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This week, we're going to dig into one of the greatest sermons

ever preached by the Prince of Preachers, the one and only Charles Spurgeon. The sermon is entitled

compel them to come in, and he delivered this sermon Sunday morning, December the 5th of 1858.

And just in case you wanted to feel bad about yourself, he delivered this sermon, perhaps

the best one of his career, at the ripe old age of 24.

So keep that in mind as we're going through all the content this week.

If you're not familiar with this sermon, I would highly, highly suggest that you find it online and read it in its entirety.

Again, the name of the sermon is compel them to come in. Now, the crux of the sermon is the parable of the

great banquet as told by Jesus and recorded in Luke 14, verses 12 through 24. Now, right from the

beginning, I'll just tell you, this might be a mistake, but I'm feeling froggy. So out of respect

for Pastor Spurgeon, I'll read this passage in the King James Version. Then said he also to him that bade him, when thou makest a dinner or a supper,

call not thy friends nor thy brethren, neither thy kinsmen, nor thy rich neighbors,

lest they also bid thee again, and a recompense be made thee.

But when thou makest a feast, call the poor, the maimed, the lame, the blind, and thou shalt be blessed, for they cannot recompense thee, for thou shalt be recompensed at the resurrection of the just.

And when one of them that sat at the meal with him heard these things, he said unto him, blessed is he that shall eat bread in the kingdom of God.

Then said he unto him, a certain man made a great supper, and bade many, and sent his servant at suppertime to say to them that were bidden, come, for all things are now ready. And they all, with one consent, began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it. I pray thee, have me excused. And another said, I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I go to prove them, I pray thee have me excused. And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

So that servant came and shoot his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to a servant, go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the

poor and the maimed and the halt and the blind. And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou

hast commanded, and yet there is room. And the Lord said unto the servant, go out into the highways and

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