer, we present
our praise; but how little do we sacrifice of our substance unto the Lord! I
had thought this morning seeing I desire to make you amazingly liberal, to have
made this my text, “Honor the Lord with thy substance, and with the
first-fruits of all thine increase: so shall thy barns be filled with plenty,
and thy presses shall burst out with new wine” and I had thought of showing that
our substance was the Lord’s, that we were bound to devote no small portion of
it to him, and that if we did do so we might expect prosperity even in worldly
business, for he would make our barns full and our presses burst with new wine.”[1]
[1] Spurgeon,
Charles. The Complete Works of Charles Spurgeon: Volume 1, Sermons 1-53 (Kindle
Locations 2797-2805). www.DelmarvaPublications.com. Kindle Edition.
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