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All right, guys, as you should know by now this week, we are focusing

on the sermon entitled, Compel Them to Come In by the August Charles Spurgeon. The focus of that sermon is

the parable of the great banquet that we see in Luke 14. In it, Jesus is describing a banquet

host, which is God, who invited people to a great banquet only for them to come up

with excuses when it's time to show up. The host then sends out servants to gather a bunch of

unkempt whosoever's and bring them to the banquet instead. Let's get back into the sermon by

Spurgeon. It will be a hard thing to die without Christ. I cannot help thinking of you. I see you

acting the suicide this morning, and I picture myself

standing at your bedside and hearing your cries and knowing that you are dying without hope.

I cannot bear that. I think I am standing by your coffin now and looking into your clay-cold face

and saying, this man despised Christ and neglected the great salvation. I think what bitter tears I shall weep then,

if I think that I have been unfaithful to you and how those eyes fast closed in death

shall seem to chide me and say, minister, I attended the music hall, but you were not in earnest with me.

You amused me, you preached to me, but you did not plead with me. You did not know what Paul

meant when he said, as though God did beseech you, by us we pray you in Christ stead, be ye reconcile

to God, a 2nd Corinthians 520. So we're getting pretty serious and direct here. Even in the short

passage, we see the word picture of this great pastor being negligent

and not sharing the good news of Jesus when he had the chance.

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